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Moved to Florida from Wisconsin almost a year ago. Florida does not have Diet Squirt. Anywhere. Trust me, we've looked and asked.
Fresh cheese curds (obviously), shredded or shaved Asiago cheese in the round plastic tubs, nor decent meat sticks. I also miss the grind your coffee right in the store options in every grocery store "back home". I also miss Bellatori's gluten free frozen pizzas. There also was a fresh gluten free pasta maker in Madison, the local grocery stores carried it.
Thank goodness at least I can get Johnsonville brats at Publix!!
Ripe fruits.
No one here in the US sells really ripe fruits. Or berries.
And flowers here do not smell.
All synthetic and tastes like it.
Also, true rye bread. They don't have it here, even what they supply from Europe. It's like as if recipe was lost.
Oh, man! I was just thinking about that the other day. In order to feed the nation the quality of food was grossly compromised.
Generations are raised that don't know how real food taste. And when someone has a chance to try it, they think it looks and taste...funny, or even gross.
That's so incredibly sad...
You can buy them if you you live near farms and orchards. They're sold at road side stands and farmers markets.
I am sure many of us miss something that we think was better where we used to live whether a different city or a different country. You are right, the foods the poser misses are available but not easy to find. I love farmers markets and produce from farmers. We have several small farms around us: One particular one has product that is so fresh 2 weeks later, it is as fresh as any we have ever tasted.
Ripe fruits.
No one here in the US sells really ripe fruits. Or berries.
And flowers here do not smell.
All synthetic and tastes like it.
Also, true rye bread. They don't have it here, even what they supply from Europe. It's like as if recipe was lost.
You can get them, just not cheaply at supermarkets. Mass-produced fruit is bred for hardiness in shipping and/or to look good, but the taste is lost. I will never ever buy certain things, like peaches, from a supermarket. They are tasteless baseballs. This means, of course, that I will only have good peaches in our short season here in NJ, but I'd rather enjoy them in season and go without the rest of the year than buy the hard tasteless ones. I don't see the point.
Buy stuff from the farm stands or the farmer's markets in the cities where it's brought in that day from the country. Yes, you'll pay more.
Yes, mass-produced flowers are also scentless. Again, bred for appearance.
Oh, man! I was just thinking about that the other day. In order to feed the nation the quality of food was grossly compromised.
Generations are raised that don't know how real food taste. And when someone has a chance to try it, they think it looks and taste...funny, or even gross.
That's so incredibly sad...
I remember an amusing story on one of these threads about a New Yorker who moved to the midwest and discovered that the only bagels people out there knew were mass-produced bread with a hole in the middle, like Lender's. The guy was back in New York and picked up a bunch of real bagels and brought them back for the people in his office as a treat.
They didn't appreciate them at all. Too big, too chewy, too this, too that. Disliked all the things that make a bagel a bagel. They preferred bread with a hole in the middle.
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