Food
Ambrosia creamed rice
Devon knows how they make it so creamy!
Apples
Polish up your English!
Armour corned beef
Armour Brand, with the Armour Star.
Atora suet (1)
Tuck into Atora today.
Atora suet (2)
What [question incomplete]?
Kids: 
Atora suet can do it!
Three different questions, same reply, then:
Kids: Atora suet can … DO IT!
Atora suet (3)
Atora — You're getting warmer!
Babybel cheese
Sheep:
Ba, ba, ba — ba-Babybel
Ba, ba, ba — ba-Babybel.
Tune: “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys
Bacon: 1950s
B — for a bacon meal
A — for appetite appeal
C — how fit it makes you feel
O — boy I’m full today
N — ergy for work and play
Everyone needs bacon everyday.
Bananas
Feeling hungry, no time to eat?
Unzip a banana.
Batchelors Cup-a-Soup Special: 1983
Nobody makes soup-in-a-cup
Like Batchelors cup-a-soup!
“Mm! that’s great!”
Yes, and now there’s new Batchelors Cup-a-Soup Special too!
Exciting new soups with lots of tasty goodies you can see!
“Great! Minestrone special!”
Feast your eyes on those vegetables, ring noodles and crispy croutons!
“Mm! French onion special!”
There’s crunchy croutons and Emmental cheese in there!
“Croutons!”
“Noodles!”
Nobody makes soup-in-a-cup
Like Batchelors cup-a-soup!
“That’s special!”
Batchelors Garden peas
[Peas have to get through a grid to qualify]
Only the youngest, freshest peas get through.
Batchelors Super Noodles: 1985
Get back to the Super Noodles twisting
Or you won't know what you're missing!
Add Batchelors Super Noodles to boiling water —
add the flavour pack, and simmer for four minutes.
They're super too,
Tasty and filling too!
Batchelors Super Noodles — add a new twist to meals!
Batchelors Savoury Rice: 1984
(The kitchen is padlocked and barred. Father and two sons desperately try to break in)
This family is being subjected to the most maddening frustration there is! They've always found Batchelors Savoury Rice irresistible, but now they know Batchelors have made their savoury rice even more delicious...tantalizingly tastier with lots of vegetables! And now, Batchelors have introduced two new mouth-watering varieties: Mushroom … and Tropical Fruit. And it's driving them crazy! Batchelors Savoury Rice — every grain will drive them insane!
Beef
It’s Sharon’s nineteenth birthday — she got engaged to Ray!
Above the jovial banter you can hear Ray’s mother say:
“What no meat! “
(What no meat!)
A meal’s not special without some British beef!
What no meat!
(What no meat!)
How about a bit of British beef?
A bit of British beef makes everyone feel at home!
[British Meat Marketing Board]
Bernard Matthews Crispy Crumb Turkey Steaks: 1982
Bernard Matthews: I'm Bernard Matthews.
Workers: Oi, what about the workers?
Bernard Matthews: All right, then, you tell them.
Worker 1: Well I make, 'em, and I love 'em.
Worker 2: They're all right, boy
Worker 3: Moist.
Worker 4: Tasting delicious.
Worker 5: Meat, not mince.
Worker 6 : The whole family loves them.
Worker 7: My husband gets his share.
Bernard Matthews: What are they? My new Crispy Crumb Turkey Steaks. Slices of juicy tender turkey breast, trimmed with a little pork fat and covered with light crispy breadcrumbs.
Workers: They're bootiful.
Bernard Matthews: New Crispy Crumb Turkey Steaks. And at around 99 pence for four, the price is bootiful too.
Bernard Matthews Turkey Roast: 1981
I've spent most of my life turkey-farming up here in Norfolk. I'm Bernard Matthews, and this little booty is the Matthews one-and-a-quarter-pound turkey roast. Looks like a roast, cooks like one in just 75 minutes. It’s a family-sized roast made from prime Norfolk turkey with a little pork fat and salt. And it’s bootifully tender.
Bootiful, really bootiful. Go on, give the family a treat — give them a slice of Norfolk.
