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World Cup causes food stampede in Britain

The first English match of the World Cup apparently brought a mad panic to the shops before an eerily quiet couple of hours while the (frankly, lackluster) game was played.

The Mirror reports that in a last-minute shopping stampede Britains bought:
  • 10 million cases of beer
  • 5.5 million bottles of wine
  • A million bottles of champagne
  • 6 million pizzas
  • 5 million tubs of ice cream
  • 4 million sausages
  • 2 million chicken drumsticks

Asda had ordered in an extra 20million cans of beer - double the normal day's sale - to cater for the rush. Sainsbury's sold 500,000 punnets of strawberries, 500,000 kebabs, 455,000 chicken pieces, one million bottles of wine, 200,000 cases of beer and more than one million bottles and cans of cola.

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Filed Under: Trends, Stores & Shopping
Tags: beer sales, BeerSales, british isles, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, stores-and-shopping, world cup, WorldCup

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grimfandango

6-14-2006 @10:39AM grimfandango said... the british drink budweiser?



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