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 of favour in the 1980s.

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 ending of meat rationing in 1954, the Bemis hoped to import...

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 van and sing (to the tune of Que Sera Sera) about...

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' or 'eggie' soldiers - their manoeuvres often carried out around soft-boiled...

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 they arrived. But they all have a special place in our memory...

In the days before Starbucks and Café Latté on tap from every corner coffee shop, the height of sophistication and convenience for the serious java-loving office worker in Australia in the 1970s was to have...

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, Illinois, released nine series of Chu-Bops between 1980 and 1983. The first...

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 British Ministry of Health in 1969 showed that 100,000 people...

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 the UK by Schweppes from the early 1970s and originally came...

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 most famous brands to be born in the 1980s, Diet Coke...

Like many soft drinks, this fizzy cough medicine flavoured muck from the USA began life as the result of an experiment in a pharmacy. Charles Alderton, a pharmacist at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store in Waco,...

In the years leading up to World War II, attempts to make Coca-Cola as popular in Europe as it was in America had one major success - Germany. The company sold millions of crates to...

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 the decade that quick-service restaurant chains began to open and franchise,...

A definitive 70s icon - Basically a small pot on top of a burner into which either scorching hot oil or gooey, melted chocolate would be placed. Various foodstuffs would then be dipped into the hot...

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 was so Glam because it was Steak. Serve with Blue Nun and...

Funny Face is Fun To Drink! Funny Face was an American brand of powdered drink mix originally made by the Pillsbury Company from 1964 to 1994 (and in the Mid West and New England to 2001). The...

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 the roof of your mouth off!

"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 us drink more milk during the mid 70s) were invisible creatures...