London fog

“Here’s this suburban kid wearing a yellow London Fog jacket and wingtips,” he recalled.

That’s the year Starbucks introduced a London Fog Earl Grey tea latte with steamed milk and vanilla.

There’s the London Fog layer cake at Deep Sea Sugar & Salt, so irresistible I once ate a towering slice with my hands at a bus stop.

The BBC is celebrating the centenary of its first official broadcast - a news bulletin that included a court report from the Old Bailey, details of London fog disruption, and billiards scores.

Ms. Henderson, a British-born homemaker who had grown up hearing stories about the toxic “London fog,” took his advice, writing letters to Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. — as well as to local TV and radio stations — while launching a successful campaign to get air-pollution readings published on the evening news.