Kendal Mint Cake been making confectionery since 1840 in the Isle of Man. When one of the four sons, Daniel Quiggin, moved to Kendal in 1880, the mint cake company was formed. In the BBC TV programme "Great British Menu", series 5, Lisa Allen visited Quiggin's factory and used Quiggin's Kendal Mint Cake in her Strawberries with Meringue & Kendal Mint Cake Water Ice dessert. In the BBC TV programme "Great British Railway Journeys" (Series 7, Episode 2), Michael Portillo visited Quiggin's factory. Wilson's Mint Cake was founded in 1913, when James Wilson purchased a factory in the Stricklandgate area of the town.
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