The number of "with food" alcohol occasions is likely to grow from 51% to 75% as consumers come to view a night out as a food-based occasion rather than purely a drinking occasion.

While everyone involved in the hospitality trade is trying to do what they can to make ends meet during this pandemic, the only outlets licensed to sell spirit-based cocktails for consumption off the premises are pubs, hotels and full off-licences.

“The evolutionary function of disgust is to help us avoid disease and unsafe food” – so says the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden. Yes, there is such a museum.