In 1950, pizza was confined to America’s Italian colonies, and the Atlantic Monthly took the good news to the rest of the country: “You eat it,…
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Lifesavers was the original name of Polos when they were first brought to Britain by American Servicemen, as they were shaped like a lifebelt. When…
The peppermint flavoured Polo was first manufactured in Britain in 1948. The mint had been invented by Rowntree employee John Bargewell at their Factory in…
Launched in 1975, Pop Rocks were “Action Candy” that fizzed in the mouth. Invented by food chemist, William Mitchell, Pop Rocks Candy had many copycats…
First appearing in sweet shops in 1936, Quality Street was the brainchild of Harold Mackintosh, son of company founder John Mackintosh. The name was inspired…
In 1982 an exciting new soft drink was launched in the UK. Quatro was a mix of fruit flavours carefully blended together to create the…
R Whites was established in 1845 by Robert and Mary White, who sold home-brewed ginger beer from a barrow in Camberwell. But it took another…
Fo your next retro-themed dinner party, here’s a collection of some of our favourite recipes from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Pigs in a…
The soft drink equivalent of penicillin, Ribena was accidentally created when Dr Vernon Charley was investigating processing techniques to create fruit syrups for milkshakes at…
Cadbury’s Rumba was a genuine 1970s delicacy – a delicious combination of fudge, chocolate and rum flavouring. It came in two sticks, like a Twix,…
If the episodes of Porridge were anything to go by, school dinners had an awful lot in common with mealtime at British High-Security prisons . .…
Free milk had been available in British schools since 1906 as part of the Provision of Meals Act, but by 1930, less than half of…
A bag full of sugar from Barratt’s with a cardboard lolly which always got soggy. The bag was yellow and red for normal sherbet and…
A minimalist yellow paper tube full of sherbet from Barratt’s with one woefully inadequate liquorice stick in the centre as edible ‘cutlery’.
Britain In the 1950s, food storage limitations and tight budgets required frequent shopping. Only 15% of British homes had a fridge or freezer so food…
With the arrival of more money in people’s pockets to spend on both essentials and luxuries (first in the United States from the late 40s…
Show them you’re a Slimcea girl “You’re slimming. Cutting out things like bread. But you’ve got to keep fit. And that means eating proper meals.…
In 1967, Hasbro introduced its little icy treat factories to sweaty summer cities and suburbs everywhere. The Frosty Sno-Man Sno-Cone machine was the first. Just…
“Get busy with the fizzy” is what the adverts used to urge in the Soda Stream’s heyday. And what a tantalising idea that was for…
Apparently you were unable to drink a can of Solo without first growing a Zapata moustache and then charging down a crocodile-infested waterfall in a…