I can send you yellow peas from here if you want any of them! horrible things. Does you Lidl (if france has them) do British weeks? Ours here up does, it can be a good hunting ground.
Very randomly weird shops here will have English thing, just last week a supermarket had marmite. I've also found sainsburys tinned soups in one supermarket. but there are 60k brits in Denmark so we have some purchasing power being over 1% of the population.
I can, for now, get Marmite and baked beans in a local wee supermarket in a village with a lot of UK ex-pats. Not fussed about yellow split peas thanks. I have found proper butter beans in a Vietnamese store in La Roche-sur-Yon and they do all sorts of goodies but have to go to Nantes for things like gram/chick pea flour for Indian recipes. Too far during Covid.
LIDL here has just had an Italian week. Never known it do British.
I had a Danish friend for many years in Belgium. Lovely food but I can't do Aquavit and co.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Where I am Danish food is BORING it's pork and potatoes and not much else. We did get a lot of asylum seekers which means there is now an international shop in town so I can get gram flour and dried beans etc. but still no Indian restaurants within a 2 hour drive, it's all pizza and kebab.
I now see how spoilt I was with food in the UK so much more choice and so many more influences.
Er hmmm, you seem to have hinted at some sort of connection between two words that evoke an extremely strange notion - "British" and "cuisine"
Les beans on toast? Spam fritters? How about Mrs S's favourite childhood treat - Skate's eyeballs.
Not only do Brits not have a "cuisine" but we can't cook what we do properly either! I used to smile at Victoria Wood's joke about her mum preparing for Christmas by putting the spouts on in November. My Nan used a pressure cooker for everything - need I say more!
Good morning to everyone. A lot of the younger set here in France were getting slack in the cooking area - quick ready to go meals and less preparing - the older generation did/do everything from scratch and Sunday lunch "chez mamie" was the order of the day for a long time. I notice with the onset of the Thermomix, that the cooking fad has returned and that's a good thing.
Having worked in a primary school for many years, those dinner ladies had their jobs cut out for them with so many allergies and intolerance in the dining room. (Amazing how many cannot use a knife and fork properly). I imagine it's the same worldwide.
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And vegetables accompanying a main meal.
Lemon Posset @Liriodendron - good call! With some shortbread biccies or such for crunch.
LIDL here has just had an Italian week. Never known it do British.
I had a Danish friend for many years in Belgium. Lovely food but I can't do Aquavit and co.
Les beans on toast? Spam fritters? How about Mrs S's favourite childhood treat - Skate's eyeballs.
Not only do Brits not have a "cuisine" but we can't cook what we do properly either! I used to smile at Victoria Wood's joke about her mum preparing for Christmas by putting the spouts on in November. My Nan used a pressure cooker for everything - need I say more!
Having worked in a primary school for many years, those dinner ladies had their jobs cut out for them with so many allergies and intolerance in the dining room. (Amazing how many cannot use a knife and fork properly). I imagine it's the same worldwide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/english_regional_classics 😋
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.