I know, there’s been a distinct lack of updates yet again, but I’ve been busy working so I can afford to blow my money on random, geeky things like this – Sour Apple sweets, shaped like 1-up Mushrooms inside a 1-up Mushroom tin. Available for a rather extortionate £2.99 from Borders and not even discounted after Borders having gone into administration. Ugh.

Still, I just wanted the tin and I hadn’t seen these available elsewhere. I know HMV sell videogame sweets in the shape of Pac-Man and Ghosts, NES controllers and Mario Super Stars, but never encountered these ‘shrooms. These are also available in Blue and Red forms, the colour deciding the flavour of sweets you’ll find inside; the red mushrooms were Cherry flavour and the blue ones were, er, blue flavour. The 1-up ‘shroom I got was sour apple, and reviewing those – they’re not really that sour but still not too bad. But hey, I bought it for the tin, which I’ll use as a desk ornament, or to hide some loose change. That is after I’ve consumed all the sweets inside. Om nom nom.