Fruit Polos

A most fruity treat they were too

Indeed, Shanelee - and as fruity now as they used to be!

I offered my bag around to a variety of people who'd never had them before and they were all very impressed!

I'm usually a winegum/sour-jelly-type/fruit jelly merchant but fruit Polos are the perfect size when you just want a little suck (rather than a small chew) of something - as they don't last forever but are the ultimate in fruity sucking!

Them and sour plumes were my favourite sweets.

Get yerself off to Poundland then Akabula!

The more people who buy them the more available they will become.

I've already put an order in via the missus.

Akabula, tell her to ask an assistant for them if she can't see them on the 'sweet aisle' as they are on a totally separate fixture in the Hanley shop, miles away from the sweet aisle.

Will do.

It must be very fiddly unwrapping an individual polo

And I bet you complain that Mr Diva doesn't indulge in enough foreplay?
Now you know what's going through his head.....

They wer very tasty. 1.01 that they're not as tasty now.

I`m trying to remember the different colours.

There you go again with your 'glass half empty' outlook on life kenny.

I'll guarantee that they ARE at least as tasty, if not MORE tasty than they used to be!

For one thing; because they're individually wrapped in little, easy-to-open pockets of cellophane, the sugary residue off the Polo from above or below is not stuck onto the sweet you are eating, thus you get the true flavour of it.

Shanlee: Lime, lemon, orange, strawberry, blackcurrant, pineapple and raspberry.

- and every single one is BURSTING with lip-smacking fruity flavour!

Keep your hair on Tommy. Most stuff does not taste like it used to, that's a fact.

I may try some to test.

Things probably don't taste the same because they have eons of nicotine-coated tastebuds to try to get through, kenny!

- never mind the ale!

Nothing more smug than an ex smoker.

Well I HAVE found some good reviews but I think I'll stay with the sugar free ones.

Haha! I knew you'd come out with that!

I'm not smug at all and still class myself as a smoker - even though I vape.

But it's a fact that going 'nicotine only' on the vape juice and not inhaling the other 4000 odd chemicals in tobacco, it certainly rids your tongue of the tar and clag you get with cigarettes and food does taste better.

I wouldn't go with the sugar-free ones. They probably are less tasty - but you suit yourself.

I must admit I've been meaning to try the vapes, there seems to be more and more of them about so they must be pretty good.

I've been on sugar free polos on and off for years.

bit like the Indian chicks

kenny, I can't recommend then highly enough.

As you may recall, I never, ever wanted to give up smoking - but by pure chance I have done (as such) with the vapes.

It'll be 4 years this August that I first went on the vapes - and it's just the best stroke of luck that my cigarettes were unavailable at that time and I was 'forced' into trying an e-cig.

Although I didn't see much difference at first health-wise, I have to admit that when I think about it now my health has much improved being off the tobacco, the house is cleaner, my smell and taste is 100% better - and vaping only cost me a FIVER a week!
That, from someone who was on 40 f@gs a day - which would now be costing me almost £20 A DAY!

Thanks for that Tommy. May buy one in due course.

Don't delay, kenny - what have you got to lose? A tenner or so, at most, probably.

If I wasn't such a committed smoker I wouldn't recommend them as avidly as I do - but as I've said, over and over, I never wanted to give up smoking but vaping really is so much more pleasurable, in all sorts of ways.

These are the little beauties you should be looking out for in Poundland (I was a bit out with my estimation of 240g per bag, but 180g for a quid is still great value):

http://www.poundland.co.uk/food-and-drink/sweets-and-snacks/sweets-mints-and-gum/180g-polo-fruits

I found (to my delight) yesterday that 180g bags of Fruit Polos are also available at B&M for £1 a bag.

Excellent suckability value in yet another retailer!

Mint Polos, for me.

Never liked the fruity ones, but I like chewy sweets like fruit pastilles.

I've never been a mint sweet lover, SAGC, even though my dad always had a roll of mint Polos about his person.

However, someone gave me a spearmint Polo a couple of months ago - and I was so impressed with them I bought a pack of 5 from Poundstretchers for a quid, instead of the normal price for one pack of @80p (love me bargains, me!).

So, I reckon it's peppermint I'm not fond of but really like spearmint.

I love mint Polos, but have to concentrate on sucking or I end up crushing them with my gnashers.

SAGC,  if you really like 'all things mint Polo' you might be interested to know they're now doing clear ice mints, also individually wrapped, in a large bag, in some shops.

I've definitely seen them for a pound somewhere (probably Poundland or B&M).

This is what they look like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polo_clear_ice_mint.jpg

Delighted to learn that the Fruit Polo has (belatedly) evolved into what sounds a far superior individually-wrapped non-sticky product.

The Confectionery Industry could have not wished for a more financially-stimulating development than receiving a Tommy Toes endorsement.

Make no mistake folks, right now they are dancing in the streets of Vevey.

hahahaha!

I can't tell you how wonderful they are Alun!
Non-stickiness, non-transferable flavour contamination is such a bonus!

They sound magnificent Tommy.

Years ago, I broke a train journey from Geneva to Montreux (if memory serves correctly) to pay due worship at the Vevey International HQ of Nestle.

They were shut.

What a bind, Alun!

[Had to laugh though!]

An unremarkable building in an unremarkable street if memory is correct.

I had visions of a building made out of white Milky Bar chocolate, with bars on the windows made out of KitKat.

Tommy, I do believe we've has those bags of mints in the car for longish journeys.

Along with Fox's glacier mints, Murray mints, and on one occasion on the way home from Colchester, we got in a traffic jam on the A134 (not that you have the slightest inkling of where that is) and devoured a box of After Eight mints between us.

When I was a lad it was Nessuls, now it's Nesslay, apparently.

Very disappointing if the Nestle building was so unremarkable, Alun.

Have a look at this (these) photos of the Wedel Chocolate building in Warsaw.

Now that's what you call a 'proper' hostelry for glorious confection!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Wedel

I found the link after buying some wonderful cherry-filled chocolate made by Edel from Tesco - and then told Sparky about it for one of his Polish lodgers.

It's beautiful choccy:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=277926258

Will sadly have to skip that chocolate recommendation TT, as I'm not a fan of dark chic or a cherry filling.   

Those are proper buildings though Tommy and no mistake. The street view of the Nestle building was a little disappointing. Looked like a large modern office structure, but not quite skyscraper size.   

All in all, it was the biggest disappointment since I was out with The Count one night, and three completely drunken muppet hooligans gave him ferocious verbal abuse, and he simply and calmly replied "Your entitled to your views gentlemen, and I wish you a very good evening". 

hahahahaha!

TT,

The Count is rightly renowned for his love of silence, and woe betide anyone dare even whisper while he bestrides the oche.  Quite honestly anyone who dares break that fearsome silence deserves to be taken into the car park for a well-deserved shoeing.

One of my little daydreams is that on a particularly icy cold winter's morning, preferably at around 0300 hrs, the lass from The White Stripes sets up her drum kit outside his house, right in front of his bedroom window, and then proceeds to batter the living daylights out of it in her usual manner.

I'd love to be an icicle on the wall hearing the explosive reaction that such events might generate.

I wonder if horses prefer 'mint' or 'fruit'?

Red Rum liked mints.