The Matthews turkey roast.
Bird’s Angel Delight
Just add milk
Butterscotch, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Banana —
Ask any kid!
Bird’s Dream Topping
Bird’s Dream Topping: It’s got twelve and a half per cent real cream.
Bird's Trifle
Bird's trifle — doesn't every family deserve something a little bit special?!
Bird’s Whisk and Serve Semolina: 1982
Semolina, Semolina — just whisk and serve
Semolina’s new, Semolina’s first!
Bird’s have turned good old semolina into
deliciously creamy tasting Whisk and Serve Semolina.
Semolina, Semolina just what they deserve
Semolina whisk, Semolina stir!
[Tune: Thumbelina]
Birds Eye Alphabites: 1985
A is for Alpha
B is for Bite
C for yourself
That they taste just right!
D is for Dinner
E is for Egg
Letters so tasty — from A through to Z
Crisp golden potato and fluffy inside
Oven baked, grilled or fried
Made by Birds Eye — you can't buy better
And called Alphabites — 'cause each one’s a letter!
Birds Eye Beefburgers: 1976
Boy 1: 'Ere, do you know something — if you stop eating Birds Eye beefburgers and eat these cheap ones … (Boy 2: Oh-aye) you'll save Mum enough money to buy me a Leeds United tracksuit.
Boy 2: Fantastic (pulls a face)
Boy 1: I mean, they look the same don't they?
Boy 2: They might look t’same but they don't taste the same!
Boy 1: Ah — you can't tell the difference.
Boy 2: Well I can — the cheap un’s yours.
Voice-over: Birds Eye — somehow other beefburgers just don't taste the same.
Birds Eye chicken pies: 1977
(Featuring June Whitfield as Pinocchio's mother)
Mother: I like to give my little Pinocchio something special — ah, he's been out playing all day, and tonight I am giving him Birds Eye chicken pie. Just look at all those juicy chunks of chicken in such gravy! And the pastry's so light you can't tell it from home-made!
Pinocchio: Mmm lovely! Did you make it yourself, Mum?
Mother: Of course I did (her nose grows).
Voiceover: Birds Eye chicken pie — it can make a dishonest woman out of you!
Birds Eye Fish Fingers: 1967
Fresh from the Captain’s table!
[with Captain Birdseye]
Birds Eye Oven Crispy Cod: 1982
Everything today is thoroughly modern,
Birds Eye oven crispiest —
Cod in batter — in the oven you pop
Traditional, delicional!
Goodbye old frying pan,
I'm changing and how,
So hear that (crunch) Birds Eye cod has thoroughly modern batter now!
Birds Eye Oven Crispy Cod — it’s thoroughly modern, but it tastes traditional!
Vo-do-di-o-do!
[Tune:Thoroughly Modern Millie]
Birds Eye peas: 1969
Birds Eye peas — sweet as the moment
Sweet as the moment when the pod went pop!
Birds Eye pizza
That’s handy, Harry, stick it in the oven.
Birds Eye potato waffles
Birds Eye potato waffles are waffly versatile:
they go with beans,
bangers, bacon, burgers, fish fingers, eggs, on gammon, steak, chops.
Grill
'em, bake 'em, fry 'em, eat 'em,
Birds Eye potato waffles are waffly
versatile!
Birds Eye savoury rissoles
Birds Eye savoury rissoles,
They're made country-style.
Birds Eye ?shepherd’s pie
Birds Eye — It could make a dishonest woman out of you!
Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills: 1982
Will it be chips or jacket spuds,
Will it be salad or fro-o-zen peas?
Will it be mushrooms?
Fried onion rings?
You'll have to wait and see!
Birds Eye introduce Steakhouse Grills — pure ground beef that you cook like a steak and serve like a steak. What will you give your old man with his Steakhouse Grill?
Hope it’s chips, it’s chips
We ho-o-pe it’s chips, it’s chips.
Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills — now in lamb as well as beef!
[Tune: “Que sera, sera “]
Bisto (1)
Aah — Bisto!
