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Adam O'Meara has travelled around the country collecting sauce-encrusted paper from taxi ranks, takeaways and pubs. According to O'Meara, the project has highlighted huge variations between the eating habits in the North and South. The artist has gone further, stating the fat stained wrappers may hold clues to psychological differences between the regions. "I toured the country, getting to cities at about 5am to collect the wrappers before street cleaners arrived," said Mr O'Meara. "The idea was almost like archaeology in that they dig up rubbish to piece together a picture of society." "When I took the wrappers back to my studio I would o