To be fair one of my favourite things as a kid was buying a 1/4 lb bag of lemon sherbert and a liquorish stick. Not those godawful tubes of dry powder "sherbert", but a bag of sherbert, filled from one of the big jars.
A 1/4 of wine gums from a jar were really good as well. Back in the day when they weren’t all bothered about what was good for you and just stuck things in that made them taste delicious.