Who is buying all that English fare in HEB?
I am not complaining (un-British of me I know!) about the fantastic and large selection of English food available in Leander's HEB, but I would really like to know who's buying it? I know a few English people in this area and I know a few Anglophiles who like British biscuits, tea, Ribena, Marmite etc, but there is a huge choice of grocery products at this Hill Country store and some of it is pretty specialized so I am curious to know who is lapping it up? I may find some new friends or some new English playmates for my kiddoes!
My children are so used to going down HEB's International aisle with me and standing longingly in front of all of those (over-priced, irresponsibly carbon-footprinted) English foods that they didn't even bat an eyelid when I took photographs of the shelves. They have their own favorites - English baked beans, English tomato soup, any kind of sweet but especially wine gums! The latter are not at all alcoholic by the way, but I think the name adds a certain 'je ne sais quois' to the eating of them! I sure do feel very happy after I eat them! The kiddoes' Dad also likes English fare but tends to find the malted, hopped (is that a word?), beverages of his choice down a different aisle in HEB and they have a good selection of those too!
On a different note, in class today, my junior Anglophile students who enjoy the Harry Potter books were asking me what "Crikey" and "Blimey" mean. They get the general sense of surprise and exclamation implied by those terms but wondered whence such colorful and strange words derive. It was interesting! "Crikey" is a shortened form of "Christ the King", used to express displeasure at an event and "Blimey" is a shortened form of "God blind me" used when someone saw something that they should not have seen.
Well who knew?
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