There are currently more than 200 varieties of bread available in the UK.

The record for the longest sausage measured 59.14 km (36.75 miles) and was made by J J Tranfield on behalf of Asda Stores Plc, at Sheffield, South Yorkshire on October 27th-29th 2000.

Over 10 billion pints of milk are sold each year in Great Britain.

The workers of Ancient Egypt were paid in bread. Some received as many as 10 loaves per day - could this be the origin of the slang for money?

Mass production of sausages began in the 1900’s, being made from small amounts of cheap meat bulked out with fat and filler.

Up to the 16th century breakfast consisted of bread, salted fish and ale.

Free school milk was provided in Britain from 1937 to 1979.

Tourists eat 100,000 full English breakfasts a week in Lanzarotte at the height of the season. (Channel 5)

90% of British households buy sausages.

Queen Victoria was fond of sausages but insisted that the meat be hand chopped rather than minced.

In one year we eat approximately 175,000 tonnes of sausages, worth £487 million.

Sprinkle some pumpkin seeds on your cereal and they will help to suppress your appetite when you’re dieting.

Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first machine in 1928 that both sliced and wrapped bread.

There are so many different varieties of sausages available today that you could eat a different British sausage every day for 10 years.

The most expensive sausages in the UK were made from fillet steak with champagne and truffles costing £20 each.

There are over 2 million cows in Great Britain, that’s one cow for every 29 people.

Approximately 42 per cent of the UK cereal crop is used to feed animals including pigs, chickens and cows which helps put bacon, sausages, eggs and milk on the nation’s breakfast table.

A wheat crop will produce on average about 7.5 tonnes of grain per hectare ( A hectare is about the size of an international football pitch) which is enough to make 11,500 loaves of bread.

The record for the longest loaf is held by a bakery in Acapulco, Mexico. The 9,200 metre loaf was produced in January 1996

20% of your daily calcium requirements can be got from ¼ pint of milk on your cornflakes.

Breakfast for a 2nd Century Roman would probably consist of bean meal mash and unleavened breadcakes.

In an average lifetime a Briton will drink almost 11,000 pints of milk.

In Great Britain over £487 million is spent each year on sausages.

Sliced bread first appeared in Britain in 1930 under the Wonderbread label - hence the expression!

The first laws that regulated the price of bread in England came into force in the 13th Century. Later during this century, and for the following six centuries, the statute ‘The Assize of Bread’ fixed the size, weight and price of loaves, in relation to the price of wheat.

The National Loaf was introduced in 1942, which was roughly the same composition as the brown bread of today, and created due to a shortage of shipping space for white flour.

It was in the reign of Charles I that sausages were divided into links for the first time.

Eating a bag of watercress is said to be a good cure for a hangover.

The ‘full Monty’ as referred to as a grand breakfast, comes from Field Marshall Montgomery, who insisted on having the full Monty for breakfast before going into battle.

Milk and milk products are a source of protein, calcium, zinc and magnesium, vitamin B12 and riboflavin.