Say Ho!

Well, after a service interruption of several hours this weekend, our internet connection came back and has been functioning within normal parameters. Last night we had a voice mail from the president of Comcast, saying that everything should be working fine from now on. (He must have been very busy yesterday, calling all those Comcast internet subscribers...)

Last night I was in Stop & Shop down on Dixwell Avenue (not the one up by TGI Friday's, the other one, for all you New Haven area dwellers) and was amazed to find a bunch of British goods in their international foods aisle. Ten feet of shelf space tucked in between Puerto Rican and Thai, featuring nothing but British foods. Everything from Marmite to Lucozade. They had true British Heinz baked beans (which are different from the American ones), British peas, "salad cream" (salad dressing), Cadbury's Flakes, British Smarties (completely unrelated to American Smarties), Aero bars, Jacob's biscuits, and quite a nice selection of digestives and homewheats. And much more stuff I'm forgetting just now. The prices were fairly decent, considering that you can't find these items everywhere around here. I got a pack of McVitie's homewheats (yum!) and two small tubes of Smarties. I don't know if this British food section is a regular feature of Stop & Shop -- or if it's the same at the other S&S (the one I usually go to) -- but I was happy to find it.

The homewheats are great. Kind of like a whole-wheat graham cracker coated with milk chocolate on one side. Delicious!

Now if they'll just start stocking Jaffa Cakes and Iced Gems...