Kendal Mint Cake confectioners based in Kendal, supposedly left the boiled solution for glacier mints overnight and it turned cloudy and solidified. The 'mint cake' was then discovered in the morning. Wiper began producing mint cake, with several other confectioneries following suit. After Joseph Wiper emigrated to Canada in 1912 his great-nephew, Robert Wiper, took over the family business. Robert Wiper marketed Kendal mint cake as an energy snack used on famous expeditions, including the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, which largely led to its rise in international popularity amongst mountaineers and hikers. Romney's was founded in 1918, and used
Have Your Cake and Eat It co-starred Paul Brooke, David de Keyser, Ian McNeice and James Purefoy, The series was actor and television writer Rob Heyland who wrote previously, such as "Between the Lines" and "Wycliffe". More coincidentally, Have Your Cake And Eat It arrived on the tail of ITV's "Reckless", which offered a rather less neanderthal take on the eternal triangle: for once the middle-aged woman got to choose between two men. Perhaps the bakers of Have Your Cake - it was cooked up by himself, one of whose previous dishes is "Between the Lines" - will plead that, far from a reversion to the