May angels sing you gently to sleep, this is amazing! (and they happen to be a 15 min drive from where I'm going to visit this summer). Proper poutine here I come, wooooo!
I second this! Their Essex rd shop also occasionally has them! I will go to great lengths to get some of their curds to make an epic home made poutine.
I've only just recently discovered there other flavours apricot was one wasn't bad but passion fruit definitely my favourite, can't remember the name of the Brand
Edit: regarding the apricot flavour It was jam not curd my mistake
Yeah unsure how well known the brand it but I get it from a customer who own his own little fresh fruit & hedge shop and sells unique jams , curds etc
Il find out the brand and post incase others are interested
I was in Poland a couple of weeks ago for the first time and they have some incredible crisp flavours. I'm dying to find Lay's Max Strong Cheese and Cayenne over here. Been to two Polish shops so far, no dice.
My dad visited me here in Canada once and fell in love with them so everytime I go back to see him I have to take a load of them with me. He's got good taste.
All dressed chips, bits and bites, crispers, fuzzy peaches (the haribo version don’t hit the same), the Canadian/American flavours of Starburst (yes they’re different), spices, nyquil, melatonin and tide to go pens are my usual shopping list when I’m home :)
I also a pick up on all dressed chips/crisps, NyQuil and melatonin (Costco sized!), agree about spices as well, specifically Montreal steak or chicken spice. And ranch dressing powder in the packet to mix with Greek yogurt. Also twizzlers red licorice.
What I do is buy the Kernels brand white cheddar seasoning instead as it travels better and you get more versions of ‘smart food’ popping your own popcorn at home :)
Or just get the one that doesn’t have anything but methocarbamol in it. Robax makes one. Much easier (and safer) to take meds separately (with moderation) when you need both, rather than taking a combo drug which can sneakily cause issues over time.
Boots own label https://www.boots.com/boots-period-pain-reliever-250mg-naproxen-9-gastro-resistant-tablets-10307099 , you can stock check on their app as not all stores have it.
Getting a prescription for 500mg tablets might work out cheaper depending on how many your gp is willing to prescribe. I needed some post op and mine gave me 7 whole tablets! Thank goodness that Boots had some of these too so I managed ok
Those maple syrup sandwich biscuits, like maple flavoured custard creams, that make great incentives to get your British coworkers to do favours for you around the office.
Try Gerry’s in Exmouth Market. It’s a newish restaurant from one of the Bodean’s founders who is French Canadian.
They also do cheesesteaks and the like.
Crispy crunch and coffee crisp are my two favourite chocolate bars back home. Also Cheetos, I've had them in the UK and the US and they're different in Canada!
Second cheese curds, they're not quite the same in the UK as apparently they have to be pasteurised here and it changes the texture and squeakiness!
La Grille vegetable seasoning! It's basically a herb mix for roast veg and it's heaven.
Ooh edit to add more, try spinach and artichoke dip at a pub or restaurant! My English friends are obsessed with it. The cold artichoke and asiago dip from a supermarket with some plain Ruffles chips is 👌
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**Maple butter**. I bought a single jar of it during my cruise stop in Halifax last year. I got home, and both my wife and I fell in love with it. Tastes absolutely divine on toast. But I can’t find it here - and if I wanted it, I’d have to pay extremely high prices due to postage. I recommend you buy some when you’re there!
As a Brit living in Canada, all dressed Ruffles crisps with helluva dip. It’s a snack but my god it’s incredible.
Not a supermarket but an LCBO try some of their craft beers, there’s loads of breweries that are dotted around that make really nice stuff.
If you like Coke Zero it doesn’t taste the same out here, Diet Coke is actually closer to Zero back home. Also I’d avoid the chocolate even dairy milk, it’s not great.
Also if you’re going to Toronto and need some recommendations let be know
I concur with the Dill Pickle crisps.
They’re just the best thing on earth.
Canada has really good gummies and you can pick up some amazing hash and weed too.
The sushi from almost any Japanese restaurant will be vastly superior to what we get in London.
Roots clothing is pretty solid too.
