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> Ada Ma > wrote:
>> Arri London wrote:
>>> It's logical though. Right now a lot of visitors to Harrod's are
>>> American tourists. They will buy the KK doughnuts and think it's
>>> 'cute'.
>
>> This is insane... go all the way to London and buy something
>> American?
>
>> But then I saw Americans queuing for cheap play tickets played by
>> American actors (the guy in Natural born killer and the younger
>> brother in Frasers) in Leicester Square. So it's not so out of
>> normal after all.

That's not all that strange. In the US, if they wanted to see a certain
American actor in a play on Broadway, they might have to travel ~3000 miles
from California to do so. It's all relative, isn't it?

> Exactly. I am American and I don't understand this behavior either.
> Why travel so far only to do (or eat) the same stuff you can at home?
> This defies logic.