ArrantPariah wrote:
puddingmouse wrote:
I mainly do it with food because we have hardly any industry left in this country any more. All my meat, vegetables, beer and dairy come from Britain. I try to buy fruit grown here too (I wait for strawberries etc, to be in season) but some stuff just doesn't grow here. I can't get locally-grown tea/coffee/sugar, either - for obvious reasons. Well, I can get beet sugar, I suppose - but I like demerara better.
When Brittania ruled the waves, your tea, coffee and sugar might have been grown by Englishmen in the British colonies.
My how things have changed.
They didn't grow it themselves. Slaves or poor local farm workers did.
Much better to buy those things fair trade in the modern world, or it is too much like the old system.
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