Some 25 years ago the then Prince Charles was very critical of plant scientists and the technology they were releasing onto the general public regarding genetically engineered crops. There was a huge public concern over this technology and the term Frankenfoods was born. This was a period when I was working as a research scientist at Rothamsted Research and looking for alternatives to synthetic chemical pesticides and the research I was doing involved a certain amount of genetic engineering in order to understand the process by which a micro-biological control agent infected its host and stopped it reproducing. In this talk I will re-visit the issues raised by genetic modification of crop plants and see how the technologies have evolved over the last quarter of a century and where we stand today on the subject of genetic engineering.