Bisto browns, Bisto seasons,
Bisto thickens all in one go. So …
Pass the gravy — pass the Bisto.
Don't say gravy — say Bisto.
Bisto (2): 1981
When it’s dry — let it pour,
When it’s dry (Bisto Rich Gravy Granules) let it pour!
When it’s dry (Bisto Rich Gravy Granules) let it pour!
Bisto Rich Gravy Granules make meaty-tasting gravy in seconds —
for meats that haven't enough juices to make it on their own!
When it’s dry (Bisto Rich Gravy Granules) let it pour!
Bisto (3): c.1984
Can you find a car that cleans itself?
(Never in a month of Sundays),
Will dad ever fix that sloping shelf?
(Never in a month of Sundays),
Will Joey ever learn to speak?
Will Susie finish by next week?
And when it comes to gravy what could beat —
Bisto in a month of Sundays?
'Cos Bisto browns and it thickens all in one,
Without it Sunday lunch just isn't done,
You'll never put the “aah” in gravy without —
Bisto!
No never, never, never in a month of Sundays
(Never in a month of Sundays)
You can't beat Bisto —
Never, never in a month of Sundays!
Branston pickle
Bring out the Branston!
Cadbury’s Chillo: 1970s
“Chillo — so creamy, so easy to make-a …
Mmm — I remember when I was in a-Napoli (sobs)”
New Cadbury’s Chillo — just add milk and cook in the fridge!
California raisins
You heard it through the grapevine.
Campbell’s soup
Heat it, eat it.
Fresh tasting soup that lasts.
Mm! mm! good!
Mm! mm! good!
That’s what Campbell’s soup is!
Mm! mm! good!
Campbell’s chunky soup
The soup that eats like a meal!
Campbells meat balls with pasta: 1985
Mother: There you go — Campbells meat balls with pasta.
Young son: Pasta! what’s pasta?
Mother: It’s Italian — like spaghetti.
(Son daydreams about playing football for Milan as he clears his plate)
Pasta with meatballs — a new winning team from Campbells … also with beans.
Cerebos salt
See how it runs!
Cheese council (1)
I said, “Please, Louise,
Won't you pass me the cheese?
Won't you pass me the cheese?
'Cos I've got the bread and butter,
But I don't have the cheese.”
I said, “Golly, Sam,
Won't you pass me the ham?
Won't you pass me the ham?
'Cos I've got the bread and butter and
cheese,
But I don't have the ham.”
Cheese, please, Louise.
Cheese Council (2)
Any way you please it — cheese it!
Cheese: early 1970s
You can use it on burgers — or beans
For a meal — or betweens
For slicing or dicing
Chee-eese
Choose it. It's worth it.
Chef Square Shaped Soups: 1970s
Chef Square Shaped Soups show how a good soup should be!
The small box with the best soup around — just add water!
Colman’s cook-in sauces
… So there’s no need for any added artificial colours or preservatives.
They make an every-day meal simply delicious.
Colman’s — always make the best a touch better.
Colman’s Mustard
C’mon Colman’s light my fire!
Cookeen (1): 1960s
Cookeen — gives you the golden touch.
Cookeen (2)
Give 'em a lift (m-mmm) with Cookeen!
Cookeen (3): 1979
When you're making pastry, trust Cookeen to rub-in straight from the fridge — to help you make perfect pastry every time.
Cookeen (4)
Cookeen — for the sort of pastry that never fails to give the family a lift.
Crisp 'n' Dry
Hey what’s today …Thursday? Friday?
Hope it’s Friday! That’s a Crisp 'n' Dry day!
Voice-over: Any day can be a Fryday, when you fry with Crisp 'n' Dry.
Crosse and Blackwell Soup (c.1970s)
(Posh lady eating soup)
Butler: How is the soup, madam?
Lady: So-so Smithers, so-so.
(In flies Crosse and Blackwell's Souperman, holding a can of soup)
Another case of so-so soup!
I save the world from so-so soup,
Crosse & Blackwell tastes supreme:
There's red wine in my oxtail,
And in my chicken, double cream.
