For example, Marmite Crumpets don’t exist. You cannot buy them at the supermarket. To be clear: you can buy crumpets, you can buy marmite, you can buy butter; but you have to assemble them at home.
If you walk into a breakfast cafe, they will happily serve you sausage / egg / bacon / french toast / bubble / squeak (whatever that is). But no marmite crumpets. If you ask them to make it, they will give you a very strange look. It’s not typically offered. It’s something you just have to make at home.
It is unbuyable. Any tourist who comes to the UK to try a Marmite crumpet would need to bring a toaster or an oven with them, or quickly befriend a brit and hope that they have all the ingredients at home.
It’s not a secret. You just can’t have it.
*munches into crumpet thoughtfully, and salivates at the juicy savory delight, whilst staring at you pityingly and condescendingly*
Anyway, what’s something that I could never experience unless I made it myself in your local?
Heh. Glad you liked it. It is unique for sure. I don’t think I have tried chowchow.
Chowchow is a southern thing mostly.
There’s a brand called Mrs Campbell’s that’s almost as good as some homemade. Runs a little sweeter than most homemade, but not horribly so.
It’s kind of like sauerkraut and kimchi had a baby.
A lot of folks will have it on everything they eat, even stuff like steak that shouldn’t have much on it at all. It is versatile though. Burgers, beans, fried fish, salads, sandwiches, soups, you name it and it tends to go well.
Sauerkraut and Kimchi you say, I’m going to have to look for that here. Thanks for the tip.