You cannot find anything remotely approximating our version of a donair anywhere in the US. Gyros are not the same.
Bloody caesars, as has been mentioned.
(East) Indian food is much thinner in the ground in the US, even in most urban areas. They usually call butter chicken "chicken makhani" and it's not on every menu.
It's much, much, much easier to get a shawarma here. Same applies to Middle Eastern food in general here; outside of obvious exception like Dearborn Michigan, Middle Eastern is a special night out sort of thing. Table service and entertainment, much higher prices, etc.
Banh mi are way more routinized and "normal" here; you don't have to go to the Vietnamese part of town (if one exists) to find a good banh mi here.
Even in cities with a relatively small West Indian population like Calgary, it is much, much easier to find things like jerk or brown stew chicken or roti in Canadian cities. Chicago is a metro of nearly 10 million and it has not one single Trinidadian place. "Caribbean" is either Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rican or Cuban), or it's watered-down Key West crap. Conch fritters, that sort of thing.
Oh- shreddies and weetabix.
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