Collective Nouns for Sweets: A.K.A. Musings While Grocery Shopping
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 09:56PM Scott Donald So, yesterday was Chocolate Tuesday. As I was selecting my weekly chocolate I came to the startling realization that there is a distinct lack of collective nouns for sweets in the English language. I mean, we have such things as a donut of data, an embarrassment of parents, an Immersion of Baptists, a Jackson of Gloves, a mug of narcissist and, classically, a murder of crows. Why not collective nouns for the humble Mars Bar or Tootsie Rolls?
As I pondered this deficit in the English language while I continued grocery shopping, I came up with a few suitable collective nouns to get the ball rolling. Later, with the help of my friend, Geoff, I came up with some more. We really should make amends to this and create something to stand side-by-side with that first glorious book of collective nouns, The Book of St Albans. More suggestions are welcome.
Note: some of these sweets are distinctly Australian. I am relying on you to help fill in the blanks in my international sweets market knowledge.
The list include lollies (Candy for the Americans), chocolate bars, mints and ice creams.
A brain trust of Smarties.
An adolescence of Snickers.
A murmuring of M&M’s.
A mammary of Milky Bars.
A caravan of Wagon Wheels.
A vortex of Twirly Whirly’s.
A dandruff of Flakes.
A Wonka of chocolate.
A mental health day of Time Out’s.
A pride of Kit Kats.
A croak of Freddo Frogs.
A cinema of Jaffa’s.
A beach of Life Savers.
A sidewalk of Hubba Bubba.
A strategy of Tic Tac’s.
A romance of Tim Tams.
A super nova of Starbursts.
A tread of Tootsie Rolls.
A considerately bit more than a Bit-of-Honey.
A treasury of Minties.
A standard of Goldbars.
A Goldilocks Zone of Mars Bars.
A dynasty of Meiji.
A Blue Oyster of Golden Gaytimes.
A Manhattan of Mr Bigs.
An all girls college of Cherry Ripes. (Okay I felt a little dirty after writing that one.)
A land slide of Wonka Mud Sludge.
A decay of Violet Crumble.
An Australia Day of Picnics.
A main street of Goodbars.
A Gummis of Gummi Bears. (you need to know the cartoon to get this one)
A Mohammed Ali of Jawbreakers.
A deck of Snaps.
A distruction of Warheads.
A dungeon of Black Licorice Whips.
A blunt of Mary Janes.
A Chipmunck's of Big Hunk's.
A backdrop of Extra's.
An accident of Crunchies.
A crusade of Cup-o-Golds.
An obesity epidemic of Eat-Mores.
An harem of Turkish Delights.
An exhaustion of Marathons.
And some from Geoff:
A clumsy attempt of Butterfingers.
A herdful of Jolly Ranchers.
A double time of Twix.
A gobsmack of Goobers.
A low-down of Hi Chews.
An Haven of Hershey.
A nervous jitter of Skittles.
Enjoy.
Scott.
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Haha! What the hell? Do you have a diagnosis I could attain?
I have a humble amendment to your eclectic collection of collectives:
A plutonomy of Goldbars. Let's not give the wrong impression here :D