This healthy libation made of glucose and carbonated water – originally called “Glucozade” – originated in Newcastle where it was created by pharmacist William Walker…
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The British Cheggers-fronted TV ads, with their vox pops from cab drivers and the like (“It’s nuts, nugget (sic), milk chocolate . . . in…
The TV advert starred Norman Beaton: I’m a Jamaican ginger grower and I very proudly say I grow the finest ginger in the world today…
“And all because the lady loves Milk Tray”. The pluckiest man on television was the chap who would leap on to moving trains, swing from…
In 1961 a puny, freckle-faced child in NHS spectacles and a cowboy suit strode through a set of saloon doors and yelled: “The Milky Bars…
Chocolate covered shards of mint-flavoured car windshield. TV Adverts had a skiing theme (that was 1970s originality for you. Ice/snow/winter sports etc = any kind…
‘Minties’ is a brand of confectionery originating in Australia and manufactured in both Australia and New Zealand for their respective markets. They are a hard,…
Originally manufactured by William Nuttall in Doncaster, Nuttalls Mintoes were a favourite in the 60s and early 70s. Sadly after many company amalgamations and buyouts,…
The marvel of the vast banks of penny sweets under the glass counter at the local sweet shop/tobacconist – or high on the shelves behind…
“The too good to hurry mints”. The first animated Murray Mints advert – with marching soldiers in bearskin hats – has the distinction of being…
“New Coke” almost spelt the end for the Coca-Cola empire in 1985. They changed the flavour of Coke and the American public were not having…
“Nimble is for girls like this: at their best in bikinis. Fit and slim, nimble and neat.” Launched in Britain in 1955 and marketed as…
Literally meaning “new cuisine”, nouvelle cuisine was a revolutionary culinary movement pioneered in France in the 1970s. By the 1980s, the movement had spread globally and…
In 1993, Grunge was incredibly popular, Smells Like Teen Spirit was topping the charts. and Seinfeld – the “show about nothing – was the ratings-winner…
Opal Mints started off with a spearmint leaf motif on the wrappers as a purely white minty alternative to Opal Fruits (with lots of ice-oriented…
Pepsi began life in New Bern, North Carolina, in 1893, where it was created by pharmacist Caleb Bradham and originally known as ‘Brad’s Drink’. In…
The time is right! For Pepsi Light! Pepsi Light was a saccharin-sweetened diet soda introduced in 1975. Aimed straight at the US youth market. It…
Pepsi Max debuted in the UK, Australia and Italy in April 1993. The rollout was then expanded to Ireland, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal and the…
In 1927 Austria, Eduard Haas III invented the brick candy, taking the Pez name from three letters in the German word “pfefferminz” (which means peppermint).…
Originally introduced in 1958 and made from caramel and nuts, as advertised by Kenny Everett in the 1970s – “Cadbury’s Picnic has so many nutty…