Sometimes I want a takeaway when my kids are already in bed, and I think it’s generally frowned upon to leave them in the house on their own while I amble down the street to get a chicken balti.
Most of the time, restaurants do the delivery themselves and charge a couple of quid for the privilege. I’m fine with this arrangement.
A lot of tea comes from Africa too. Kenya is one of the world’s biggest tea producers (number 3, after China and India), and African tea is a major component in most commercial blends.
Closer to home, Turkey is also a fairly sizable producer, although because Turkey is also the world’s largest tea consumer most of their tea is consumed domestically rather than exported.
Japan actually isn’t a very big tea producer, by volume. Other producers which beat Japan on volume are Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Even Argentina produces more tea than Japan.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned that the largest tea company in the world is European: Lipton Teas and Infusions B.V., which is headquartered in Amsterdam. Their main brands are Lipton, PG Tips (a leading UK brand), Lyons (Irish), and TAZO (their American brand).
I believe their biggest European factory is in Poland, and they also still have one in the UK. If you buy their tea in Europe, it will almost certainly have come from one of their European factories. The tea itself is obviously grown outside of Europe.
I own a Skoda (and am pretty happy with it). When I bought it, the advice was basically “never buy an actual VW”: Skoda and Seat are nearly identical cars at a massive discount. Why get a Golf when a Leon or Octavia is right there…
Stellantis is far more European than American. They’re headquartered in Europe, and 10 of their 15 active marques are European (4 are American, 1 is Chinese).
They’re global, but they’re globally European.
BYD is eating everyone’s lunch at the bottom not just Tesla.
It’s not just BYD. SAIC (whose main international brand is MG) isn’t far behind, Chery (whose main brands are Omoda and Jaecoo) are starting to get about too, and there are myriad smaller Chinese marques.
Chinese cars in general are really hitting the market hard.
If you want a UK ketchup, generally stick to the supermarket own brands. Several are manufactured by Greencore, which is a UK catering company. Most are going to be from similar smaller non-brand manufacturers.
Of the brands, both Heinz and Daddies are owned by the same US company. Hellman’s as you say it’s Unilever, so technically British. Tiptree and Stokes, upmarket brands, are both UK. I can’t think of any other brands that are readily available, other than European brands in the world food sections.
Ironic coincidence of the name aside, it appears to be a legit bricks and mortar university in a town called Elon, North Carolina.
They’re a less good company than Just Eat in terms of driver exploitation, but still infinitely better than Uber Eats on every metric.