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The first chart shows the spending of 3 divisions of salary level on 3 junk food

including Pizza, Hamburger and Fish and Chips in UK in 1990, whilst the second
depicts the changes in individual consumption of such foods from 1970 to 1990.
Overall, in all groups, Hamburger was the most popular item, as opposed to Pizza
being spent on the least. Besides, while Hamburger was consumed the most in the
first year, Fish and Chips ranked the first in consumption in the last year.
Regarding the first chart, high-salary persons allocated the peak of 45 pence to
Burger, which was 10 pence higher than the expenditure of the middle-earning
section and even 30 pence higher compared to low-income workers. Meanwhile,
the middle-income class diverted the most of 25 pence to fish and chips, whereas
the remaining stratums spent the same amount of over 15 pence on this item. While
pizza is the most popular among the wealthy group with just under 20 pence per
capita, more or less than 10 pence was spent from those of moderate and little
earning respectively.
In the second chart, the figure of Pizza, starting at 300 grams in 1970, decreased
gradually until 1985 and remained at 200 grams afterwards. Contrarily, at below
100 grams in 1970, the consumptions of Hamburger and Fish and Chips exhibited
a similar rising pattern until 1980. From then on, while the latter sharpened its
increase immediately, the former only accelerated after 5 years. Consequently, an
average Britain ate up to 500 grams of Fish and Chips and only 300 grams of
Hamburger in 1990.
In conclusion, all categories spent much higher on Hamburger than on Pizza.
Furthermore, both the consumption of Hamburger and that of Fish and Chips
underwent an upward trajectory, as opposed to that of Pizza with a decrease.

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