...I really hope I can get to the Land of Toroidal Foods some day, because this is definitely making me hungry just reading it.

Many aspects of this country are on fire, but I like what we do with food!

(We do have good scallops here; a benefit of the lough with such tides at its mouth that the Vikings termed it 'strong fiord', which remains its name to this day).

I am glad to hear of the scallops. Also I don't think I knew exactly where you were before, and now I have Seamus Heaney's North in my head.