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I recently ran a competition to win a bag of the newly relaunched Galaxy Counters. Not the worlds biggest prize perhaps but a great many of you have got quite excited about this particular sweetie returning to shop shelves, and we had a great collection of entries.
To win the Counters I wanted to know what your favourite memory of the eighties was, and the lucky winner is…
I chose Nicky’s entry as it brought to mind similar memories of my own childhood (see my entry on penny sweets for more!). Here it is in her own words:-
Well said! The closest you generally get to this now is Pick ‘n’ Mix (taken over by Tesco, WH Smith and others now. RIP – Woolworths stores) which is the same sweets sold by weight, not quantity, which means you generally get far less for your money. Ten pence would probably get you one pink foam shrimp now if you were lucky.
I was reading through old posts and had to chime in on this one. My local sweet shop still has a ‘penny’ mix set-up though most of the sweets cost 2p or more. I bought 45p worth recently and when telling a friend about them later she said, “Is that how much a 10p mix costs now?” Too funny!
Love it!
It’s good some sweet shops are keeping the old ways alive. It’s certainly better value than the dreaded pick ‘n’ mix.