Did everyone know about these but me?

[susandennis]

Yesterday when I was in our huge and varied Japanese grocery store, I was looking for graham crackers and found SkyFlakes instead. I was sucked in by the cool looking tin.

I got 'em home and gave 'em a go and wow! They are delicious!! Nothing fancy - more substantial than saltines and just a fine, fine taste in a very cool looking tin. Why didn't anyone ever tell me about these? What else are you holding out on me about????

The Northwest is a fabulous place to live but there are some food items that are totally missing or very scarce (cloverbee knows how hard it is to live without pimento cheese.) But we also do not have regular old graham crackers. Oh we have honey grahams and cinaman grahams and probably garlic and sun dried tomato grahams but no regular old red box Nabisco Graham Crackers. Isn't that wrong?

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[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

I've never seen them...but I'm a fellow Easterner. You can't find Nabisco Graham Crackers up there?

I haven't looked for Pimiento Cheese.

Then again, I've never had Ben and Jerry's Coffee Toffee Crunch ice cream other. Lots of other flavors, but not any of the coffee ones.

No Hellman's Mayo either. Although they say it's Best Foods out here.

[susandennis]

Yeah, I did the research when I first got out here and couldn't find Helman's. I thought for sure I was going to have to go back. Best Foods saved me. I'd never seen the Coffee Toffee Crunch until yesterday so maybe it's new...

[frl.livejournal.com]

Best Foods is Hellman's - same mayo, same company.

Best Foods = West Coast
Hellmans = East Coast

Dreyer's= West Coast
Edy's = East Coast

OroWheat = West Coast
can't remember the name of = East Coast

There are others, but you get the jist... :-)

[susandennis]

We have Nabisco but they are those stupid Honey Grahams. I hadn't thought about the pie crust problem. Now I'm really pissed. How is anyone going to make me a decent grahm cracker crust pie??!!!

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

They have ready-made graham cracker pie crusts. Even a "lite" version. I use them all the time for a quick low-cal key-lime pie.

Southern delights

[spiritgirl.livejournal.com]

I bought a book several years ago about Southern specialty food items and where to see where they are made or how to order them. This is before web sites, but it is still interesting to see. Some of my favorites:

Cheerwine (cherry cola from North Carolina)....much better than cherry coke!!

Goo Goo Clusters
Moon Pies
Maurices BBQ (South Carolina style)

Oh I need to go find that book....lots of fun stuff!

Re: Southern delights

[joyofmacs.livejournal.com]

I have always wondered: exactly what is a moon pie?

Re: Southern delights

[susandennis]

I'll bet if you look in one of your mini-stops (7/11, am/pm, whatever) you'll find 'em. They are about 3-4 inches across. Big cookie, marshmellow, big cookie all covered in chocolate.

[joyofmacs.livejournal.com]

I am a sucker for tins.

THEY DON'Y HAVE HELMANS OUT THERE???

[frl.livejournal.com]

They do, it's just marketed under the name "Best Foods".

http://www.mayo.com/corporate/history.asp - 5th paragraph down.

[minimac.livejournal.com]

I guess biscuits are out of the question...? I know there's no grits anywhere to be found!

[susandennis]

Oh, man, biscuits. You know, I read once that the rest of the world is SOL on biscuits because they don't have the same kind of flour that the South has - there is just a teensy weensy bit of difference. Of course, we lack a bit of biscuit making talent, too.

[minimac.livejournal.com]

Nuthin' better than a good 'ole homemade Southern biscuit! Yum!

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

I knew about the Helmans and Best Foods. They are the same.

I have trouble finding the Grahams here in Fl too. I like the plain ones with milk,, and never can find them either. What's up with that?

[susandennis]

I just don't know! My Mom can get them in South Carolina.

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[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Graham lovers unite!!

Can you tell it's raining here and I don't have enough to do? LOL.

Ebay, here I come.

[hlee.livejournal.com]

Can't remember ever seeing pimento cheese. Do you use it in cooking or just by itself?

Come to think of it I don't think I've seen any olive loaf (pimento stuffed olives in bologna) in groceries or deli for years.

[susandennis]

A picture is worth...

We have olive loaf here - you have to look for it, but it's findable...

[hlee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pict.

And you are so right about Southern biscuits.

[suifu.livejournal.com]

Sky Flakes rule!! Got hooked on them while I was stationed in the Philippines. :)

[susandennis]

Ha! So they aren't all over around here... very interesting. Well, you know now that you can get them at Uwajimaya's. They are really good. I'm totally hooked.

[cloverbee.livejournal.com]

I can't find Strawberry Honey anywhere here. Not even at Harry's which has 72 different kinds of squash and 17 kinds of pimento cheese.

And you can forget a decent bagel. They don't exist in Georgia.

But I have found that Pillsbury now has pretty good southern biscuit. It is in the frozen food section with the frozen dinner rolls. There is a good chance that they won't carry them either, but it might be worth a shot. I keep them because they are much better than my attempts. I just never watched my mom enough to get the hang of it.

[susandennis]

You are very right about those fozen Pillsbury biscuits. They are a bit small but they do pass when you are 3,000 miles away from the real thing - for sure...