American Foods That are Hard to Find in the UK 

If you want 'dill pickles', head to one of the numerous Eastern European shops. Whilst there you can also pick up your sour cream (usually labeled 'Smetana').

You can make your own dill pickles in about 20 minutes if you have access to dill weed. It's just water, vinegar, salt and garlic, boiled and dumped into a jar filled with sliced cucumbers and dill. That's it. Let it sit for a few days and you have a ton of dill pickles. Reply if you'd like a more specific recipe. And I don't know if I could live there if they didn't have peanut butter. I may have to disown my British ancestors.

I am a Brit & I hear you about Mexican food. I looked up what specialist online grocers charge for fresh tomatillos (& that's if they're even in stock) & nearly had a stroke. I picked up corn tortillas in Sainsbury's recently -- pretty sure it was Sainsbury's -- so it might be worth checking out where you live.

Find a polish supermarket for the pickles, they generally will have dill pickles that aren't the sweet style.

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I’m really confused. I live in Warwickshire and you can get virtually all those things in Sainsburys here. Or online American stores. With the internet nowadays you can get anything. I hope you manage to satisfy your cravings. I understand as I lived in Spain for 20 years and 'comfort food' is craved so much.

Try WA cafe for matcha. You should be able to get coffee mate (just a bog standard one not all th varieties of the US) but it’s probably with the dried milk and uHT juices etc rather than with the coffee. Also sour cream, usually with the creams and I haven’t had Californian sour cream but it’s not runny so hopefully is a bit closer to what you are used to. I think you may have got the bottle stuff next to the burrito kits. Avoid that! Haha. Try looking by the milk and cream.

As a Wisconsinite, might I recommend that you find Landjäger. This is a German meat stick that while is not the same as slim Jim's, is probably as close as you are going to get and much better in my opinion. Or at least the one's made here in Wisconsin are.

I'm a native of San Diego and I know what you mean about missing good Mexican food. In my case it was our Baja-style Mexican food (like Rubio's famous fish tacos and good carne asada burritos). In Central California where I attended college they typically ruin perfectly good carne asada with a load of rice and beans, which I think is a mainland Mexico thing. "Sin arroz y frijoles por favor" became a mantra. As for peanut butter, it was as rare as hen's teeth in the European summer of 1980. All this great fresh baked bread and tasty jam everywhere... and no Skippy Chunky style in sight! After a month in England I finally found a dusty *can* of peanut butter in a shop in Paris near the International University. It had a plastic cover (like tinned cat food). And for the rest of the summer it was the best damn trade goods ever, 'cause nearly every American traveler I met wanted some.

If you like thin mints the closest thing we have in the UK are viscount biscuits. I wish Ranch was more popular here too as it's lovely.

the way i live in the UK and can only find sour pickles and wish I could find sweet ones! I feel like thes sour ones are pretty easy to find in any big supermarket or polish shops have good ones too. Sour cream really threw me, this is a super normal thing here and definitely is like, the good creamy stuff! I think you gotta get to a big Sainsburys! In terms of matcha I recommend trying authentic Japanese cafes rather than standard coffee shops like Katsute 100, Wa Cafe, Toconoco, Tsujiri or even Cafe Kitsune. Understandably, we have very little Mexican food here but I stand by Homies on Donkeys in Leytonstone. Very much worth a try!

Ate at The Texas Embassy (in the old White Star Line building) and it was “different”, but vaguely resembled Tex-Mex food. Not sure if it still exists.

Nestle Coffee Mate Original Coffee Whitener from most big shops I can only see in powdered form. I don't know if that's the same thing but in powdered form and not liquid.

Great video, Brittany! I subscribed 😁

Moving to England in August, but when we were living in Germany it was vanilla extract. Must have for baking. And I agree about the sour cream. Luckily we had base access so I was able to purchase these items. Looking so forward to experiencing England.

I suggest making your own, from scratch, Mac and Cheese. It's so much better than the processed stuff (and I'm from America). Also, make your own salsa. Both of these things are easy to make.

Ranch dressing is often marketed as "American Dressing" in the UK.

Honey, if you seasonings you need shops that sell Caribbean food you'll find it there it maybe called something else but you'll recognise what you need. The supermarkets dont sell anything good!

Tesco have been carrying Herdez salsas for the past year or so. I've become addicted to their Salsa Verde. And just in the past few weeks they'v discontinued selling it. I have one jar left in the cupboard.

We used to call it Macaroni Cheese in UK, not Mac n Cheese, I think however its US name leaked into our vocabulary. I wish our supermarkets had kept the UK name for it. I much prefer it, makes more sense as a name for a dish and aligns with its ‘sister’ dish Cauliflower Cheese.

My local shop has loads of different dill (and other) pickles, but it could be that I am living in an area with a large Jewish community. As for spices, explore a South Asian shop- they won't be the same but you'll find loads of new ones.

