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 you are greeted with some brown wormy looking stuff that was trying to look like tobacco – not particularly visually appealing to a small child but the taste was sweet as sugar (that would probably have been the sugar) with a hint of coconut.
Oh, the taste . . .
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