To be annoyed every time I open Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles and find they are all GREEN AND YELLOW??

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Anyone else experience this unique frustration? Where are the days when you could find several blackcurrant ones (my favourite) in every tube - and at least a scattering of the red or orange ones?

Once I found a whole tube of just the black ones, marketed as such - so, where have they gone these days?

I know I should get out more and eat healthy.

YABU the green ones are the best :)

I wish you could packets that only had green ones in, they are the best ones.

Green ones are the best!

I love the blackcurrant ones too!

Noooo - orange followed by blackcurrant as the best (I didn't know anyone liked green!)

Frustration in our house is DD picking all the best colours ina bag of sweets. She doesn't let me have any red ones

Lucikily i also have a DS who doesn't like sweets so i can have his share.

really?? that is awful. green are gross. blackcurrant best, followed by red and orange. what are they thinking?

My favourite!

GIVE THEM ALL TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Don't like the orange ones though.

What Ellimam, Wowser and Popcorn said

Totally agree, red and purple are the best but are very rare, green and yellow and possibly orange are the common ones and therefore low in value. Your tube was faulty!

oooh I love the yellow ones and green are OK. It's the red and black ones I take objection to...! Yellow and orange get saved for me in our house - maybe we should have a MN fruit pastille swapping scheme..?

I always open the whole pack & eat them in order by colour-
Yellow
Green
Orange
Red
Purple/black
Least favourite first.
Does anybody else do this or am I the weirdest person ever????
My dh thinks it's strange!!!!

You green-lovers - I can't believe how many of you are out there - can all have all my green ones (and most of the yellow too) but only if you send me, by return, all your black and red ones!

Sounds like we need to have some kind of Fruit Pastille Exchange network set up

Can you still get the packets of just purple ones?

Angel I do exactly the same and my order is almost the same except I would eat Orange before Green, Green is marginally better than Orange which is disgusting (but mysteriously I never throw those ones away, just eat them to remove them from circulation).

Angelto5 I do think that's strange.

You are not wrong to value the purple/black ones so highly. But I do think you are living dangerously, leaving the best till last - Chances are surely that someone else will have nicked them long before you get to them.

It is admirable, however, to be able to exert such self-restraint, so for that you earn my esteem.

Angelto5 I do the same...in exactly the same order. I also do that with Skittles etc. If I have Tic-Tacs I have to divide them into the two colours, then eat any extras so there are exactly the same number of each, and eat them two at a time (one of each colour). My DH thinks I'm weird too lol

I blame the Coalition.

yabu, I always end up with loads of horrible red ones. Green and black are the best

I never share if I can help it. I also do the same with skittles. But with jelly babies I only eat the pink,red & black & leave the rest for dh & dc. I also give them my last rollo-does anybody remember the advert?love somebody enough to give them your last rollo ?

Brilliant thread op

Where do you live? What shop? I want! Loathe black currant.

Now that Starburst are suitable for vegetarians hurrah I've noticed a distinct lack of red ones (though that might have more to do with ratfink DC than the Starburst sorting machine)

And what's with the purple ones
In my days they were strawberry/lime/orange and lemon.

YABU, send the green & yellow ones to me & I'll send you the black & red ones. I blame my dad, he told me when I was a kid that the black/red ones were nasty tasting to children so only grown ups could eat them, and I've never liked the taste since!

Yellow are my favourite but green can do one.