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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe most of the food is based in the ideals of what we want it to be, but the reality is the ingredients of your region.

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago

Boiled children's feet

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Peanut butter toast

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You don't need to be at home to make them; it's just more socially acceptable than in a cafe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Technically... you could buy them premade

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Avocado shake, at least in the western world. Unless you come across one at an asian shake/milktea shop, and even then, that menu item is rare.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's nothing like the shit labeled mozzarella sold in supermarkets around the world

That's called mot-zer-eller, if I remember right.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Look at the plus side: at least you know what kangaroo testicles taste like.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While you can go to a restaraunt/cafe and buy pancakes. I havent found a premade packet version that just needs warming up that isnt absolute shit.

Give me fresh or give me death!

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