BS: When you eat your smarties....

Subject: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 12:43 AM

...do you eat the red ones last?

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 02:38 AM

I don't eat them....but my hero Moss likes to eat them with milk....he makes his own Smarties Cereal.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:11 AM

I eat all the ones I least like first and leave the orange ones to last because they are the only ones that are flavoured. When I was young I would pick out all the orange ones and give them to someone special, oh the innocence of being 10!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 05:19 AM

What lies behind this sinister question? I suspect some sort of deep-seated totalitarian political motive...

~Michael~ Glancing back cautiously over shoulder ;-}

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 08:29 AM

The blue ones I avoid at all costs.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 08:49 AM

"When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?"


When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?
Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast?
They are candy-coated chocolate, so tell me when I ask,
When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?

Little Hawk poses a very important question in a philosophical manner. After considering the initial thread question, it seems we are left with any number of avenues to explore. For example, 'when': does it mean in the general sense of whenever or does it mean 'as'.

Is it fair to respond to this thread if one eats only fair-trade chocolate and thus has had no direct experience with Smarties for many many years?

IS the coating on Smarties actually candy or simply a sugar coating, thus begging the question, "Is sugar candy?"


"The Smartie making process starts with the melted chocolate.
The melted chocolate is poured between a pair of very cold metal roller moulds. As the two rollers come together, they form a sheet of chocolate beans joined together with a thin chocolate web. This chocolate bean sheet is moved along a conveyor belt to cool and harden.

Once cooled the unwanted chocolate around the edge of the bean is removed, in a de-webbing drum. The excess chocolate that is taken off is melted down and used again.

The resulting beans are then passed through another rotating drum. This is a smoothing drum, and removes the rough edges from the beans.
The beans are then placed in large rotating drums and their coating is sprayed on. The first coat is the soft coat, (a mixture of flour, starch and syrup) and is built up gradually. The second hard coat of syrup is then built up in the same way. Finally the colour and wax are added."

One might opine that the use of mechanization in the manufacturing process deprives many millions of jobs, for if they were hand-made the spin-off benefits to the economy could be enormous.

Why have the manufacturers of Smarties never directly tried to attract customers from the "I use a slingshot and why does the Smarties company not care about getting MY trade?" I heard three kids talking about that just the other day!

Should this short film be shown at Cannes? I ask you . . .

Another thought-provoking thread from my buddy, Little Hawk. Many thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 09:17 AM

Smarties and the music connection . . .

The thought pli/ the plot thickens . . .

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Becca72
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:07 AM

The Smarties around here don't have chocolate...

Smarties


I don't care for them, myself. As a child I only liked the orange ones - they taste like baby aspirin.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:28 AM

I don't believe they ever had chocolate. They're fruit-oriented. I can feel my mouth watering at the memory of the tart flavor of these little disks.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:14 AM

Nasty gritty things, never liked them!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:47 AM

999 - Brilliant post! My good man, why are you not serving on government committees at the highest level? You have missed your calling. Phone Steve Harper at once and inform him that you are ready to start for a modest 6 figures a year.

Funnily enough, when I used to eat Smarties...loved them when I was a kid...I DID eat the red ones last!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:51 AM

I like to eat my sweeties.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:54 AM

There are two distinctly different candies sold under the name "Smarties". One is chocolate confectionery made by Nestlé. The other is a tart citrus flavored sugar confectionery made by Ce De Candy.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: olddude
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 12:18 PM

I never met candy I didn't like I love smarties, I tend to put a handful in my mouth at once ...

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 12:23 PM

I would always just eat them as they emerged, with no sort of colour prejudice at all.

I also found them particularly well adapted for the kiddy party trick I perfected, of tossing one up in the air & catching it in my mouth as it fell back floorwards!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 12:28 PM

"I like to eat my sweeties." Bad John, Bad John...

(You beat me enroute to the gutter; I was gonna say, "Be nice, eat your honey".)

