OT: Question of Legality

We'll get you in a kilt (read Scottish Skirt) yet !

My Cocker Spaniel went to Poland with me. My landlady used to bring him home farmer's cheese and raw pickled cabbage. I always threatened to let him sleep with her when she brought him cabbage, but it didn't stop her.

Elizabeth

Here in the UK we have Marks & Spencer, a high street store with a reputation for assured quality in everything it sells, including pet food:

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Bit pukey at breakfast time ! Interesting though, I have often wondered but never tried them.

LOL - you sound like my DH - although he's a NJ boy. What he really misses are good Kaiser rolls. We get decent bagels - depending on where I go for them - and good knishes, etc. But, the kaiser rolls are just not quite as good. However, our local Wegmans & the bagel place about 10 mi away, both have bialys as well - so he's reasonably happy. It's a hoot to be at the kosher counter in our Wegmans. Many interesting conversations get struck up as all the displaced New Yorkers reminisce while looking at all the fish, deli and cooked foods. They even do kosher rotisserie chickens! We're constantly meeting someone & having a chat about whitefish, or chubs, or have you tried their home-made knishes - etc.

Ellice

My big pretzel miss is "pretzel bagels" - which when in elem school and middle school were the after school sale thing. The PTA would sell them, IIRC for fifty cents, great, huge pretzels, but made of bagel dough. Warm, yummy. The bagel place my DM liked carried them, and we'd force her to let us get one if we were in picking up bagels. I tend to think this was a very Miami displaced New Yorker thing. But, I do crave them - haven't had one in at least 20 years.

Ellice

Have not had them in 32 years....NY Bagels,potato knishes nor pretzels Barbara

I miss my Kosher deli and all the food from Ny. Living in a small town. I even tried making my own. Bagels were ok.But not like home. tried making potato knish.could not get the crust right. still trying. we have a farm fresh,food lion,walmart. No bakeries nor deli's In our town we might have 14 other Jewish families. No Temple. Closest is Norfolk VA. Saving gas don't go much. you would had to bring up Bialys,Dont forget the cream cheese or farmer cheese on them. How did you endup out of NY The USCG got us here. love Barbara

Where are you? Are you in Tidewater? If so, LMK, we do get that way at times - can send/bring care packages.

I had slightly weird childhood - split between Miami in school year after

3rd grade, and NY (house in Atlantic Beach, then apt in Forest Hills). Family had business in Brooklyn (owned office building on Willoughby Street

- my DB & I joked for years we would be slum lords when we grew up - not at all true, of course). Went away to uni when I was young (15), lived in Atlanta couple of years, then moved back to FL, back to more school in Miami, grad school in Pittsburgh a few years, then moved to DC area. Was pretty funny 'cause I have extended family DA/DU who'd been in this area since before I was born - who'd been trying to get me to move here forever - for college, tec. A little picaresque - not too bad. Working for USArmy, ended up in UK & France, as well as NM. Then switched to DoD, had to keep an apt here, and had house in ABQ. So, just ended up here. Parents passed long time ago, as did DH's - though we still have cousins in NJ/NY. Rest of my family in Boca. So, if I don't go to NY, at least can get good deli, bakery in Boca. Will say, some of the best bagels where made around the corner from me in Pittsburgh. I lived in Squirrel Hill, and we could walk to this amazing Bagel bakery - that made huge quantities - supplied shops, etc. Was like going and watching at Krispy Kreme - getting fresh, hot bagels.

Ellice

Kaiser rolls! I've never had a roll anywhere else like the rolls I grew up with in Bergen County, NJ (NYC burbs). Crusty on the outside, soft on the inside. To this day, some 35 years later, I can't bring myself to make a sandwich on what passes for rolls.

Two years ago my DB and I rushed to NJ when my mom broke her hip, and driving between her apt. and the hospital one day we passed a bakery from our youth. We parked the car and went in and bought a loaf of rye bread with seeds....and ate half of it in the car on the short ride back to the hospital. ("Just one more piece, then I'll put it away.") A nice, firm crust and sooooo soft inside...such memories!

Those independent bakeries had such good wares. There's not a supermarket bakery that can stand up to them, and my kids have no idea what they've missed having on an everyday basis. I love to bake, so they have a general idea of what good homemade baked goods taste like, but it's not an everyday thing.

Sue

I forgot about Wegman's - that's the ONLY grocery that can hold a candle to the NJ independent bakeries IMHO. I rarely go to Wegman's, but when I do, the bakery counter is a MUST. The treats taste as good as they are pretty. (I hate buying a droolingly pretty dessert and finding it tastes like nothing special!)

Tell DH I was talking about the Butterflake Bakery on Cedar Lane (Teaneck) and watch him salivate!

Sue

Sounds like you're in the Elbow Macaroni belt! One of my dear friends moved from NJ to Richmond, and went through food withdrawal. Learned to make and like grits, but still longed for greasy pizza (I'm sorry, Domino's and Papa John's are not REAL pizza) and tortellini. Whenever they drove to NJ for holidays, they brought a cooler in the trunk and stocked up on groceries. She once told me that there was an article in the local paper with a hand-drawn map of what kind of pasta sold best in various parts of the country, and Richmond was in the "Elbow Macaroni Belt" when she wanted so badly to be in the "Tortellini Belt."

That wasn't so long ago, either...maybe 25 years. Look how much more we've homogenized in such a short time!

Sue

My F-I-L was a bread baker at a kosher bakery in Brooklyn. He made the very best rye bread on the east coast and his kaiser rolls were to die for. When I was newly married, and lived just a few blocks from my DH's parents, he would stop off on his way home from the bakery in the very early morning and drop off a bag of fresh rolls and bread in front of my door. They were still warm and sitting next to our newspaper when we got up to go to work. He did his baking during the night so things were fresh and hot in the morning for the shop.

That only lasted a couple of years because we moved from there and it was no longer on his way home.

L

When I was younger.12 years of age My job was to go to the bakery early Sunday morning and get rolls and the Sunday Newspaper (NYTimes) the Newsdays was delivered to our door.for my parents. It was only 2 blocks away. cant beat those Kaiser rolls. They have rolls here in Elizabeth City,but don't know what to call them.They have no taste. Thank goodness for Entermeins Barbara

sent you an email Barbara

I have read the whole thread and have only one comment about it. Does any one know where to get a language lingo dictionary?

Either I'm too young or live in the wrong area, cause I got lost in half to terms that some were using. Had to re-read some 2-3 times before I "think" I got the content of the thread, at least I know what haggis is thanks to the good description given..........lmao.

Google is your friend!

I use it to find out all sorts of stuff....

Cheryl

Sunday mornings were always "buns" or coffeecakes...very few places make decent buns anymore. And nowhere near the variety - blueberry, apricot, plain nut ones, cheese, apple, peach, lemon. You'd get a dozen mixed, and hardly any doubles! (We rarely had doughnuts, and when I moved to Baltimore I was surprised that doughnuts were the "thing" to get at bakeries.)

What about the crescent rolls covered in kosher salt and caraway seeds? I've never seen those anywhere else except the NYC area. I have a recipe to make them...I'll have to pull it out. You've got my mouth watering!

sue

and wikipedia !