The Un-Cola. “You like it, it likes you” – It’s lemonade alright? It’s just lemonade (and nothing to do with Michael Apted). …
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Introduced to Britain’s sweet shops by Rowntree’s way back in 1935, Aero has remained a firm favourite with the British public ever since. The popularity…
This Cadbury concoction of raisins and chewy stuff and rum (0% proof) was available from 1971 to 1978. The bar was advertised with a Cockney…
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…
Cadbury’s incorrect answer to the Mars Bar was available in Britain between 1968 – 1977 and marketed as “a feast of a bar”. It was…
Bog-standard wafer biscuit with Bill Oddie ‘gringo’ advert. You can’t stand it with Bandit Get your chin off the floor Great big bar Bandit is…
Similar to Kit-Kats. Rather dull. The kind of confectionery product only ever to be found in workplace vending machines and canteens, along with (“Bridge that…
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…
“Who knows the secret of the Black Magic box?”. I do! Get stuck into too many Walnut Whip’s and you will too . . .
As with Bandit, a dull, dull chocolate wafer, this time with Mike “Mr Spooner” Berry warbling the tuneless song until distressed wife hands equally pissed-off son…
A chewy fruit candy that had two colours per flavour (an outside colour and a colour hidden underneath). For example, the watermelon flavour was green…
“The Bounty Hunters – they came in search of paradise . . .” Coconut and chocolate bars that offered “a taste of paradise” . .…
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 they…
The original container was like a chewing tobacco canister. Eventually, the manufacturer became PC and the tobacco-box went and the box was fashioned into a…
Cadbury concoction of the sick-making variety. Coconut, caramel and whole cherries encased in milk chocolate – uuurrgh, no more for me, thanks. Lasted for about…
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…
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…
