Laura Manach :bongoCat: on Nostr: One incredibly specific association is with the chocolate manufacturer Cadbury. Its ...
One incredibly specific association is with the chocolate manufacturer Cadbury.
Its famous Dairy Milk was given purple wrapping in 1915 — because it had been Queen Victoria's favourite colour — and has had it ever since, thus creating a peculiarly British meaning for purple.
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