Food and Drink Archives - Phil Andrews

14 Best Chocolate and Candy Bars of the 1970s

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021adminLeave a Comment

When we think back to our childhood and our early adolescence there are those certain simple things which define the whole experience in ways that mere words can never hope to. And what more defining experience could there be than a chocolate or candy bar, so luscious that we can almost taste it today? We […]

When Real Ice Cream Came to England

July 23, 2021July 26, 2021admin1 Comment

It is often said that what you’ve never had you never miss. Back in the early 1970s nobody in the UK, beyond the well-travelled few, had had anything remotely resembling what would today be called ice cream. Sure, we’d had some puffy yellowy-white stuff in a block served to us out of a wrapper, in […]