A taste of home

Hello Scott,



Not sure about there in Red Deer, since it's one of the cities in AB I've not visited, but in most of Canada you can usually find a good selection of foods imported from the UK or manufactured by their Canadian subsidiaries in almost any Canadian (chain) supermarket. Things like HP Sauce, Marmite, Tetley or Twinnings teas, Robertson's jams and jellies, Lea & Perrins Worcestershire, Coleman's mustards, Lyle's Golden Syrup, all Heinz products, McVitie's biscuits, Bird's custard powder, etc. The list of products is virtually endless.

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward, Brazil & Canada Expert - Expat-blog Team

Hello Scott,



Not sure about there in Red Deer, since it's one of the cities in AB I've not visited, but in most of Canada you can usually find a good selection of foods imported from the UK or manufactured by their Canadian subsidiaries in almost any Canadian (chain) supermarket. Things like HP Sauce, Marmite, Tetley or Twinnings teas, Robertson's jams and jellies, Lea & Perrins Worcestershire, Coleman's mustards, Lyle's Golden Syrup, all Heinz products, McVitie's biscuits, Bird's custard powder, etc. The list of products is virtually endless.

Now if only I could source some of those wonderful Canadian and British products here in Brazil.... yum!

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward, Brazil & Canada Expert - Expat-blog Team

I've heard of Lea & Perrins.  Do they serve that at McDonald's?

Sorry I wouldn't think so

Wjwoodward can you let me know what stores sell oxo cubes and Colemans English mustard and Branston pickle.

Also for some reason the Heinz baked beans they sell in Canadian supermarkets is sweetened really makes a different taste.

Im always looking for more products in stores but cant find anything really.

even products from big brand names Tizer, Iron bru, cherry coke. All coke cola products.

I realize you're in Canada but Colman's is sold throughout the United States in major grocery stores. I would imagine it would be in the condiments aisle in a Canadian grocery store too?





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Oxo cubes should be available in almost every supermarket and I think Coleman's Mustard is too. I'm not sure about the Branston pickles though, unfortunately they were in the illustrative photo. You might be able to find them in some specialty shops in Edmonton or Calgary, but the rest of the items I mentioned you should be able to find in any Safeway, IGA, Loblaws, Buy-Low, Overwaite or Superstore.

Ive been to super store, safeway, sobeys, save on foods, walmart, co-op, costco, IGA, none of these sell colemans or oxo cubes. Trust me ive been looking for these product for nearly 10 years now.

Just so it's clear these following products ARE available because they're PRODUCED right in Canada:

HP Sauce and Lee & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce - produced in Canada by E.D.Smith Food Services (a division of GFS)

Coleman's Mustard - produced in Canada by McCormick Foods

OXO beef boullion (cubes and liquid) and Bovril brand - Produced by Knorr Canada and available nationwide.

Lyles's Golden Syrup - imported from Tate & Lyle UK available in Canada both in glass jar and traditional tin.

Robertson's jams & marmalades = imported from UK available all across Canada

McVities biscuits - produced by United Biscuits (imported???) but available across Canada.

Seems that the OP really suffers from a bad case of the "over home" syndrome. Wants the products that are imported directly from the UK and disregards totally that they are also manufactured right in Canada so that's just not going to happen. The product doesn't seem to count if it's not actually manufactured in the UK. I've known a few Brits just like that, my grandfather was one, nothing Canadian was good enough... terrible that they just can't seem to adapt to life "across the pond", like most Brits seem to do just fine.

  Cheers, 
  William James Woodward, Brazil & Canada Expert - Expat-blog Team

I'm sure the Canadian versions are inferior, what with that country's lack of space and limited resources.

By that logic China must be the pinnacle of superior quality in reproducing French wines, Swiss cheese, Italian shoes, German cars, and so on :-)

The US variant of many foreign delicacies has half the ingredients substituted with HFCS.

As long as the Canadian version does the same with maple syrup instead, I'm all for it though :-)

szocske wrote:

By that logic China must be the pinnacle of superior quality in reproducing French wines, Swiss cheese, Italian shoes, German cars, and so on :-)

They certainly think they are.

Don't worry szocske it's just my buddy Hailey poking fun at me as usual, we exchange barbs all the time. She doesn't want me to feel neglected, since we Canadians begin thinking you don't like us if you don't pick on us.

Anyway, I know exactly what Hailey meant and it wasn't putting down Canada, just joking with me and trying to push my buttons. LOL

Strange our Canadian culture!!!