Goodbye, pizza! Hello, toast. How Brexit could set back our diet byhalf a century | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

European food has enriched our lives for so long, I don't know how we'd cope without it

As we stare at the cliff-edge of a disastrous no-deal Brexit, following a nine-month state of emergency owing to a deadly pandemic, I know that I am not alone in wondering what food, exactly, will make its way to our tables this January.

Reports that supermarkets have been told to stockpile in anticipation of food shortages are not reassuring, though we should take comfort in the fact that March's panic-buying frenzy has limbered us all up somewhat. We are now a nation of preppers. As one shrewd commentator pointed out, you can now repurpose old Soviet jokes: A man walks into a shop. He asks the clerk, You don't have any meat?' The clerk says, No, here we don't have any fish. The shop that doesn't have any meat is across the street.'"