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Buying Cactus in London

Posted December 10, 2007 11:05 am & filed under News.

You can now buy cactus pads at the finest grocery stores in London, so says the<a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1690&amp;entry_id=1491" title="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article2987996.ece" onmouseover="window.status=’http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article2987996.ece’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;"> Times of London</a>.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You won’t find spotted dick pudding and you can search in vain for a tub of Marmite, but Tesco’s stores in the United States do a nice line in patas de puerco – pigs trotters….<br />
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Take a quick walk down the aisle and…. among the fruit and vegetables sit prepacked cactus leaves.<br />
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It’s not exactly your local high street Tesco, but Britain’s top supermarket chain is looking at the bigger picture.</span><br /></div><br />OK, so it’s not in London after all. It’s a British grocery chain come to the US, and they have all those American delicacies we so love that the Brits won’t touch, like pigs trotters.<br /><br />