I noticed that too when I was over there, that basically everyone switches around the dollar symbol with the pound symbol and leaves the numbers the same. So if you go to a McDonald's in Stratford and get a #4, it'll cost you 4.95 pounds, and in the US it'd be $4.95... not fair, as that adds to about like $8.50... and it's a nasty-ass McDonald's burger no matter where it's made.

The one thing I didn't like about the UK were freakin' tourists... okay, so I was one two, but I was a tourist at street level, I wasn't like all those French and Russian people who seemed to be everywhere who tried to haggle down the cost of a Cadbury bar ("in America, you know, I could get this for..., this is facist, I will not buy this unless you lower it from 50p to 45p").

I thought it was funny how when I went to the Safeway in Stratford (imagine, a Safeway in Stratford, England, but not in Boston, MA) and saw prodicts called stuff like "American Fast Food Diner" brand frozen dinners, every candy bar had a little hing on it that said "AMERICA'S #1 FAVOURITE!" and the "Where's Waldo?" Spaghetti-o's were "Where's Waldorf?" There were these really good chips I got called Royster's, and on the back of the bag there was this long thing bout how they've been a hugely popular part of American food culture since the 50's, and I haven't seen them before or since. God damn it, now I'm getting all sentimental...

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