text: In when smoothie shops begun appearing on every street corner I sneeringly predicted they would all be gone by Four years later I am still wiping a bit of the egg off my face but it must be said they are now slowly but surely disappearing from view I think for a number of reasonsnn All smoothies taste pretty much the same regardless of contentn An actual piece of fruit tastes bettern People have realised that they were paying through the nose for what is effectively baby foodnnThat pretty much sums it up