Coffee cake here is different from coffee cake in Canada. Back home, coffee cake is a cake served alongside a cup of coffee. In the UK, coffee cake is coffee-flavoured cake. I suppose the British term makes more sense, but the streusel-y, cinnamon-y Canadian cake tastes waaaay better.
Beets (or beetroot, as they’re known here) are often sold pre-peeled and pre-cooked, in packages in the produce section. You will see regular, loose, raw beets in a bin on the shelf, but beside them will be several different packages of already prepared beets. They seem to do that with quite a few vegetables here – it seems like there are more already-packaged ‘fresh’ (vs frozen) servings of mashed potatoes, julienned and cooked sweet potatoes, and Maris Piper Roast Potatoes with Goose Fat (mmm, I really want to try that last one some day, but I’m afraid I’ll become addicted).
The frozen Yorkshire pudding section here is as big as the frozen chips and fries section (and that’s saying something).
Cream, yoghurt, soured cream, and crème fraiche all come in non-re-sealable containers, meaning that when you put the partially used container back in the fridge, you have to balance the useless flimsy paper ‘lid’ on top of the rim. So aggravating.