Food & Drink
General food & drink ads from the 80′s
1989 7UP Cool to be Clear
Published March 25, 2011 | 
1989 advert for 7UP ‘Cool to be Clear’.
7 Up is a brand of a lemon-lime flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States, and PepsiCo (or its licensees) in the rest of the world, including Puerto Rico, where the concentrate is manufactured at the Pepsi facility in Cidra. The 7 Up logo includes a red spot between the ’7′ and ‘Up’; this red spot has been animated and used as a mascot for the brand as Cool Spot.
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1977 Sun Pat Peanut Butter
Published March 7, 2011 | 1977 Sun Pat Peanut Butter advert.
Sun-Pat is a brand of peanut butter in the United Kingdom. Even though American peanut butter had been sold in the UK since the 1930s, Sun-Pat was not launched until the 1960s, initially produced as a by-product of a nut-packing operation in Hadfield, Derbyshire. The factory was closed in 2004 and production has now moved to Histon in Cambridgeshire.
In the early 1990s a range of cheese spreads were also produced under the Sun-Pat brand but were later discontinued.
The brand is currently owned by Premier Foods after its 2002 acquisition of Nestlé’s ambient food business.
1977 Stork Margarine featuring Bruce Forsyth
Published March 3, 2011 | 
1977 Stork Margarine featuring Bruce Forsyth.
Stork is a brand of margarine spread, owned by Unilever.
Introduced into the United Kingdom and Ireland from 1920, housewives were initially suspicious of the health affects and cooking ability of margarine. As a result, it required a large amount of advertising in the 1930s to increase usage, supported by the Stork sponsored Radio Lyons featuring the band of Carroll Gibbons.
It was on with the onset of World War Two and rationing of butter that sales began to rise, in part driven by the Stork Cookery Service. During the war, a lorry carrying Stork margarine overturned on the A531 road near Heighley in Madeley, Staffordshire, resulting in people coming to try to salvage its load. Today, the location is known as Margarine Corner.
1977 Robertsons Marmalade
Published March 2, 2011 | 1977 Robertsons Marmalade UK advert
1977 KP Sky Divers
Published February 26, 2011 | 1977 KP Sky Divers commercial.
KP Snacks is a British producer of branded and own-label maize and potato based snacks, “Choc Dips” and nuts. The KP originally stood for Kenyon Produce. The company is based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
The company was founded in 1853 as Kenyon & Son as a producer of confectionery, jam and pickles. By 1891 the company had become Kenyon & Son and Craven Limited. The company switched to producing roasted and salted hazelnuts in 1948, expanding to peanuts later. These were originally produced for sale in cinemas. In 1952 the company introduced Hercules Nuts and in 1953 the No.1 KP Nuts peanut brand.
The company became part of United Biscuits (UB) in 1968. The KP Snacks subsidiary produces a range of packet snack brands including Hula Hoops, Meanies, Skips, McCoys, Frisps, Mini Cheddars, Brannigan’s, Royster’s, Nik Naks, Space Raiders and Phileas Fogg. The snacks part is based on Teesside and in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, near the UB distribution warehouse.
The Ashby-de-la-Zouch site won a “Best Factory Award” in 2004.
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