god save our crunchie queen
Oy, these papers are depressing. And yet they explain so much about the state of America today!
When I spent the summer in Cambridge (England) a few years back, there was a Cadbury vending machine in the Corpus Christi poolroom (snooker room?) full of interesting candy bars that I'd never seen in America. I decided to work my way through a bunch of them during the six weeks I spent there. When I ran out of Cadbury options I started getting other interesting-looking un-American candy bars at Sainsbury's. Since getting back I've found a few of them in grocery stores (like the Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bar), but not a lot of them.
Tonight we went to an Indian grocery store that was right next to the Indian restaurant where we ate dinner (that has lovely veggie korma). I had never been to an Indian grocery store before, and was totally delighted to find that they had all kinds of British things, from Ovaltine biscuits to PG Tips to numerous funky British candy bars! So I stocked up.
I got
1 Milky Bar
1 Aero bar
1 Coffee Crisp bar
1 Cadbury Crunchie bar, which I will forever associate with The Eyre Affair since I ate the one while reading the other and both were highly unexpected
1 Bounty bar
1 Cadbury Flake bar
Do all Indian grocery stores have Crunchie bars? I'd love to have a reliable source in the US. They're so weird!
Speaking of funky awesome British things, tonight's the season 1 finale of Doctor Who on BBC America! I expect to cry.
When I spent the summer in Cambridge (England) a few years back, there was a Cadbury vending machine in the Corpus Christi poolroom (snooker room?) full of interesting candy bars that I'd never seen in America. I decided to work my way through a bunch of them during the six weeks I spent there. When I ran out of Cadbury options I started getting other interesting-looking un-American candy bars at Sainsbury's. Since getting back I've found a few of them in grocery stores (like the Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bar), but not a lot of them.
Tonight we went to an Indian grocery store that was right next to the Indian restaurant where we ate dinner (that has lovely veggie korma). I had never been to an Indian grocery store before, and was totally delighted to find that they had all kinds of British things, from Ovaltine biscuits to PG Tips to numerous funky British candy bars! So I stocked up.
I got
1 Milky Bar
1 Aero bar
1 Coffee Crisp bar
1 Cadbury Crunchie bar, which I will forever associate with The Eyre Affair since I ate the one while reading the other and both were highly unexpected
1 Bounty bar
1 Cadbury Flake bar
Do all Indian grocery stores have Crunchie bars? I'd love to have a reliable source in the US. They're so weird!
Speaking of funky awesome British things, tonight's the season 1 finale of Doctor Who on BBC America! I expect to cry.