DYR Foods Ltd!

[Richard1978]

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You can still get tinned meats, though I'm not sure if they still have keys, these days many tins have ring pulls.

Crosse & Blackwell baked beans were dropped because they couldn't compete with loss leading beans, "we could sell tinned air at their prices"
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[Trickyvee]

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I couple of years ago, I saw a child in a pub garden drinking coke through a straw, and it was a glass bottle. It reminded me of my youth when I would do the same. So I think that maybe, glass bottles still exist.

Wouldn't want those horrible paper straws back though. A couple of sucks and the whole thing would collapse.

[HG]

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Yes they do, I had one in Austria earlier in the summer, so I'm sure they will still exist here too.

[Marine Boy]

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...Coca-Cola in glass bottles...

I couple of years ago, I saw a child in a pub garden drinking coke through a straw, and it was a glass bottle. It reminded me of my youth when I would do the same. So I think that maybe, glass bottles still exist.

[Marillion]

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DYR Foods will bring back:

1. Crosse & Blackwell baked beans

2. Golly on Robertson's Jam: we survived without political correctness!

3. Coca-Cola in glass bottles

4. Pepsi's old marketing slogan: Come Alive with Pepsi

One thing it shouldn't bring back, though, is ham, luncheon meat, corned beef etc in tins. Those things were murder to open, especially when the key broke off.

[Trickyvee]

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Smarties in round tube packaging

In a white round tube, with all the artificial colours and flavours back in so they are really bright (these days they are really pale and insipid) and they have that nice taste when you first suck them (that has gone with the modern ones too)

[matt]

Researching and writing about food all too often has me thinking about how much better various foods used to be from their looks to their taste to their marketing.

This brought me to the fun idea of a DYR Foods Ltd - fictional of course before the moderators jump in We have sat through manufacturers changing brand names, switching to nasty plastic packaging, removing those fun freebies from our foods, rubbishing iconic brand characters, downsizing confectionery and changing recipes so it is time we showed them how to do it.

If you could take control of all our iconic food brands, in dream team sort of way what of their products over the years - including packaging, marketing ploys, brand characters etc - would you like to see brought back to life in the DYR Foods Ltd range?



To kick things off, here’s a few confectionery items from me:

Rowntrees Lion Bar: larger and better tasting than Nestlé’s.

Cadbury Fruit and Nut: gold foil and paper packaging and ‘Fruit and Nut Case’ ad.

Cadbury Dairy Milk: silver foil and paper packaging.

Cadbury Caramel: not Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel (what on earth that rebrand was about I don’t know), old packaging and Cadbury bunny ads.

Cadbury Fuse: I know I’m not alone in wanting to see this one back.

Smarties: In round tube packaging.

Curly Wurly: original size and recipe.

Jacob’s Club: Old paper and foil packaging, original recipe, and ‘Join our Club’ ads.

Penguins: Original size, foil grease proof paper packaging and ‘P...P...Pick Up a Penguin’ ads.

Matthew