Fab (brand)
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United Kingdom
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, introduced by J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. Launched nationally in May 1967.
Designed primarily for the 3 million girls in Britain aged 5-15, the Fab was based around Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds TV series
Thunderbirds (TV series)
Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s science fiction television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation"...
. Lady Penelope's
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward is the London Agent for the secret organisation International Rescue in the hit television series Thunderbirds...
Rolls Royce
Rolls-Royce (car)
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number plate was FAB 1.
It consisted of strawberry fruit ice and vanilla ice cream with top dipped in chocolate and coated with 'hundreds and thousands
Sprinkles
Sprinkles are very small pieces of confectionery used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts—typically cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, frozen yogurt, and some puddings...
' sugar confectionery.
In the modern era, their popularity has dropped and been replaced by lollies
Lollipop
A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. They are available in many flavors and shapes.- Types :Lollipops are available in a number of colors and...
such as the Twister
Twister (ice cream)
Twister is an ice cream lollipop on a stick, launched in 1982 and made by Unilever's Heart brand. It is vanilla ice cream and iced pear flavoured on the outside and strawberry on the inside and is shaped in a spiral....
and various ice snacks based around cartoon characters, however Nestlé
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...
still continue production of the iced snack into the 21st century, both as a single item and as part of a multipack.
The description on the packaging reads "Real Strawberry and vanilla flavour ice lolly with chocolate flavour coating (5%) and sugar strands (5%)".
The fab lolly has changed from a jelly type centre many years ago, to strawberry ice used now.
An Orange variety has also been made as has a limited edition lemon flavour and a limited edition apple and blackcurrant flavour (in 2010).