Food & Drink
General food & drink ads from the 80′s
1978 Pepsi Summer Time Blues
Published June 20, 2011 | 
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. Invented in 1898 and introduced as “Brad’s Drink”, it was later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on June 16, 1903.
Pepsi was first introduced as “Brad’s Drink” in New Bern, North Carolina in 1898 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his home where the drink was sold. It was later named Pepsi Cola, possibly due to the digestive enzyme pepsin and kola nuts used in the recipe. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy.
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1978 Libbys Orange Juice
Published June 18, 2011 | 1978 Libbys Orange Juice.
The company was founded as Libby, McNeill & Libby in Chicago, Illinois, by Archibald McNeill and the brothers Arthur and Charles Libby. The business began with a canned meat product, beef in brine, or corned beef. It became well-known when it began to package the meat in a trapezoid-shaped can starting in 1875.
Libby’s UK operations were based in Milnthorpe, Cumbria, a decision mainly driven by the significant dairy farming community in the South Lakes area, who supplied Libby’s with milk, the basic ingredient of evaporated milk that was the mainstay of the factory’s operations. The factory went on to make tinned rice pudding, tomato ketchup and fruit juice, both canned and bottled. The Milnthorpe factory had its own R&D labs and eventually the plant produced Libby’s Orange ‘c’, a best seller even though it was berated by a national newspaper for its high water content. Orange ‘c’ is still on sale today under the Libby’s brand. The Milnthorpe operation gradually declined, following acquisition by Nestle, who moved production to various other Nestle plants in the UK, prior to closure of the Milnthorpe factory.
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Leave a comment1978 KFC
Published June 18, 2011 | 
KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc.
KFC primarily sells chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches. While its primary focus is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of grilled and roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts. Outside the USA, KFC offers beef based products such as hamburgers or kebabs, poutine, pork based products such as ribs and other regional fare.
1978 Birds Eye Fish Fingers
Published April 22, 2011 | 1978 Birds Eye Fish Fingers
In the United Kingdom in the 1930s, most of the herring catch was pickled and exported to other Northern European countries. In an attempt to make herring more appealing on the home market, companies tried to present it in a new way, creating herring fish fingers called “herring savouries” and were tested on the market against a bland control product of cod sticks, sold as “fish fingers.” Shoppers in Southampton and South Wales, where the test was conducted, confounded expectations by showing an overwhelming preference for the cod. Cod fish fingers were first produced in Great Yarmouth,[1] and introduced in Britain on 26 September 1955.
In 1953, the American company Gorton-Pew Fisheries, now known as Gorton’s, was the first company to introduce a frozen ready-to-cook fish finger, named Gorton’s Fish Sticks, which won the Parents Magazine Seal of Approval.
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Published April 1, 2011 | 
1989 Wimpy Ghostbusters Promo.
Wimpy is the brand name of a chain of fast-food hamburger restaurants based in the UK. It is well known for its burger known as the Bender, which is actually a frankfurter sausage and not a hamburger patty. The restaurants were originally called Wimpy Bars, but the name was shortened to “Wimpy” many years ago. The current owners of the Wimpy brand operate in several countries under the name of Wimpy International.
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