Some Foods I Like From Different Countries

...and that are difficult or impossible to source from elsewhere.

UK

I can't remember the name of the chocolate bar, but it had crunchy toffee in it. Haven't found its like elsewhere.

USA

• Triscuits: crunchy salty shredded wheat crackers. Nice enough to nibble on their own.
• Soft pretzels, warm and fresh. Sometimes, from time to time there have been shops selling these here, but they don't endure.
• Cinnamon-flavoured sugarless chewing gum. And cinnamon-flavoured things in general, nobody else seems to want to make things cinnamon-flavoured (or at least very few things). About the only cinnamon-flavoured thing one can get here is donuts.
• Grape Nuts. Tiny crunchy whole-wheat cereal, which for being so whole-wheat and low-sugar strangely manages not to go completely soggy, I am amazed at them. Delicious with a handful of dried currants.

New Zealand

• "Berry Berry Bubbles" and "Berry Berry Flakes" cereal: puffed or flaked cereal covered with mixed berry puree and dried. There was a short period when my local supermarket imported it. Really yummy.

Israel

We spent a month in Israel when I was six. And this is what I remember: freshly baked flatbread warm from the oven. It was lovely, especially with mashed banana. We called it "Arab bread" then. Sure, we can get "Pita bread" here, but I don't know any bakeries where one can get it freshly baked; it's all pre-packaged.

Holland

Ginger loaf. When I was there as a teenager, the place we were staying had that as part of the breakfast selection. This wasn't bread, more like cake; think "banana bread" for comparison. Ginger loaf with Swiss cheese is a lovely flavour combination.

Australia

Home grown victuals that I would miss if I couldn't get them.

• Tim-Tams. Sorry, but everyone else's chocolate-cream chocolate on chocolate biscuits are also-rans. My favourite flavour is the double-dipped chocolate ones.
• Cheese Twisties. Cheese-flavoured knobbly crunchy nibbles.
• Sesame Vita-Weat Crackers. A whole-wheat cracker that is solid and robust, but not stodgy. And the sesame flavour adds that little extra.

And I suppose I take for granted the huge variety of fresh fruit and veggies I can get here.

But I am a traitor to my country because I like neither football nor Vegimite.

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What are your favourite difficult-to-source foods? Or your favourite foods from your own country that other places don't have?