Americans who go on business trips buy them and bring them back as gifts for the office. You can, however purchase them here as well, but for some reason, this is the default “my boss went on a business trip, and was so thoughtful as to bring me back a small token (purchased at the airport)” gift.
Halfway through this thread I was wondering why the Smarties came in tubes across the pond…then someone mentioned they were chocolate.
Smarties in America are a completely different candy! Do your Smarties taste kinda like M & M’s? That’s what they look like.
Yes; our smarties are lenticular milk chocolate drops encased in a brightly-coloured candy shell; the orange-coloured ones taste of chocolate+orange, the rest just taste of chocolate. They are like M&Ms really only in concept, because the chocolate inside them is quite different in flavour/texture.
As I understand it, American ‘Smarties’ are little fizzy disc-shaped things, something like our Love Hearts or Refreshers.
Fucking dead right.
Jaade, they’re not far off chocolate M&Ms, but a bit bigger. And tastier. They don’t do peanut ones either. However, they do do Giant Smarties, which are awesome.
They’re very similar to M&Ms, but the chocolate is different (IMHO the British version has better chocolate.) also they don’t have anything printed on them.
There is not a british rapper called “Smartie” either.
How long did that take? (BTW I am getting a “Mr Creosote” mental picture here!)
Over the course of a few days, generally for pudding.
And for the record, i’m about 12.5 stone, rather than the size of a Wooly Mammoth.
Heh… the big Toblerones are sometimes seen in the shops on the lead-up to Valentine’s day, complete with a cardboard sleeve that replaces the word •T•O•B•L•E•R•O•N•E• with •T•O••M•Y••L•O•V•E•
On reading your post, I was visualising one with a carboard sleeve that said •F•U•C•K••O•F•F•. I’m sure it would sell quite well.
Swearing chocolate! I’d be in for that even more.
Or something like TOMYFUCK
My kids swear with alphabetti spaghetti. (and so do I)
Our Smarties are little disc shaped candies…they aren’t very fizzy but they do leave a little tingly sensation on your tongue. They are similar in flavor to sweettarts, only the tastes aren’t as extreme. They are kinda…chalky, for lack of a better term, but very good! I categorize them with the sweettarts and pez.
They appear to be like Love Hearts then.
Mangetout, Lenticular? They change image depending on the angle you look at them?
If your Love Heartsd are like the imprinted heart-shaped candies made by Necco (The New England Confectionary Company, if anyone cares), then, no. Our Candy Hearts are like heart-shaped Necco wafers. American Smaties have a very different taste and texture.
I think we’re gonna need a Straight Dope Candy Exchange to properly settle this.
It sounds like their smarties are like our flying saucers - but much smaller.
=shaped like a biconvex lens.
That is a cute idea! I like it.
Sixlets would HAVE to be included in any such exchange, of course.
Very much like an Episode of* One Foot In The Grave* when someone sent poor Victor a Thorntons’ Easter egg with an obscene message engraved on it .
Yes, this is just wrong. I used to get the cylinders at Xmas, sent in wonderful brown paper parcels (actually done up with string and red wax) from my Granny in Scotland. Ooh–I remember once (circa 1968), I got a huge chocolate easter egg, with a little “bubble car” dinky or matchbox inside.
Here in Canada, a part of my childhood died when they brought out the new “Glossettes” (raisins or peanuts covered in chocolate) box–without a cellophane window! Not only did the mean you could no longer check your level of rabbit-dropping-like candy remaining, but worst of all, the new box couldn’t be played like a kazoo in movie theatres. (IIRC, the “Bridge Mixture” candy used to have the same harmonic feature).
And what about the good old popcorn folded boxes? Once finished with the starchy goodness, you could re-flatten these and send them in a graceful, if somewhat dangerous arc, up through the projector beam, with the added bonus of possibly crowning someone on re-entry.
And strafing the forward rows with those multi-coloued candy-coated liquorice bits…
We knew how to have fun in those days, I tell thee!
Yes - what did happen to Spangles?!
As for the large Toblerones…
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my name is glee and I’m a chocoholic :eek:
I think that Woolworths relaunched Spangles a couple of years ago . They didn’t sell very well and so disappeared for a second time.