This is going to be a Brussels village comment, but still it can illustrate the cultural gap between the British and the Continentals that will never be bridged. In the Mail it is a report that the Irish butcher Jack O'Shea, who has been running the top-quality butcher's shop in the top-quality food hall of Selfridges department store in London, has been forced out because he was caught selling foie gras at his counter. Got that? He set up a butcher's shop in a department store catering for the fashionable international people in London and then is sacked for selling foie gras. Chopped: Butcher Jack O'Shea outside his Knightsbridge premises in 2007 before he started trading at Selfridges As...
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