Matt Prior

Renewed customer interest saved both salad cream and Subbuteo when they were threatened with their production ending.

Their respective waning popularity was apparently caused by the inexorable rises of mayonnaise and video games as we all morphed into louche poshos. But when their makers announced their demises, an upsurge in nostalgic popularity caused U-turns. And praise be, to this day, we can still enjoy tangy lettuce while flicking hemispherically mounted figurines around a tabletop.

I thought this was quite a recent memory, but it turns out that both products were saved in 2000. If you thought so too, apologies for reminding you of that particularly horrible phenomenon of ageing whereby what you thought happened last week you actually recall from several decades past, even though you can't find the glasses that you set down 20 minutes ago.