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Food, Glorious Food!

Peckish? If you're hungry for a snapshot of our changing attitudes to food then dig in. 

Whatever your taste - reliable staple or indulgent luxury, square meal or satisfying snack, essential nutrition or guilty treat - there's always an advertiser looking to make your mouth water.

45 items in this collection

Shippam's Real Chicken

  • 1955-01-01
15 seconds isn't long, you've got to say Crosse and you've got to say Blackwell, and you've got to say Branston Pickle!

Branston Pickle: Advertising Agency

  • 1957

Heinz Baked Beans Common Market

  • 1972

Lyons Maid Lolly Gobble Choc Bomb

  • 1974

RHM Nimble: Tennis Woman: 80781C

  • 1964

Cadbury's Chocolate The Factory in a Garden

  • 1931

Lyons Ice Cream Commercial

  • 1938

Lyons Maid Vanilla - 2p Off

  • 1975

Cadbury's Star Bar

  • 1979

Lyons Ice Cream - Kinema

  • 1934

Food Supply

  • 1921

Nimble Bread: Lunch Date

  • 1961-11-10
Tri-ang model railways are a lure for children and big kids, but Kit Kat gets the grown-ups' attention

Rowntrees Kit Kat: Model Train: 82997

  • 1957
Tardy squirrel in Kellogg's ad

Kellogg's: Radio Ructions

  • 1947

Shippam's Chicken Supreme

  • 1960-01-01

Shippam's Pilchards and Tomatoes

  • 1955-01-01

Seniors Paste

  • 1968-01-01

Findus: Fishsticks: 85406

  • 1963

Heinz Tomato Ketchup : Fish Patties

  • 1960

Shippam's Poster

  • 1955-01-01

RHM Nimble: Mini Car: 86108

  • 1964

Seniors Steak and Kidney Puddings

  • 1968-01-01

CDF - Dog Food Advertisement

  • 1964-01-01

Kelloggs 'good Morning Trevor'

  • 1970

Kelloggs Corn Flakes: First Car: 81990

  • 1969

Findus - Pancakes: Pancake Day (Revised Version)

  • 1981

Kelloggs Frosties: Concorde: 81104

  • 1968

Kelloggs Special K: Oxford Street: 82268

  • 1970

Lyons Maid Gold Seal

  • 1978

Lyons Tasty Treat

  • 1974

Findus: Battered Cod Steaks: Aa569

  • 1979

Shippam's Country Pot - Ooh Arr

  • 1979-01-01

Heinz Ploughman Pickle - Lunch

  • 1979

Shippam's Sandwichmakers

  • 1981-01-01

Heinz - Egg Box

  • 1983
This early Cadbury advert plays like a surreal outtake from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Elsie and the Brown Bunny

  • Bournville
  • 1921

Heinz Chicken Soup Mother Hubbard

  • 1970

Orange Maid: Drink on a Stick

  • 1956

Kelloggs Sugar Smacks: Space Mission Badges: 82551

  • 1970

Cadbury's Dairy Milk - Xmas

  • 1982

Cadbury's Flake: Sunflowers

  • 1982

Youth Will Be Served

  • 1933

Findus: Peas: 83879

  • 1961

Findus: Homecoming: 83942c

  • 1972

Alcan Foil 'fat Chef'

  • 1971