To ask MN to answer the one question all my family has failed on in this Christmas sweet quiz?

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So in the end we managed to answer all but this: Rubbish or nonsense. Answer is a sweet or chocolate. Any ideas? And if anyone else is struggling with the last question on their quizzes, feel free to post!

Peppermint cream

I like the sound of a sweet called Hokum.

Of course it's humbug. The meaning fits perfectly.

Toxic waster

Toffee? As in ‘that’s a load of toffee’, although I’m not sure that’s even a thing!

If you look up synonyms of rubbish and nonsense, toffee appears in both lists.

Toffee.

Ive never heard nonsense or rubbish referred to as toffee, but its in my synonym finder. You can definitely get chocolate toffee and its very sweet

I thought humbug meant false, dishonest?

My first thought was toffee.

Bet you a tenner its hokum.

Hmm guess I was focussed on rubbish being debris ... unbelievable, we came up with humbug yesterday but all decided was wrong ... but happy to be put right today!

I thought humbug meant false, dishonest?

Indeed it does. Interesting to see so many people confidently proclaiming it means nonsense.

Have none of you ever had a chocolate humbug?

Eclair

Hokum?

I think it is fudge
The word "fudge" meant nonsence before it became a type of sweet

Google it.

Interesting to see so many people confidently proclaiming it means nonsense.

Something which is false and untrue is rubbish or nonsense.

When I looked up definition of humbug - it said deceptive or false talk or behaviour.

I think 'rubbish and nonsense' is also a type of deceptive or false talk - so could still be humbug.

Bounty. Because they're rubbish, always the only chocolates left in the box, and it's nonsense that they insist on including them in the selection at all.

I'd say def Toffee - it's pretty old-fashioned but fits well as it's a sweet and a chocolate

I mean old-fashioned to use it to mean rubbish/nonsense

Poppycock

I’d buy a box of just Bountys if I could. . We always leave the Mars and the Galaxy truffles. I save them and the toffees from Quality St until I have enough to fill a tub and take them to a children’s centre I work at!

Humbug

Waffle?