Danish Bacon
Good bacon has Danish written all over it!
Del Monte sliced pineapple
(Scene: a pineapple plantation)
Voiceover: It takes well over a year for a pineapple to reach perfect ripeness. (The man from Del Monte cuts a slice of pineapple, samples it, and signals the plantation manager.) The man from Del Monte knows that moment!
Plantation manager (to the pickers): The man from Del Monte says yes!
Voiceover: He then sees that these pineapples are picked and packed the same day. Say yes to the best — Del Monte!
Eden Vale yoghurt: 1960s
Eden Vale yoghurt is the young idea!
Eggs (1): 1966
Go to work on an egg
[series with Tony Hancock]
Where’s me soldiers?
Six eggs and only five soldiers!
Eggs (2)
You can rely on the lion!
Eggs (3): early 1970s
Crack a good breakfast tomorrow! For only a few pence you can start the day properly. What else can send you off with a different breakfast every day for only a few pence? It's all in an egg … so get cracking!
Eggs (4): 1982
Find the goodness where it’s at!
Give the egg-shell some of that!
Go smash an egg!
[With Diana Dors]
Elmlea: early 1980s
Cat: If only these humans bought a second pot there’s be enough for us all!
Voiceover: Buy an extra pot of Elmlea, and enjoy the real alternative to cream throughout the week!
Farrow’s tinned peas
[A crow arrives at a pea field]
Where’s my dinner?
Sorry mate you're too late! The best peas went to Farrows!
Findus crispy pancakes
Success on a plate for you.
Findus frozen fish (?)
Gone fishing, gone away,
catching the fish in the wild, deep waters, so far away.
Findus fish fingers: 1969
Alf: Fish fingers! I'm not a bloomin' kid — I don't wanna play with me dinner — I wanna bit of real fish!
Rita: That is real fish (Alf:yeah!) it’s Findus Fish Fingers!
Alf: Well, where’s the bones then 'ey? Answer me that — Where’s the bones?!
Rita: It’s not supposed to have bones!
Alf: If that is re-al fish you gotta see the skeleton ain't you? Well you gotta have something to suck on afterwards — Anyway, what are you going to give the poor old cat?
Rita: Well he can have fish fingers too! (makes to take Alf’s plate for the cat)
Alf: Oi, Oi, Just a minute! Just a minute! (he takes a bite)
Rita: I thought you said you didn't like it?!
Alf: I don't!
Rita: What’s that in there then? (points at Alf’s mouth)
Alf: I'm not wasting good food on that mangey old moggie — Down!
Voice-over: Have you found out about Findus? Every single Findus Fish Finger is made from whole tasty fish — You can taste the trouble they take!
[With Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett and Una Stubbs as Rita]
Fish: mid-1960s
Remember Tuesday is your good news day!
Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie (1)
It’s Beef! It’s Beef!
Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie (2): 1982
(Scene: a butcher’s shop. A newly-wed enters carrying a recipe book)
Newly-wed: Have you got any ….
Butcher: Hello love! See you and Dave got married then! Got just what you need for supper — tender beef, simmered in its own gravy, with a tasty pie crust….
Newly-wed: Oh, but I've never made a pie….
Butcher: No, and you'll never have to! Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie — just like his mother’s. She buys them here too!
Gerber baby food: early 1970s
Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby?
Glenryck Pilchards in tomato sauce
Each night I ask the stars up above —
Why must I be a pilchard in love?
[Tune: “Teenager in Love “]
'Cause I'm a Pilchard! P.I. — LCH — A.R.D.
I'll say it again….
[Tune: “I'm a Woman “]
Hartley’s tinned peas
Hartley’s garden peas are fresh garden peas
… … …
Better than peas from your own garden.
Heinz baked beans (1)
I'm always seeing adverts where boys just talk in rhyme,
And say how much they like Heinz beans and eat them all the time.
Well that’s not very clever, I'm not all that impressed
'Cos everybody likes Heinz beans, 'cos Heinz Beans are the best.
They could use that as a slogan!
