Bounty, Mars, Milky Way. I tucked in and the Millers celebrations were for a win.
We got wine gums at Dagenham this time. Seems the credit crunch is hitting everything.
But just as the sweet box has taken a downward step so had the Millers if you think about it.
Tasty cup fare in midweek against smooth-passing opposition from The Championship had given way to some long ball and League Two effort and endeavour - nutty stuff all wrapped in a non-league surround.
But just when they were contemplating the bitter taste of defeat, Rotherham found a strawberry cream tucked away at the bottom of the bag.
Mark Burchill helped himself to the sweet stat of a first goal for the club. Timely too as it came with just six more minutes of munching time left.
No Rotherham follower will bother themselves that it was a scruffy one.
Perhaps they'll smile at the irony of the respective goals in that Dagenham, with their simple, basic methods, should score with an absolute stunning finish whereas Rotherham were the ones to profit from a high ball lifted in behind the defence by Micky Cummins.
It caused confusion as Reuben Reid got involved and a vital touch and Burchill, in typical goal-poacher fashion, chased an unconsidered trifle and got the cherry.
So, settle for a point then at that stage? No! In a brave and heartening finale, the Millers stormed forward and the remaining minutes had the Daggers eager for the whistle although it actually went as Rotherham conceded a free-kick, untaken, right on the edge of their own area.
Against awkward opposition, it was a good point, although Mark Robins looked less than pleased that his side's first-half work had not produced the three points it should have done and which would have taken them back to the starting point of no points.
Certainly the half-time reflection in the Rotherham dressing room would have been on the opportunities they'd had but failed to take.
There had been no hangover from the midweek performance, as there often can be in such circumstances, and they worked hard to make their opportunities.
But on view of the first half chances going begging, they could have been badly scarred when falling behind so quickly in the second half.
It was a tough and, at times, frustrating struggle thereafter and the minutes were fast disappearing when they performed the rescue act.
There had been much talk beforehand about the chance of getting back to zero, which is fine but often fails to take into account the difficulties of chasing an away win at places, and in conditions, like this.
Perhaps the Daggers prefer a pitch like this, extremely hard, and the bounce, to me, was excessively high even on second or third bounce.
Unsuspecting defenders, and others, can find themselves under pressure in apparently harmless situations.
Dagenham, missing out midfield, know their game and are happy applying it. It's pretty basic but they are definitely improved on last season.
But they had to generally play second fiddle in the first half.
Alex Rhodes under-powered a shot from a Dale Tonge-Drewe Broughton set-up and also lifted a volley wide.
The golden chance midway through the half was set up by Broughton's nod down for Danny Harrison's burst into the area. As time froze, he looked certain to score but slid it past the keeper and the post.
Broughton might have scored, Reid and Pablo Mills forced saves and Reid, Rhodes and Cummins, with a header from a free-kick, all went close.
Dagenham, it must be said, had some moments too and twice could have scored with headers but they were happy to be level at the break.
The second half opened with Broughton and Harrison combining but unable to finish before the home side's stunning 49th-minute strike.
There seemed no imminent danger but as the ball 'sat up' from its bounce Paul Benson backed his technique on the volley and it dipped and flew into the far side.
Warrington's save from Solomon Taiwo's 20-yard volley prevented a clinching second goal 10 minutes later.
As the home side grew in confidence and were now the likelier side, Mark Robins injected changes to try to perk things up, including Burchill as an additional striker to the exclusion of a midfielder (Mills).
Rhodes and Reid weren't too far away but the combative home side looked to be keeping Rotherham at bay until Cummins lifted the ball high beyond the defence - Dagenham-approved surely.
It produced hesitancy between defenders and a keeper leaving his line and led to Burchill's leveller.
It says something for Rotherham's belief that they didn't leave it at that.
Neither did I at the end because I snaffled a wine gum, a black one.
But, rather like the Millers, I'd missed the chance earlier to get a
decent handful!
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