English food
By alice | October 21, 2007
This 24 pack of Walkers crisps was 1.66 at Lidl until today. Due to jet lag + decongestants for a cold, I’ve had very little appetite for eating, so have spent most of the last day shopping for food instead: all those chocolates, cakes and biscuits they have here are so wonderful, as well as the supercheap Euro-food in Lidl that I can only buy in posh supermarkets while in Austin. Other favourite great British activities: the weekend papers with free music CDs, Top Gear, live magazine TV, warm outdoor clothing, realising we got sent the Euro-incompatible version of my new cellphone and finding out where to get an unlock code for Daughter’s instead, so we can use the superclever simcard from MAXroam as discovered on Jackie’s blog. Usually they want 20 quid (or your soul), but one place offered it for 3.99. They’re emailing us back. I hope.
On the way over we had a massive stop at NYC and took the coach into town for a walk around and to go to the MOMA. It may have been my tiredness or it may have been the heavy all-day rain, but New York didn’t seem All That anymore. It seemed like London with a somewhat less threatening and crime-ridden atmosphere only taller in height. Or it may have been because I am now quite blase about excessive amounts of cheap and delicious food. Or perhaps that’s what you get for staying within 3 subway stops of Time Square. But I did wonder if, post internet, NYC has maybe lost some of its Before Net excitingness?
Paris then London this week so I’ll be intermittent.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
As soon as you left, we started needing warm outdoor clothing here in Austin, too. High today will be in the fifties, with lows tonight in the forties.
We got over half an inch of rain, too (at least at our house in central Austin).
October 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
[...] link: Alice Bachini-Smith on English food and a post-internet New York. Posted by Jackie Danicki [...]
November 7th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Which posh supermarkets in Austin? I am 6 weeks pregnant and CRAVING Heinz Beanz. If you know where I can get some in Austin, I will be eternally grateful.
Great blog, BTW.