Some foods have the power to transport your senses. Without expecting it, one squirt of Heinz salad cream took me straight back to my nan's house. She'd give us nan salad of lettuce, tomatoes ...

when tomato supplies were cut off to the British ketchup factory in Harlesden - leaving Brits to rely on Heinz Salad Cream instead. It took nine years before ketchup was back on the shelves.

Thanks to the Heinz company, shelf-stable salad cream entered the U.K. market in 1914 and quickly became a sufficient, cost-effective substitute for homemade mayonnaise. Despite containing cooked ...

Heinz Salad Cream was a flagging icon. Sales were dwindling, and with consumers demanding fresher, more natural food, the brand was regarded as staid and synthetic. People were even embarrassed to buy ...