Sweet Jesus!!!

Yesterday, I was standing in the queue to pay for petrol at the motorway services when (despite my best efforts) a packet of sweets took my fancy. A packet of those little zesty fruit sweets called “Aquadrops” top be precise. I’ve tried them before when my dad bought some and they are quite nice – a sort of fruit/mint boiled sweet in a fancy packet.



They come in lemon or apple flavours and I opted for apple. Anyway, the shop assistant dutifully rang them into the till and I saw the price. F**k me – 90p for a small plastic tub of boiled sweets!!! There are 32 grams in total so that equates to almost £2.70 for 100 grams (or a “quarter” in old money)! I can get a quarter of boiled sweets for 89p in my local newsagent. OK, so they’re in a paper bag and not a trendy plastic box, but that adds a certain old world charm in my view.

Good job I’ll be booking that one to expenses then isn’t it?