Matt, I posted the same in Mike's welcome thread:
Welcome. I was lucky enough to be part of a Rotary exchange group that visited Yorkshire in 1999. We were there for a month and visited Manchester, Bradford, Skipton and the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Pickering and North York Moors National Park, Filey, Whitby, Halifax, and even Leeds, among other places. I also got to take a swing over to the Lake District to climb Harrison Stickle one day.
We saw some beautiful country, met a lot of friendly people, and developed a taste for Black Sheep Ale. In the pre-9/11 days, we hauled some back in luggage after a trip to London. One day Black Sheep popped up in stores here, and now I keep it on hand all the time.
I met more vegetarians in one month over there than in my whole life in Louisiana. Meat was certainly served, but I never had any smoked meat (other than kippers for breakfast).
I'd be interested to hear about the popularity of BBQ in the UK and what cuts of meat are the favorites.
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