Apologies, was not trying to solve anything, merely offering commiseration about the transition from UK to US ingredient sourcing.

You can even get Quality Street in metal tins in Walmart in central Ohio (very important to my English husband). You can’t even buy them like that in the UK any more! Why central Ohio? 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is a regional one, if you’re in Rhode Island, they have Portuguese chorizo (aka “chourice”?). Which is a nice substitute, but completely different than the chorizo we got used to in Scotland.
Fwiw, most things food wise I got used to in the UK are available somewhere regionally in the US.

He has a doppelgänger in an old (terrible) boss of mine. Teeth, hair, many of his styling choices, it’s uncanny.
Every time Newsom is in my feed I feel like I’m being haunted.

That and pudendum may be the most interesting things I learned in my PhD, and I have still never been able to use them.

May I offer you obnubilate?

Same! But for me it wasn’t anger, but despair. I vividly remember that ending hitting me like a gut punch, while I sat in the hallway outside my
Math class reading between periods.

It is also why Hitlers plans.for "Germania" in place of Berlin, and the current Trump administration's plans for "beautiful" Public buildings is doomed to fail - they seek to create the veneer of a past, while at the same time denying the weight of the realities of that past.

As a British/American, HARD same