When I was a kid, way back in the 70s & 80s, I’d hold the cellophane wrappers to the fairy lights to make them change colour. Combining colours, seeing how they mixed or appeared with different coloured lights behind them. It was fascinating.
That love of lights and colours led me at 15 to work experience and then a job at the local theatre, which eventually became a vocation, becoming lighting tech/designer, stage manager and chief tech. Finally I trained as a drama teacher (though crewed and toured for years after).
I used to use QS wrappers for teaching lighting colour theory to young kids too, letting them make their own designs and patterns before I let them loose on the more expensive gels and gobos lol!
I understand the ecological implications of why the wrappers had to change (and compostable cellophane substitutes are expensive), but there’s that dash of sadness this year when I was offered a paper wrapped sweet.
Mind you, I’ve been pissed at Quality Street since they removed the cracknell one in the red wrapper, and that was around 1984 😂!