Crunch, crunch, dissolve, crunch

Sugar Fix, at the rear of the Myer food court, is the shop we all wish was on the corner of our street as kids - filled with exotic junk from half a dozen lands. I walked out with a triumvirate of teeth-rotters today:

* Curlies (New Zealand) - fairly standard cheese-flavoured corn snacks

* Astros (South Africa) - biscuit balls coated in chocolate and multicoloured candy. The carton teased, "New massive black hole Astro in selected packs." Alas, the (collapsed) stars weren't right, AND

* Leone Mandarin Lozenges (Italy) - rough orange lumps with a mild mandarin flavour. Strangely pleasant, which explains the "since 1857".