Foods you miss from home when on the road.
 

Just wondering what sorts of foods do you miss, or crave, from home that aren't all that easy to get when travelling for whatever reason. Whether it's not made or sold where you are or it's just not convienient to get.

For me, no matter where I go, I always want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I get home. Good ole pb and j. MMMMMMM :)

When I am in the USA I really miss Milo and Weet Bix, also Cadbury Picnic's

But then when I return to Australia I miss being able to find decent ribs, Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing, and Cranberry Almond Crunch cereal :)

There are online stores where I can buy Milo, Weet Bix etc. in the USA and online stores in Australia where I can buy HV Ranch Dressing and the cereal...but I don't miss it enough to pay 10 bucks for a box of cereal :)

I really do miss the ribs though...tried making my own last night and they were good...for home cooked ribs.

Phoebe

Hey Feebster, I miss Australia's XXXX Bitter beer, GREAT STUFF. VERY VERY Tough to get in the US.

As far as missing items from Chicago there are more than a few: Italian Beef sandwiches, Chicago dogs, Chicago style pizza.

I also miss the Greek owned (not Greek food) basic family style restaurants. They serve everything (sandwiches, entrees, salads) the menus are usually huge and much of the food is homemade.

But I know my missing these items is only temporary and I strive to try new dining experiences and especially look for local/regional specialties of where I'm traveling to.

I believe one is a true loser if they primarily go to restaurants or dine on foods that they can readily go to at home while traveling. i.e. Cheesecake Factory in Honolulu.

GET OUT AND EXPERIENCE SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

New York pizza. ;)

Doesn't matter if I'm away for 3 days or 14 days, when I return home, I always have a slice (of pizza).

I miss Cinnamon Life Cereal and some good Barbeque sauce for cooking.

I don't find that I miss much, if only because when I travel, I travel places which have good local foods of their own, and I'm usually as eager to sample that food as much as I end up missing New York food when I'm getting ready to come back.

If I had to pick, it would probably be pizza - always a good choice here, in NYC...

There's a lot: li hing mui snacks, shave ice, shoyu chicken, arare, a good fried rice, manapua, guriguri from Maui... etc

It's not southern food (like most seem to miss here), but it's what I miss!

aloha

Feebster, almost all big Chinese grocery stores (supermarkets) in the U.S. sell Milo (and Horlicks). I love to drink them cold. Yummm.....

As kinds of food that I miss when travelling: a tall glass of tangy, freshly brewed, unsweetened iced tea with lots of ice cubes, Popeye's spicy fried chicken, BBQ ribs, corned beef harsh, spinach, corn, okra, collard greens.....

(Southern) belle :)

Ever since I moved away from Cincinnati I miss Skyline Chili and good Bratwurst. We can get frozen Skyline in Florida, but it's not the same. Likewise we can get bratwurst, but it's never as good as the stuff we got fresh from the butcher in Cincinnati. :)

I miss homemade food. --- Red Beans and Rice, Jambalaya, Crawfish Pasta, Boiled Shrimp.

Everytime I go to restaurant outside of New Orleans for dishes like these it is always some horrible attempt at cajun cooking.

I understand the chili thing but brats? I've always understood brats to be a WI thing.

My brother currently lives in Cincinnati and I get there often, if you could pm me the name of the brat butcher it would be much appreciated.

I always enjoy the new experience of foreign food, so don't miss home cooking. Except: in the 80s, I was doing research in China, followed by a train trip on the Trans-Siberian Express (a week without food, essentially) to Moscow, which was not then - and probably not now - a culinary center. I fantasized about eating a hamburger with a side of potato salad all across Mongolia and Siberia. And I don't even eat hamburgers :eek:
This, of course, was long before McDonald's moved in to faraway places.

When I've been in Haarlem, just down the tracks from Amsterdam, I found a store called "The American Store" stocked with those products an American out of the country cannot do without (Oreo cookies, Jif peanut butter, Jelly Bellies). Has anyone seen similar type stores for their home country's food products while out touring?

When out of Europe I miss

CHEESE!!!!

Salads made with good a vinaigrette or balsmaic vinager not bottled premixed.

Real crusty bread made without a trace of sugar.

Coffee

There used to be two stores in Paris - one, I believe, named "The Real McCoy" - which stored American processed foods like Velveeta and peanut butter and stuff like that. I know there are scores of ethnic stores in NYC covering just about every country/culture you can think of. Actually, that's true of probably most of the bigger cities in the US, like Chicago, LA, etc.