Rant number 181
Cornwall, as any tourist location, has plenty of tacky gift items for sale. Clotted cream, rock, fudge and shortbread.
Wherever you go, you can buy items that have the destination printed on the box - suggesting that the item was locally produced.
I'd bet you a fair sum that it wasn't though. Read the small print of these items and you will probably find that the fudge was made in the midlands somewhere, and is identical to the stuff for sale in Blackpool, the shortbread you can buy is almost certainly the same that is available in edinburgh and the rock is probably made in the czech republic.
Nothing is truly localised any more. Your beer, though it says it's Belgiun, was probably brewed in the uk too. Your food comes from anywhere but our shores most of the time.
Bring back a little localisation people! That way you bring back competition and jobs. That could make everything better.
Rant over.
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