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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Desayuno is Spanish for breakfast - just drop that into this morning's conversation.

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

Each cow can produce over 20 litres of milk a day.

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

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.

Marmalade was originally made by the Romans from quinces.

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

Every day 5 million Britons will eat sausages.

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

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

Tea was first introduced into Britain in 1650. The first tea used in England came from China, with the first Indian tea arriving in London in 1839.

The English claimed that the Scots morning bowl of porridge helped them win the battle of Bannockburn.

1.5 billion cups of tea are enjoyed throughout the world every day.

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

Sausage machines can fill sausages at a rate of one and a half miles an hour.

Monkey Tea is the rarest available. According to legend monkeys were once trained to harvest tea from otherwise inaccessible plants but today the term Monkey Picked refers to the tea’s rarity and hard work put into it’s production.

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

We eat over 9,000,000 loaves of bread every single day. If they were put end to end they would stretch around the world 25 times each year

Churchill claimed that Reid’s hotel on Madeira served the best breakfast in the world.

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

Charles Post, maker of breakfast cereals, earned over a million dollars in 1903 from his ‘grape nut’ cereal

The UK drinks 165 million cups of tea a day – 62 billion cups a year.

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