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# It's just a bag full of penny sweets
but not the ones that you like. The ones you end up eating 'cos the good ones are all gone

Only 164 Calories per bag though
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:44, archived)
# Penny sweets!
We were discussing this in the pub. Do they still cost a penny? Are they still the same size? If so, how has this economic miracle occurred?
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:47, archived)
# Penny sweets either cost tuppence per sweet or, the more common method, is to weigh them and charge by the gram
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:48, archived)
# :'(
I'm going to my newsagents to demand answers. Inflation is ruining childhoods!
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:51, archived)
# Not true.
My shop still sells penny sweets for a penny.

However, there are a lot more 2 and 5p sweets than there used to be,
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:55, archived)
# "I've only got a penny. Can you cut this flump into fifths?"
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 14:57, archived)
# Pfft!
The people in my local sweet shop trusted me so much that they would just let me fill my sweety bag and tell them how much I owed.

Mwahahaha! Half price sweets forever!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 15:01, archived)