Smarties

[puddingcat]

I don't like the new hexagonal cardboard Smarties tubes. You have to tear the entire top off rather than use the intended opening, if you want to empty them all out to eat them in the proper order. That sucks.

Comments

[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

What is the proper order?

Mine is all the blue ones, all the other ones, all the orange ones.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

The pink ones first, so I can pretend they never existed. Then (if there are at lest 3 of each of the others) I'll eat them yellow, red, brown, green, purple, orange until there are the same number of each, then one of each colour in that order til they're all gone.

If there are <3 orange, I'll save them and eat all of each of the other colours at once in the same order.

Brown ones used to be nicer, but the colour's been changed and they don't taste as nice now. The blue ones were the best & I'd save them, always, til after all the others (even the orange).

[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

And does you M&Ms order differ?

M&Ms have to be brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue. I get quite picky about this.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

With M&Ms, the integrity of the M is more important than colour. I eat yellow, then red, green, brown & blue (cos I like blue food), but I'll work my way through the damaged M ones, then go back to the entire-M yellows and start again.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hey, does that mean robinbloke has finally figured out the W bug?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were obsessive-compulsive after this...
Then again, maybe you are but with a very restricted obsession. ;o)

[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

there aren't any blue smarties any more since they went on the no artifical colours thing

[ihavecake.livejournal.com]

Then they are clearly an inferior chocolatey treat and my defection to M&Ms was well justified.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Pah. I remember back when blue smarties were a special thing, introduced for a short time only.

I saved one blue smartie from each pack so I'd still have some when they stopped selling them.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

The colours are all so much more drab than they used to be.
Theres no plastic letter thing in the top to collect.
Bah humbug!

[suzerain.livejournal.com]

I was just about to comment on the lack of lettering on the caps...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I can live with no letters, cos I collected one of each in each colour when I was small. But NoArtificialColours! I rely on artificial colours to keep me awake!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Am I strange for never really having liked Smarties?
IMHO, the chocolate in them is really not very good and the hard, artificially tasting colour shell always put me off, even when I was little and didn't really care where my chocolate came from.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I've gradually come around to the superiority of hexagonal Smarties tubes. I can't recall ever having found an old plastic top with an 'i' (which made it rather hard to spell my name), despite having collected lids for about three years solid at one point. The cardboard flip lids with the catch on the new tubes are a marvel of paper engineering.

The only thing I miss is not being able to thump an empty tube with my fist and pop the plastic top across a room, but the fun and skill went out of that some years before when Nestle changed the structure of the tube so that the bottom of the tube was rolled in with the sides rather than being a separate cardboard disc.

I don't have a preferred order for eating Smarties, though obvious the orange ones should be savoured.