erinja:

komenstanto:Save your money and skip Trader Joes. At the Key, only $1.99. Half the price of Joe's.

I've never heard of the Key.

Key is a cheap grocery chain in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. In other words, the Tri-State area.

Hannaford has crumpets too:

http://www.hannaford.com/home.jsp

I dont know about other grocery stores, but I am sure they are around.

The reasoning of course, is that British bankers are cheap, and they own a lot of shares in the Tri-State area. Naturally, when these cheap buggers hop across the pond to do banking, they only eat the cheapest crumpets.

Dont ask me what we carry for the German banker shareholders when they come to visit USA!

New England has a lot more British foods available than other parts of the country.

I remember that my grandparents could easily find Cheshire cheese at their supermarket on Cape Cod, but it was hard to come by in most other places.

I see it now and again here in the mid-Atlantic region but it's not a common thing to find.

I am not sure about that. I would expect California and the west coast to be very British as well. After all this Trader Joe's is from California originally.

In Santa Monica California there are a number of British themed shops and pubs that sport things like a bouncer from England and a special tea shop. It's kind of generic.

The people in New England are not wildly British. They are some of the biggest mongrels in the USA, having a lot of Scandinavian and French in them, also Irish. If anything, those crumpets are for the Irish more than the British. Irish Pride is the biggest thing in New England next to perhaps Italian Pride.

But dont you have grocery stores that sell imported cheese in Central Atlantic? In Hannaford you can buy cheese from Bergen Norway.

You can find specialty shops selling British things practically anywhere. But you can't find Heinz salad cream in any old American supermarket. Or golden syrup, you find it sometimes but not everywhere. Here in the DC metro area, it used to be very rare to find salad cream even in the 'international' aisle. It is getting slightly more common now, they are selling a wider selection of UK items in the international aisle. If I wanted Heinz beans in tomato sauce, for example, I think I could find it without having to check more than two or three supermarkets.

You can't find golden syrup at every supermarket. Only a few supermarkets sell frozen rhubarb (from a US supplier, but this is not a common ingredient in US cuisine, at least not out of season).

Of course we have many imported cheeses at the supermarket. But even at specialty stores, imported *British* cheeses are not very common, except for Cheddar and Stilton (and the Stilton/Double Gloucester layered cheese). I have never seen Wensleydale without added fruit in the US, for example (just plain). Cheshire is not very common. Red Leicester, not common. And there's a whole list of British cheeses that I've simply never ever seen in the States, not even once.

Even the likes of Whole Foods usually doesn't have a huge selection of UK cheeses. Not even Wegmans.

Whole Foods is from Texas. I have heard it called "Whole Paycheck" as it is too expensive!

Well, New England has its own culture of whoopie pies and maple syrup. In some places in the USA they just dont care for these things. We dont have the death penalty and dont care for fast food. Deutsche Bank foreclosed their homes. This is the New England syrup:

http://www.bgfoods.com/brand_vermontmaid.asp

Where I live there is actually a private cheese shop that I could buy a strange Danish cheese that smells like a corpse or any kind at all, cheeses that almost no one would want.