Procter & Gamble (P&G) yesterday agreed to sell "iconic snack brand" Pringles to Diamond Foods in a deal worth $2.3bn (£1.4bn).
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Obits in Brief: Marvin 'Popcorn' Sutton
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, who died on 16 March aged 62, was an Appalachian moonshiner from North Carolina who in 1999 published Me and My Likker, an autobiography and guide to moonshining.
Miles Kington: How to make a meal of a packet of crisps
Thursday 06 July 2006
In the three-course dinner bag you get prawn cocktail crisps at the top, then salmon or venison, and to finish up, apple or mango
Foodstuff: Top of the popcorn
Thursday 18 December 1997
It may not suit an ad campaign of being strategically placed on naked bodies, but popcorn is being hailed as the "new Haagen-Dazs" - and can offer plenty of indulgence.
Racing: Moore switches stables
Saturday 16 November 1996
Gary Moore, at present training at Ermyn Lodge Stables, Epsom, will soon be leaving to take over his father Charlie's yard at Woodingdean, near Brighton.
Sweet nothings
Tuesday 05 July 1994
The makers of Love Heart sweets are swapping romance for abuse to attract male customers. A new brand abandons 'I Love You' for words such as 'weirdo' or 'nerd'.
Letter: Boiled sweets for adults only
Sunday 27 February 1994
HOW INTERESTING to read that Alan Watkins agrees with Julian Critchley's opinion that the only safe pleasure for a Conservative MP is a bag of boiled sweets ('When a Tory is allowed adultery', 20 February).
Growth of the multi-pack crisp damages Bensons
Friday 26 March 1993
PROFITS at Bensons Crisps, the crisps and snack-food company, were cut in half last year as prices fell and the company spent money on its fledgling distribution network, writes Robert Cole.
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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