Why smoothies 影響する／感情 the cost-of-living

By Sean Poulter for the Daily Mail
Updated: 10:13 BST, 18 March 2008

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If you like to pop into a coffee shop for a fruit smoothie and a blueberry muffin while listening to an old Madonna album on your iPod, then congratulations. You're in tune with modern life.

Basket of goods: Changes in popular taste mean smoothies and muffins now 影響する／感情 the cost of living

All these items have been 含むd in the 最新の 見解／翻訳／版 of the 公式の／役人 shopping basket - the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 製品s used to 手段 changes in the cost of living.

Not so long ago, a hungry office 労働者's first thought might have been a sausage roll or bacon butty, washed 負かす／撃墜する with a cup of tea.

By contrast, the 最新の 手段 of spending habits 確認するs a tide of Americanisation 広範囲にわたる through our lives and high streets.

U.S.-style 甘い muffins are now becoming as ありふれた a breakfast 扱う／治療する in the offices of London and Manchester as in New York.

And expensive fruit smoothies are ますます 存在 sold と一緒に the lattes and cappuccinos in U.S.- style coffee shops. Health conscious Britons spent some £1.4bn on their smoothies and fruit drinks in 2007 as they switched away from sugary, fizzy concoctions. The total was up 25% in just two years.

The 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 650 goods and services is 改訂するd once a year to take account of where 消費者s are spending their money. The （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）-is 収集するd by the Office of 国家の 統計（学） (ONS) to produce the 国家の 率 of インフレーション, which is a 決定的な （判断の）基準 for 経済的な 政策 and 増加するs in 年金s and 利益s.

Two years ago, the iPod leapt into the 国家の shopping basket as music downloads 経由で the internet 取って代わるd the high street music 蓄える／店 and CDs. The new shopping basket 減少（する）s 最高の，を越す 40 CD （テニスなどの）シングルス, which have lost out to the success of music downloads.

They are 存在 取って代わるd by what the ONS calls 非，不，無- chart classic albums by artists such as U2, Pink Floyd and Madonna. TV 修理s are out, 大部分は because today's 消費者s are more likely to 捨てる rather than 直す／買収する，八百長をする a failing 始める，決める.

Also disappearing from the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） is the microwave oven, not because i t is 落ちるing out of use but because most homes already have one and don't need to buy another.

AND HOW OUR TASTES HAVE CHANGED

1947: Sewing machines, electricity, gramophone 記録，記録的な／記録するs, bicycle, 無線で通信する, cinema ticket, football ticket, milk, loaf of bread, corned beef.

1950s: Canned fruit, ice cream, loaf of brown bread, Tupperware, camera film, dance hall and 青年 club admission 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, TVs, cars, motorcycle 保険, NHS prescription 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.

1960s: Sliced white bread, fish fingers, sherry, fridge, restaurant meals, pair of ジーンズs, girdle, paper hankies, scooter.

1970s: Yoghurt, ワイン, mortgage 利益／興味 支払い（額）s, duvets, 記録，記録的な／記録する player, cassette recorder, electric hairdryer, aluminium 失敗させる／負かす, home perm 道具s, bingo 料金s.

1980s: Frozen ready meals, low alcohol lager, condoms, microwave, telephone, 料金s, ビデオ recorder and tapes, CDs.

1990s: Leggings, Chinos, replica football （土地などの）細長い一片s, 衛星 dish, multivitamins, computer games and CD Roms, internet subscription 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, foreign holidays, 私的な education, aerobic classes.