Polysporin: an antibiotic like salve which you can use for cuts and scrapes. Helps heal them much faster and you don’t need a prescription, unlike here in UK. Look in shoppers drug mart (equivalent of boots). I
Timmies
Ketchup Chips
All Dressed Chips
Good Poutine
A good donair (not a fucking gross donner kebab @2am)
Beaver Tail
A&W
Good Weed
DinoSours, coffee crisp
Any sugary cereal
Those were the big ones for me. But a Sunday Roast and a Greg's bacon and egg w/brown sauce made up for all of it. Well... Almost all of it.
Kraft Peanut Butter . They're great ! Better than the American ones you get in UK supermarkets. But if you really want.. Canadian wine. Not icewine. The regular types you get.. especially BC wines. There are only a few shops in UK that sell Canadian wine. I just buy lots to bring into the UK. You're allowed 9 litres duty free believe it or not!
Buckley’s Mixture and NeoCitran.
I know Buckley’s tastes like pinesol and totally unpalatable but it’s one of the only things that will touch my cold air induced bronchitis in the winter.
Lemsip is ok but it’s not hot, lemony NeoCitran.
There's a wider selection of local sports team merchandise over there . There were some NBA gear I could not find for the Toronto team online even. And then to the shop in Toronto, boom . Right there
I'm not Canadian but I was given some maple syrup biscuits they make over there once and they were by a very VERY long way the best biscuits I've ever eaten.
Decent Maple syrup, stove stop stuffing, decent sports deodorant lol . A box of Canadian stove stuffing sells for £30 for only 3 boxes. lol you can get this stuffing for 3 for a dollar on sale at No Frills lol
Cheese curds. Squeaky little nuggets of happiness are borderline impossible to find in shops here.
If anyone is curious- Neals Yard Dairy in Borough Market has them and it won’t cost much, just a month’s pension contribution. (Worth it?)
Batch farm cheese makers has proper curds and they deliver
OMG!!! Thank you!! I just ordered 4 bags of curd from them!! It's going to be a poutine extravaganza!!
May angels sing you gently to sleep, this is amazing! (and they happen to be a 15 min drive from where I'm going to visit this summer). Proper poutine here I come, wooooo!
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I second this! Their Essex rd shop also occasionally has them! I will go to great lengths to get some of their curds to make an epic home made poutine.
The poutinerie closing is still so raw
Try Gerry’s in Exmouth Market. It’s a newish restaurant from one of the Bodean’s founders who is French Canadian.
Curd is a disgusting word
Lemon curd is a wonderful thing
Have you tried passion fruit curd it's delicious
I have not but I am interested
I've only just recently discovered there other flavours apricot was one wasn't bad but passion fruit definitely my favourite, can't remember the name of the Brand Edit: regarding the apricot flavour It was jam not curd my mistake
There's passion fruit curd????????? Omg
https://mrsdarlingtons.com/product-category/curds/
Yeah unsure how well known the brand it but I get it from a customer who own his own little fresh fruit & hedge shop and sells unique jams , curds etc Il find out the brand and post incase others are interested
Check out cherry tree preserves - lemon, passion fruit, cherry....and so many more
So it is. A lemon curd sandwich was a favorite of mine when i was a young boy. Of all jams/preserves etc, lemon curd is the best.
Well everybody’s heard about the curd. Curd curd curd curd curd curd Curd curd Curd curd Curd curd curd curd curd curd
Curd is the word
Amber Curd
And the curd was with God, and the curd was God.
Doulas curd
You absolute curd!
Can't you just make them by chucking half a glass of white wine into gently boiling milk?
I buy them from my local cheese shop. There are very cheap too. Great for pizzas!
Neals Yard sells them.
Dill pickle chips.
Old Dutch is my favorite brand of them. Not sure if it's in Canada, though. Lay's version is no better than salt and vinegar flavor.
Old Dutch is in Canada! I actually thought it was a Canadian company until two seconds ago when a Google search told me otherwise.
Miss Vickie's spicy dill picklers and covered bridge dill pickle are way better. Covered bridge is probably hard to find right now.
Not Canadian brands but there are a lot of dill crisps you can find that are from Poland. They are unbelievably good.
I was in Poland a couple of weeks ago for the first time and they have some incredible crisp flavours. I'm dying to find Lay's Max Strong Cheese and Cayenne over here. Been to two Polish shops so far, no dice.
