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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?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A Twinkie weiner sandwich.

  1. Cook a hot dog
  2. Slice a twinkie halfway through the bottom longwise to get something like a hotdog bun
  3. Insert the cooked hotdog into newly created bun
  4. Squirt easy cheese along the length of the hot dog
  5. Dip in milk
  6. Eat

Weird Al invented this in 1989 in his movie UHF and it’s still not available in stores for some reason

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If I'm going to have a twinkie, I'll grill it (or toss it in the air fryer I have to try that) just enough until it starts to caramelize on the outside

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

YES CHEF that sounds unironically delicious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

it is. some friends in college were getting together around thanksgiving for a turkey roast. i'm allergic to turkey so I intentionally misheard them and showed up with a box of twinkies. a tradition was born that day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah some foods are too powerful for the general public to consume freely.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I need to rewatch that movie (and seriously, how great of an actor is Weird Al?)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Sounds like something you could get at a state fair

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn’t a Twinkie partly chocolate?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

You may be thinking of a ho-ho. Also made by Hostess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Nah that's a chocodile which is a chocolate covered Twinkie