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2 unusual facts about Peek Freans


Peek Freans

In 1924 they established their first factory outside the UK, in Dum Dum, India.

It was sent by Agnes 'Aggie' Weston - superintendent of the Royal Naval Temperance Society hence it being teetotal.



see also

Garibaldi biscuit

In the British TV comedy The Young Ones, Series 2, Episode 1, "Bambi" (1984), a train driver (Alexei Sayle) being held up by stereotypical Mexican bandits announces "It's quite interesting, you know, the number of biscuits that are named after revolutionaries. You've got your Garibaldi, of course, you've got your Bourbons, then of course you've got your Peek Freans Trotsky Assortment."