Taste buds a-flowing.........

So my father signed me up to a subscription to 'The Guardian Weekly'. My first installment arrived a few, slightly warmer, days ago. Quick note, temperatures were around the 15 mark today. Back to the Guardian. The back page was a joy - it had a picture of Spurs lifting the Carling Cup. Inside there were a few stories that triggered off some emotions, linking in with my new life here in Korea. So one story, that I will focus on today, was an insight into the troubled 'bacon' market back in the UK. It stressed that supermarkets, without mentioning any names, were seeking piggies from abroad due to inferior prices. You can't really argue with the supermarkets. They are a business and making money is their sole propriety. However, it is down to us the buying and eating public. But once again, we all live in a money-go-round society and we just buy any odd ball strip of bacon or any rolled up sausage to place next to our beans and egg.
To be honest there are many pros and cons on what we, the supermarkets and the Jones' should do to help save the poor English farmers in their clean aired, rural and pig swarmed grass lands.
Here's a thought. The Korean supermarkets are up and beyond splendidness. The fresh food section is about the size of a football pitch. Walking around it makes you hungry. The best thing is you can try pretty much try anything. Obviously an exaggeration, but the meat section is collated with a plethora of gas cookers working their magic on some kind of marinated meat. The dairy section is decorated with a plethora of cute women hollering passers by to try their cheese, milk drink, yogurt etc etc. The bread section is plastered with pastry nibbles, the tea and coffee section has a coffee machine, that is manned by yet another cute women handing out small tasters of the latest instant coffee granule. Every level has more and more opportunities to taste and test.
Why can't our supermarkets have more opportunities to test and try. Who knows what it could do for our home brewed goods. Probably nothing! But hey, something I felt like getting off my chest. If you ever do come to Korea and have no money just hit the supermarkets and munch down on pretty much anything you fancy, for free.