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 01:30 PM

" Phone Steve Harper at once and inform him that you are ready to start for a modest 6 figures a year. "

I'm workin' on it, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 01:39 PM

9! Yer on FIRE bud! Heheheheee.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 01:41 PM

Now Little Hawk, what do you think is the significance of the last colour to be eaten? Is there (as other posters have wondered) a psychological inference in all this? Red last....hmmmm....!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:38 PM

Always used the red ones for "lipstick", and yes, they were saved until last.
Used to like to suck through the coating then use fingernails to split them open like clams, and the chocolate's all warm and melty inside, and lick it out with tongue-tip then crunch up the shell....
Gonna have to get some...

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:44 PM

999,PHEW!
I, myself, personally am with Olddude. I simply pour out a handful and gobble 'em up.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:51 PM

No! No! You have to savour them slowly...one at a time...gradually working toward the ultimate orgasmic experience of softly crunching the thinning shell of the first RED Smartie!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:55 PM

NO no no LH. It's Wham Bam etc for me. I agree about the crunching, mind you.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 04:54 PM

Smarties, fer Chrissake! Why don't we have threads like this about whisky? Or Cuban cigars?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 05:03 PM

I avoid Smarties (Nestles) but eat Reese's Pieces (Hershey)- sweetened peanut butter with a colored shell.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Greg B
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 07:07 PM

Well, there's a blast from the past. My Grandma used to bring home Smarties for me whenever she'd visit home (England) or Canada. I thought of them as giant M&M's, sans the logo. I'd never quite realized that they'd the same name as my favorite US cheap haloween candy, sort of a cheap version of "Sweet-Tarts."

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 07:36 PM

I don't 'think' I have ever eaten one.... is that why I have remained smart?

(There used to be a rumor in MY group that green M&Ms were aphrodisiacs. I couldn't tell the difference)

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: gnu
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 08:38 PM

Remember this thread? It was great fun at the time.

Subject: RE: Eminem Rules
From: gnu - PM
Date: 10 May 01 - 02:51 PM

I prefer Smarties. But then, I'm a Canuck. Haven't had any in over thirty years, but I remember that the empty box could be used like a Kazoo (sp ?).

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:12 PM

I used to eat the red ones first, because the dye would come off and my hand would turn red if I didn't.

Bill D - many years ago one of the senior male students at the school where I was working told us ("us" being the library staff, all women) that he was trying to convince his girlfriend that green M&Ms would make her horny......and she believed him. Ah, the folly of youth.

And slight thread drift, a question for Little Hawk: is Stephen Harper's hair real, or is it plastic? Inquiring minds want to know.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 11:19 PM

Its is a specially constructed kevlar helmet. With his budget cuts he can't afford a security detail to watch the back of his head.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 01:25 AM

That would explain the plastic look! I thought for sure it was something he found in a packet of breakfast cereal.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 04:52 AM

It is de rigueur to eat the red ones last.

I thought that was common knowledge!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 07:19 AM

My wife claims that all mathematics can be taught with the aid of smarties.

She keeps threatening to write a text book about it!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 08:22 AM

When I was a child (like many others I suspect) popped the top off (saving it for later or course) and then tipped as many as I could cram into my mouth. My mother would only accept the orange ones when I offered her Smarties as she said they tasted of orange - I never believed her. Imagine my surprise that in my 30s I found out the orange ones did indeed taste of orange.

These days I no longer tip them wholesale into my mouth and always ensure the orange ones are eaten seperately so I savour the flavour.

IIRC (and according to wikipedia) brown smarties were originally coffee flavoured (YUK!!!!)

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 08:45 AM

Apart from the brown ones originally flavoured coffee and I can understand why they disappeared but I wonder why the orange ones were always the only ones ever flavoured. My guess is that they thought orange goes better with chocolate which is why we have Terry's chocolate orange today.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Musket
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 11:06 AM

Being an expert on the subject, I can state that British and American Smarties taste different to each other, but that both are worthy of cramming as many in your mouth at one time as you possibly can to prevent having to share them.

Addiction gets you like that... Same with Revels in my case.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 11:33 AM

In America, we have candies called M & M's which come in different colors but all taste the same. They have a candy coating over chocolate.

