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16-06-2021, 04:34 PM
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Thanks Percy I see they are in packets now....
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16-06-2021, 10:15 PM
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I dont think fruit gums taste the same now I bought some recently, I think they were rowntreess but may be wrong and they were boring

Yep just checked the picture below and that's them but there was a blender taste . Let me know your thoughts if you get some
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16-06-2021, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by susan m ->
I dont think fruit gums taste the same now I bought some recently, I think they were rowntreess but may be wrong and they were boring

Yep just checked the picture below and that's them but there was a blender taste . Let me know your thoughts if you get some
Ditto with their fruit pastilles, those have no taste at all now.
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16-06-2021, 10:49 PM
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Ditto with their fruit pastilles, those have no taste at all now.
Plus all I seem to get is the silly green and yellow ones. I have tried three packets since the beginning of this last lockdown, and not one red or black
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21-06-2021, 03:43 PM
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We were in our local Tesco on Saturday morning and I wandered along the sweetie aisle. They had Lovehearts, sherbet tubes, fruit gums among others for sale.
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21-06-2021, 11:05 PM
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Anyone remember Dolly Mixtures? I always picked what we called, the ju-ju's out first!
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21-06-2021, 11:10 PM
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I like dolly mixtures...I got them in a 10p mix bag. No idea what ju-ju's are though?
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21-06-2021, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles ->
I like dolly mixtures...I got them in a 10p mix bag. No idea what ju-ju's are though?
They are what we called the jelly sweets when we were very young, Pixie
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Ohhh, I see! Thanks for that...I ate them too fast to call them anything, really
 
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