Fancy drinking your Coca-cola from paper bottle

Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely and has set a goal of producing zero waste by 2030. The Paper Bottle Company or PABOCO is a Danish firm behind the innovative development of the paper-based container, 100  per cent recyclable,  which is…

Weetabix in a pickle over Heinz baked beans

Weetabix shared pictures on Twitter of Heinz baked beans slathered over a couple of its cereal biscuits. The tweet has since been shared thousands of times. The caption read: “ Why should bread have all the fun when there’s Weetabix? Serving up @ HeinzUK Beanz on bix for breakfast with a twist. #ItHasToBeHeinz#HaveYouHadYourWeetabix”. Google, YouTube,…

Kirit Patak dies in a car crash aged 68

Asian food pioneer in the UK, Kirit Patak former boss of £200m Patak’s has died after a crash on Saturday in Dubai aged 68. The father of three was a well-known Bolton businessman taking over the global brand from his parents. Mr. Pathak lived on Victoria road, Heaton, where he raised his children Neeraj, Anjali,…

What you eat can affect your sex drive

  Although oysters are aphrodisiacs there are less exotic everyday foods that have aphrodisiac qualities. Peru’s ‘natural Viagra’ Maca, the Incan root that is made into a popular Tea, is thought to increase energy, stamina, fertility, and libido. Maca roots are rich in magnesium and fiber which are good for improving stamina and well-being. Pumpkin…

The Third lockdown may cost UK £400million every working day

  The UK Lockdown could hit the borrowing balloon for the 2020/2021 financial year past £450 billion and predicts the latest coronavirus restrictions could cost the country £400 million every working day. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a new £4.6 billion plan to help businesses through a new lockdown, including one-off top-up grants up to £9,…

Booming supermarkets amid pandemic

Britons under the pandemic and lockdown spent £11.7billion on groceries in the supermarkets. as trading leapt forward to 11.4 per cent to £32.7billion  over the 12 weeks to December 27, helped by delays at Dover and Brexit talks ushering consumers to do their Christmas shopping early with December 21, the busiest period as 15 million…

Lufthansa to airlift fresh food to UK amid seaport chaos

Germany’s Lufthansa is airlifting 80 tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables from Frankfurt to Doncaster, and Sheffield airports in a Boeing 777, as firms seek to beat the lorry chaos at seaports. In 2019, Frankfurt airport, a major center in Europe that receives goods from food producers all over the continent including France, Netherlands, and…

Frank Pizza Hut co-founder dead

Frank Carney (82), Pizza Hut’s co-founder died on Wednesday of Pneumonia. Frank Carney and his brother, Dan, started the company when Frank was a 19-year-old Wichita State University student near their family’s grocery store in Kansas City. Frank recently recovered from Covid-19 and was also suffering from Alzheimer’s for more than 10 years. The first…