Interesting Facts

According to the NFU (National Farmers Union), if all the food produced within the UK for a year, was stored and eaten from January 1, we would run out by August 14th. (Seemingly Britain produces less than two-thirds (62%) of the food the country consumes, down from 75% in 1991, and imports £37.6 billion in food and drink. What they don't seem to understand is we can't grow our own tea or coffee.)

According to the Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), France exports 150.9m bottles of champagne per year. (The main importers are the UK: 38.9m bottles, the US: 21.7m bottles, Japan: 9.1m bottles, Russia: 1.03m bottles, and China: 656,000 bottles. Of course in the UK we have a saying, "Champagne taste on a beer pocket.")