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|title=The Taste of Britain

|sort=Taste of Britain

|date=October 2006

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If your food comes from a supermarket or if you eat in chain restaurants, or, indeed in all but a handful of rather special eateries, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is such a thing as 'British Food'. In each shop, in each restaurant you will find that the food on offer is depressingly similar; there because it can be mass-produced and sold at a good profit rather than because it has taste, flavour and local provenance. The artisan producers are steadily going out of business because the local independent shopkeepers who stocked their produce are being forced out by the heavy hand of the supermarket giants. Having nowhere to sell means that it's not economically viable to produce.