And so, in the words of Queen, another one bites the dust. Anyone who remembers the seventies will have fond memories of the iconic drink Lilt and its catchy adverts which brought a ray of sunshine into British homes. Who couldn’t fail to yearn for the Caribbean as the reggae vibe of the steel band […]

Seventy-five years ago a change occurred in Britain that was to revolutionise forever the way we shop. Prior to 1948 shopping could often be a long, laborious process that involved queueing at a counter, handing over a list to an assistant and waiting patiently until they collected all the items which you then paid for […]

Imagine the uproar if someone suggested that England, not Scotland, invented haggis, or that it was Switzerland, not Italy, that opened the eyes of the world to spaghetti. Well it’s now 100 years since a similar accusation of culinary mis-appropriation was first levelled concerning the most popular fast food in the world and the row […]