Sunday roast wraps: the next global food phenomenon?



There's been the breakfast burrito and the cronut. Now one of Britain's best loved meals has had its own reimagining, and it could be about to go global.

The traditional Sunday roast - assorted vegetables, stuffing, roast meat and lashings of gravy - now served wrapped in a Yorkshire pudding.

The Yorkshire Pudding wrap, sells for £5.75 (about Dh30) and is the brain child of the family-run York Roast Company, based in York, northern England.

If you're not familiar with a Yorkshire pudding, you could perhaps think of it as a savoury, puffed up pancake.

The wrap was launched in March. But it was in September, after a photo posted on the firm's Facebook page, that interest took off, said managing director Wayne Chadwick.

"It's gone 1,000, 2,000 and then 10,000 and then tens of thousands. So there was an actual reach on our Facebook page by the, now I think is over nine million."

The BBC then posted its own video of one of the wraps being made. That video viewed more than 16 million times.

And it's led to constant queues outside the company's five shops.

"It's been crazy to be honest," Mr Chadwick said. "We have been overwhelmingly under-prepared for this. I think in total in my private inbox at the moment I am on about 1,500 messages, I can't deal with that."

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Sinopharm vaccine explained

The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades. 

“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.

"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."

This is then injected into the body.

"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.

"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."

The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.

Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.

“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.

From Europe to the Middle East, economic success brings wealth - and lifestyle diseases

A rise in obesity figures and the need for more public spending is a familiar trend in the developing world as western lifestyles are adopted.

One in five deaths around the world is now caused by bad diet, with obesity the fastest growing global risk. A high body mass index is also the top cause of metabolic diseases relating to death and disability in Kuwait, Qatar and Oman – and second on the list in Bahrain.

In Britain, heart disease, lung cancer and Alzheimer’s remain among the leading causes of death, and people there are spending more time suffering from health problems.

The UK is expected to spend $421.4 billion on healthcare by 2040, up from $239.3 billion in 2014.

And development assistance for health is talking about the financial aid given to governments to support social, environmental development of developing countries.

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