Fluff: What favorite food/item is unavailable where you live

They have a pitcher of tea for iced tea ready to go ... usually they add water to the cup ... I like mine strong so no water!   

I just bought that by accident at Target and my cat won’t eat it!

Need some? I *might* know someone on the island who could send them to you! You'd have to share which grocery! And we didn't take pilot bread backpacking, but canoe trips were another story.

What the heck is olive loaf?

bologna with olives embedded in it, then sliced. www.heb.com/product-detail/eckrich-olive-loaf-sliced/1786311 

In northern VA Safeway has olive loaf - I’d never heard of it but when I searched on olive for a curbside pickup once, noticed it.

Walmart has cottage cheese with pineapple, though when I used to eat it when a kid, we put canned pineapple in regular cottage cheese. I can’t eat it now, wish I could.

Several stores carry mince pie but more around the holidays I think? Never had it though. 

Once in while I miss Chun King tiny frozen egg rolls that tasted nothing like egg rolls. The brand no longer exists. 

I have lived in the same area (except for college) most of my life, so the things I can't get are because they are discontinued, not just local. Although I did love Cactus Cooler when I would visit people in California and Coffee Syrup (like Hershey's, but coffee flavored) I think is widely available back east. That stuff makes for a delicious egg cream.

I did go to college in a test market area and that was awesome. There was always random food and drinks that were being test marketed, but most of the ones I liked best didn't make it past that stage. OK Soda was my very favorite, it was like a combination of Fresca and Orange Soda with a dash of Dr. Pepper. Sounds horrifying, but it was so good! I got pretty good at making it at the self service soda stations, but it was only close, not exactly the same.

Another thing I find remember was Butterfinger Milk. Came in a box that looked just like a Butterfinger wrapper and tasted like heaven.

Violet Crumble. I love it. I’ve only seen it in Australia! I have a sister in law who lives in Sydney but she hasn’t visited for 3 years!

The olive loaf sold in stores up in NoVA is prepackaged. I don’t eat bologna so wouldn’t know if it’s good or bad. I did buy an olive loaf from a bakery up here but it’s bread with olives backed into it! 

I’d have thought mincemeat would be more popular in southern VA than NoVA but what do I know? (Nothing.) 

Ooo, I finally thought of one. Yuengling beer.

I too miss a Maryland favorite....blue crabs. Crab meat, crab cakes...it's just not the same as sitting down to a steaming table of Old Bay seasoned beauties! 

 

Down here it's pecan pie and sweet potato pie. Don't care for either one over my northern traditions!

luckyjune.. the grocery in freeland.. by the pharmacy.. you know the one. I am up often enough to get some if i want pilot bread

joelise.. there are violet crumble bars at my local fancy grocery store!!

I was coming to say the exact same things! I grew up in Fairport.