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.

[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!

[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.