Heinz baked beans (2): 1967
A million housewives every day
pick up a tin of beans and say,
“Beanz meanz Heinz!”
Heinz baked beans (3)
A series with two 6-year-old boys, John and his brother:
I sometimes think my Mum prefers my Dad as much as me,
You ought to see the pile of beans she gives my Dad for tea,
I need Heinz beans as much as him — in fact I need them more
'Cause my Dad’s very very old — and me I'm only four.
(I'm six really, but it didn't fit.)
—
We like Heinz Beans a lot, my brother John and me,
We eat them all the time because … … … …,
We haven't had our beans today,
“There’s something wrong” we said,
Until we found the reason was
We’d just got out of bed!
(We knew because we still had our pyjamas on!)
—
1967:
You can't have stew for breakfast
You can't have porridge for tea
But we have Heinz beans at any time
My brother John and me.
—
Don't be mean with the beans, Mum,
Beanz meanz Heinz!
Heinz baked beans (4): 1967
Mum: Sure you'll be all right?
Daughter: Yes mum — I can do it (opens a can of Heinz beans)
A million housewives every day
pick up a can of beans and say
“Beans means Heinz! “
Mum: Rosemary’s quite a cook — she did the beans.
Son: Well if she’s a cook, I'm a magician.
Mum: Oh?
Son: Yes, just watch these beans disappear.
A million housewives every day
pick up a can of beans and say
“Beans means Heinz! “
Heinz baked beans (5): early 1980s
Child with plate of beans: I wonder, if I eat enough Heinz baked beans, do you think I could become Prime Minister?
Mother: You just might, Margaret (face falls), you just might (swiftly removes plateful of beans)
Voiceover: Millions of little Britons have grown up great knowing Beanz meanz Heinz.
Heinz baked beans (6): 1985
My brother's been really kind to me lately! He's given me all his comics, his magnifying glass, his favourite poster — he's even given me his share of Heinz baked beans … genuine too! All of them covered in lovely thick tomato sauce — the business! And me?! I gave him the measles!
Nothing tastes quite like them!
Beans meanz Heinz!
Heinz Salad Cream (1)
Any food tastes supreme
With Heinz Salad Cream!
Heinz Salad Cream (2): 1984
(A male diner dips a stick of celery which suddenly droops)
No salad is ever going to be fooled by a thin runny salad cream —
because no other salad cream has the unique taste of Heinz.
As any celery worth its salt will tell you!
Heinz 57 sauce and salad cream: early 1960s
Heinz 57, Heinz 57,
You've got meals to plan each day,
You and Heinz can make it gay,
Get together right away,
With Heinz 57!
Heinz soup
It’s a Heinz souper day,
Heinz souper day,
Heinz, souper day.
Heinz Spaghetti: (1)
Heinz spaghetti’s got miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of taste!
Heinz Spaghetti (2): 1982
There’s difficul-ti
And dexteri-ti
Stupidi-ti
And reali-ti
There’s only one tea that’s the best ti!
And that’s Heinz Spaghet-ti, Heinz Spaghet-ti!
There’s no ti like Heinz Spaghet!
Heinz tinned salads
Heinz salads.
Are you making the most of your salad days?
Heinz tomato ketchup (1)
Heinz has got the taste that gives us all a thrill:
It don't run-run-run, it don't run-run,
Heinz is thick and tasty so it never will,
It don't run-run-run, it don't run-run,
Yeh it tastes so fine,
Yeh it tastes divine,
Oh but it takes its time,
It don't run-run-run, it don't run-run.
There’s nothing like the rich tomatoey taste of Heinz ketchup.
Heinz tomato ketchup (2)
Get it on!
Hellmann’s Mayonnaise (1)
Arthur Mullard sound-alike: Hellman's — you know the big dollop's right!
Hellman's Mayonnaise (2)
What’s better than a sandwich made with thick, luscious, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise?
Two sandwiches!
Bring out the Hellmann’s and bring out the best!
Bring out the Hellmann’s and bring out the best!
Homepride flour: 1965
Graded grains make finer flour.
