{"id":1270,"date":"2019-06-11T20:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2019-06-11T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:33:26","slug":"wine-gummies-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2019\/wine-gummies-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Gummies No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/2019\/wine-gummies-no-more\/img-20190118-wa0000\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1271\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG-20190118-WA0000.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>At 10p per roll, Swizzels Wine Gummies were a favourite of mine.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of corner shop sweeties of yore, they were an almost-guilt-free lunchtime treat and just the thing to brighten a bleak mid-day hour out of the office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year I noticed they were missing from my regular near-work-supermarket, and figured it was just a stock issue.<\/p>\n<p>I trudged to other branches, but soon it was clear they were not being stocked anywhere locally, not even in my hometown branch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsnowdendavies\/status\/1113215989850738688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I tweeted to Swizzels<\/a> and hoped for a message about shortages of food colourings. I was not prepared for the sad news that followed in their reply;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi, thank you for your message. Unfortunately we no longer produce Wine Gummies. Swizzels<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Swizzels (@SwizzelsMatlow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwizzelsMatlow\/status\/1113367080626196480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I asked why, but there was no reply. There are midget gems, there are fruit jellies. But there is nothing else like Wine Gummies and I miss them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10p per roll, Swizzels Wine Gummies were a favourite of mine. Reminiscent of corner shop sweeties of yore, they were an almost-guilt-free lunchtime treat and just the thing to brighten a bleak mid-day hour out of the office. Earlier in the year I noticed they were missing from my regular near-work-supermarket, and figured it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,58],"tags":[173,174,172,171],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable-notes","category-writing","tag-goodies","tag-nomz","tag-sweets","tag-wine-gummies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zogue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}