Food & Drink

The Un-Cola. "You like it, it likes you" - It's lemonade alright? It's just lemonade (and nothing to do with Michael Apted).        

Angel Delight debuted in British supermarkets in 1967, promising the taste of strawberries and cream from colourful sachets of microdust. The luminous powder fell out...

Bristol company Hort's, which was run by Frank and Aldo Berni and Paul Rosse, changed the dining-out habits of Britons for two decades. After the...

What do you give your old man with his steakhouse grill? In which a gang of builders leave a building site in the back of a...

Buttered and Bovril-ed bread sliced into four or five uniform strips. The same militia were more popularly spotted in their other gear - hence 'buttered'...

Some of the breakfast cereals listed below are still in production. Some have been re-named and re-packaged. Many of them disappeared as quickly as...

In the days before Starbucks and Café Latté on tap from every corner coffee shop, the height of sophistication and convenience for the serious...

Chu-Bops were packs of record-shaped pink bubblegum that came housed in a small 3" X 3" replica album cover. The Amural Products Company of Naperville,...

New brands of cigarettes introduced in Britain in the 1960s included B&H Special Filter (1961), Embassy (1962) and Player's No. 6 (1965). A report by...

The coolest ad campaign of the Seventies. The Bear (also called Cresta) that inspired The Fonz (no, really). The drink that stripped paint. Rimsky-Korsakov!! Cresta was produced in...

A product of the 80s - you could still drink Cola AND look stunning in a lycra aerobics outfit and leg-warmers. Probably one of the...

Fizzy cough medicine flavoured muck from the USA.

There has always been fast food of sorts, but 1950s America put mass-produced, flavour-rich but nutritionally-poor fast food on the culinary map. It was...

A definitive 70s icon - Basically a small pot on top of a burner into which either scorching hot oil or gooey, melted chocolate...

Steak pie'-in-a-tin. Had a wonderful catchline in the TV ad: "It's Beef! It's Beef!". These days you wouldn't feed it to your dog, but it...

Directions 1) Put the tin in a saucepan and boil it 2) Use a tin opener and take both ends off 3) Let the molten jam take...

"Watch out, there's a Humphrey about" was a slogan which first hit British televisions in 1974. The Humphrey's (a product of Unigate designed to make...

Ice lollies and choc ices on sticks became a major market during the 1960s. In the UK these were mostly produced by Walls and Lyons...

Such is the remarkable popularity of Irn-Bru in its native Scotland that it outsells both Coca-Cola and Pepsi. In the 1980s, the drink’s tagline was...