This is ANOTHER place that sells American food in London.

Is this stuff any better or is it also just junk? Any recommendations?

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• Click on the pic and then click again and it blows up.

• Zatarains Jambalaya Mix to which you can add the "holy trinity" using fresh vegetables. Then get some Baker's Chocolate and make a Black Bottom Pie.

• I have my cook find things or order them. Since we don't eat prepared garbage, it's not hard to maintain a better American diet with what's in easy reach here. (South Ken)

• Mostly junk, a couple of examples of good tasting junk like the Jambalaya mix.

• Well who the hell are you then?

• Jiffy mix cornbread is OK. Where I live in the US, it's hard to find the Jiffy Mix cake mixes (vanilla, devil's food chocolate). I like them because you can make a small cake or only 12 cupcakes, whereas regular cake mixes are for larger cakes and 24 cupcakes. That said, Duncan Hines French Vanilla cake mix is excellent for cupcakes. their white cake mix is also good.

• I would buy canned New England clam chowder if I was sick and it was raining out. Sure, I'd rather have fresh, but it's comfort food to me -- so long as I add about a tbsp of black pepper.

• Irish Spring soap is good if you have an urge to scratch the skin off your body by drying it out like beef jerky and then scraping the cracked dermis with your fingernails.

• R6 That cornbread is the absolute worst. They add sugar and it makes a sweet cake-like concoction...disgusting really.

• What store is it, and I still see no Kraft Mac N' Cheese

• Much better OP but still mostly junk I don't eat. The Baker's chocolate is good for baking and Lipton's Onion Soup mix is addictive when you add sour cream (recipe on back for Onion Dip) and eaten with potato chips. Also great as a quick seasoning for a pot roast. Clamato juice is good for Bloody Mary's.

• Smart Balance Peanut Butter = Good Much of the rest = crap

• [quote] Lipton's Onion Soup mix is addictive when you add sour cream (recipe on back for Onion Dip) and eaten with potato chips. Sounds so good. I think I'll stop by there and take a better photograph than this rubbish.

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• Still crap, but, IMO, slightly better crap (at least a few items) than the last photo from the other thread.

• This is how it is France although on a smaller scale. I always get so excited when I see an American item at my local Monoprix and then I remember. Paris has none of those cereals in the photo! the exception is a carp American store that sells Apple Jacks and Lucky Charms for 9 euro a box!! I would kill for some Frosted Mini Wheats or Life though

• Euro fatfucks seem terribly excited whenever american shit is selling near them.

• I agree with r14. And yes, make "California Dip" with the Lipton's onion soup mix and sour cream eat it with potato chips (but I can't promise good results if you use the various British flavored crisps). That's a better and more staid selection than in the other place—these are mostly classics, if only classic commercial foods. Avoid Miracle Whip (sweet-tart version of mayonnaise) except as a joke. Go ahead and make the Betty Crocker brownies. Cheese-Its, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, Triscuits, and Wheat Thins are very fine crackers, Saltines even more so—plain and simple. Skippy and Peter Pan are better peanut butters than Jif (somewhat less sweet). Quaker Oats are the standby for oatmeal, and Grape Nuts are a bizarrely uncharismatic food that must be seen and tasted to be believed. Clamato is also a bizarre concoction that you might enjoy frightening people with; never had it myself. And look, there are the chocolate chips everyone was missing in the other thread!

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• Old Bay Seasoning, especially if you eat a lot of seafood. Plus you can combine it with the Clamato and have a hell of a Bloody Mary.

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• [quote] Grape Nuts are a bizarrely uncharismatic food that must be seen and tasted to be believed. Never one of my favorite cereals, at least cold, but they are good as a mix-in with yogurt.

• Weirdness. My advice to friends planning European vacations: Pack your suitcase with favorite travel-safe FOODS and fewer clothes; you'll buy plenty over there. Flying economy is cheap; groceries will cost you. Travel within the Eurozone is affordable. Living well in London is NOT. (on the other hand, if you're stuck in London thank God it's not Rome or Paris)

• Where is the shop, please, OP?

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• Hi OP I responded to you yesterday re the Tesco store. Please share this location. Ta

• Grape Nuts are better if you HEAT (nuke) the cereal (with milk) before eating. I've had Grape Nuts ice cream (at a Jamaican restaurant no less!) and my dad has memories of Grape Nuts pudding as a kid.

• I see a lot of ingredients for baking and candy-making (chocolate chips, marshmallows, carmaels, Baker's chocolate). And do I spy ready-made graham cracker pie crusts over by the Pam spray? Cinnamon Toast Crunch - I am addicted to that cereal. Fiber One and Grape-Nuts are better for you, of course. Goldfish crackers are much better than Cheez-Its. Get a can of pumpkin and mix it with a box of chocolate cake mix for Brownie Muffins.

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• I thought Clamato juice was more popular in Canada. I also see ShopRite brand iced tea powder? Interesting. ShopRite is a grocery store chain that only exists in a small region of the US (NJ, NY, PA, a couple others). No matter. Yeah, this is still all junk...but you might have more fun with it. As mentioned, you can try making some cupcakes or pancakes from mix. Or you could make some chicken parm with Progresso breadcrumbs. Wahooo! Do you recognize most of these products as having an English equivalent, OP? For example, I imagine you have microwaveable bags of popcorn. No fair, I want the stores over here to carry English microwave popcorn.

