A good friend in the UK loves for me to send over Hersey’s Kisses as a gift. They’re not for sale generally, for some reason. Perhaps it’s Big Chocolate.
I noticed that UK grocery items were less consumer oriented. There won’t be six different flavors of chips/crisps like you might find here. Dog food that I saw was simply labeled “Beef tripe for Dogs” and there wasn’t a yummy-looking picture on the label. Maybe their universities aren’t turning out as many marketing majors as ours.
However, the Spotted Dick was delicious.
A good friend in the UK loves for me to send over Hersey’s Kisses as a gift..”””
That friend may simply like Kisses in particular but Britons on the whole seem to have contempt for the average American chocolate. I don’t think most would buy Hersheys based on the way I’ve many talk about it.
Cadbury’s has cornered the market there.
Never brought home cheeses. The cheese vendor at Schiphol had two sections, one for the pasteurized versions that you could legally board with for a US flight, and one with the real stuff that you could take along for a flight within Europe. The difference in flavor between the two, favoring the latter, made taking what you were allowed to bring pointless.
—”However, the Spotted Dick was delicious.”
An Anglophile I occasionally worked with kept a can of Spotted Dick on his desk?
I never knew anyone that asked about it.