7-Up
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
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...
Berni Inns
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...
Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills
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...
Bovril Soldiers
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'...
Breakfast Cereal
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...
Café-Bar
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
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,...
Cigarettes, Cigars & Tobacco
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...
Cresta
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...
Diet Coke/Diet Pepsi
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...
Fanta
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...
Fast Food
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...
Fondue
A definitive 70s icon - Basically a small pot on top of a burner into which either scorching hot oil or gooey, melted chocolate...
Fray Bentos
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...
Heinz Sponge Pudding
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...
Humphreys
"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 Cream/Iced Lollies
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...