Back in the olden days, even before the Nokia 3210, sweets were sold in retro sweet shops on every high street in the land. People would save up their hard earned money and go and buy “A Quarter Of…” what ever sweets they wanted.
A “quarter of sweets” was a traditional measurement used in the UK, to refer to a quarter of a pound (¼ lb) of sweets. This equates to approximately 113 grams. Customers would commonly ask for “a quarter” of a particular type of sweets, and the shopkeeper would weigh out that amount from jars.
This unit of weight was used until the UK moved to a metric weight system and sweets were then weighed out in grams and kilograms rather than pounds and ounces.
We don’t sell our sweets as a Quarter of, as we started in 2019 and so used 100g as our base measurement for a bag, however there are some local market stalls that will still offer you a quarter of pear drops for example.
So which do you prefer? 100g bags or the old fashioned 1/4lb bags.
Or did you “go large” and sometimes ask for a 1/2lb bag!