by Jenise » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:47 pm
Randy, when I was transferred to Northern England years ago for a project, I complained on the phone to a colleague back in Irvine about certain things I missed greatly, and corn tortillas were at the top of my list (they were available in London, two hours by train away, for about the price you mention and they were stiff and cardboardy to boot). Not at all what a California native is used to. About a week later, an interoffice mail envelope from the aforementioned colleague landed in my inbox (Fluor Corp's interoffice mail went all over the world): a package of corn tortillas. Nobody had ever considered sending food through the interoffice mail before but after that I, and all my fellow expats, never had to complain about tortillas again.
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov