In England when you turn 60yrs old, you get a free transit pass, good for all buses, trains and metro. When you turn 75 yrs old, you receive free cable. The health care is free for all their habitants. There is this chain of movies theaters named “cineworld”, where you can subscribe for a minimum of one-year contract, and for £13.50 a month you have unlimited entry to the movies. If you go twice a month, the subscription paid for itself, anything over that is gravy.
Children wear uniforms to school, they all look so cute, and none of them looses their identity. The children that need to take a bus wear a navy blue blazer, the ones that walk or they parents pick them up wear a red blazer.
When we think of English food, we usually think “fish and chips”, and in London there are many places for it, however, up north in the midlands, the English diet consist of pies, meat pies, chicken pies, vegetables pies, everything they eat is inside a crust.
One of the daily staples is Pasties, they are smaller than a calzone and bigger than an empanada, the crust is a lot thicker and doughy, filled with potatoes, vegetables and mincemeat, chicken or pork. They eat a lot of pork, as in bacon, ham, bacon ribs, ham shanks, slab of bacon, you get the idea. A typical breakfast consist of: eggs, ham, sausage, home fries or hash browns, fried mushrooms, baked beans and fry tomato.
Now a day you find many ethnic restaurants all over the place, so you have a many places to choose from. If you are one of those people that eat fast food, you have McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Dominos, Pizza Hut, and all the other American fast food chains.
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