Food Count Swansea away 15th March

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 11:42 am

I present to you a 136g bag of Opal Fruits "Made to make your mouth water" ...

Yes thats right Opal Fruits not bloody Starburst or whatever they call em now.

A 136g bag of fruity mouth watering fun.

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4 flavours.
So how many of each flavour and how many in total.

Strawberry ...
Orange ...
Lemon ...
Lime ...

Total sweets ...

10 points for correct guess (5 points for the nearest)

Happy guesstimating Counters

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 12:31 pm

Count will close @ 1.30pm Saturday 15th.

Eloise Laws · Post by **Eloise Laws** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 2:13 pm

Well there’s a memory…….“Opal fruits! Made to make your mouth water! Fresh with the tang of citrus! Four refreshing fruit flavours! Orange! Stawberry! Lemon! Lime!

Strawberry 8
Orange 6
Lemon 5
Lime 5
Total 24

Thanks for the count Bosscat….I’ll be singing it all day
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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:17 pm

tarkys_ears · Post by **tarkys_ears** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:21 pm

Ahh Opal Fruits. They making my mouth water just thinking about em!

Ill go for

Strawberry 9
Orange 10
Lemon 8
Lime 7
Total 34

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:25 pm

Found them in Morrisons today

and thought thats it for the Foodcount this week ... well retro

Les latcham fan club · Post by **Les latcham fan club** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 6:36 pm

Thanks BC for this wonderful nostalgic sweets count.
Strawberry 6
Orange 7
Lemon 7
Lime 6
Total 26 teeth rotting delights
UTC NNN

Croydon Claret · Post by **Croydon Claret** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:48 pm

Almost as retro as the Wispa I found yesterday in the pocket of a coat I haven't worn in several years

Strawberry 8
Orange 11
Lemon 7
Lime 9
Total 35

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:49 pm

Strawberry 8
Orange 9
Lemon 8
Lime 9
Total 34

Cheers!

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:58 am

Claretmisterg · Post by **Claretmisterg** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:06 am

An excellent choice Bosscat, I sez
Strawberry ...4
Orange ...3
Lemon ...5
Lime ...4

Total sweets ...16

Surely these retro mouth watering tasty treats will please the counting gods ensuring we absolutely smash the Swans and deliver 3 much needed points.
Up the Mighty Clarets, come what may.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:34 am

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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:13 pm

BigF · Post by **BigF** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:31 pm

Strawberry 7
Orange 8
Lemon 8
Lime 7

Total 29

Thanks for the count Bosscat.

Dawlishclaret · Post by **Dawlishclaret** » Thu Mar 13, 2025 8:25 pm

Let’s go for lucky 7’s
Strawberry 7
Orange 7
Lemon 7
Lime7
Total 28
Thanks Bosscat

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:54 am

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:56 am

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Jasper64 · Post by **Jasper64** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:02 pm

I'm like Eloise Laws the "Opal Fruits" song is stuck in my head as well.
By the way do you think of Starbursts as being " AWFUL FRUITS" ?

My guess is going to be
Strawberry... 8
Orange... 8
Lemon... 7
Lime... 7

Total... 30

Thanks for the count Bosscat.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:37 pm

BigF wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:31 pm
Strawberry 7
Orange 8
Lemon 8
Lime 7

Total 29

Thanks for the count Bosscat.

Just noticed your total does not tally with your sweets counts do you want to stay or change BigF ?

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:58 pm

Jasper64 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 14, 2025 2:02 pm
I'm like Eloise Laws the "Opal Fruits" song is stuck in my head as well.
By the way do you think of Starbursts as being " AWFUL FRUITS" ?

My guess is going to be
Strawberry... 8
Orange... 8
Lemon... 7
Lime... 7

Total... 30

Thanks for the count Bosscat.

Not at all ... just think the name changes are unnecessary like Marathon bars etc ...

Zooniverser · Post by **Zooniverser** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:31 pm

Strawberry 6
Orange 8
Lemon 10
Lime 9

Total sweets 33

0ml joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooose

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:01 pm

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Off to pub so anymore takers wont get acknowledged till morning

DingleDangle · Post by **DingleDangle** » Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:59 pm

Yesssss! Excellent find Bosscat. Opal Fruits......way better than shitty Starburst (sang to the opal fruits tune

). I'm going feeeeerrrr........