Hi. First time viewer here. Not sure why you don't think the UK has scouts? (Boys and girls). The scouts was started in the UK in 1910 by Robin Baden Powell in London. US Girls scouts was formed in 1912. Never heard of a cookie thing though. In the UK the scouts have summer fares where home baked goods are sold to raise money.

Morrisons has one, Krakus brand (registered in the States). Sainsburys have a few, a few of which are labelled/described as sweet so the others by elimination must be tangy (look on their site for dill pickles).

I don't know what corn bread mix is, but isn't the main ingredient just polenta flour as thats ground corn, its course ground but its still ground corn so can't you use that. we have coffee whitener, look around the coffee area in shops like Asda and sainsbury, my mother used to drink coffee mate it was awful. peanut butter flavour things tend to be limited edition like peanut butter kit kats but you can get peanut butter cups all year round if you want. if you want matcha go to a japanese shop, theres one in westfield sheperds bush, theres one at ealing common, atari ya in north acton and theres several in central london such as japan centre, theres probably some dotted around the rest of london but West London is where the main japanese community is and where their schools are, also most asian in general shops like chinese and thai also stuck japanese food like Wing Yips at Cricklewood, Hoo hing near stonebridge park and tian tian market in ealing broadway, theres also quite a few asian shops around hammersmith with more seemingly opening all the time and you could probably get in it china town. if you have a car I recommend going to Wing Yips even if its pretty far from you, it is a massive shop full of interesting things, they also have a store in croydon. finally I suspect the cake shop at ealing called Wa probably your best bet for someone to make matcha for you. the barrista probably put boiling water in it that makes it bitter, it needs to be hot not boiling.

Part of the taste of your American food is nostalgia, so no British equivalent, even if the same, would taste the same. There's also the fact that many ingredients in your American food are banned in the U.K., so you have healthier replacements, which, of course, taste different!

Amazon sells Trader Joe’s spices. They’re a bit pricey but worth it.

Saw this London restaurant featured on the Jolly channel. It's owned by the Hollywood actor Danny Trejo and offers high-end authentic Mexican food: Trejos Tacos 299-301 Portobello Rd, London, United Kingdom W10 5TD

Sweet pickles don't exist over here. They always be sour. Mac and cheese, make it yourself.

Try looking for Cornichons these should be tart in flavour

I haven't eaten in a restaurant in like 20 years come to think of it.... Living in villages all my life the culture is just to buy all the ingredients yourself and cook from home. I always used to have arguments with girlfriends as for some reason women always want to go out, but I could never rationalise the cost when I could make it myself. Like at Alton Towers and there being a £15 hot dog :/ No thanks I'll wait until I get home at the end of the day to eat.

You can't find coffee mate where do you live in the UK just go to the nearest supermarket other things you miss why you not make

Slim Jims closest one is the Peperami Beef, look for a blue packet of them. But they aren't showing up in the usual places that their own site says to look for Peperami's in general. So....?

Have you looked in Aldi, Aldi Nord owns Trader Joes.

Tesco has Newman's Own Ranch, no idea how good or bad it is (the only time I have had Ranch it was diabolically boring !), it is the only one they mention having in a quick search (may be worth trying ASDA if available, it used to be owned by Walmart and still leans towards that "market" ?)

Honestly, you need to look a bit harder! Coffee Mate? It's been here since the 70s! Dill pickles? Lidl, Aldi. Reese's cups - like everywhere... OK, cornbread mix - well, just make some cornbread. Ditto ranch, if you really really can't find it (Asda, Tesco I'm pretty sure). Herdez salsa? It's in Farmfoods! 🤣 And Popeyes *is* horrible, so I'm not sure we should be crying out for Chick-Fil-A. OK, In-N-Out burgers are pretty good, though I can make better. 😋Oh, you never mentioned Taco Bell! 🤮

😂 you need your eyes tested…..you can get most of these things in Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s, Morrisons. Coffee mate is deffo a thing here.

Do you not cook or bake? Make your own cookies, corn tortillas, mac and cheese etc. I'm sure there a plenty of recipes out there.

With "Ranch", Paul Newman sauces were popular over here for a while, and Rach-style was amongst them. But I haven't seen Paul Newman sauces much recently.

I think tastes to differ between US and Uk. To be honest I feel US dont care what they put in their food provided it tastes good. Cant blame them but hey hello obesity.

In the UK Indian or Chinese if you find a decent one.Mexian food I doubt it.The other stuff is less than dog food from the US don't touch.

I agree with others here , these items are all available, Britain does cut back the additives, but being such a culturally diverse country everything is here , amazon sells all of these trader Joe's, this seems to be a views moan rather than honest ,borders biscuits are a better than girl scout that I s not me saying this, I work in hospitality with a large american customer base the continent not just usa this is their preferred biscuits.

We definitely have coffee mate

Popeyes has made it to the UK .

Does Brittany like the caffeine availability here....not so mocha 😅.

America has the best tasting poisons on the planet.. People can't get enough of them..

Isn’t ranch the same as Kewpie Mayo?

I got diabetes twice and a degenerative colon disease just from watching this video.

And Tesco for one sell Corn tortillas.