[frithar]

I found this section on couponing around the world and thought"Wouldn't it be fun to look up Tesco's" and check out what that's like over there (I'm in Pennsylvania, but I have --and have had-- a deep obsession with all things English since childhood).

So I went online and registered for Tesco and saw some of their prices.

Oh, my Anglo-sisters! I 'm sobbing (ok, not literally) for the prices you folks have to pay.

$5 for toothpaste??? $13 for a 30 pack of dishwasher tabs?? $6 for a few measly pieces of chicken??

I guess it cuts down on extreme-consumerism.

no wonder America is overweight, I'm thinking. Look at how cheap evrything is here!

Well, I certainly learned something today. You folks are rather amazing over there to be able to hold up the way you do. And maybe I learned something about me, too, and where all my money might be going...

I hope this isn't taken as any kind of "dis" (if you will) of England. I adore it and shall be there as soon as I can.

But first, I have to learn to be more thrifty! :D

Laura, Chaucer scholar and eternal Anglophile