For your consideration I present a 420g tin of Del Monte Fruit Cocktail. You are invited to guess the quantities of significant pieces of the following fruits therein :-
Peach -
Pear -
Pineapple -
Grape -
Cherry -
Total fruit pieces -

You are also invited to guess the weight in grammes of the quantity of light syrup which drains off from my tin when left to drain in a small colander for a period not exceeding 5 minutes.

Guidelines :-
a) The deadline for submitting guesses is 10am on Saturday 4th January at which point drainage will commence.
b) I will award 10 points for any correct guesses.
c) In the event that no counter guesses a particular component correctly then 5 points will be awarded to the counter/s with the nearest guess.
d) Please present your guesses in the above order to ease collation of results.
e) The total quantity of fruit pieces guessed does not need to equal the sum of the individual components. These totals will not therefore be checked but will be entered as submitted.

It is hoped that by estimating the quantities of each of these particular types of fruit then the food counting gods will smile favourably upon us and inspire our beloved clarets to victory against our most bitter of local rivals in the footballing contest which will follow this food count.

Up the Mighty Clarets, come what may.

Bump

I'll go for something random and, undoubtedly, completely wrong

Peach - 14
Pear - 12
Pineapple - 8
Grape - 7
Cherry - 5
Total fruit pieces 46

Syrup 161

Cheers

Peach - 18
Pear - 16
Pineapple - 15
Grape - 11
Cherry - 9
Total fruit pieces 69

Syrup 187

UTC

Cheers Cmg good choice... The Man from Delmonte says YES.

My guesstinmates are as follows ...

Peach - 45
Pear - 39
Pineapple - 14
Grape - 7
Cherry - 8
Total fruit pieces - 113

Juice - 153 mls/gms

Lets keep our run going against the Fiddlers on Saturday lunch time.

Peach - 23
Pear - 24
Pineapple - 20
Grape - 17
Cherry - 6

Total fruit pieces 90

Syrup 165ml

Happy new year CMG

Peach - 20
Pear - 14
Pineapple - 15
Grape - 10
Cherry - 4

Total pieces of mutilated fruit - 63
Jooooos - 160 ml

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Thanks for the count…here goes:-

Peach. 31
Pear. 27
Pineapple. 17
Grape. 8
Cherry 5
Total pieces of fruit 88…..swimming in 145 ml of juice
UTC

Peach - 18
Pear - 17
Pineapple - 14
Grape - 21
Cherry - 9

Total fruit pieces 79

Syrup 183ml

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Thanks Claretmisterg
Peach - 64
Pear - 36
Pineapple - 6
Grape - 6
Cherry -6
Total fruit pieces -118
Syrup 165g

Peach 38
Pear 27
Pineapple 5
Grape 7
Cherry 5

Total 98

Syrup 130g

Thanks for continuing the count Claretmisterg

Guesses so far
Come on you counters. You have until 10am tomorrow to register your guesses. UTC

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Good day MisterG!

Peach - 27
Pear - 22
Pineapple - 15
Grape - 6
Cherry - 10
Total fruit pieces - 85

Jews - 108

Peaches 24
Pear - 20
Pineapple - 13
Grape - 10
Cherrys - 9
Total fruit pieces - 76

Jews - 111

Big thanks again for the count Misterg

I take it you will be the universal standard method when Quantifying a Significant Piece of Fruit.
Lining them up, looking at them , and then saying " thats ok, thats ok, thats not, thats ok, thats not..."

Peaches 24
Pear 27
Pineapple 16
Grape 9
Cherry 3
Total significant fruit pieces 79

Syrup 163 g

Lets hope between all of the Food Counters, all the quantities of fruit are correctly predicted, so the food counting gods will smile upon the Clarets tomorrow.

THANKS for the count Claretmisterg

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous! How am I supposed to guess how many different pieces of fruit, total fruit and juice is in that can? I'm not playing, simple as that.






Ohhhhhh go onnnnn, you've twisted my arm Claretmisterg

Peach - 11
Pear - 10
Pineapple - 15
Grape - 19
Cherry - 22
Total fruit pieces - 77

Syrupy gloop - 118g

Thanks Claretmisterg and heres to 3 points against the gee gees. UtBFC!

Guesses so far
Keep the guesses coming in. I will extend the deadline until 10:30 so still got 2 hours. UTC

Peach - 13
Pear - 16
Pineapple - 10
Grape - 6
Cherry - 4
Total fruit pieces 39

not-so-light Syrup - 112

thanks for doing the count misterg!

UTC

Drainage has commenced. No more guesses admitted.

Lots of pieces of peach - 139
plenty of pear - 62
Not so ample pineapple - 5
Barely a grape - 3
nary a cherry - 5

Total pieces 214

182 grammes of syrupy joooooooose

Congratulations to all our points scorers

10 points for Criydon Claret exact for cherry
5 points for Bosscat nearest for pear
10 points for Eloise Laws exact for cherry
8 points for bfcjg nearest for syrup (3 bonus points as only 1 out)
15 points for Dawlishclaret nearest for peach and total, joint nearest for grape
Big 20 points for BigF exact for pineapple and cherry
5 points for tarkys_ears joint nearest for grape
5 points for claretblue joint nearest for grape

I will forgo my 3 counting points in the hope that the Clarets get 3 points this afternoon instead.

I Wii update the leader board when I get the chance.

Thanks to all the counters who took part.

Here’s hoping that the lads are up for it today because, if they are, WE WILL BEAT THESE B*ST*RDS.

Up the mighty clarets, come what may.

Yippee I've got some points when not doing a count ... Get in

Great count CMG

Excellent count CMG - I always remembered you never get enough cherries in tinned fruit cocktail.
Thrilled with 10 points!

Fingers crossed for the 3 points today……UTC

Thanks for doing the count Claretmisterg. I hope your relinquishment of points brings us some luck.

1st
Dawlishclaret 174 points

2nd
Zooniverser 143 points

3rd
BigF 138 points

4th
Longsider 132 points

5th
jdrobbo 123 points

6th
Eloise Laws 116 points

7th
Jasper64 105 points

8th
DingleDangle 95 points

9th
Croydon Claret 92 points

10th
tarkys_ears 76 points

11th
bfcjg 73 points

12th
claretblue 70 points

13th
tally 68 points

14th
green_parrot 65 points

15th
Claretmisterg 58 points

16th
distortiondave 55 points

17th
Les latcham fan club 50 points

18th
Bosscat 36 points

18th
ClaretGeorgina 35 points

20th
MDWat 20 points

21st
AGENT_CLARET 13 points

22nd
mdd2 5 points

Another 15 points puts Dawlishclaret on 174 points storming ahead in 1st place towards an unprecedented 200 points.
A big 20 points moves BigF up 2 places towards 3rd now on 138 points.
10 points for Eloise Laws and Croydon Claret sees them on 116 and 92 points staying in 6th and 9th places respectively.
8 points moves bfcjg up from joint 12th to 11th now on 73 points.
5 points sees tarkys_ears up to 76 points but staying in 10th place, claretblue up to 70 points staying in 12th place and Bosscat moving up to 18th place now on 36 points.

Well done to all our points scorers and thanks again for all the counters.

Now COME ON YOU CLARETS

Thanks for the count Claretmisterg.

Ee aye ee aye ee aye ohhh up the Food count table I go

Great count, brought us luck !
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10 points is literally the cherry on the cake.

Fat chance of catching up Dawlishclaret but you can't have everything

Could be a record points haul this year

Claretmisterg, your donation of points did wonders for us. Thank you