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Bees, flies and wasps helped pollinate the plants from which many of the oils used for frying potatoes come. Bees also pollinated the sugar cane that sweetened your milkshake and the strawberries used for flavoring. If you had coffee or tea with that meal or for breakfast, bees and flies tended to those flowers too.
Sugar beet was first identified as a source of sugar in 1747. No doubt the vested interests in the cane sugar plantations made sure that it stayed as no more than a curiosity, a situation that prevailed until the Napoleonic wars at the start of the 19th century when Britain blockaded sugar imports to continental Europe.