What Food Can I Expect?.

[Brakers]

I don't really understand why when travelling abroad you want to eat English food. Part of the fun of travelling is trying the local dishes, we always try to eat local food.

Hi Lenny
I didn’t say I want to eat English food I’m just getting an idea of what I can expect in these countries,
I’m quite happy to try new dishes but want to know what I’m eating as well.
Let face it if I go into a place and order a meal and pay let’s say 12 euros for it and I hate it and leave it
I’ve still got to find something else to eat which could become expensive, either that or loose some weight. Which for those that know me might not be a bad thing.
Best Wishes Tony

 

[Lenny HB]

let’s say 12 euros for it and I hate it and leave it

I don't think I've ever had a meal that bad but the squid stew in Portugal was a bit iffy.

 

[Geo]

Do the French eat Snails-------------------------------Because they dont like Fast Food---------------------Boom Boom

 

[Riverbankannie]

Most importantly, DO NOT forget to pack a sufficient quantity of Marmite.
I ran out in Northern Spain and had to wait 3 weeks, yes, 3 weeks before I met up with a pal who had a spare jar on board.

As well as a decent stock of marmite, we also take my homemade marmalade, tea bags and homemade muesli. These are the only things we find difficult to buy in a form that we like. The breakfast cereals are aimed at children and often only in chocolate flavour.

 

[obanvanman]

Do the French eat Snails-------------------------------Because they dont like Fast Food---------------------Boom Boom

As Micky Flannigan said on tour...
The only reason the French eat snails is because they are too ******* lazy to catch anything else.

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[Riverbankannie]

If you have an allergy to anything then have a card with you with it written clearly in French that you can show. I am allergic to allium family (garlic, onion, leek etc) thankfully not seriously in that I could get an anaphalactic shock but a get a reaction that swells my mouth and makes my lips hurt and lasts all evening and is unpleasant. As you can imagine this makes eating out very difficult for me in any country especially as I prefer vegetarian dishes.
Preparing our own food in the MH is usually our only option.

 

[Jim]

If you have an allergy to anything then have a card with you with it written clearly in French that you can show. I am allergic to allium family (garlic, onion, leek etc) thankfully not seriously in that I could get an anaphalactic shock but a get a reaction that swells my mouth and makes my lips hurt and lasts all evening and is unpleasant. As you can imagine this makes eating out very difficult for me in any country especially as I prefer vegetarian dishes.
Preparing our own food in the MH is usually our only option.

No garlic!! You'd starve in our house

 

[Nicepix]

As well as a decent stock of marmite, we also take my homemade marmalade, tea bags and homemade muesli. These are the only things we find difficult to buy in a form that we like. The breakfast cereals are aimed at children and often only in chocolate flavour.

You can get Marmite and a lot of other delights at the larger supermarkets. They have special sections for les anglais. Also, try the local charity shops. I've just bought some luncheon meat and Marmite for fishing bait at the Hope Charity shop in Confolens.

There are quite a few English owned shops around and about where you can buy home comforts like South African wine, curry sauces, nan breads and fajitas

Last week I had to make a 20km detour to buy my mate some Eccles cakes from the English shop at Piegut-Pluviers. Once I'd mentioned that they sold them he wouldn't let me go home until he'd got some.

 

[Brakers]

Preparing our own food in the MH is usually our only option

Hi Annie yes that might be what I will be doing a lot of the time, as long as I can find the supermarkets.
Best Wishes Tony

 

[Riverbankannie]

No garlic!! You'd starve in our house

I know, it’s become a much loved ingredient for most people and certainly for restaurant chefs from an unknown one when I was a child.
I have met many people with the same allergy though.

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[Riverbankannie]

Hi Annie yes that might be what I will be doing a lot of the time, as long as I can find the supermarkets.
Best Wishes Tony

You’ll have no problem finding supermarkets, main names
Intermarché, Auchan, Carrefour, E LeClerc, and of course Lidl and Aldi.
Do look out for street markets too.
Most close Sundays and often for a long lunch too.

Your sat nav will be able to direct you to supermarkets around your current position.

 

[WynandJean]

Also wherever you go there are roadside signs showing the way to supermarkets, MacDonalds etc.

Wyn

 

[Abacist]

Be careful not to run out of food on Mondays in France as most shops and supermarkets still close all day depending where you are.

 

[Geo]

No garlic!! You'd starve in our house

We've Noticed

 

[StephandJohn]

Be careful not to run out of food on Mondays in France as most shops and supermarkets still close all day depending where you are.

So true. Also get out to shop before noon (supermarkets and markets) in France. Everything closes down while they have long lunches and siesta etc etc. and don't open up again until 4 pm.

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[hilldweller]

as I can find the supermarkets.

