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.

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[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.