To not be at all put off by pick n mix horror stories and to still buy them?

[SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud]

I just love em! :o

AIBU?

I love them. It was the thing I gave up for Lent so was v v happy on Sunday that I could treat myself.

I choose to forget that a friend's wife used to work in the accounts dept at Woolies and regularly had to write off £s and £s due to mouse droppings/maggots/all sorts of filth being found at the bottom of the Pick and Mix counter

I always wondered why I got the shits after eating pic n mix...

Bloody hell viva! was she ok??

Wow Kladdkaka really?

She nearly drowned in Gummy Bears but was fine.

:o Drowned in gummy bears :o sounds like heaven

don't worry I'm pretty sure the killer jelly babies weren't actually real, in hindsight it was pretty sure it was just the sugar high talking!

YANBU, its just strengthening your immune system, right?

Technically, we are helping our children

I like your thinking Kate, I like your thinking!

Eewwww salad bars. They scare me. My friend used to load her bowl up as high as she could and then fill her pockets with tomatoes. Sometimes the servers feel a bit sticky. But i can over come this for my love of bacon bits.

I saw someone seperate 2 P&M sweets by biting them apart then throwing one back in the box.

Eeeeeuuurrrgggghhhh! vom face

Oh 70 how did you not say anything?

DH is very afraid of buffets for much the same reason, he can't bear the thought that anyone may have modged with the food. Our friends presented him with his own sandwich wrapped in clingfilm at their party.

Woolies used to have lots of wrapped sweets: toffees & peppermint creams & Turkish delight....mmm...but now I've heard about mouse droppings etc I am a bit glad its a thing of the past...

The website a quarter of is a good alternative. The stuff comes in paper bags and is reasonably priced.

Urgh I may never eat it again.

I was just sat here trying to think what P&Ms are, then twigged after a few minutes of pondering, that P&M is pick n mix

That Swedish website looks divine...

Oooh you can still get woolies P&M, you get it on their website :o

YABU pick 'n' mix is grim (my kids love it and DH will buy it for them but I have to prevent them trying to share with me ).

That post gave me the mental image of all the British sweets picking up and moving to Sweden sometime in the 80s. :)

My 3yo son picks up a sweet when we visit the newsagent, on the rare occasions that we do. He cherishes it all the way home, then eats it when we get here. He did it with a sour Haribo, learnt his lesson, next time it was a wrapped chocolate of some sort.

No pick and mix for me, thanks, but I'm sure I'll indulge him from time to time in the future. It was the overpriced things parents and grandparents thought were a waste of money that I loved the most when I was a child.

Have read thread to DD (16) who has made a mental note to get pick n mix in future from the top/ back - where no one has dropped them/ sneezed on them/ touched them with arse wipey hands/ bitten them in half.

They will be 6 years old but, hey, sugar's a preservative!

Horror Story = In a local paper a man had been arrested for dipping his penis in the pick n mix in local shop... and then loitering to see people pick the sweets. Apparently he got off on it and was having counselling as a result.

Put me riggghhhhttt off it did.

:(

Nobody remembers seeing this article other than me and my aversion to them is a family joke. Every one comments on "the foreskins element" to my choices. "low risk of foreskin" means I can eat it !

I did read that. I really did!

EEEEEEWWW signet !

Mind you in our local McDonalds just after it opened trading standards found semen in the burgers. They found the bloke responsible and sacked and arrested him.

All these years on, DH and I still mutter about whether we can face going for a wankburger!

I remember the 'wankburger' stories

wankburgers!?!?!

Even after reading all of the nasty comments on here, now all I can think about is wanting some sweeties.

WIBU to make nicely ask DH to go to and get me some?