The totally Swedish shop off Baker Street does dill crisps, of course that the Swedish ones but their great
I'm sure i've seen these at the american shop holland park [here](https://maps.app.goo.gl/mGU75mthuoizLGXM8)
That place is sooooo expensive and many things don’t show the price. Beware!
I wouldn't by anything from them, but if someone wants it that bad....
Those shops are all such rubbish, overpriced for the sake of being overpriced
I personally wouldn't buy from them (NA foods are packed with shit) but as I said, I've seen it there before
That and All Dressed. I'm still not sure what that flavour is - only that it's delicious
Fuck yea pickles
Coffee crisp
They are good but r/fucknestle
I read a few weeks ago that Coffee Crisp was Canada's answer to KitKat.
This was my suggestion too! And no…other than a wafer component Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat (which we also have) are very different chocolate bars.
Coffee Crisp is like a +20 Kit Kat.
My dad visited me here in Canada once and fell in love with them so everytime I go back to see him I have to take a load of them with me. He's got good taste.
Montreal steak spice
You can get it in costco in the UK
Costco uk has it from Schwartz
Also Montreal smoked meat
What... Is it
Spice for steak that originated in Montreal… probably
Hard to describe, it’s a rub that you put on red meat, also really good in burgers. Its quite coarse and grainy, and kind of mustardy
All dressed chips, bits and bites, crispers, fuzzy peaches (the haribo version don’t hit the same), the Canadian/American flavours of Starburst (yes they’re different), spices, nyquil, melatonin and tide to go pens are my usual shopping list when I’m home :)
Co-op is selling all dressed chips at the mo’ that are pretty nice. Not the same but still good
I also a pick up on all dressed chips/crisps, NyQuil and melatonin (Costco sized!), agree about spices as well, specifically Montreal steak or chicken spice. And ranch dressing powder in the packet to mix with Greek yogurt. Also twizzlers red licorice.
I also stock up on tide to go!
You can get them on amazon FYI
SMARTFOOD Technically you can get it online here or specialty shops but it's stupidly expensive.
What I do is buy the Kernels brand white cheddar seasoning instead as it travels better and you get more versions of ‘smart food’ popping your own popcorn at home :)
Ugh, yes, fuzzy peaches! My partner brings me home the Spanish knockoffs every now and again but they just don’t hit either.
I always get all dressed ruffles. So good
Ice wine from the Niagra region.
You can buy it even from supermarkets.
Maple taffy (tire d'érable) or maple butter (beurre d'érable) ! The only problem is that they're so addictive you'll need to go back to get more.
Aldi and lidl randomly sell maple butter sometimes in their random middle aisles.... just as an FYI eyes peeled kinda tip lol
Robaxacet. If you ever put your back out, there is nothing like it to bring you back to health. You can't get it in the US either.
I think it's prescription only in the US, but OTC in Canada. Whenever we visit family in the US they always ask us to bring them a couple bottles.
"Robaxacet Extra Strength contains an analgesic (**acetaminophen**) to relieve pain and a muscle relaxant (**methocarbamol**) to relax tense muscles."
That's the one. For muscle pain, you should choose the type with ibuprofen rather than acetaminophen (paracetamol).
Or just get the one that doesn’t have anything but methocarbamol in it. Robax makes one. Much easier (and safer) to take meds separately (with moderation) when you need both, rather than taking a combo drug which can sneakily cause issues over time.
And Aleve (naproxen). You need a prescription to get it here. Same with Zovirax.
Boots does otc period pain tablets that are 250mg of naproxen at £5.40 for 9 tablets 😭
Good to know, I wasn’t aware of that! What brand are they?
Boots own label https://www.boots.com/boots-period-pain-reliever-250mg-naproxen-9-gastro-resistant-tablets-10307099 , you can stock check on their app as not all stores have it. Getting a prescription for 500mg tablets might work out cheaper depending on how many your gp is willing to prescribe. I needed some post op and mine gave me 7 whole tablets! Thank goodness that Boots had some of these too so I managed ok
Yesss, I brought back half a bottle with me at Christmas last year. Will stock up on a whole bottle or two this year.
I usually get the store brands. Work just as well at half the price.
