That's What I Want For Christmas

I ventured out to the "American grocery store" today, with high hopes of crunchy Cheetos. What I found was an aisle/corner of cereal boxes and cake mix, Jif peanut butter and boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. It looks like I'll be staying over and spending Christmas with some course-mates, a few of whom are American, so I wanted to bring American treats. I found a Jello No-Bake Cheesecake (in honor of my sister and a sister-in-law, who love it), Chips Ahoy cookies, Raspberry Pop-Tarts (you can't find them anywhere, but you can get them in London? oy), and Crisco Shortening (gotta have another crack at that pie crust). The prices, of course, were ridiculous, so this will not become any kind of regular shopping trip. I had to laugh at seeing boxes of Jello gelatin and Jello pudding selling for the equivalent of $2.50 - $5.50, and my Pop-Tarts were probably $8 for the box. Merry Christmas to me - and it's back to beans and bangers and mash!