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Soor Plooms Emporium (1958–2026)
Fictional sweetie shop weighed its last quarter.

Jars, empty. Photo: Philip Halling, “Sweet jars in shop window - geograph.org.uk - 519847”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
The fictional Soor Plooms Emporium sold sweets by the quarter for nearly seventy years. Its scales are said to have been “generous after 3pm”. It leaves behind a city of slightly better teeth.
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