People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
Some people favour more surreal humour.
Retired people favour the seaside resorts of Thornton Cleveleys and Fleetwood.
According to recent polls, only around a third of Latvia's 2.2m people favour joining the single currency.
MEDICAL biotechnology may have its troubles, but at least most people favour developing new treatments and methods of diagnosis.
Stefan Kornelius, Süddeutsche Zeitung Opinion polls show the majority of French people favour Britain staying in the EU.
On the one hand, two newspapers reported this week that more people favour a higher consumption tax than are against it.
A majority of French people favour a reform of labour laws, but 70% oppose the government's way of going about it, according to a recent Le Parisien poll.
In America, where two-thirds of the population believe that everyone has an equal chance to get ahead, far fewer people favour income redistribution than in Europe.Growing wealth also means that society can reward a wider range of talents.
As in the past, the former prime minister was set to receive a big tranche of votes from the south and east of the country, where people favour close ties with Moscow.
Extensive polling carried out by NatCen, the independent social research agency, and overseen by the elections expert John Curtice suggests 90% of people favour remaining in the single market, regardless of how they voted in the referendum.
