About pasties, our daughter #1 and family are spending this spring semester in Cambridge, UK, daughter as fellow of Trinity, son in law fellow of Clare. Their boys, 13 and 5, love their UK school/kindergarden, and all four adore your pasties. They will miss them when they return to Virginia. They do like many other things about the UK too.
And for some reason pasties are a Pennsylvania specialty, in the midst of German Amish traditions.
I had to think a while about the vest! We do wear ours on the outside...
But like England, I am part of a continent, but think of myself as separate. I live here, but I was born and grew up in Denmark.
'The habits of birte and the US'
And I am a stickler and a pedant...... a Danish one....in the US.