You are in for a treat Sir. No-one does a supermarket or Hyper Marche like the French. The big problem is getting out not bankrupt. They sell everything and more.

This year my ebike expired, it was old so...... Into LeClerc Hypermarche, "oh that looks good, only €690" pick up bike and go to checkout with all other items.

On return at Cite Europe, Calais, we were obliged to bring back some wine so...... There's the red wine area, the white wine area, the fizzy wine are all bigger than your local supermarket. A bit bewildering really.

To be honest, as a Manchester lad brought up on fish and chips I don't like a lot of continental garlicy ( hate it ) food. So a simple steak and chips is what I look for. Once I got a plate of "something" "Is that what I ordered ?" "Yes msr". I could not eat it.

Germany is good for simple wholesome food. A beautiful lump of meat with chips. Schnitzel.

Possibly best of all Italy.

 

[Reallyretired]

SWMBO tried the duck gizzard salad and liked it so much she had it again at the next restaurant we went to.
I. Didn't fancy it myself.

 

[Lenny HB]

get a reaction that swells my mouth and makes my lips hurt and lasts all evening and is unpleasant.

Just like Marmite then.

 

[iandsm]

Hi there all you international travellers,
Some of you know I’m leaving these shores for that place we are trying to leave, with that apart,
I was wondering if you could give me a ball park list of what I can expect to encounter on a French and Spanish menu.
I’m looking for the standard things, like if you go into a bog standard cheap uk restaurant you can expect to see on the menu things like lasagna, fish and chips, steak and ale pie, all day breakfast, cottage pie or a version of etc.
What can I expect to find on a French and Spanish menu, please leave out spicy meals which I cannot eat. Also sweets can be listed so I get a broad idea of what I can expect.
Many Thanks Tony

I wouldn't worry about it, just read the menu, usually outside the premises by law, make your mind up and go inside or not as you please. If there is something you don't understand just ask.

 

[obanvanman]

You can get Marmite and a lot of other delights at the larger supermarkets. They have special sections for les anglais. Also, try the local charity shops. I've just bought some luncheon meat and Marmite for fishing bait at the Hope Charity shop in Confolens.

There are quite a few English owned shops around and about where you can buy home comforts like South African wine, curry sauces, nan breads and fajitas

Last week I had to make a 20km detour to buy my mate some Eccles cakes from

the English shop at Piegut-Pluviers. Once I'd mentioned that they sold them he wouldn't let me go home until he'd got some.

OMG! Marmite flavoured fish. You sir are a genius.
At last, proof there is indeed a God.

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[Janiemou]

Part of the fun of travelling across Europe is to try local food. We have made some wonderful discoveries that now form part of our year-round diet. Andouillettes - well they are too different, even for us, although we do export them to Greece for a friend who adores them.

 

[Chas17]

I have had an andouillete pizza once and it tasted like Ghandis flip flops marinaded in the contents of a Thetford cassette.

You must have been lucky and had one of the tastier ones then. Lived in France for 9 years and managed to avoid them completely. Another “specialist” dish is tete de vaux - calf’s head. We were served it at a friends one night and it was quite a struggle to stir it up enough to look as if we’d eaten a lot.

 

[GerTee]

Just go with the flow, half the fun of travelling is taking your time, peruse the menus, listen to your belly and enjoy. However, avoid popping into Globus(supermarket) near Koblenz, with a very short list. It is posssbly the largest food emporium we have ever visited in Europe. What should have taken 5 mins in a local supermarche took 2 hours probably because hubby got lost in the mahoosive beer aisles

 

[scotjimland]

What Food Can I Expect?.

when I read this I thought you were going for a spell in HMP

 

[denisejoe]

Love Normandy Andouillette best place to try it. One thing I cannot stand is tongue or langue disgusting stuff
Joe

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[hilldweller]

just read the menu, something you don't understand just ask.

Easily said but for the average Brit, not so easy.

 

[matt34]

mussels when we go to france i can live off them cheap easy to make and so many sauces to try, there super u are amazing in lots of seafood im in haven most are imported from our shores which we dont eat shame, enjoy try other foods you will be surprised.

 

[Spriddler]

I have had an andouillete pizza once and it tasted like Ghandis flip flops marinaded in the contents of a Thetford cassette.

Cuh! You were lucky. When I was a kid in Huddersfield...........

 

[138go]

We now need a thread on what you can buy in Foreign Supermarkets .. You could also do with one on Hospitals just in case you get unlucky and get food poisoning. We went to the Hospital in Spain good job we had Google Translate disgusting really NO ONE SPOKE ENGLISH

 

[Spriddler]

Another “specialist” dish is tete de vaux - calf’s head.

I ordered tête de veau once in Paris at a business dinner with clients. The damn thing kept looking at me through a nauseating thick grey jelly cushion. Feeling grim just thinking about it.

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