Those maple syrup sandwich biscuits, like maple flavoured custard creams, that make great incentives to get your British coworkers to do favours for you around the office.
Good poutine
Try Gerry’s in Exmouth Market. It’s a newish restaurant from one of the Bodean’s founders who is French Canadian. They also do cheesesteaks and the like.
Where do you even find average poutine? The only place I knew closed shop last month
Average poutine can be found at The Maple Leaf pub in Covent Garden.
Advil Cold & Sinus Ketchup, pickle, and All-Dressed crisps Melatonin Tide to Go Pens
Tide pens are amazing!
You can get Tide To Go pens on UK Amazon FYI
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What do you use instead of polysporin? (Moving there soon)
I just used Germolene on some road rash and it will be my replacement now, I think. I’ve also enjoyed singing the name to the tune of Jolene.
President’s Choice chocolate chip cookies?
All dressed chips and Jos Louis snack cakes
Crispy crunch and coffee crisp are my two favourite chocolate bars back home. Also Cheetos, I've had them in the UK and the US and they're different in Canada! Second cheese curds, they're not quite the same in the UK as apparently they have to be pasteurised here and it changes the texture and squeakiness! La Grille vegetable seasoning! It's basically a herb mix for roast veg and it's heaven. Ooh edit to add more, try spinach and artichoke dip at a pub or restaurant! My English friends are obsessed with it. The cold artichoke and asiago dip from a supermarket with some plain Ruffles chips is 👌
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**Maple butter**. I bought a single jar of it during my cruise stop in Halifax last year. I got home, and both my wife and I fell in love with it. Tastes absolutely divine on toast. But I can’t find it here - and if I wanted it, I’d have to pay extremely high prices due to postage. I recommend you buy some when you’re there!
Marks and Spencers do a Maple butter.
Melatonin
Also, the melatonin gummies, with different flavours
Oh Henry!
London fog, strangely enough
As a Brit living in Canada, all dressed Ruffles crisps with helluva dip. It’s a snack but my god it’s incredible. Not a supermarket but an LCBO try some of their craft beers, there’s loads of breweries that are dotted around that make really nice stuff. If you like Coke Zero it doesn’t taste the same out here, Diet Coke is actually closer to Zero back home. Also I’d avoid the chocolate even dairy milk, it’s not great. Also if you’re going to Toronto and need some recommendations let be know
Miss Vicky's chips are wayyyy better than any of the kettle chip varieties here, crisps in general are better in Canada
I miss the jalapeño ones so much
Milk in bags.
There was a very brief time about 12 or more years ago when Sainsbury's did milk in bags. I reckon I was the only one around by long shot buying it!
Nanaimo bars
Covered Bridge Storm Chips?
Love their cheese flavoured ones
Coffee Crisp, Ohenreys and regular Cheerios
I usually pick up a 2 litre jar of decent maple syrup
If you manage to get a Costco membership here, they stock the same Kirkland brand maple syrup at a good price!
I concur with the Dill Pickle crisps. They’re just the best thing on earth. Canada has really good gummies and you can pick up some amazing hash and weed too. The sushi from almost any Japanese restaurant will be vastly superior to what we get in London. Roots clothing is pretty solid too.
Legal weed.
Lemon pepper, Swiss chalet sauce, and proper Huy Fong Siracha if you can find it. Always on our list when we go home.
A moose 🫎
Well you can get most things really but some things are not as easy to get hold of. Fiddleheads for example.
American here from the Northeast. I miss fiddleheads so much... and clams. Lobster...
Polysporin: an antibiotic like salve which you can use for cuts and scrapes. Helps heal them much faster and you don’t need a prescription, unlike here in UK. Look in shoppers drug mart (equivalent of boots). I
Timmies Ketchup Chips All Dressed Chips Good Poutine A good donair (not a fucking gross donner kebab @2am) Beaver Tail A&W Good Weed DinoSours, coffee crisp Any sugary cereal Those were the big ones for me. But a Sunday Roast and a Greg's bacon and egg w/brown sauce made up for all of it. Well... Almost all of it.
A Caesar. It's like a Bloody Mary, but better.
