<p>In England’s West Country… </p>
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<p>Cider - it’s just as (if not more) popular than beer. Essentially it’s fermented (i.e. alcoholic) apple juice. The more traditional flat version is called scrumpy, and will invariably get you much more drunk than you intended to be! </p>
<p>Brown shrimps - tiny, tiny little shrimps where you almost expend more energy peeling them than you get in nutrition. But so delicious! </p>
<p>Cheddar Cheese also originates a few miles from where I grew up, in the village of (you guessed it) Cheddar, where the cheese was matured in caves. </p>
<p>There are also a lot of wild foraging opportunities (fungus, blackberries, walnuts, wild garlic, rosehips etc.) and there’s a venison farm not far away.</p>