Posted by Robert Hill on October 27, 2006 at 01:30:34 from 195.92.168.166 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: All things Ransome - out-of-date images posted by PeterH on October 26, 2006 at 20:43:11:
When I grew up in the industrial north of England in the 1950s-60s, my family, mainly under the influence of my mother, were always very disdainful of Walls ice cream. The ice cream we liked best, when we could get it, was Cornish, or other types made by small-scale rural enterprises. At home our choice was usually confined to the major brands, of which we preferred Lyons to Walls.
Fights between Britain and the EC about use of the term 'ice cream' have, I believe, centred on the use of non-milk fat. Walls also made sausages and there were suspicions they used pig fat in their ice cream.
Lyons were the same people who ran cafes and were, implausibly, intimately involved with the early history of computers.