[with famous voice-over artists such as John Le Mesurier]
HP Baked Beans (1): c.1960
Racing driver’s car pulls into the pits
Voiceover: Racing drivers eat HP Baked Beans
Driver roars off.
HP Baked Beans (2)
HP Baked beans – they're the ones for me!
HP Baked Beans (3)
First boy: What you doing, Barry?
Barry: Writing.
First boy: What you writing, Barry?
Barry: Letter.
First Boy: Who’s it to, Barry?
Barry: My mother.
First boy: What’s it say, Barry?
Barry: Dear Mrs. Jones, If you don't give your son, Barry, HP Baked Beans, he will run away from home. Signed, A Wellwisher.
HP Sauce (1)
HP! You've got to admire their sauce!
HP Sauce (2): 1970s
HP sauce – brings your taste buds back to life again!
HP Sauce (3): 1984
(With Frank Bruno)
Voiceover: How to get on the wrong side of Frank Bruno:
(Frank is served a meal without HP sauce — he bangs on the table)
Frank: Frankly I'm not HP.
Voiceover: How to get on the right side of Frank Bruno:
(Frank is given HP sauce — he whistles a few lines of “Happy Days are Here Again”)
Voiceover: Only one sauce can give Frank's favourite foods the necessary punch!
On screen: HP days are here again!
Jif Lemon
Don't forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon day!
John West Sild in Tomato Sauce
You'll be thrilled with Norway sild
They're delicious and only a shilling a tin.
John West tinned fish
It’s the fish John West reject
That make John West the best!
Kellogg’s Super Noodles: 1982
If you're not Super Noodle twisting
You don't know what you're missing,
Great taste and simple too!
Makes mealtimes really new!
We're gonna twist
The Kellogg’s Super Noodle twist.
Just add the noodles to boiling water, add the flavour pack and simmer for four minutes.
Come on and … twisting
There’s simply no resisting!
Kellogg’s Super Noodles — add a new twist to mealtimes!
Knorr soup (1): 1964
Don't say Knorr, say kNorr!
Knorr soup (2): 1977
(Father and son drive home from the match)
Car radio: K-Newport County 9, K-Northampton Town nothing, Watford 2….
Voiceover: Sometimes you can't wait to get home to a bowl of Knorr crofters thick vegetable soup. Warm and generous with juicy carrots, tender peas, and lots of other vegetables … to make a full pint-and-a-half of thick, satisfying soup.
Son: Hey, Dad — we've got K-Newcastle away K-next week!
Dad: I can hardly wait!
Voiceover: Remember our K-name — Knorr!
Kraft Dairylea: 1985
My tummy says it’s time for tea
So let’s down tools for Dairylea!
There’s enough for him — and me! and me!
A taste of the country!
I like the taste of butter — I like the taste of cheese —
I like the taste of milk …
They're all in Dairylea!
Straight from the tub — all mums have found —
There’s so much more to spread around!
It tastes just great — it’s good for you,
A taste of the country!
Kraft Dairylea — kids will eat it till the cows come home!
Lamb (1)
Slam in the lamb!
[British Meat Marketing Board]
Lamb (2)
It was Sharon’s nineteenth birthday
As she got engaged to Ray,
Above the jovial banter
You could hear Ray’s mother say:
“Wot No Meat?”
Wot no meat, wot no meat?
How about a bit of British lamb,
What about a lamb chop, chop, chop, chop, chop
What about a casserole, casserole, casserole,
What about a moussaka?
[British Meat Marketing Board]
Lea and Perrins Worcester Sauce
The Worcester saucerer!
Libby’s evaporated milk: 1970s
When it says Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s on the label, label, label
You will like it, like it, like it on your table, table, table.
McCain Oven Chips: 1984
Now McCain have done it again!
With their tastier, thicker, oven chips!
Lets test them and see:
Are you ready?
(Yeah!!)
Take a chip
Hold it up
Give it a pinch
Smile!
(Ha-ha-ha!)
Pinch another
Lick your lips
Now take a bite
(McCain!!)
New McCain Crisp 'n' Golden Oven Chips —
you can't pinch a better chip!
McDougal’s flour: 1955
McDougal’s, McDougal’s they make the finest flour,
It is the brightest and the lightest — that’s McDougal’s flour,
Your pastries are tasty, your cakes are rising too,
And what’s the flour that never varies? That’s McDougal’s too.
McDougalls flour: early 1970s
At McDougalls we've put a new baking powder into our flour — for an extra light-fingered touch, and an even better rise to all your cakes and sponges. McDougalls new self-raising flour!
Mary Baker sponge mix
Just add an egg!
Moreton’s Peas
Moreton’s peas are fresh garden peas.
Morton’s Salt
When it rains, it pours.
Nestlé Tip Top canned dessert topping: 1985
(A small boy takes a spoon to a bowl of fruit salad)
Fruit: You can't start yet! Where’s the Tip Top?
Tip Top: Coming! can't be everywhere at once!
Fruit: Oooh, smoothly does it … don't you dare stop! You're the tops, Tip Top!
Tip Top: I'm not cream, but I certainly taste creamy! I'm off now! Bye!
Fruit: Don't go!
Tip Top: So many things call for my creamy lightness!
Voice-over: Everything tastes better with Nestlé Tip Top — pour-over topping with a light creamy taste.
Fruit: Whistle-whistle, whistle-whistle Tip Top!
Newfarm eggs: 1960s
Always ask for Newfarm,
Newfarm eggs, fresh from the farm for you!
New Zealand lamb
Look for the sign that says New Zealand.
Outspan oranges (1): 1970s
Grab an Outspan!
Outspan oranges (2): early 1980s
The small ones are more juicy!
Oxo (1): c.1956
Cartoon: a square “bus stop” sign slides down the pole, and a gentleman standing at the stop opens the sign like a small cupboard, reaches in, and pulled out a steaming mug of OXO:
OXO, OXO that’s the
name … OXO!
Oxo (2)
A good square meal for three-halfpence. [can anyone verify this?]
Oxo (3): 1958
Oxo gives a meal man-appeal.
[With “Katie” (Mary Holland) and “Philip” (Richard Clarke, later Peter Moynihan)]
Oxo (4): 1978
Only you can make me smile … again and again,
Only you can chase away … the clouds and the rai-ain,
And I know just what to do —
When you come home — when the day is throu-ough.
Only Oxo does what only Oxo ca-an
Brings a smile to chase away the rain
Only Oxo does what only Oxo ca-an
Only Oxo does it again and again!
Only Oxo does it again and again and again!
Palethorps sausages
Palethorps are famous for their sausages, so perfectly primed with pork.
Philadelphia cream cheese
A little taste of heaven.
Plumrose chopped ham with pork (1)
Japanese guest: I like your plopped ham with chork!
Waitress: O-o-o-h!
Voice-over: Plumrose chopped ham with pork — when somebody special comes to tea!
Plumrose chopped ham with pork (2)
Child running to shop, trying to memorize errand :
Plumrose chopped ham with pork
Plumrose plopped ham with chork
Plumrose hopped chork with pam.
Rowntree’s Jelly (1)
Mother takes a moulded jelly from the fridge, child seen through open window…. skipping and chanting:
Jelly on a plate
Jelly on a plate
Wibble wobble
Wibble wobble
Jelly on a plate.
Rowntree’s Jelly (2)
If it’s not Rowntree’s — throw a wobbly!
St Ivel cheese
Don't say cheese, say Cheddar … by St Ivel.
St Ivel Real yoghurt: 1985
Things aren't always what they seem —
But Real from St Ivel is real yoghurt and real fruit —
And it tastes creamier than ever before!
St Ivel Real — Real by name, real by nature!
Sarsons vinegar
You know, now’s the time to pickle!
And it’s so easy with Sarsons pickling vinegar in its own pickling jar.
Just soak your peeled onions in salt water for a day.
Rinse and dry, then cover in Sarsons special pickling vinegar.
Make perfect pickles now.
Don't say vinegar — say Sarsons!
