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This week's shortage
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:03 pm
by RockitRon
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 5:48 pm
by Sandra
I've been trying to get some from Tesco the last couple of times I've had a delivery. Madness!
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 5:53 pm
by Red Baron
That happened a few years back. Never knew why. Funnily enough we ordered 2 last time so we have enough to last us over Christmas.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:57 pm
by SuzySu
I like to have a couple of tins of Green Beans in the cupboard for when we don't have any fresh vegetables, Asda haven't had any for weeks & the Aldi near work didn't have any either

Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:55 pm
by RockitRon
Things are getting serious now. No Curly Wurlys to be found in any of the supermarkets.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:22 pm
by Redpig59
They still sell Curly Wurlys?
Oh well.
If you can't get one of those, just get an Aztec bar instead.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:46 pm
by Poodlepan
Just as long as nobody runs out of cheese.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:55 pm
by Redpig59
It would be like that scene from Trainspotting, where he sees the baby crawling on the ceiling.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:45 am
by SuzySu
Chomps are like Curly Wurlys but are not curly & wurly, also Curly Wurly’s are really small now, I’ve not had an Aztec bar, will have to try one

Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:47 am
by Redpig59
SuzySu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:45 am
Chomps are like Curly Wurlys but are not curly & wurly, also Curly Wurly’s are really small now, I’ve not had an Aztec bar, will have to try one
You'll need a time machine.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:27 am
by Claude Balls
Are they the same as Texan bars?
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:42 am
by Redpig59
"A last request Gringo?"
What enlightened days!
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:29 pm
by Phillip Phlopp
Wagon wheels etc etc etc
I tell you what you don't see these days, confectionary smoking kits.
I can't find the type I used to get every Christmas: a pack containing sweet cigarettes (white tubes that looked just like a filtered ciggie), black liquorice pipe and a pack of shredded coconut stained brown to look like pipe tobacco. Did it do me any harm? No, except I did start smoking at 14 with a 10-a-day habit by 16.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:40 pm
by Gaspode
I used to get one of those every Xmas. I think they were called Junior Smokers Set, I maybe wrong as it was a long time ago.
Oh and I've never smoked anything in my life not even a killer.....
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:48 pm
by Redpig59
I think that the sugar and additives content on those was probably unhealthier than a packet of fags.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:18 pm
by SuzySu
Redpig59 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:47 am
SuzySu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:45 am
Chomps are like Curly Wurlys but are not curly & wurly, also Curly Wurly’s are really small now, I’ve not had an Aztec bar, will have to try one
You'll need a time machine.

I guess I won’t try one then

Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:25 pm
by Redpig59
SuzySu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:18 pm
Redpig59 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:47 am
SuzySu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:45 am
Chomps are like Curly Wurlys but are not curly & wurly, also Curly Wurly’s are really small now, I’ve not had an Aztec bar, will have to try one
You'll need a time machine.

I guess I won’t try one then
They were pretty grim to be honest, as were many sweets from the seventies.
People don't really want those sweets.
They just want to be that age again.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:44 pm
by Phillip Phlopp
If you have a tooth filling you no longer want then Curly Wurlys are brilliant in removing them.
Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:13 pm
by SuzySu
Asda had tinned Green beans today

Re: This week's shortage
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:40 pm
by Lisa
Not an egg to be had in Sainsburys this evening.