Mariano Rajoy served as prime minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, and clips of his awkward, convoluted public phrases became a long running source of Spanish internet humour. Short excerpts from his speeches and interviews are routinely cut into soundboard clips, and this sweets reference spread in that same way through shares, remixes and chat forwards. Its appeal has little to do with politics itself and more with the contrast between formal public speech and a trivial topic, which is why it survives as a reaction sound long after the original moment.