Since the late 1960's, I have been asking people if, as kids, they ate M &M's in any special order. (It's just small talk. People love to talk about themselves.) There are people who eat the ugly brown and tan M&M's first and save the pretty red or green ones for "dessert." There are other people who eat the pretty ones first.

Only once or twice has anybody said that they paid no attention and ate them in any order.

Several years ago they added blue M&M's. Ghastly!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Musket
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 11:48 AM

We have M & Ms here, although I reckon that when I was a kid, they were called something else?

A bit tangy though and not as addictive as smarties!

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 12:10 PM

"... is Stephen Harper's hair real, or is it plastic? Inquiring minds want to know."

All joking aside, his hair is real. It's his head that is plastic.

Ya know, an emmpty Smarties box makes a decent kazoo.

M&Ms are a Smarties knockoff that melt in yer mouth and not in yer hand.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 12:18 PM

Stephen Harper's hair is real. It's his heart that is in question.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: gnu
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 01:06 PM

Date: 10 Nov 11 - 12:10 PM was me... tossed my cookie.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Les from Hull
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 01:37 PM

I try to avoid the products of the Nestle Company. It was a great shame that they took over Rowntree's, a firm developed by really decent people.

Read about baby milk.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 02:24 PM

I eat all the ones I least like first

Now that's called "deferred gratification", and it seems the obvious way to do it, for Smarties or just about anything.   But for some people it's quite the other way round - they start with the favourite and work down, and quite likely leave the stuff they like least.

Is it generational?

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Penny S.
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 06:42 PM

Before Nestle, and before the colours all changed, I would line them all up so that I could find how many complete sets of the colours I had, and start by eating the odd ones that weren't in a set. Then I would eat each set before starting the next set. I can't remember if I ordered the colours at all. I did like the subtle colour pairs - th4e two browns, and the mauve and pink.

I use the same method with any assortment I am given.

We used red liquorice comfits for lipstick as the shape was better.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 11:33 PM

Deferred gratification is the way to go. It helps build up anticipation, and it saves the best for last, and that's the perfect way to end any story. They who hasten have missed the keener delights of knowing how to wait...

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 11:48 PM

My late mother-in-law's great friend was resolutely opposed to deferred gratification. "Eat up all the nice stuff first," he would say cheerfully, "or, who knows!, you might not live to enjoy it!"

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 12:06 AM

Well, each to his own. ;-) That's exactly the attitude any dog would take. I know. I've owned a number of dogs, and they do NOT believe in deferred gratification, but it's not because they think they might not live to enjoy it. They live entirely in the moment.

And yet, I have noticed this: If you delay their receiving a treat, they appreciate it all the more when they finally get it. It actually tastes better, because they had to wait.

This principle is explained in a number of Taoist parables. One is about a delicious bowl of soup...made all the more delicious because the hungry warrior who is waiting to eat it has to wait a looooong time! When he finally gets it from the Taoist master, he is astounded at how good it is. He asks the master what the secret ingredient is in the soup. The master smiles and replies, "The secret ingredient was time".

The warrior learns to wait, to calm and discipline the mind, and to more fully appreciate things when he tastes them.

This is one of the reasons why traditional courtship, once a lengthy process requiring much self-discipline, did a great deal to strengthen and deepen intimate relationships between men and women.

That which is ephemeral lacks depth. That which is attained too easily loses value (and respect) in the mind of he or she who attains it.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 03:09 AM

My mother always tried to stop me eating red coloured sweets she was under the impression that the red dye caused a reaction in children. Even now I tend to steer away from anything coloured red or pink which was a shame because up until then I loved the pink strawberry flavoured Opalfruits and red Fruit Pastilles. Plus the fact that I associate red with cochineal (beetle blood) yuck.

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: GUEST,Dazbo at work
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 08:44 AM

M&Ms are a poor substitute for Smarties. for a while you used to be able to get the orange ones in a box of their own.

Which M&M colour was dropped in the early 80s as the colour was supposd to give you cancer?

Subject: RE: BS: When you eat your smarties....
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 11 - 09:45 AM

Xmas Smarties are on sale at The Bulk Barn this week. HALF of them are red. Time to stock up.