“We can tell it’s Tizer! When our eyes’re! Shut!” (Who writes this stuff?). Tizer had an indescribable taste (possibly cherry?) and was a massive seller in the seventies.
Relaunched in the 90s with the very grown-up but puke-inducing Tizer Ice.
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Diana Frances Spencer was born in Sandringham, Norfolk in 1961. Her father, Lord Althorp, became the 8th...
