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The Pit stop burger    

The Pit Stop Burger Bar       

Takeaway burgers appeared for the first time on the UK’s annual survey of shopping habits in 2003.

Exterior Coop supermarket    

http://www.coop.co.uk/coopaboutus/default.asp?content=history   Co-op supermarket

Co-op supermarkets are part of an international co-operative movement which spans over 100 countries.

Crowds at indoor market    

Crowds at an indoor market       

Brixton market on Electric Avenue, SW9, offers the biggest selection of Caribbean food in Europe.

Tesco sign    

24 hour supermarkets

The top six supermarkets in the UK compete with each other by offering customers incentives such as long opening hours.  They also control around 70% of the total grocery market in the UK.

Traditional grocer    

Outside a traditional greengrocers       

Newly available vegetables and exotic salad leaves (such as rocket, radicchio, chicory and baby spinach) have grown in popularity compared with traditional vegetables like swedes, parsnips and Brussels sprouts.

Supermarket shelves and signs    

Supermarket shelves       

Consumers in the UK buy more ready-made meals than any other major European country, according to a recent report. Around £1.9 billion was spent on them in the UK in 2002.

Rubish in green commercial bin    

The Rubbish Issue       

On average one person gets through 90 drink cans, 70 food cans, 107 bottles and jars and 45kg of plastic each year in the UK.

Picture of an ice cream van    

Ice Cream       

Ice cream vans are a familiar sight in the summer. Vanilla is the most popular flavour, it is chosen nine times out of ten.

Chef stiring pan in kitchen    

UK Recipes       

Surveys have found that the average UK kitchen contains 1,000 recipes – however, only 7 ever actually get made!