With the news that Britains biggest biscuit company United Biscuits has been sold to Turkish firm Yildiz, we chart the global drift of the UKs kitchen-cupboard stalwarts
Those foreigners, they come over here and steal our biscuits. That was Ukips imaginary response to Mondays newsflash that Britains biggest biscuit maker United Biscuits, guardian of the Jaffa Cake, Penguin and McVities Digestives, had been gobbled up by little known Turkish food giant Yildiz for £2bn. But its not the first time that overseas firms have raided our larder
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