Strange UK food

My List would look like it does below. Sure you can get some of these in the states, but I never had them till I came here.:

Love:
Bramston Pickle
Black Pudding (only from certain places)
Tangfastics
Tea (i hated tea until I came here)
Malt Loaf
Yorkies
Mushy Peas (with or without mint sauce)
Ham and Cheese Bake from Greggs
Rhubarb
Brussels
Sweetcorn in Everything (love it on Pizza!!!  Love it in Tunafish!!!)
Carveries
Sweetcorn relish
brown sauce

Can't Stand/Will most assuredly be disappointed:
Chinese Food (with one exception)
Steak (I love steak - and every steakhouse has let me down but one)
Ice Cream
"Butter" on $@*$!#% EVERYTHING - even Tuna fish sandwiches! ::GAG::
Warm Beer. Sorry. no can do.  its why i stick with cider

Can't Stand/Will most assuredly be disappointed:
Ice Cream

Are you serious?? The best ice cream I've ever had is in the UK! Where are you going for your ice cream fix? Because you need to find a better spot!

If you're eating Mr Whippy, well I agree that is tasteless yuck.  

However, Clotted Cream Ice Cream is nectar from the gods

Real clotted cream ice cream is good, but I would like to be able to buy some at the store that does not contain a million ingredients and vegetable oil and doesn't have a million calories. 

Even Ben and Jerry's has cr@p like soy in it. 

In other words, I want some Turkey Hill All Natural and I don't understand why it doesn't exist here.  Surely there would be a market for it. 

The best ice cream I have ever had was at Nicholls in Parkgate.  Homemade ice cream.  It is a bit hard to find as it is really just a strip of road along the marsh/river Dee overlooking Wales.  I really cannot wait to go back again!!! 

http://www.visitparkgate.co.uk/#/famous-ice-cream/4552888575

The best ice cream I've ever had was in Lyme Regis, near the town mill. I wish I could remember the place, but it was award-winning and it was like tasting lemon-flavoured ambrosia. It was made with Devon clotted cream and I am still haunted by how delicious it was.

We have no shortage of homemade ice cream shops. Moomaid of Zennor, Willy Waller's, Roskilly's, Mr B's, Treleaven's, Jelbert's ... I could go on and on. Come to Cornwall!

You are all killing me! I did make my own orange sherbet over the weekend and will make some kind of banana tomorrow for my husband's b-day. 

>boak<  I just remember that horrific 'ice milk' my mom used to buy when i was a kid back in SoCal.  God forbid you should use cream?!  Ugh... it was 'neapolitan' and all 3 flavours tasted exactly alike.

You are all killing me! I did make my own orange sherbet over the weekend and will make some kind of banana tomorrow for my husband's b-day. 

How do you make your own orange sherbet?  I love orange sherbet!!!!  We used to get the rainbow sherbet in the US and I'd load my bowl with orange.    Nom nom nom. 

How do you make your own orange sherbet?  I love orange sherbet!!!!  We used to get the rainbow sherbet in the US and I'd load my bowl with orange.    Nom nom nom. 

I make a mean blood orange sorbet. Do you have an ice cream maker? That's how I make mine.

Mr Whippy Turned me off to most any kind of ice cream here.  I have tried other tubs at the store and they are fine, I'm speaking about soft serve, which I grew up on.

But i just resorted to making my own. Even without an ice cream maker

Mr Whippy Turned me off to most any kind of ice cream here.  I have tried other tubs at the store and they are fine, I'm speaking about soft serve, which I grew up on.

But i just resorted to making my own. Even without an ice cream maker

We recently had an explosion of gelato/shake/ice cream places.  The soft serve is much, much better than you would get from the ice cream vans. Mr. Whippy is pretty meh, for sure.

We used to make fruit sorbet all of the time.  No ice cream maker, so it was "the kids" jobs to get it going by shaking the mixture inside a Ziploc bag that was in another bag filled with ice.  Tiring, but it worked!

We recently had an explosion of gelato/shake/ice cream places.

Mmmm... gelato! A local couple down here has just started making homemade gelato and selling it at the farmers' market! It's amazing!

We have no shortage of homemade ice cream shops. Moomaid of Zennor, Willy Waller's, Roskilly's, Mr B's, Treleaven's, Jelbert's ... I could go on and on. Come to Cornwall!

Moomaid of Zennor!  I went there because the name is awesome, and the ice cream was amazing!  Plus it's right on the beach.  How can you go wrong?

However, supermarket ice cream here is nasty.  I won't touch Carte d'Or.  We usually get Waitrose own brand or Green and Black's, which at least contain actual cream and no vegetable oil.