Pick’n’mix – we were discussing this at work today, techniques for getting the most sweeties for your money, the obvious one being staying away from the fudge. Delicious as it is, it’s heavy – and with picn’n’mix heavy = expensive!
My own personal favourite used to be the woolies cup fill p’n’m. Basically £1.99 and you could take as many sweets as you could fit into a cup and fit a lid on. I had a technique as well. First you should get the small dolly mixtures and put some to the bottom, half fill the cup with slightly larger sweeties, (here’s the important part) then a couple of mall scoops of the smaller sweeties and give the cup a good shake, thus allowing them to fall fown the cracks between the larger ones. I’ve seen far too many people walk to the checkout with a cup full of air – what a waste (or is that waist) 🙂
One would repeat this process until the cup was full to the brim and just be able to fit the lid on!
Well good news folks – Woolies pick’n’mix is back!! Well an online version which sends the sweeties to your house. OK so it’s not the same, you can’t sneakily nibble on a sweet as you fill your bag (not that anyone ever would!) but the age old institution of mixing up sweeties is back again! It’s even got sound effects! I’m a bit disappointed that there are no foam bananas but it’s great craic even if you’re not buying.
Of course if you’re nostalgic for sweeties from your childhood – chocolate foil cups perhaps, or maybe even golden nuggets – what about chocolate cigarettes (try getting them passed now!) A Quarter of dot com is the place to go – you’ll be amazed at the old time sugar mountain they have available!
All that said – this is wrong – just wrong! Sherbet Fountain should be in a paper pack not these newfangles paper ones.