The Great British Tuck Shop

by Steve Berry, Phil Norman

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
21	None	1,057,065	(4.42)	3
From the creators of the TV Cream website and the authors of TV Cream Toys comes the ultimate in '70s and '80s nostalgia - THE GREAT BRITISH TUCK SHOP.A colourful, witty and irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets and crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops, Space Raiders to Trios, Corona to Kia Ora and everything in between.Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers, ads and specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop, load up a 10c mix up bag and rot your teeth on the contents.The authors have been given access to the archives, factories and warehouses of some of the leading sweet and snack manufacturers and have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research... and lots and lots of sweets.Includes chapters on Chocolate, Sweets, Crisps, Bicuits, Fizzy Pop and Ice Lollies.… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

ribena_1967, klarakocinaite, iamDanforth, PaperboundPeregrine, npm325, PDCRead, LibAsstnt, bishoo01, cctesttc1, SomeGuyInVirginia

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 3 mentions

▾Member reviews

No reviews

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Berry, Steve	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Norman, Phil	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

The Great British Tuck Shop

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK

Bristol, England, UK

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Croydon, Surrey, England, UK

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK

(show all 75 items)

Important events

End of Sweet Rationing (1953)

Availability of Taxi Biscuits Ceases (1988)

Availability of Bandit Biscuit Ceases (1988)

Introduction of the Kit Kat (1937)

Public Health (Tobacco | Amendment | 2004-03-29)

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

English

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

From the creators of the TV Cream website and the authors of TV Cream Toys comes the ultimate in '70s and '80s nostalgia - THE GREAT BRITISH TUCK SHOP.A colourful, witty and irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets and crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops, Space Raiders to Trios, Corona to Kia Ora and everything in between.Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers, ads and specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop, load up a 10c mix up bag and rot your teeth on the contents.The authors have been given access to the archives, factories and warehouses of some of the leading sweet and snack manufacturers and have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research... and lots and lots of sweets.Includes chapters on Chocolate, Sweets, Crisps, Bicuits, Fizzy Pop and Ice Lollies.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary