Another "Divide" Correction/UK Specialty Food

[selah_1977]

Hey, everyone--

Thanks for the feedback onlist and off for the very long rant that I 
attempted to pass off as an essay.  ;-)  My intent wasn't to spread 
hate, or to make people feel guilty for collective actions, or to be 
patted on the back, or to in any other way be a Bad Citizen of our 
lovely community... I'd just been ruminating on some things for a 
very long time and you guys were unfortunate enough to get the cud.  
*sigh*

Barb Dickson e-mailed me offlist (thanks!) to note an error in my 
facts--Jefferson had very little to do with the framing of the 
Constitution.  It should be (as every child should know) "Declaration 
of Independence".  I have my own students memorize it; goodness knows 
why I had the memory lapse as I would have redlined it if I'd found 
it in one of their essays.  With the uncomfortable nature of the 
debate, admittedly I ought to have taken the time to get my facts 
right.  But hey, I had a date--and the King holiday was almost over, 
so...  :-)

Okay, back to everyday HP community life.  One of the reasons why I 
love this list is because it's one of the few environments that I 
function in, virtual or RL, where I don't have to think much about 
the things that I wrote about--I feel as if I'm free to be me and am 
accepted here.  I hope others feel the same... I really think it's 
got something to do with JKR's writing... and I wonder what the world 
would be like if it was more like hers (barring Voldemort and Death 
Eaters, of course).

UK Specialty Foods--one of the coolest surprises this summer was that 
I love British food.  My friends all look at me funny when I say 
this, but I gained a good 25 pounds over the summer--my mother was 
commenting on how, erm, healthy I looked in one of the pictures.  

The #1 thing I miss, after Yorkshire puddling (stomach grumbles), is 
the ploughman's you get in pubs.  I love cheese, I love good bread, I 
love lettuce-and-tomato, and I love sweet and sour.  Problem is, I 
can't find that brown pickle anywhere here.  *sniffles*  What's in 
it?  Can you make it?

Finally, I saw Turkish Delight in my local grocery store.  Should I 
buy it, or should I wait until I know it's "fresh".  (Not sure how 
long it's been sitting there.)

--Ebony AKA AngieJ