It’s been 10 years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the Common Market. Do you remember where you were when you heard the results of the Brexit vote?

I do. I was at home on Falmouth Road in the Southwark neighborhood of London. Within six months, my husband had lost his job and we were packing to leave the UK and move to Germany.

I have two very clear memories of that crazy week in June:

  1. The cost of my favorite British dessert — sticky toffee pudding from Sainsbury’s — went from 99 pence to £1.25 within one week, as the pound dropped in value and inflation skyrocketed.
  2. A Monty Pythonesque news interview in which a Leave supporter asked rhetorically, “What has the EU ever done for us?” — as he stood on an EU-funded road, next to an EU-funded redeveloped steel mill turned business-development, recreation and heritage park, in a community with an EU-funded train station and a host of other EU-funded community projects.

At least irony survived, if not my sticky toffee pudding indulgence.