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 ...

Invented in 1914, Heinz Salad Cream became a great British icon. Which was its problem. By 1980 it symbolised the 'Great British salad': lukewarm lettuce, soggy tomato, dry cucumber the sort of thing ...

It is still there, it is still Heinz Salad Cream and the yummy ingredients still include spirit-vinegar, cornflour, guar gum and xanthan gum. I wouldn’t use it to grout the bathroom. Nor did ...