So it's farewell slippers, hello champagne. The latest changes to the shopping basket of goods and services used by the ONS to measure UK inflation seem to suggest our tastes have gone upmarket.
Chocolate biscuits, frozen chicken and flavoured milk have made way for bottles of bubbly, boxes of wine and chicken Kiev.
The march of technology is also apparent in the list of new additions to the basket of around 650 popular items, which are priced on a monthly basis in order to produce data about consumer and retail price inflation.
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