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Now a mid-20th century icon, the Goblin Teasmade – which first appeared in 1936 – was one of the first combination automatic tea-maker and alarm…
The one sweet that parents were happy to buy their kids – because it did exactly what it claimed to do . . . stopped…
This chocolate assortment was launched by Mackintosh’s to rival Rowntree’s Black Magic chocolates in 1960. The assortment included creme tangerine, coffee dessert, toffee creme brazil,…
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…
The LG Hawkins company introduced its “heated sideboard” in 1931, but it was 22 years before one of its designers, Eddy Maciejewski, thought of making…
“Big Bubbles, No Troubles” This bubblegum from Wrigley’s first hit American shelves in 1979 but is most associated with the 1980s when the fun flavours…
“Watch out . . . watch out, there’s a Humphrey about” was a slogan which first hit British televisions in 1974. The Humphrey’s (a product…
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’s the single biggest selling soft drink and it outsells both Coca-Cola and…
“If you Like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our club”. W & R Jacob and Company started producing the “Club Milk” biscuit…
Long before Red Bull was a gleam in a marketing director’s eye, back in the ’80s, those who wanted a sugary caffeine fix had Jolt…
Jubblies were incredibly unwieldy and unimaginative ice lollies. These “frozen drinks” (as they were officially known) were simply huge triangular lumps of flavoured ice. You…
Introduced in 1893, Juicy Fruit helped the American Wrigley company to become the most popular and successful chewing gum company in the world. Juicy Fruit…
Back in the 1980s, Billy Connolly popped up on British TV screens in adverts which tried to convince us to drink beer. Not any old…
“Crispy, spiky tubes of delicious mashed potato with a real tomato ketchup centre” Take Britain’s favourite food – chips – and inject them with Britain’s…
You can still buy Kia-Ora today, but it’s nowhere near as popular as it was in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time it was…
Rowntree’s Kit Kat was developed after a worker at their York Factory used a recommendation box to suggest a snack that “a man could take…
Love Hearts were originally produced by confectioners Swizzels-Matlow as a novelty Christmas cracker filler in 1954. Only one message was printed on those original sweets:…
A smattering of mediocre ha’penny sweets, a fractionally more substantial piece of confectionery, and a few misshapen blobs of brightly coloured plastic (a la Christmas…