{"id":586399,"date":"2025-11-22T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586399\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:25:35","slug":"i-took-10-to-the-edinburgh-christmas-markets-pick-n-mix-and-left-feeling-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/586399\/","title":{"rendered":"I took \u00a310 to the Edinburgh Christmas Markets pick ‘n’ mix and left feeling robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up in Clermiston<\/a>, a real highlight was getting to go to the pick ‘n’ mix at the Woolworths in Corstorphine at the bottom of the hill.<\/p>\n

The excitement was always palpable, for a couple of quid you could leave with an absolute haul, enough to power a young child on sugar for the best part of a weekend.<\/p>\n

There is something magical about getting a selection of tooth rotting goodness, so when you combine it with a trip to Edinburgh’s Christmas Markets<\/a>, it surely is a recipe for something special – or so I thought.<\/p>\n

I’d gone in with the expectation I could land a decent supply for the wife, toddler and myself to enjoy some Christmas films over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The boat was well and truly pushed out with a \u00a310 budget – I was giddy with excitement – buzzing to come home and show the family my packed bag of goodies.<\/p>\n

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On arrival at the pick ‘n’ mix stall – which is hidden away on the north side of this year’s Christmas Market – I was bit thrown off, I didn’t recognise a lot of the sweets on offer but the classics still remained: cola bottles, gummy bears and of course, the fried egg and my personal favourite, the jellied snake.<\/p>\n

The sign said \u00a32.99 per 100g. No idea about weights – I played a careful game – topping the bag up gradually, weighing it, and then returning for more.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The pick’n’mix stall.<\/p>\n

I’m a sucker for the snake and straight of the bat, I’d already surrendered well over a quid, so I moved onto more economical items, gummy bears and pencil parts were shovelled in.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

Some of the sweets on offer.<\/p>\n

Soon they were followed by a few chocolate mice and jazzles as well as some gummy worms and these funky looking chicken feet.<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest, my bag felt pretty full by the time I reached my \u00a310 limit. but after handing over my hard earned cash, I peaked inside only to discover a pick ‘n’ mix bag which resembled something Scrooge would have assembled.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The contents of my bag for \u00a310.<\/p>\n

I left thinking at least Dick Turpin wore a mask when he robbed the highways.<\/p>\n

At the start of the day I thought I’d return home a king but after my paltry pile of sweets was discovered by the wife – I’d been relegated to court jester.<\/p>\n

My advice to anyone heading up for a sweet treat is to either reconsider or remortgage the house.<\/p>\n

With that being said, it is worth noting locals get a 20 per cent discount when attending Edinburgh Christmas Market, making it somewhat more affordable for locals.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh\u2019s Christmas Market was also recently voted UK\u2019s number 1 Christmas market by Local Insider<\/a> indeed partly due to its comparatively good overall value for money as cited by visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing up in Clermiston, a real highlight was getting to go to the pick ‘n’ mix at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,184887,144780,1102,4884,184888,184886,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-586399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christmas-films","10":"tag-christmas-markets","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-gummy-bears","14":"tag-pick-n-mix","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115592398580263815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}