English food revisited

[Miles]

I've been working through the mails of three weeks' time after being a bit 
lazy about this group. First I wanted to write "there are not so much 
English foodstuffs available here in Germany", but the latest two examples 
are very popular here and available in every supermarket: Bounty and Jaffa 
cakes. I like bounty because it's not so dry as other chocolate/candy bars 
are. I never realised it is British.
I love Jaffa cakes as well - and I like them best when they are nearly 
frozen! After I buy them I put them into the freezer for an hour or two. If 
they are not frozen, I peel the orange jelly off the biscuits and eat them 
seperately ;).

Another thing we have in all our stores is British Marmalade. I don't know 
if Chivers is popular in the UK as well, but there are several sorts of 
Marmalade, jellys ... from this brand available. My father loved the Ginger 
.... jam? Marmalade? jelly? - whatever, I thought it was disgusting. But the 
Orange Marmalade with thick cuts of peel - marvellous!

While there is no such thing as Marmite over here, I think we have something 
similar as treacle - Sugar beet syrup. It's molasses of sugar beets, and 
it's used both as a spread and for cooking. While it's basically sugar, it 
has a special flavour to it, and you can add it to sauces you serve with 
roast beef or pork, or as an ingredient for puddings of all sorts. I love it 
with potato pancakes (look it up on wikipedia if you don't know it), or as a 
spread on pumpernickel (the REAL pumpernickel, not the so-called 
pumpernickel you can buy all over the world...)

Miles, getting hungry at Midnight...