Waitrose's "100 Greatest Moments in Food" UPDATED


Steady on, they are British

The British grocery chain Waitrose put up "100 Greatest Moments in Food" on their website last August.

Fire "came first" as they say on the other side of the Pond (Yankese: came in first) followed by the invention of the sandwich and the hamburger.

Some of their list is very Brit-specific (to be expected) and much of their ordering is somewhat suspect, including the putting of the invention of the chocolate bar three places above the cultivation of grains.

Or maybe not...

In other news, U.K. grocery Tesco decided about a year ago to move into the U.S., opening a chain of high-end supermarkets starting on the West Coast. Tesco is the second sixth largest retailer in the world, right after Wal-Mart. Ack, bad intel. See Hubby's comment.

Hat tip to Respublica for the former, and Hubs for the latter.

Posted: Sun - November 18, 2007 at 05:05 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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