# U.K. Dopers, They Have Come for Your Smarties Tubes

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 18, 2005, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-dopers-they-have-come-for-your-smarties-tubes/290689 "2005-02-18T09:29:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-dopers-they-have-come-for-your-smarties-tubes/290689/41 "2005-02-18T18:59:39Z")

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I have just found this wonderful site all about old sweets . On there you can find out what happened to Spangles and other old favourites.

[http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/whatever.php](http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/whatever.php)

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-dopers-they-have-come-for-your-smarties-tubes/290689/42 "2005-02-18T19:09:24Z")

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> [@seosamh](#):
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> Note to US Dopers: yes, children over here really can buy homosexual males in sweet shops.

Crikey! Do they deliver?

(And we have Smarties in Canada too, as Detop pointed out – the UK chocolate-drop ones, not the US fizzies. They come in small rectangular boxes.)

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**Author:** ![AlbertHosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AlbertHosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlbertHosteen)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-dopers-they-have-come-for-your-smarties-tubes/290689/43 "2005-02-18T22:46:01Z")

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> This was on Radio 4 this morning. Appparently they feel that Smarties are seen as a toddlers’ sweetie and putting them in a new box will appeal to older children and up.

Ah, but being a typical toddlers’ sweet is what encourages teenagers and grown-ups to but them. Making them just like every other sweet out there will just put them in a larger market where they’ll get lost.

When I was a kid I could read really well from a very young age, but always got my letters round the wrong way. I have strong sense memories of carrying smarties tops around with me so that I could feel the raised surfaces of the letters and be reminded of which way round they should go. So the letter tops were useful, in a way that I’m sure the manufacturers never planned for.

They would be very useful to my daughter, who has the same problem, if they weren’t bloody Nestle ☹

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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-k-dopers-they-have-come-for-your-smarties-tubes/290689/44 "2005-02-18T23:12:21Z")

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Alas, a long-time _Nestle_ boycotter.

They’d be better off changing the name if they wanted to attract a wider audience. I can’t see that going down well though.

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