Someone's been messing with my wine gums

10 June 2016 - 18:24 By Nomahlubi Jordaan

Are you obsessive about disorder and want things in the same pattern as they always were? Well‚ TMG Digital has discovered that wine gums are not the way they were. The colours are now all mixed up and not in sets of three – red‚ yellow‚ black‚ orange and green.A snap survey to find out whether people prefer the old orderly look to the new scrambled colours has revealed they have strong views. But the new look is the favourite.“I would take the new look because it’s interesting and I start eating my wine gums from the left‚” Kabelo Putswane said.Sinenhlanhla Dludla prefers the new look because “I love the variety of the colours”.Bulela Sonjica agrees: “I like the new look because you have different flavours to eat at different time.”Lungi Ngaphi said: “The new pack looks more colourful and enticing now that they are mixed up.”Deshnee Subramany is‚ however‚ not impressed.“Wine gums are a family favourite and we usually split up the colours. I eat the green‚ my dad the black‚ my sister the orange and yellow is split between my sister and me. It just made sense‚” Subramany said.“Now if you eat alone‚ you have to go and pick out those you want to eat now‚ which disrupts the packaging and won’t close nicely again‚” she added.Subramany is not deterred though‚ and says she will still buy her family’s favourite sweets.The company that produces wine gums says it is experimenting mixing the colours up “as opposed to the previous static variation of flavours”...

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