In the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of the population of the UK and USA smoked cigarettes or tobacco products. Since no stigma was attached…
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Rimsky-Korsakov!! The coolest ad campaign of the Seventies – for the drink that stripped paint. Cresta was produced in the UK by Schweppes from the…
JS Fry & Sons originally launched Crunchie in the UK in 1929. It was an instant success. The method of making the crunchy, sugary honeycomb…
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…
Dolly mixtures are a British confection, consisting of a variety of multi-coloured fondant shapes, such as cubes and cylinders, with subtle flavourings. The mixture also…
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…
First produced in 1957, the Drumstick lolly is a chewy sweet from Swizzels Matlow Ltd about 2″ (5 cm) in length. It features two flavours…
“They look so little but they refresh so big” Made by Dentyne, these were an obvious copy of Tic-Tacs, but with the box in a…
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…
These chocolate-covered caramel chews were introduced by Australian confectioners Sweetacres in 1930. On their wax wrappers were, literally, fan tales – brief biographies of movie…
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…
The original Flake was first developed in 1920 and was discovered by chance by an employee of Cadbury’s at their Bournville factory who noticed thin…
Chocolate-dipped cauliflower, anyone? A definitive 1970s icon – Basically a small pot on top of a burner into which either volcanically hot cheese or gooey,…
“Let’s get it together”. Like a Milky Way with dark chocolate on the outside and creamy vanilla nougat and chewy golden caramel on the inside.…
Manufactured by Fox’s Confectionery in Leicester since 1918, these best-selling mints were developed by Eric Fox, one of the original founders of the company. The…
This steak pie-in-a-tin had a wonderful catchline in the TV ad: “It’s Beef! It’s Beef!”. In reality, they had a greasy crust, meat that needed…
Chewing gum pieces that had thick liquid gloop in the middle. That wonderful liquid centre ran down your throat. The chewing gum part was pretty second…
Fruit Gums were introduced in 1893 and originally marketed as Rowntree’s Clear Gums – “The nation’s favourite sweet” – and were available in twopenny tubes…
Mathematically fascinating (not to mention a mite confusing) in that these dark chocolate bars had five fruit-flavoured creme centres (orange, lemon, lime, raspberry and pineapple)…
First made in 1866, this is Cadbury’s oldest established brand. Hawked by cut-price Bond George Lazenby (“Big Fry! Big Fry! Big Fry!!!”) with a giant…