Nobody ate Space Dust because it tasted nice. In fact, most people probably couldn’t tell you what it tasted like. It wasn’t intended to be savoured though.…
Browsing: Food & Drink
Launched in 1948 in Britain as “assorted crystal fruits”, nothing on earth (and probably in space) ever tasted as weird. Despite the slightly unfortunate advertising…
Barratt produced this small rectangular red packet, which was supposed to resemble an old seafaring type blokes brand of tobacco. Open up the pack and…
“Unbutton a Stud” Australian 1970s Cola that came in a denim can (well it was a metal can but was painted to look like denim…
First introduced in the late 19th century, sweet cigarettes were made from chalky sugar, bubblegum, or chocolate, wrapped in paper, packaged, and branded to resemble…
No childhood memories are quite so evocative as those of the sweets (in the UK), candy (in the US) or lollies (in Australia), which were…
From the mighty Swizzels Matlow empire, ‘Swizzels Double Dip’ consisted of two sachets of sherbet powder (one orange flavoured and one cherry flavoured) and a…
Proving once again that you can sell anything with adverts featuring a bikini-clad sex goddess with a 2″ waist and ‘something to hold on to’…
Which bright-spark decided that orange-flavoured sugar powder + water = juice? The drink mix was created in 1957 by a food scientist at General Foods…
“A mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew”. The Mighty Chew – a chocolate-covered nougat bar from Rowntrees which you could stretch to the…
The British drink Tizer – the name originally came from “the appetizer” when it was launched in 1924 – had an indescribable taste (possibly cherry?)…
A flavoured spread from Heinz in a little tin that you spread on toast and bunged under the grill. The advertising boasted that with Toast…
These tubes of glue-your-teeth-together chewy toffees from Mackintosh’s (originally named Toff-O-Lux) were first produced in 1964. The name was changed to Toffo in 1975 and…
“Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger” (Stick ’em up yer bum and they last a bit longer). Founded in 1907, Trebor was once one…
Introduced in the 1960s, Treets came in three varieties – peanut (yellow bag), toffee (pale blue bag) and chocolate (brown bag). They were near-spherical chocolate/nut/toffee…
This grown-up chocolate bar was “full of eastern promise” and hinted at naughty exoticism.
Although the process of freezing food had been around since the end of the 19th century, by the early 1950s refrigeration technology had advanced far…
Lemonade, Orangeade, Limeade, Cherryade, Cream Soda and Cola. You could but it from your milkman!
A delicious piece of biscuit covered in thick milk chocolate, with a honeycomb-like crispy layer. United bars – from McVities – were advertised on TV…
Although the curry is the national dish of the British these days, back in the 1960s and 1970s when fish & chips was still Britain’s…