Tuesday, May 06, 2008  Food Glorious Food?  Does anyone really
go to the UK for the food? Well, times have changed, so yes
people do, but more particularly, ask any ex-pat and they'll
confess to buying that first packet of hula hoops the second
they reach their first drizzle-suffused high street.  In the
past I've actually gone on diets prior to a trip back home,
knowing full well that as soon as that plane lands I would be on
a sweets and carbs binge to rival any sixteen year-old with the
munchies.  This trip was no exception. Even though I can get a
lot of 'Brit foods' (Heinz baked beans, McVities chocolate
digestives, Branston Pickle) at World Market, or funnily enough
the 'Indo-China Market' over here, there are still so many
things I miss that I don't seem to stop stuffing my gob for a
single minute. That's one of the things I've never got used to
about emigrating. That I only ever go back to my native country
when 'on holiday', so for short oases amongst a desert of time I
have to try and fit in an enti