What do Smarties mean to me? Multi-colored spit. The kind of thick, dangly spit that you can expel and inhale over and over. Best while done sitting on your little brother’s chest and dangling said spit over his nose over and over.
OK, I was a jerk. He was too, though. Remind me to tell you about the lawn darts, the 2X4 with the nail, or the BB gun sometime.
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*Originally posted by Poysyn *
**writefetus - I don’t know about your Zero bars but now I will keep my eyes peeled for you. If I find some I will send 'em to you. 
Poysyn,
Thanks for the kind reply…in point of fact, however,the smarties in question are contained in small single serving boxes ( for the Halloween holiday?) within a larger bag,from bulk?,unknown at this time…‘ta
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Smarties are less tart than SweeTarts and they remind me of Easter. My parents didn’t allow us to trick or treat (“bothering the neighbors”) but they did set up a candy hunt in our backyard at Easter and Smarties were the favorite treat…
Smarties are better than circus peanuts, but, that is not saying much.
…Circus Peanuts always smelled like fingernail polish to me…didn’t stop me from eating them tho’
You can not have Halloween without Smarties. Actually, I don’t remember the last time I went a week without eating at least one roll. I’ve loved them for as long as I can remember. I did learn a very important lesson in sixth grade though. Do not drop Smarties into your can/bottle/glass of Dr Pepper. (Actually, I thought it was pretty funny. Haven’t done it since though.)
Circus Peanuts? Ick.
What Smarties means to me.
By little*bit
The candy I identify as Smarties are the Sweet-Tart version. A pastel rainbow of hyper-activity. My fondest memory is of Sean Harris & John Something-or-Other in science class borrowing my Clinique eyeshadow with the mirrored case, crushing the candy in to a fine powder, lining it up & snorting it with the clear glass tubing from the lab.
God, they were sexy.
Odd, odd, odd. Yes, I associate “Smarties” with the pure sugar version, but they’re made in Canada, which would imply that Canadian Smarties OUGHT to be The Same. Which, of course, they are not.
Any Canadians willing to let me purchase some Canadian-Style Chocolatey Smartie-Things, please email me. Anything Canadian must be at least partially good. I’d go up to Montreal and buy some myself but a three hour car trip just doesn’t appeal to me right now.
That is quite possibly the scariest thing I’ve ever heard.
Oh, and I LOVE the good ole US discuses of anti-ritalin. So sweet and tasty, but you must eat them one at a time.
Smarties are not to be eaten one at a time. You must eat two of the same color at the same time. When you get to the end of the roll if there are any single Smarties left you must open a new roll and incorporate the left over Smarties from the first roll.
You can’t stop opening new rolls until all Smarties have been eaten in the proper “two of a kind” method.
Most rolls of Smarties have an even number of Smarties, however every once in awhile there is an odd number roll. This really throws the whole system off.
Wow, one of my big brother’s friends did this exact thing to me once. I remember laying there staring up at this hideous hunk of greenish lung-butter he was tormenting me with and thinking, “Jeez, I hope nothing breaks his concentration.”
ROTFLMAO!
TNTCOMC!
(Trying not to choke on my candy!)
Dang, I didn’t know there is proper etiquette and technique. We just had a small handful of Smarties and chucked 'em back.
Best was trying to let them melt in your mouth. Chewing them was fun, and they crushed more easily than SweeTarts (d@mn near broke a tooth on one of them. And BottleCaps {SweeTarts that looked like, well, bottlecaps in soda flavors} were just as bad to crunch.
The ‘two of a kind’ method? What heresy. Here is the only PROPER way to eat Smarties:
Unwrap the roll and sort them into piles by color. Eat one from each pile in turn, until you get to the last Smartie in any given pile; set this one aside. When you are down to one of each color, pop them all in your mouth at once.
Anybody who does anything else is guilty of the gravest breach of etiquette imaginable, and should be shunned by all decent folk.
racinchikki
I’ll send some to you
You didn’t grow up in Oklahoma did you?
I hate to argue with you Fretful Porpentine but eating Smarties in the way you suggest is just asking for trouble. The “two of a kind” method is the only way.
Well, I for one had never even realized until today that there were 2 different kinds of Smarties, only ever having been exposed to the Canadian/UK variety.
Every day is a learning experience on the SDMB, I’ll tell you.
The real question is, when you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat that candy-coated chocolate, but tell me when I ask - when you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?
I have bought some of the chocolate Smarties for Halloween and you can be darn sure that I’ll only give them away if I run out of the other stuff. My neice and nephew are being brought up right, they have an appreciation and a love of Smarties MMM…Smarties.
For those who haven’t had them the Canadian Smarties are a lighter chocolate then M and M’s and it seems to melt better in your mouth. Now where did I put that Halloween Candy???
Keith
Down Under Smarties are the Canadian type - cheap M&Ms with a thinner coating that melt easier. They’ve been around forever (while M&Ms have only been in Oz for ten years or so).
They do indeed melt better in your mouth. Sadly they also melt quicker in your hand. And bag. But I like 'em. If only they had penaut smarties…
And I never ate the red ones last. I was so tough I ate 'em first.
Canadian smarties are a yummier chocolate than M&M’s.
The problem is you Americans do not know that there is a method to eating them. You can’t eat then randomly… you have to separate the colours and eat the brown ones first, then you eat the green and pink… and so on.
The BIG question is:
** When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?**