Strawberry - 11
Orange - 9
Lemon - 9
Lime - 9

Total Sweets - 38

Thanks Bosscat and let's smash Swansea and collect 3 points tomoz. UtBFC!

green_parrot · Post by **green_parrot** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:16 am

Strawberry 8
Orange 8
Lemon 8
Lime 8
Total - 32

Thanks Bosscat

tally · Post by **tally** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 7:43 am

Strawberry 7
Orange 8
Lemon 6
Lime 5
Total 26

cheers for the count Bosscat

ClaretGeorgina · Post by **ClaretGeorgina** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:41 am

Strawberry 4
Orange 5
Lemon 6
Lime 6
Total 21
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claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 9:33 am

Strawberry 9
Orange 7
Lemon 8
Lime 10
Total 34

thanks for doing the count!

remember Opal Fruits advert very well!

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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 11:18 am

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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 12:26 pm

Just over an hour to Opal Fruit bag rippin-time

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:00 pm

30 minutes

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:29 pm

Strawberry 14
Orange 9
Lemon 12
Lime 8
Total 43

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:31 pm

Count closed ...

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:31 pm

Just in time Longsider

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:36 pm

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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:39 pm

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Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:40 pm

Congratulations to all points scorers lets go and have a mouth watering win at Swansea today.

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tarkys_ears · Post by **tarkys_ears** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:53 pm

Daaamn son, you got ripped off on the orange ones!

Longsider · Post by **Longsider** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:54 pm

Lovely count Bosscat. Squeaked in at the death for a cheeky 10 points too.

Up The Clarets

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:03 pm

Over to Cmg to put the scores up

Eloise Laws · Post by **Eloise Laws** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 3:17 pm

No points for me…but I might be able to forget the song now

Like the simple offerings better…..Well done to the scorers….
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Claretmisterg · Post by **Claretmisterg** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 4:55 pm

Updated points :-

1st
Dawlishclaret 225 points

2nd
Zooniverser 168 points

3rd
BigF 166 points

4th
Longsider 163 points

5th
Jasper64 155 points

6th
jdrobbo 146 points

7th
Croydon Claret 135 points

8th
Eloise Laws 134 points

9th
DingleDangle 125 points

10th
Claretmisterg 108 points

11th
Les latcham fan club 105 points

12th
tarkys_ears 99 points

13th
claretblue 95 points

14th
green_parrot 90 points

15th
bfcjg 73 points

16th
tally 68 points

17th
distortiondave 55 points

18th
Bosscat 47 points

19th
ClaretGeorgina 40 points

20th
MDWat 20 points

21st
AGENT_CLARET 13 points

Joint 22nd
mdd2 5 points
pompeyclaret 5 points

Congratulations to all our points scorers :-

10 points sees Dawlishclaret now on an unprecedented 225 points 57 points clear in 1st place. Also gaining 10 points puts Longsider on 163 points but remaining in 4th places.
A big 20 points moves Jasper64 up a place into 5th now on 155 points.
10 points also sees Croydon Claret moving up a place to 7th now on 135 points.
10 points puts DingleDangle on 125 points but remaining in 9th place.
5 points puts yours truly on 108 points but remaining in 10th place.
10 points moves Les latcham fan club up from joint 12th to 11th now on 105 points and green_parrot onto 90 points but remaining in 14th place.
5 points puts ClaretGeorgina onto 40 points but remaining in 19th place.
Thanks for a brilliant count Bosscat, 3 points for scoring puts you onto 47 points but remaining in 18th place.

Thanks to all the counters who took part and thanks again to Bosscat for hosting a great retro count which has seen our intrepid heroes secure a well deserved victory in this afternoons football contest.

Come on the Wednesday in tomorrows game and up the Mighty Clarets, come what may.

Jasper64 · Post by **Jasper64** » Sat Mar 15, 2025 5:15 pm

Thanks for the count Bosscat.
Keep all the wrappers as mementos.
Hoping you prefer Strawberry to Orange

Les latcham fan club · Post by **Les latcham fan club** » Sun Mar 16, 2025 8:17 am

Big thanks Bosscat a good 10 points!! NNN UTC

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:53 pm

Zooniverser wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 14, 2025 3:31 pm

What delights have we for Bristol

BigF · Post by **BigF** » Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:32 am