A Fife confectionery connoisseur is selling what may be be the last chance to taste a Scottish pop culture icon.
The formula for Creamola Foam, a fizzy drink that hooked millions of young Scots in the 1970s and 80s, went missing in 2004 after the rights were snapped up by Nestle and then the Brands Partnership.
The number of surviving tins is unknown but a sweet aficionado has opened his safe to sell what he says is the last unopened can “in existence”.
Roddy Nicoll, from Lochgelly, decided to get rid of his large collection of mouth-watering memorabilia when he moved to Glasgow with his wife Janice.
The couple have put the last of the collection, two tins of lemon and raspberry Creamola Foam, up on auction site eBay, with 20% of proceeds going to a cancer charity.
Mr Nicoll, 49, said his 1970s citrus-flavour tin is the last known unopened pack in the world.
“The last one I heard about was found in a cupboard at a bakers shop in Orkney, where it’s in a vault somewhere in Kirkwall but that was an opened one,” he said.
“I wouldn’t guarantee the unopened tin is drinkable, but it’s a powdered product so I don’t see why it wouldn’t last.”
Mr Nicoll loves the product so much he recorded a song about it (listen above), but admitted the tins have sat in a safe for long enough and it is time to “let them go”.
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