Posted by Brian T. Mullan | Posted in Brian's Blog, General Blog | Posted on 04-09-2009
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) 
Woolies Pick'n'mix
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.
It's wrong - just wrong
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.