Saxa salt
If food is worth its salt, it’s worth Sax…aaa!
Sifta Salt: 1950s
With “Sifta Sam “, a cartoon sailor:
Jolly good salt!
Ski yoghurt
Ski, the full-of-fitness food,
Feel fit for anything.
Smash instant potato (1): 1973
For mash get Smash!
Smash instant potato (2): 1974
Martian: Captain, something strange has appeared on the Earth scanner.
Captain: Let me observe. What is this place?
Martian: It is called Huddersfield.
Captain: Do you realize what this means, gentlemen?
The Martians: What does it mean?
Captain: It means there is intelligent life on Earth.
Martian: Did you discover what the Earth people eat?
Captain: They eat a great many of these (shows potatoes).
They peel them with their metal knives
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
They boil them for twenty of their minutes
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Then they smash them all to bits
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
They are clearly the most primitive people.
Spam
There’s more than one way to slice it.
Spry cooking lard (1960s)
Take soft quick Spry
And in a wink of an eye
You have apple pie!
Spry cooking oil
Spry — Crisp and dry
Sweetex Plus: 1985
The first time you try new Sweetex Plus you'll notice something different —
Its taste!
You see, Sweetex Plus is no ordinary sweetener!
It’s sweetness at its purest, completely free of calories, with no lingering aftertaste!
So, if all you want is the sweetness, pick up a pack of New Sweetness Plus.
It’s the sweeter sweetener!
Tabasco sauce
The little pepper-upper
Thornton’s Chocolate
Chocolate heaven since 1911!
Turkey: Christmas 1984
We may not get snow, you can't be sure of golden angels …
But Christmas just isn't Christmas without a turkey!
Tyne Brand Main Meals: 1985
We asked people to test new Tyne Brand frozen meals for one.
1. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount actually — in the erm meal itself, and so were the family!
2. The spaghetti Bolognese was as good as any spaghetti I've had … I think anywhere really!
3. I have to agree with him — it really was excellent!
4. They all look good on the plate — good balance of both meat and vegetables … herbs and spices!
5. The quantity and the quality of it for 99p is very good value!
New Tyne Brand Main Meals for one — they're a meal not a mouthful!
Tyne Brand stuffed pork roll
Tyne Brand stuffed pork roll — other cold meat salads are boring. Look, lean chopped pork and tasty sage & onion stuffing stuffed down the middle.
“Heh heh heh heh.”
Mmm — it tastes delicious! Next time you make a salad get stuffed …
“Hey! “
… pork roll — from Tyne Brand.
It makes a simple salad sensational!
“Give over.”
Vesta curries
Try Vesta’s new Beef Biryani: a rather splendid Indian.
Wall’s sausages
I'm meaty, fry me!
Whitworth’s dried fruit: 1960s
In days of old, fruits were sold that had to be washed by hand —
but now they are sold ready washed by Whitworths.
Whitworths are a girl’s best friend!
[Tune: “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend “]
Atora suet
Baby food (Nestles, Milupa)
Batchelor’s and Whitworth Marrowfat Peas
Batchelor’s Cup of Soup / Pot Noodles
Bird’s Instant Whip
Bird’s custard
Bird’s Trifle
Bovril
Bowyer’s sausages
Brown & Polson custard
Campbell’s condensed soup
Cross & Blackwell soups
Daddies Sauce
Fray Bentos corned beef (with Bully the bull)
Gale’s honey
Hartleys jam and jelly
Heinz Big Soup
Heinz Alphabetti
Heinz sandwich spread
Heinz spaghetti hoops
Heinz sponge pudding
Jif dessert toppings
Kraft Cracker Barrel and other cheeses
Mazola cooking oil
Meat Marketing Board
Mrs Peek’s Christmas Pudding
Paxo stuffing
Princes salmon
Prunes
St Ivel yoghurt
Slimming: Ayds and Limmits
Soreen
Soya products
Surprise Peas
Trex
Tunnock’s tea cakes
Tyne Brand meats, e.g. faggots
Uncle Ben’s rice
Vesta Chow Mein
Vesta Paella
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