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Best Tangy Fruits in London
“Round, brightly coloured fruit-flavoured confections that made less noise in your pocket than any other sweet.”
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Tangy Fruits were a round, brightly coloured fruit-flavoured confection, manufactured until 2008 by New Zealand company Pascall and mainly sold in cinemas. They were packaged in 160 gram plastic lidded pottles, which made less noise than other types of plastic packaging. Tangy Fruits were made under license by Pascall, an Australian and New Zealand confectionery company owned by Cadbury's, who ceased production in 2008 citing a lack of consumer demand. This was protested at the time, and the company has been petitioned to reinstate them along with several other "iconic" confections that were also discontinued.
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Tangy Fruits were small, round candies that turned cinema visits into a bright, fruit-flavored ritual—until 2008, when Pascall discontinued them without warning. Housed in a 160-gram plastic pottle with a lid that whispered rather than crackled, they occupied a specific place in New Zealand confectionery culture. The discontinuation sparked genuine protest; consumers petitioned for their return, cementing their status as a lost icon of childhood cinema snacking.
Order it here when it has
- distinctive plastic packaging design
- iconic status among consumers
- fruit flavour variety
- cinema experience anchored
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