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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they were very rude (surely they could have just said “no thanks I’m full” or something?!) but I have also experienced that sometimes people from other countries have heard things about food here and are genuinely scared of it, maybe rightly or wrongly. I had friends visit from Germany and they asked me a million questions about milk (they have toddlers who would be drinking it) and were really scared about hormones and antibiotics and the various different labels. I’m also from the UK and as I’m sure OP knows, box mixes are really uncommon there so I guess they were just thrown by it. I know it sounds odd,
[b] but I also found the concept of box mixes extremely strange when I first moved here.[/b] [/quote]

Had you never been down the correct aisle in Sainsbury?

https://www.bettycrocker.co.uk/product/devils-food-cake-mix/[/quote]

I knew someone was going to come here to say something like this. Is it possible to buy these in the UK? Yes of course. Are there lots of other highly processed foods in the UK? Yes of course. I was simply stating my own experience - growing up in middle class London from the 80s onwards, I never had a box mix cake or brownie and I did not know anyone who made these. Yes, we ate other convenience foods. But not box cake mixes - not because we are so superior, it just was not a thing (yes, I am sure they were available if someone really wanted to find one!) that anyone did. So when I moved here in the early 2000s it was something that I found to be different and a bit strange, because cakes/brownies are so easy to make using standard ingredients. And to my taste, they are significantly worse. That’s all - the only point was to say that perhaps your UK friends just hadn’t encountered these before. [/quote]

Op - I also grew up in middle class london in the 80s and we had these a lot! Didn’t you make brownies ever? I agree less prevalent than here but not ‘rare’ per se [/quote]

Honestly never. I’m not doubting you or that they existed, but really never saw or ate these. I and my family and friends did a lot of baking so we definitely ate lots of cake and brownies (lots of cake, not that many brownies, actually), but never from a mix. [/quote]

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