Fruit Pastilles

I’m not much of a candy person myself. When faced with the option of chocolate or candy, chocolate almost always wins. I can relatively easily turn down candy offerings, not so much chocolate.

However, I found myself with a candy craving the other day whilst at the supermarket, quite unlike any craving I’ve ever had. So I ventured down the aisle of sweets, pondered my choice whilst being amazed at the array of sweets available, and later on picked out fruit pastilles.

Like I said, I don’t eat sweets very much. A strong memory I associate with sweets is that I have them on holidays when I went on planes. Normally my mum wouldn’t buy me sweets but she would make an exception for this. I remember hard-boiled fruit sweets, Mentos, the odd butterscotch candies, Polos… There’s something about each of them. Hard-boiled sweets the kind that you would try to suck and keep as long as you could in your mouth until you ran out of patience and crushed into them. Mentos with its minty taste and that refreshing feeling when you’ve had one of them and drank cold water right after. Polos that were fun to eat just because they had a hole in them, but they last for all of two seconds each before they are gone. Butterscotch candies were very rare, these were proper treats because they were quite a bit more pricey than the rest, but if you forgot one and left it in your pocket they left a horrible melty sticky mess.

Anyway, fruit pastilles did the trick this time, with their juicy and sweet chewiness. Some people may have favourites about which flavours of pastilles they like in a tube, but I like them all equally. Can’t say the same for M&Ms or Smarties though, even though they are all of the same colour, I think gravitate away from some colours more.

Okay, in all honesty, am quite stressed out by my final year project and dissertation, hence random post about fruit pastilles that I made my way through while writing. But I know I’ll survive, and will be graduating, and have a whole summer holiday ahead of me. It’s what keeps me going these days, especially when the weather is all sunny and lovely outside and I have to do work. About one more month to go before this is done, yay.

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