Well, maybe "wrong" was the wrong word... after all, it's just my opinion. Maybe I should have gone with "different." Now, Marmite, Marmite is just WRONG!!
Anyway, I found all of the non-imported peanut butter to be very coarse and extremely salty, whereas the American peanut butter I prefer is very very creamy and sweeter.
You live in Reading? Man, I wish I knew you when. My husband and I got stuck in Reading TWICE (due to misleading train schedules on the web) and had to sleep in the train station in the middle of winter. Yuck, yuck, yuck.
It's not so much the fact that you can't drink after 11, it's more like, you can't go to a movie, you can't go to the grocery store, you can't do any of those things that Americans take for granted will be open very late.