What's Hot in Britain

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Hugh Grant. HOT. He's everyone's favourite tousled Brit. Every night I was in the UK, a different Hugh Grant film was playing on the telly. I re-watched About a Boy, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Love, Actually. Surely there must be another actor in Britain?

Mincemeat Tarts. HOT. Quite inexplicably, there is no meat in mincemeat. Rather, there is an assortment of chopped, dried fruit, packed into tiny tart shells. Isn't that a little like making Fruit Flan from pork sausage?

X Factor. Simon Cowell must be richer than God. His UK edition of the reality talent search X Factor ended the night before we arrived. Alexandra Burke was the winner. Her version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is the top selling single and download in the country.

Drunk Tents. NOT. A sure sign of Christmas at busy commuter stations in London is a drunk tent. No kidding. So common are public displays of inebriation, that they regularly set up field hospitals to deal with the truly inebriated.