One of the things that struck me about moving back to the UK is how you're constantly surrounded by food all the time. A lot of the wet pubs I used to go to now dont just do food as in a ploughman's board or sandwiches pr something, but proper intense menus, or Thai kitchens or whatever. Nowadays if you plan on going out for a drink instead of the old school small pack of peanuts or the crisps you used to rip open and share with the table, you're likely to have the choice of nachos, beer battered onion rings, jalapeño bites etc just to "snack on".
On the continent, a pharmacy is a pharmacy, the post office is a post office. Here you go into Boots and are hit with meal deals and crisps, my local PO basically doubles as a snack shop.
Supermarkets don't just give you one option. For example say you want to buy chipolatas for the BBQ. Where I was living on the mainland, even in a big city supermarket, you go to the sausage section and choose between cheap chipolatas or high quality chipolatas, end of. Here, its like how about cheese stuffed chipolatas or paprika glazed chipolatas or honey roasted chipolatas.
Finally it's about opening times too. Again even in big cities in many continental countries, past a certain hour and on Sundays if you get a craving that's too bad for you, you're just going to not eat or have a piece of bread or cheese or whatever is in your fridge.
But here, if its 11pm on a Sunday and u get a craving for Wotsists and Dr pepper and a Crunchie, I have literally 3 corner shops less than a 30 sec walk away in either direction that WILL be open and where I can satisfy every passing whim.