Pink shrimps were beautiful, soft, chewy and a seemingly very difficult to make, judging by the pale imitation shrimps you see adorning the shelves of unworthy newsagents nowadays, lulling you in with a false sense of excitement, only to be disappointed by a lifeless, plasticky (I know that's not a real word) mess!

There were two types of shrimp, the little ones (pictured here) or the bigger ones which were known as Super Shrimps... or just big pink shrimps (depending on how classy your newsagent was.

Whichever was your personal favourite, for most people a pink shrimp or two would site quite nicely and that little white paper bag of dream goodies.