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[Tom Scott video]

I am in a Sainsbury's. Not a special Sainsbury's. Just my local Sainsbury's. And if you look behind me, you'll see the meal deal counter.

Now, meal deals are as quintessentially British as a cup of tea and a biscuit! 😀

But what if I were to tell you that Meal Deals have their origins not in Britain, but in this remote Portuguese village.

[cut to man speaking Portuguese] subtitles: My father would make meal deals for me and my brothers in the 1960s.