Frenchclick.co.uk your French supermarket online.Unfortunately, as good cheese, charcuterie (pâté, terrines, saucisses, saucissons, andouille, andouillettes, etc) is very hard to come by in the UK and even so you might need to sell a kidney to get some...The good products (artisan/little business made) can be found at Borough market in London Bridge; I would like to find some semi-industrial alternative (cheaper), but they are rarely imported in the UK.
The truth is that British supermarkets carry at best a third of the food available in continental European (French) supermarkets; I noticed that the other day when shopping in the chocolate aisle of a Leclerc supermarket (8-10 metres long full of chocolate bars... I even took a photo).
As for charcuterie, I would go for:
Andouillette (the most famous is the one made in Troyes). It is usually eaten with chips and a mustard sauce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouillette
Cervelat, in a salad (salade alsacienne for instance:hard cheese like Emmenthal, cervelat, vinaigrette with onions or shallots and parsley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervelat
Saucisse de Montbéliard/Morteau
any saucisson sec (dry sausage)
and salade de museau
Unfortunately, as good cheese, charcuterie (pâté, terrines, saucisses, saucissons, andouille, andouillettes, etc) is very hard to come by in the UK and even so you might need to sell a kidney to get some...The good products (artisan/little business made) can be found at Borough market in London Bridge; I would like to find some semi-industrial alternative (cheaper), but they are rarely imported in the UK.
The truth is that British supermarkets carry at best a third of the food available in continental European (French) supermarkets; I noticed that the other day when shopping in the chocolate aisle of a Leclerc supermarket (8-10 metres long full of chocolate bars... I even took a photo).
As for charcuterie, I would go for:
Andouillette (the most famous is the one made in Troyes). It is usually eaten with chips and a mustard sauce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouillette
Cervelat, in a salad (salade alsacienne for instance:hard cheese like Emmenthal, cervelat, vinaigrette with onions or shallots and parsley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervelat
Saucisse de Montbéliard/Morteau
any saucisson sec (dry sausage)
and salade de museau
Hmm, sausage made from colon. I think I'll pass.
Frenchclick.co.uk your French supermarket online.
Andouillette is a brave choice. I used to own a French wholesale business, and later a deli. It's one of the few products I didn't do. I tried it, and hated it. It was the smell over the taste, but it was hideous. And tried and ate some odd things!
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If you require something that is not on their website they will do their best to get what you want so as long as you know what you want and you are prepared to pay that little extra it's no problem, cheaper than going to France and far more convenient.I am a regular customer of Frenchclick. Beside the fact that their prices are a wee bit expensive (20-30% higher than in France, depending of the product; but they have to make a living and Great Britain is an island, so...), they only carry a very short range of what you could find in an average French supermarket.
Here's another one: http://www.chanteroy-online.co.uk/
I did not test it yet. However, these online shops are really interesting if you are based in London/Greater London in my opinion (product freshness vs transportation/delivery time).
If you require something that is not on their website they will do their best to get what you want so as long as you know what you want and you are prepared to pay that little extra it's no problem, cheaper than going to France and far more convenient.
I shall check out the other website, thanks for the link.P.
Unfortunately, as good cheese, charcuterie (pâté, terrines, saucisses, saucissons, andouille, andouillettes, etc) is very hard to come by in the UK and even so you might need to sell a kidney to get some...The good products (artisan/little business made) can be found at Borough market in London Bridge; I would like to find some semi-industrial alternative (cheaper), but they are rarely imported in the UK.
The truth is that British supermarkets carry at best a third of the food available in continental European (French) supermarkets; I noticed that the other day when shopping in the chocolate aisle of a Leclerc supermarket (8-10 metres long full of chocolate bars... I even took a photo).
As for charcuterie, I would go for:
Andouillette (the most famous is the one made in Troyes). It is usually eaten with chips and a mustard sauce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andouillette
Cervelat, in a salad (salade alsacienne for instance:hard cheese like Emmenthal, cervelat, vinaigrette with onions or shallots and parsley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervelat
Saucisse de Montbéliard/Morteau
any saucisson sec (dry sausage)
and salade de museau
Cured meats, and anything I can't find in my local supermarket's, even shaving soap at a cheaper price than eBay.What kind of stuff do you usually look for? (if not indiscreet)
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