I bought a packet of Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles to munch on this afternoon.
There was a terrible disparity in the distribution of flavours. The packet contained:
7 black ones
4 orange
1 red
1 green
1 yellow
Now, I do like the black ones most of all, but a packet which is 50% black Fruit Pastilles is just too samey. The green ones are my joint favourites. I feel as if I’ve been swizzed twofold.
Firstly, the surfeit of black sweets means that I got a little bored of them. Then the disappointing scarcity of green chews made me feel let-down and robbed.
I’m going to write to Mr Rowntree and see what he says about this shameful state of affairs. Surely Rowntrees can do more to ensure a more even distribution of flavours (or "colours" as we sweetie experts call them) within each packet?
P.S. What do you mean, “running short of ideas”?
4 comments:
In-ter-rest-ing...
I always seem to get more yellow and red than any others, because I like them least, but I've never actually counted. And last time it happened it was a bag of Jelly Babies.
How about Revels? Always far too many hard toffees and not enough coffee (yes, coffee!) creams!
Pete please also complain about the distribution in the fruit gums as they always seem to be dominated by 2 flavours these days rather than having a good spread. God we are both turning into Victor Meldrew - perhaps it is time for us to get out of IT and save ourselves.
Wasnt there a spin off tube of Fruit Pastilles that was all black ones?
I tend to find the sugar coating on FP's can scratch the roof of my mouth...... or perhaps thats just wear and tear
Pete Pastilles update
Black 8
Red 3
Orange 2
Green 1
Yellow 0
Something is going badly wrong at the sorting department
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