This is a bit of a tangent from the other thread and the one I started last year (there's a link from the other thread).

Being a green-lover, I'm rather annoyed that, increasingly, packets seem to be changing to have mainly oranges, blacks and reds and maybe one each of green and yellow.

Clearly, I could just be going mad or could be unlucky with the packets I get.

So, the idea is that, we all eat our fruit pastilles as normal (or more, since this is for scientific purposes, so they're not bad for you ) and say how many of each colour we get in each pack. Given the number of people here, we ought to get a big enough sample to find the truth about whether the green ones are really dying out.

I'll try and keep track of running totals of different colour and the average number of each colour in a pack.

PS. They have to be whole packs otherwise the numbers per pack won't work out properly. So there's another good excuse to eat loads of fruit pastilles.

You should set up a poll...

In two months' time there will be a busy thread along the lines of "where did this extra 2 stone come from?"

You are such a bad influence! I agree that a poll would be good but nevermind!

Eating nice stuff in the name of research... I like the way you think!

Ah, that would be a good idea - didn't think of that! I'm not quite sure how it would work though, maybe I'd have to do a question per colour. I don't think there's a way you can enter things like '2 green, 4 black, 3 orange...' and have them added to a total.

This is crazy.... I just got a pack..

1 purple/black or whatever colour it is
5 green!!!
7 yellow!!!
1 orange

I've never seen that before... The sweetie gods are obviously watching over me today!

*wishes she'd seen this thread before she went out to buy lunch*

Typical! I'll go and turn on my other computer and start some sort of spreadsheet.

*Wonders whether this thread is intriguing*

Interesting 5 mins I go to the shops and get some,

Mental note: Do Not! spend all money on sweets also Do NOT eat all at once !!

I just went to the vending machine to get myself a packet to join in. They were sold out
So I had some chocolate instead

I've got some somewhere that we took on holiday and never ate. Wonders where they might be

edit Ok found them!!

4 Green
7 Orange
11 Black
13 Yellow
28 Red



It's a family pack that I've no intentions of eating all to myself

Now if they were fruit gums........

Hmm, thinking about it, there doesn't seem to be much point of recording seperate packs' numbers as you can work them out from averages from the totals, so you can just add several packs together or whatever. It's probably best still to only have whole packs though as the favourite half of the pack may have been eaten first or something.

Anyway, here's the picture I took last year.



That's 23 Blacks, 23 reds, 9 green, 16 orange and 13 yellow.

*drools*

I shouldn't have got started on those earlier, I think I might have an addiction forming...

The results of trip to Tesco today are...

24 black
18 red
29 orange
48 yellow
21 green

Fruit pastilles take rather good pictures, do you want me to fuel your addiction, Solari or would you rather I didn't post them?

I've got

1 x yellow
2 x green
4 x red
7 x orange.
no black!.

That's a nicely skewed sample!

prefered order is green, orange, yellow, red, black.

There's another 4 tubes in the pack, but I'm not going to open them yet otherwise I'll eat too many and feel .

Poor greens.

I might go and open another packet in a bit. I've eaten my 2 greens and 1 yellow and just have the sickly sweet ones left which I don't feel like eating.

5 x red
4 x green
3 x yellow
1 x black
1 x orange


I don't like the red

I bought 3 tubes on the way home from work. I had some help testing them. We got the following totals:

Orange: 11
Green : 8
Red: 9
Yellow: 5
Black: 9

How can anyone's favourite be green??! I like the tubes you can get that are blackcurrant only. The rest are rubbish!

I like orange the most. Now too sweet, not too sour. Green are just too bitter. The others I don't really have an opinion on.

Mum hates blackcurrant, she says it 'tastes' like cat wee

I'm going to keep raiding the vending machine at work now. I think I'll skip breakfast and have fruit pastilles instead!

Has she really tried cat wee ?

This might be my favourite post in the cafe of all time!

packet 2
2 x green
2 x yellow
6 x orange
3 x red
1 x black

packet 3
1 x green
1 x yellow
6 x orange
4 x red
2 x black

packet 4
3 x green
4 x yellow
5 x orange
1 x red
1 x black

packet 5
3 x green
no yellow
5 x orange
2 x red
4 x black

I think pack 4 has the best mix - only one red and one black. I really haven't done very well on the green ones though.

Don't worry, I haven't eaten them all. I haven't even finished the 1st packet yet (3 x orange and 3 x red to go) and, no, I haven't started eating the other packs yet either - they're all in sandwich bags now.

Snap! Green are the best

Just opened a pack : the result is...

3 yellow
2 green
5 red
3 black
1 orange

For me, not a good combination...

Exactly! But you know when you smell something, and it feels like you're tasting it? Also, I suppose you are tasting it, because when you smell something, you're actually eating tiny particles of it- apparently. Also, something like 80% of the taste of something is determined by the smell of it- which is why you pinch your nose and eat if you don't like it

But anyway, sorry, I went a bit off topic
I'll get some fruit pastilles today and join in, promise

I'd swap Barrys packet for any I have had recently. !

I'm buying all my fruit pastilles in the North from now on then...

I'll have to get myself some at some point. I believe Nestle now own Rowntree's, which means they wouldn't sell them in my university union. Don't think anywhere else on campus has them.... Boo

A quick bus ride up to Headingley then. Shop on left before you get to traffic lights, nearly opposite Starbucks at the corner of Shire Oak Rd where Leeds events are held.

Or I could just walk to town at lunch

Another update: Red has taken the lead with green still significantly behind the rest.



As the sample gets bigger, we would expect all five averages to tend towards 2.8 if they are in produced in equal proportions in the factories.

I suggest that if our research proves otherwise, we should submit a petition to the manufacturers requesting that they level out the amount of green pastilles

I love red ones!

wish i'd have known yesterday I would have posted you the five I had!

I've got a lot of red ones too, but very few green.

We'll need a fair few more tubes first though, so get eating, everyone.

Ooh, look, we have fruit pastille-coloured smilies...

We need the green to look happy though.

This one's sort of green.

I've purchased another pack...

5 Black
2 Red
2 Green
2 Yellow
3 orange

Just bought an 'even' pack 3 of each but only two Red

Have some pictures to drool over...









even the red ones look nice.

I've got a fairly even pack here:

4 x orange
3 x green
3 x yellow
3 x red
1 x black

- can't beat the green ones!

Can't bear the green ones.


(Slightly off topic, does anybody like the pink and blue knobbly/spotty liquorice allsorts? I love liquorice allsorts, but there are always loads of the vile knobbly ones)

Those are the best ones!

Also, I love the Green foil-wrapped triangles in Roses (or is it Quality Street?)

Right, 5 packs here

1.

Black 5
Red 1
Green 2
Yellow 3
orange 3

2.

Black 3
Red 5
Green 4
Yellow 0
orange 2

3.
Black 3
Red 4
Green 2
Yellow 2
orange 3

4.

Black 4
Red 4
Green 0
Yellow 5
orange 1

5.

Black 5
Red 1
Green 5
Yellow 2
orange 1

Need a hand with those?

*throws some fruit pastilles to Solari*

What sort of useless packet of Fruit Pastilles is that?...

they're my favourites.