Help me find UK food in States

Chris, you'd better add liquor store to your list, too!   They don't get that over here either! It's called the off-license or offie as Howard says! And don't worry, us Yanks know how surprising it can be to be told something you NEVER even thought about could be really wrong! Maybe when Leah gets the changeover done, we can ask her to have a thread with words you need to know and words you need to forget!  

"Store" itself is not so much used here, except in the sense of "department store" (an American invention, I believe!) i.e. a place like Harrods or John Lewis.  "Shop" is the the word people mostly use, though "shop" once had more the meaning of a place where stuff was made.

Sorry this is off-topic!

I've heard Packie before as well and never made the potentially unfortunate connection with someone of Pakasani decent...I just thought package store.  Definitely will never say "packie" anywhere but Boston!

No, an "offie" is someone who eats offel, which is just awful, and in thinking so, I can be called an "awfie"...but not to be confused with an "offey" who works in an office. The offey who is also an offie would be an "offfieey"...thank goodness you can't have both an offie AND and awfie.

Then there was the time I told a stranger that I was visiting Scotland  :to find a jobbie.   What with talking about stotties, cannies, and pasties, and taking piccies, it just slipped.

"Store" itself is not so much used here, except in the sense of "department store" (an American invention, I believe!) i.e. a place like Harrods or John Lewis.  "Shop" is the the word people mostly use, though "shop" once had more the meaning of a place where stuff was made.

Sorry this is off-topic!

Where I work 'the store' is what I would call the storeroom, plus there's a shop so even having been here fifteen years I still cause confusion with this one occasionally

Then there was the time I told a stranger that I was visiting Scotland  :to find a jobbie.  

  hehe

This bit in the news today made me think about this thread....

http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/071023/340/hlpfg.html&e=l_news_dm

As many of you were helpful...I live near in a small town in southern Indiana but am quite close to Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville or St Louis...any place we can find British food around here that you know of? My husband craves items more often than his mother sends them!

I don't know about your specific area, but if you can find a World Market, they have loads. DH loves to go in there and stock up on digestives and Cadbury   We also use Jolly Grub to order online. They have tons and we've always had good luck with them. There are loads of other online shops that sell British food. Do a google search and I'm sure you'll come up with loads.

As many of you were helpful...I live near in a small town in southern Indiana but am quite close to Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville or St Louis...any place we can find British food around here that you know of? My husband craves items more often than his mother sends them!

Do they have Stop & Shop in any of those cities? Our big S&S in Providence, RI, had a whole section of British food.

Chris, you'd better add liquor store to your list, too!   They don't get that over here either! It's called the off-license or offie as Howard says! And don't worry, us Yanks know how surprising it can be to be told something you NEVER even thought about could be really wrong! Maybe when Leah gets the changeover done, we can ask her to have a thread with words you need to know and words you need to forget!  

An off license is also the term for a small grocery store where beer is sold. Similar to a bodega in the US.

By the way, the term "off license" is used because you can buy alcohol, but you can only drink "off" the premises.

By the way, the term "off license" is used because you can buy alcohol, but you can only drink "off" the premises.

Because of our weird blue laws, the only places that sell off-license are bars.  That always makes me giggle.

There was a World Market in St. Louis.  There were also a number of Chinese places on Grand that had British food.

Maybe not much help to you in New Mexico but maybe try Myers of Keswick, a great local shop in New York, for British food.

]http://www.myersofkeswick.com]

They take fax/phone orders only and not sure if/how they ship.