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Submitted by Kelinda S
Tart and chalky, Smarties were a goodie bag staple. (In Canada, they were marketed as Rockets, but were exactly the same candy.) I read that there’s a growing trend of kids smoking Smarties. Kids these days are seriously weird.
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Now? Ha, my brother used to always crush em up and give em out for kids to smoke.
They are called rockets because these are smarties: http://www.blisstree.com/chocolatebytes/files/2008/03/smarties.jpg
Exactly, that’s what I thought too! Smarties (the kind I know from my childhood) are a sort of M&Ms, and they were great fun even before eating them: first you sorted them all by color, and then you closed your eyes and tasted one each from the different color groups, to see if you could determine which color it was and if they tasted differently.
There is a youtube video where some poor American tries to eat a cereal bowl full of American Smarties (nasty!), because he had heard about it on The IT Crowd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_dj2_X9TgA&feature=related
Did you eat the red ones last?
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Orange ones. The orange ones taste best. Definitely orange.
Yes, those in your link are Smarties. Those pictured above are Refreshers:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/01/30/refreshers_sweets.jpg
a kid in my class snorts these things all the time.
I did that once on a dare it burned and that’s about it i really don’t know why we kept doing it. We ended up taking turns snorting it for an hour bad thing about it was that it was in school during a lecture about drug use and the cop doing the lecture gave them to us. I think it started about that fact that when crushed it looked like cocaine or something i am not sure i just didn’t want to chicken out on a dare.
These used to be my favorite trick-or-treat candy. I liked them even better than chocolate, especially because I was too young to realize how cheap they were.
Because expensive things are always necessarily better, right? Right?
I used these in a cheap Halloween costume. Hot glue the packages closed, then loosely sew the packages to a pair of sweat pants. Get it? Smarty-pants! (Eye-rolling was the intended effect)
Haha. /facepalm. Close enough?
Works for me!
i still enjoy these they are the best
Smarties, the new gateway drug!
Hate ‘em.
Those aren’t smarties, those are Rockets! Smarties are candy covered chocolates (Yes, I’m Canadian, why do you ask?)
When you eat your smarties
Do you eat the red ones last?
Do you suck them very slowly
Or crunch them very fast?
Eat that candy-coated chocolate
But tell me when I ask,
When you eat your smarties
Do you eat the red ones last?
I like to switch it up.
I can’t remember which ones I ate last, But I always ate the ugly brown ones first. (Brown’s never been my favourite colour.)
These are great because if you drop them into a carbonated drink they cause it to fizz over. It’s great to drop them in people’s beer at parties!
when i was little me and some friends would play hospital and these were used as medicine pills hahaha
Glad to hear I’m not the only person that did that…
Those are not smarties! There rocket candy’s. Well there American right?
You’re not American? You spell like you are.
I hope you’re joking because there are plenty of non-American English speakers (even those from England) who make lots of typos.
Yeah, and don’t we all know that all Americans are spelling-impaired. *eyeroll*
Although… I will venture to say that the percentage of Americans who are spelling-impaired is probably constantly growing. I hear that some schools accept text-speak on homework now.
Yeah, they’re American.
In the UK, Smarties are also the product in Leoal’s link.
The closest we have to this kind of Smarties is Refreshers.
http://www.sweetieworld.co.uk/retro_sweets/refreshers/
These only come in four flavours – strawberry, orange, lemon, and lime.
The original win looks like a combination of Refreshers and Fizzers
http://www.sweetieworld.co.uk/fizzy_sweets/fizzers/
All this talk about sweets is making me hungry!
you dont smoke ‘em, you grind ‘em up and inhale the powder. which i guess is the same thing. i know people from my middle school days that did that. never liked the candies.
OW OW OW
Yeah I watched someone in 8th grade math mash it up and snort it. His reaction right after was awesome. He grabbed his face and fell out of his chair.
Idiot.
Kinda OT. It was a brief fad where I went to school to attempt to snort an entire Pixy Stix. People usually had the same reaction. One kid would do it continually, saying “It burns” all the while.
Why not just eat the darned things?!?
I once snorted a mixture of a crushed up Smartie, and some sherbet. That hurt, one hell of a lot, and it kinda got stuck!
The Admiral, you can’t ‘just eat them’, cause all the ~cool people in the music magazines snorted coke, and as a kid, you can’t do that. plus, if you snorted enough, the sugar high came pretty quick, so you’d be hyper as hell, almost immediatly.
I just liked the orange and lemon ones, and the white ones, whatever flavor that was supposed to be!
The white ones, I always thought they tasted like ivy smelled. (If that makes any sense- it doesn’t.)
Rockets! Yummy!!
Those are Rockets! Not Smarties. Smarties are the better version of M & M’s
You can smoosh them together on the roof of your mouth. Sugar heaven!
Okay, I don’t remember anyone “smoking Smarties”, but I do remember, in middle school, some kids would snort pixie stix.
That seemed equally dumb…
I’m in high school right now and my friends have, in fact, snorted pixie sticks. Nobody’s smoked Smarties, though…seems like a waste of candy. I think the sour ones are yummy. They may be cheap, but if you eat enough of them, you get a minor sugar high, which is great for getting through boring classes, long bus rides, waiting for your parents to pick you up, etc.
When I was in middle school the “bad kids” would snort pixie stix laced with ritalin.
O_O
i love these! i hear they are coming out with a jumbo version
OH. So that’s what Smarties are in the US.
