Help settle a debate (trivial!)

[badger2005]

Hundreds and thousands - when you were growing up, were they little balls or little strands?

Strands

Both.

Mostly strands but think you could probably get either.

Balls. The strands were sugar strands I think

Strands

30not13
When you say both, do you mean you could get packets of hundreds and thousands that were just strands, and also get packets of hundreds and thousands that were just balls, or that they standardly came mixed together?

Balls

Come on boffins - we need to settle this, it's important

Balls

Only Balls, never mixed, never strands

Balls. Strands were sugar strands.

Balls ☺️

It's more controversial than I thought...

Strands

Strands! you could buy them as balls too though, separately or together in seperate compartment things. Why you'd want to though is an entirely another thread.

They are tasteless shitty concrete nothings, that bring nothing but unpleasant crunchy nothingness to any cake.
Felt good to get that out 😁

Balls, cos the strands are vermicelli

Do people just like posting 'Balls'?

Surely, definitely, it was strands?

AdventureCode
But weren't they at least better than the incredibly hard silver balls?

definitely little balls. the strands were something else.

@badger2005
Nope, those little silver balls had novelty value. Shitty strands, not so much.

I'm sure the H&T that came in boxes of Bird's trifle were strands? Surely that's the decider??!

Strands.

@GwendolineMarysLaces that's what I thought of when I read the OP and pictured hundreds and thousands in my head! Birds trifle hundreds and thousands!

Balls

Strands!