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For example, Marmite Crumpets don't exist. You cannot buy them at the supermarket. To be clear: you can buy crumpets, you can buy marmite, you can buy butter; but you have to assemble them at home.

If you walk into a breakfast cafe, they will happily serve you sausage / egg / bacon / french toast / bubble / squeak (whatever that is). But no marmite crumpets. If you ask them to make it, they will give you a very strange look. It's not typically offered. It's something you just have to make at home.

It is unbuyable. Any tourist who comes to the UK to try a Marmite crumpet would need to bring a toaster or an oven with them, or quickly befriend a brit and hope that they have all the ingredients at home.

It's not a secret. You just can't have it.

*munches into crumpet thoughtfully, and salivates at the juicy savory delight, whilst staring at you pityingly and condescendingly*

Anyway, what's something that I could never experience unless I made it myself in your local?

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 20 minutes ago

Marmite Crumpets don't exist

Yet you brought them into existence. May god have mercy on your soul.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

To quote a fictional character, Casey Jones from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie;

cricket?! Youve gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Maple Walnut ice cream seems to be impossible to find in stores outside of New England

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 1 minute ago

Widespread in Germany.

[–] Not2Dopey@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Lots in Canada

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Speculoos and jelly sandwiches. It's possible they serve that in Europe somewhere, but you could never find that served in the US.

I'd like to be proven wrong though.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Speculoos

That sounds like a belgian thing. It's gingerbread dust?

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry for not being clear, I meant the speculoos butter spread, most commonly Biscoff butter.

Chunky speculoos spread and strawberry spread is the way to go. I need to try it on brioche one of these days.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah yeah. I bought a jar of that once, and it's uh, still in the cupboard as I've found the taste just too strong

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Properly cooked hash browns. It takes too long for a restaurant to do it.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Disagree, mcdonalds does it perfect and I will die on this hill, or fight in this trench. Also their coffee is great. I am not paid by mcdonalds to shill their awful products

[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

IMO a hash brown patty from Trader Joe's is far better if it's skillet-fried at home with a little bit of oil. It's also far cheaper if you don't need to eat on the go.

Their breakfast steak patty sandwiches though, no place makes it like them and I absolutely love them. I wish they made burgers with their steak patties, but that probably won't happen.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The Cannibal Sandwich, which doesn't actually use human flesh, but is also not a sandwich. Anyway, you take a slice of rye cocktail bread, spread on some raw, ground beef, then top it with some sliced onion, salt, and pepper. You can't get it ready-made, because nobody likes e. coli or salmonella poisoning. In fact, you have to make special arrangements to get the beef ground by a butcher in a clean grinder, and pretty much eat it the same day.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh now that's something I want to try

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Like beef tartare on rye bread?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Marmite on Weetbix.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Weetbix
  • butter (lots)
  • Marmite (lots)

Method:
Select a choice looking compressed wheat brick, apply a thick layer of butter, spread the Marmite across the layer of butter.

This was a common school snack when I was growing up.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm gonna try this. Does the brick need to be wet or toasted?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nope.

Weetbix is a dry brick of wheat.

Bix

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

But isn't it better soaked in milk first?

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Some cafes will do it - not as standard, but a few - maybe try the ones trying to be 1-up from a greasy. https://seahousescafe.co.uk/the-breakfast-menu

As will many hotel breakfasts, there's often little single serving marmite things in with the single serving jam packets. I'd say about half the hotels i've stayed in with decent cooked breakfast have had it on offer.

I've also seen it in little roadside food van / trailer type things too.

Anyway, you want sainsbury's yeast extract instead of marmite, it's way gloopier and nicer tasting.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

sainsbury’s yeast extract

It just sounds wrong but I'll be on the lookout

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The Marmite causes the eggs to hatch in your tummy πŸ€—

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

A Twinkie weiner sandwich.

  1. Cook a hot dog
  2. Slice a twinkie halfway through the bottom longwise to get something like a hotdog bun
  3. Insert the cooked hotdog into newly created bun
  4. Squirt easy cheese along the length of the hot dog
  5. Dip in milk
  6. Eat

Weird Al invented this in 1989 in his movie UHF and it’s still not available in stores for some reason

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If I'm going to have a twinkie, I'll grill it (or toss it in the air fryer I have to try that) just enough until it starts to caramelize on the outside

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

YES CHEF that sounds unironically delicious

it is. some friends in college were getting together around thanksgiving for a turkey roast. i'm allergic to turkey so I intentionally misheard them and showed up with a box of twinkies. a tradition was born that day.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 14 hours ago

Yeah some foods are too powerful for the general public to consume freely.

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[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Decent fitting clothes with deep pockets and quality fabrics with the colors i like

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Here's something that you can't buy outside of Italy: mozzarella. I tasted proper mozzarella in Tuscany and it's nothing like the shit labeled mozzarella sold in supermarkets around the world, and for a good reason: real mozzarella has a shelf life shorter than Trump's attention span.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You mean those watery packets of cheese I sometimes buy aren't supposed to taste like watered down kangaroo testicles?

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[–] a_baby_duck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are hotels in the UK not equipped with toasters?

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You’re supposed to wash it out after you shit in it

I would never. The next guest would want to savor my peaty aroma and be awed.

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