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And here - except sushi!

I don't even have to eat anything - nutritious or not. One sniff and I put on 5 lbs! cry

Chicken Tikka Masalas and lot of other Indian food (although I eat a fair amount of it as it is)

Standing rib roast, with roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, roasted turnip etc.

Bacon or sausage sandwiches

Top notch steaks with jacket potatoes - butter AND sour cream please or Parisian style steak with Belgian frites

Smoked salmon with dollops of cream cheese, capers lemon wedges and french bread

Eggs benedict/florentine with lots of hollandaise sauce

Middle eastern lamb with huge chunks of garlic and lemon wedges (I assume in this fictional scenario bad breath isn't a concern either)

Fish and chips

Irish Stew

Lamb Shwarmas with lots of tahini and hot sauce

Southern ribs/pulled pork right out of the smoker, collard greens, mashed potato with pork in it etc.

......think I'm going to have a lie down now. I have indigestion.

(Like Moo I don't have a sweet tooth).

How come American food lasts sooo much longer than British Food? Of instance when I would get milk at my door if I didn't use it in a couple of days it was off, the milk here lasts for weeks! And the single/double cream from the stores at home would only last a couple of days too, but here the creams sell by dates are sometimes like over a month!!??? plus loads of other stuff like Crisps, bread etc...????

I've noticed the same thing, but I dont know why it is. Milk being the most noticable example. I like to kid myself that its not because its pumped full of preservatives and enumbers.

Here, the milk is refrigerated from the time it is pasteurized, till you use it, unlike when it was delivered the way it was in UK. But don't I remember buying it in plastic bags? I assumed it was irradiated. It would keep for ever until the bag was opened. I think I saw that on a trip in the early eighties.

I think they use a bunch of preservatives that are more potent than we're used to.