They’re just rockets.
My most hated halloween candy, after the Oh Henry bars anyway.
Sorry, but I have to vote down any “nostalgic” win that you can still buy at your local grocery store.
From The IT Crowd:
Jen: OK. Moss, what did you have for breakfast this morning?
Moss: Smarties cereal.
Jen: Oh my God. I didn’t even know Smarties made a cereal.
Moss: They don’t. It’s just Smarties in a bowl with milk.
The IT crowd is from England so they would be referring to Nestle Smarties (the chocolates that americans for some reason dont have) not these rockets/fizzers. Which makes more sense cause power candy with milk would be disgusting whereas chocolate would be fine.
Yuck – agreed! Milk chocolate in milk…mmmm…. Sour candy tablets in milk… EW!
I knew these as Rockets too – but I had a friend from Australia laugh at me once because the name means something different there… who knew?
Smarties are my favourite candy of all time, but these aren’t them… yet another Canadian quirk I guess…
So does the US not have what we refer to as Smarties then? The chocolate covered candies (note, these are NOT M&Ms, we have those too)?
M&Ms are really the only candy coated chocolates I can think of in the US. If there are others, they would have to be regional. Besides who needs others when M&Ms are just fine.
I love both Smarties and M&Ms, but they’re slightly different… it depends on my mood which one I’d rather have.
These Are The Best Blast From The Past! I now live thousands of miles away from the source of Smarties candies…which reminds me…I’ve got to add those to my Christmas wish list. I liked (liar, if I had some now, I’d do the same) to eat them in combinations of three (two wasn’t enough, four, too many) there is one combination that is just fab…I think it’s the green, purple and white…
What do you mean “were?” I have a bag sitting in my car right now to take to school tomorrow! Are Dum Dums blasts from the past, too?
I have a bag of Dum Dums at home! They’re all either mango- or mystery-flavored, which I’m not happy about. Dum Dums always make me think of going to the bank, because the tellers always used to send them to kids through the drive-through air tube thing.
I live in Canada where we have a pseudo M&M candy named smarties… so the company making these smarties changed the name.. here in Canada they are called Rockets!
These were DISGUSTING. My mom ALWAYS put them out for kids @ Halloween. They tasted like flour with sour Maalox in it I guess. Bleeeeh.
and this is why I have a hard time eating TUMS – Ew!
My second grade teacher passed out smarties right before we took our MEAP exam (standardized test in MI). She told us it was “brain food”. It was weird, but I didn’t care because I was 7 years old and getting free candy . . .
Aw, man, I remember when I was in grade 6 I convinced a guy I knew to snot a crushed rocket (canadian). He got a nose bleed almost instantly, and was sick from school for 3 days after that, though I don’t know if it was related.
Weird… UK smarties aren’t like this. We have something similar called Refreshers that look the same and are fizzy when you eat them. Our smrties are like M&Ms, chocolate inside a sugar shell. They’re nicer than Ms though, and the orange ones have orange chocolate in them
love smarties! But they still sell them, and I still love eating them!
I’ve seen a generic version of what I know as Smarties (candy coated chocolate) in bulk stores sold as “Chocolate Lentils”.
How’s that for a marketing fail “Hey kids, who wants a lentil?”
n the article cited:
“It was freaky,” says Corinne McGrew, a nurse for Summit School District. “My biggest concern was that they would aspirate the wrapper or a whole Smarties and it would be a choking hazard.”
OMG *rolls eyes up and over the next door neighbor’s fence* how did we all survive childhood without Darwinizing ourselves?
I still love these things…and am glad to know I wasn’t the only one who thought of/played with them as pills. Recently I discovered Giant Smarties. Still in a roll like this, but upscaled to the size of about a half-dollar coin around (who remembers half-dollar/dollar coins?) The big version also has more of the fruity/tart flavor, and less chalkiness, which is good (though closer to SweeTTarts). Those seem to be only available at Cracker Barrel…
Here in the good ol’ USA, these WERE/STILL ARE SMARTIES! For some reason, I didn’t love them back in the day. I also rem using them as meds when playing doctor or the mama giving meds to her sick kids. My first year/first test in college in 1987, the instructer handed out a roll of Smarties to everyone–to make us smarter, of course!
I have a glass jar full of these less than two feet from where I sit…
*ker-NOM*…
*brp* ’scuse me…I have a glass jar 2/3 full of these less than a foot from where I sit…
^,^
Everyone just tried snorting these when I was in school. I was never dumb enough to try that.
Aww, these made me think of my sixth grade social studies teacher. If you got a perfect score on a test, she’d give you a roll of them.
Also makes me think of my brother, who, for the longest time, was unable to pronounce s-consonant combinations. Instead, he substituted the f sound. He begged my mother for “farties” every time we went to the store. Imagine what he did with the word “stuck.”
Hell yeah!! lol, my dad works for the company that makes them. Of course, we hate them in my family, we’re sick of them. XD
So, I wonder how many people here are aware of the existence of Bubblegum Smarties, or Sour Smarties, or Tropical Smarties?
they also had gummy smarties for an unfortunately very short time.
Oh! They were trying to make chocolate smarties not to long ago, I got to taste a prototype. It was disgusting. Tasted really “chaulky.” Think they canceled that one.
I also say that those are not Smarties. Those are Rockets.
Best. Halloween. Candy. EVAR.