Who invented after eight mints

Brian Lawrence Sollitt was born on November 16, , in York. Wartime rationing deprived him of most chocolate and sugary sweets throughout his boyhood. He joined Rowntree on leaving school and worked with chocolate all of his life. Although he retired in , he returned last year to make a giant three-kilo After Eight to mark the mint's 50th anniversary. Sollitt described presenting it at the Houses of Parliament as one of the proudest moments of his life.

He loved After Eight posters and packaging, with their baroque silver clock logo, and collected examples from all over the world.

He also used his skills as a chocolatier to raise money for charity, making giant Easter eggs and, on one occasion, a 3ft chocolate Pudsey Bear for the BBC's Children In Need. Renowned as a jolly character, he decorated his house with Father Christmases each year and opened it in aid of charity. Real-life Willy Wonka who invented the After Eight mint. You need an account to continue Register Your email address. Choose a username. Choose a password. Confirm password. Sign up Already have an account?

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Life Contributors. Harry Wallop , The Telegraph. By contrast, Cadbury's Dairy Box, launched in , was aimed squarely at working-class women. And so it went on. The real or imaginary truck-driving men who always kept a Yorkie another of Sollitt's on the dashboard were not supposed to be the sort who would be impressed by the ability of Treets to melt in your mouth and not in your hand.

Should you give Roses or Quality Street? All very difficult, and packed with the usual ridiculousness of both class and sex. The rest of Europe, for instance, has long sneered at our lower-class milk chocolate — the vegetable fat! They wanted us to call it vegolate, not chocolate, until, as we journalists like to say, sanity prevailed. The fiercest critic was Italy, home of Ferrero Rocher, makers of the most deliciously misfiring class ad yet, the ambassador's reception where the things are piled high on salvers, and the sophisticated lady memorably opines, "Monsieur, with these Rocher you're really spoiling us!