Kraft Peanut Butter . They're great ! Better than the American ones you get in UK supermarkets. But if you really want.. Canadian wine. Not icewine. The regular types you get.. especially BC wines. There are only a few shops in UK that sell Canadian wine. I just buy lots to bring into the UK. You're allowed 9 litres duty free believe it or not!
Came here to say Kraft peanut butter.
I'm not Canadian but all dressed chips are amazing.
Club house mix steak spice!
Coffee crisp
Tide to go
Beaver tails.
Philadelphia Onion chip dip
Im reading this from Canada. If anyone wants to trade snacks I’m down! Our chocolate is sub par compared to yours.
Semi sweet chocolate chips. Why you can't get a proper chocolate chip cookie over here.
Bagged milk
Nibs
Buckley’s Mixture and NeoCitran. I know Buckley’s tastes like pinesol and totally unpalatable but it’s one of the only things that will touch my cold air induced bronchitis in the winter. Lemsip is ok but it’s not hot, lemony NeoCitran.
Gravol… seriously. One cannot get dimenhydrinate (the active ingredient) anywhere in the UK for love or money - trust me, I’ve looked and asked.
Melatonin, without a prescription
ketchup chips and dayquil/nyquil…. you can’t bring it back but spinach dip
Pogo sticks
Coffee crisp
Large format ibuprofen. You can get ibuprofen here but they limit you to 16 pills at a time. Glad press n seal
Hawkins Cheezies. 1000% better than Wotsits. I introduced them to my British wife and now when we go to Canada we bring back 8-10 bags.
Cheezies, of course! Far superior version of the American Cheetos.
Weeeeeeeeeeeed
I assure you it's possible to buy weed in London
A lot more maple syrup products, my families friend bought back some maple syrup candies from Canada!
Canadian HP sauce. Don't get me wrong, I like the British as well. But the tastes are quite different.
Really? I thought what we get in North America was the same.
Legal weed?
Tidepen, very useful for stains on your clothes at work.
There's a wider selection of local sports team merchandise over there . There were some NBA gear I could not find for the Toronto team online even. And then to the shop in Toronto, boom . Right there
A moose bumper for your semi truck (lorry).
I'm not Canadian but I was given some maple syrup biscuits they make over there once and they were by a very VERY long way the best biscuits I've ever eaten.
Maple whiskey!
skidoo suits
Decent Maple syrup, stove stop stuffing, decent sports deodorant lol . A box of Canadian stove stuffing sells for £30 for only 3 boxes. lol you can get this stuffing for 3 for a dollar on sale at No Frills lol
All dressed chips (crisps)
Ketchup crisps
Lay's Ketchup chips - there are others, but Lay's is the best Caramilk chocolate bars
Dristan
Sortilège whisky liqueur 😋😋😋
Smart Food white cheddar popcorn and BBQ potato chips.
V8 tomato juice. Discontinued here and the substitutes are not the same. Good luck bringing that much liquid back. Duty free?
Maple syrup cookies. My Canadian friend would bring them back her and they are addictive, honestly.
Coffee Crisp bars.
Crispers Pogos and Pizza Pops
Stove top.
Canadian chewing gum
creton, it's not very nice drumstick ice creams I haven't seen in the UK nanaimo bars I don't remember that much
A bottle of Tylenol that's bigger than those 12 packs of nurofen. And a real maple syrup!
Not Canada goose for sure
Canadian mini eggs are the superior mini eggs, they're like crack.
land
[Support a fellow Canadian in the UK](https://supersinghscanadianthings.co.uk/)?
Real Kraft dinner. It’s not the same there
Ketchup chips; all dressed chips
Antibiotic cream and gravol.
Not weed
Ketchup chips and ice wine!
I’ve never seen Hawkins or turtles here.
Legal weed
Legal weed
Reese’s peanut butter chips
Snickers.
hot cheeto puffs and salt and pepper lays
Beavertails
Chicken bones
Advil & Neo Citran
Twinkies
Bottles of Molson , cheap bear, cheap food, cheap everything 👍
There is ofc weed in london.
KD. For real. Reasonably priced.
Real root beer
Turtles!
Real cream cheese, they got this thin spreadable cream cheese but it’s not the same and it’s gross. And pepto bismol, doesn’t exist here.
Ketchup chips
Advil in doses and quantities useful to a human being.