Having spent 4 great years in southernish England, I have fond memories of the place. I was glad to hear about Brexit and the folks wanting to retain their customs and ways and not have them overrun by others. So the time frame was mid 90's. So, I actually gained a lot of weight there, I enjoyed the Ploughmans and High Tea and standard good British cooking, three or four veg and one meat on the plate. However, I was always astonished at how beautiful the baked goods looked but when I bit into them almost no sweetness. So, coming from the Midwest where plenty of continental style baked goods, Germany, france, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, finland, Belgium, Switzerland and on and on, the baked goods are really tasty, yet here, not as technically beautiful looking. I used to dump sugar on the baked goods to eat them, my wife just looked on slightly amused, the British around me looked astonished when they saw me dumping Turbinado sugar on my cakes and things. Came to find out they were for some reason rationing sugar well into the fifties for some reason, so maybe they got used to less sugar and were/are satisfied with it. Oh yeah, the great English breakfast, loved it. Made a lot of friends there and would certainly not turn down an offer to work there or if I could afford it have a home over there. My favorite everyday restaurant was in Newmarket, a short drive from my house, it was called the old scotch tea shop. Loved that apple crumble with custard, that desert had enough sweetness, best I ever had, ever.
I will never forget the many occasions when at a pub, some of the old timers buying me drinks in honor of the Americans helping out in WW2. There are some different things there, I will have to think some more on them.
One of them is the giant plugs and fuses everywhere. In the day and age of portability, I think it is a mistake to still require these massive plugs on electronics.
, tries to make a case for them:
