Rowntree's Randoms Pouch - 150g

Rowntree's sits at the cheerful end of the British sweet shelf, the same family as Fruit Pastilles and Jelly Tots. Randoms are a corner shop regular, the bag grabbed at the till on the way home from school.

People in Canada go looking for them because the shapes are half the memory. The guessing game, the arguments over whether that one is a bike or a teapot, the swap you made because you wanted the other colour. You cannot get that back from a description, only from the bag.

The 120g pouch is a good size to share, or to quietly not share. Keep it in a cool, dry cupboard and fold the top over between raids, though in most houses that step never comes up. It goes in the glovebox for long drives, the bag for a film night, or the drawer at work.

Randoms tend to end up in the basket next to other Rowntree's favourites, a tube of Fruit Pastilles or a bag of Jelly Tots, so one sweet craving gets sorted in one go.