• Oatmeal to make cookies or fruit bettys, or with LOTS of add-ins for breakfast, as hot cereal, such as (brown sugar or honey, fruit, cinnamon, peanut butter, and of course milk.) Bakers' chocolate for brownies is good. Would never ever use a brownie or cake mix. Nestle Chocolate Chips, if I couldn't find a better brand in a British store, for making cookies. Teddy Grahams are really for kids, but the cinnamon kind work in a pinch for those craving a healthier cookie. Graham cracker pie crusts are not food IMHO, and use poor quality fat. I'd run the Teddy Grahams through a food processor and add a little butter, then put a very light sprinkling on the bottom of the pie pan instead. Much tastier and healthier.

• I know several people from Texas ("from" means they had the sense to leave) & every one of them has a big sweet tooth. So they all love Miracle Whip, Jif peanut butter, & Jiffy cornbread mix. R24, those do look like prepared graham cracker (or some kind of cookie) piecrusts in foil pans. Little kids always seem to love Goldfish crackers & so do I. Sprinkle them on top of your favorite smooth soup, like cream of tomato or pea. I assume the Irish Spring box is soap -- but if so, why is it displayed among all the food items?

• So where is this????

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• Aunt Jemima corn meal is OK.

• Gobbich

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• I had to laugh when I saw the French's fried onions....the necessary ingredient for the all-American green bean casserole!!

• Annie's Mac and Cheese, almost out of the pic by the Teddie Grahams, is much better than Kraft and you can make it without butter and it's good.

• French's Fried Onions are a good topping for all kinds of casseroles, not just the dreaded green bean dish.

• I LOVE the green bean casserole.

• The pizza-flavored goldfish are the best.

• I'm American and I've never had green bean casserole and don't know anybody who eats it. Maybe it's the ethnicity of my area --- Italo-Jewish-irish-Mexican-Pole. I saw so many cans of that dried onion stuff in national chain stores (Target, Walmart) before Thanksgiving, and the day after Thanksgiving it was all gone. Either the stores donated it all to food banks or they just sent it back to some HQ warehouse to be stored until next Thanksgiving. Because it was literally there one day and gone the next.

• Is there some huge difference between Arm and Hammer baking soda and english baking soda?

• They still don't have the best chocolate chip cookies in the US -- Tate's.

• I see iced tea - that's hard to come by in London. I know you can make it yourself, but sun-brewed tea isn't exactly going to happen every day in London either.

• "Grape Nuts are better if you HEAT (nuke) the cereal (with milk) before eating." It's a million times better that way. It tastes better and it softens the cereal so it's not like you're eating gravel.

• Cake and brownie mixes are pretty stupid. A cooking magazine did some actual tests and discovered they save less than five minutes. They're all chemically-enhanced flavors, and can be made from scratch with better results. There are some actual ingredients on these shelves, unlike the other store. On recipe sites I always see people in foreign countries complaining they can't get certain ingredients so that's probably a good thing.

• r36 -- it's a WASP-o dish. They like simple, comforting foods with minimal texture (the crunchy onions are an apex of edginess).

• Green Bean Casserole is a very popular holiday side dish for a lot of people. I am from NYC and I never heard of it until I moved to Atlanta. Everyone makes it in the South

• You mean for forty years you Brits haven't had Pop Tarts? POP TARTS?!?

• [quote]Is there some huge difference between Arm and Hammer baking soda and english baking soda? Arm & Hammer baking soda has aluminum in it. It is fine for cleaning and air-freshening purposes. But you should always buy aluminum-free baking soda for cooking and consumption. It is not expensive and it will say "aluminum free" right on the package.

• It's called:- American Food Store 2 Ladbroke Grove, London W11 3BG Tel:0207 221 4563 It's actually just a local newsagent with a wall of American food. See link

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• The Premium Saltines to eat with soup or peanut butter The Honey Maid graham Crackers for pie crusts The Bakers Chocolate for A Chocolate Cream Pie

• Thanks, OP! I live quite near there, so I'll make sure to pop in some time.

• The French's fried onions make a good snack.

• Cinnamon toast crunch cereal is best eaten dry. No milk. Too sweet. And if you must eat it, it's best in single-serve packages because it goes stale as soon as your eyeballs wander.

• Thats why the British are getting fatter!

• [quote]Arm & Hammer baking soda has aluminum in it. It is fine for cleaning and air-freshening purposes. But you should always buy aluminum-free baking soda for cooking and consumption. It is not expensive and it will say "aluminum free" right on the package. Not true. Many brands of double acting baking POWDER contain aluminum. Bob's Red Mill brand of baking soda seems to have started the false "aluminum in baking soda" scare by printing "aluminum free" on their labels as a marketing ploy. Some people assumed that meant that other brands without the label claim must contain aluminum, and started spreading that misinformation.

• This is Partridges a very expensive deli style place that sells American food. Seems to be more of the same old...

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• [quote] I see iced tea - that's hard to come by in London. I know you can make it yourself, but sun-brewed tea isn't exactly going to happen every day in London either. Or..you brew it the old fashioned way..then refrigerate it.

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• R44. Pop tarts are freely available all over the UK, but I honestly don't know anyone who eats them. I think it might be a niche market for those who don't mind sweet lava burns. The produce in the UK is excellent, so a lot of convenience type foods aren't really that big a market. That's not to say there isn't a section of British shoppers who buy cake mixes for instance but it would be more usual to just buy a cake or bake fresh at home.