[1][2] Charles Diver, the confectionery chief and floor production-manager at Regina who would later formulate other classic Kiwi sweets, had the task of using up waste product from other lollies of the time.

[5] An alternative origin story states that it was the managing director of Regina, John Percy ('Jack') McNamara, who invented the pineapple lump.

McLaughlin is said to have prepared the liquid pineapple lump recipe in boiling pans, then to have delivered it to Diver in the starch room for moulding in a Baker-Perkins Master Machine.

[5][9] Pascall's Pineapple Lumps were the last product manufactured at the Cadbury factory in Dunedin until its closure by Mondelez International in March 2018.

[13] In 2019, Cadbury released a limited edition Dairy Milk chocolate block with Pascall Pineapple Lumps inside.