I have a question about smarties

[angelaa73]

The little South African deli next door has them. I bought a box, they suck except for the orange ones. Al the colors tastebthe same (gross) except orange. Do I have a bad box or are the orange the only flavored ones?

Does this even make sense Hahahah

[Moe]

There's so much awesome in this post.

[sonrisa]

The orange ones are the best, but they don't age well. Those might be stale.

[underwaterrhymes]

Smarties in the US suck overall.

International smarties are chocolate and therefore better.

[iamgrace]

Are we talking American or Canadian smarties?

[sonrisa]

Jul 10, 2013 14:34:52 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Smarties in the US suck overall.

International smarties are chocolate and therefore better.

I'm pretty sure she's talking about the chocolate ones. Right, angela?

[underwaterrhymes]

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[angelaa73]

Chocolate. I think these are old!

[underwaterrhymes]

Jul 10, 2013 14:36:25 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

Jul 10, 2013 14:34:52 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Smarties in the US suck overall.

International smarties are chocolate and therefore better.

I'm pretty sure she's talking about the chocolate ones. Right, angela?

I think so too given that it's a South African deli.

The US ones are worthless. I feel very passionately about this.

[angelaa73]

Expires 9.2013

Ugh! I bet these have been on the shelf for a year. Candy lasts forever, right!?!?

[So_Fetch]

CHOCOLATE SMARTIES?! I feel deprived!! I've never seen these before. the other smarties all kind of taste like pine-sol smells.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 10, 2013 14:38:00 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Jul 10, 2013 14:36:25 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I'm pretty sure she's talking about the chocolate ones. Right, angela?

I think so too given that it's a South African deli.

The US ones are worthless. I feel very passionately about this.

I used to feel fucking disrespected when someone would give me Smarties.

[bania]

I've never noticed the colors having different flavours. They are all yummy. (I'm talking about the chocolate ones)

[Deleted]

The orange ones taste like baby aspirin.

ETA well shit I was talking about the gross American smarties

[iamgrace]

Well, do they not still taste like chocolate? The candy coating doesn't really have a taste other than "sweet".

[tdk2]

Hmmm, I never noticed the diff colors having diff flavors. They're not quite the same as m&ms but that's always been about the closest I can describe.

I assume Aussie ones are the same as S. African/Can/UK?

[McGavin]

Jul 10, 2013 14:48:50 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

Well, do they not still taste like chocolate? The candy coating doesn't really have a taste other than "sweet".

No, they don't. I got some for potty training dd1 and they just taste like cardboard. I don't remember them being so bad.

[angelaa73]

Yes, they taste like chocolate but the shell is fucking it up! Except orange, which tastes like those orange chocolate slices. Those balls you whack really hard to separate. Break apart orange ball yum yum get em at cost plus??

:nancy Kerrigan whhyyyyyyyy:

[angelaa73]

I can hear you laughing from here moe!

[sonrisa]

The orange coating does taste best.

[purplelemon]

All chocolate, aka real, smarties taste the same.

[littlesthobo]

Yeah, the coating has no flavour. Counterfeit smarties!

[angelaa73]

:buzzer:

The uk ones that are orange are orange flavored, eh excuse me, orange flavoured!

Thank you google. And booby shut up

[angelaa73]

The Canadians are being ripped off!

[snickers]

All of my smarties have always tasted the same, just like M&M's. Orange flavor sounds delish.

[littlesthobo]

Jul 10, 2013 15:06:50 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

:buzzer:

The uk ones that are orange are orange flavored, eh excuse me, orange flavoured!

Thank you google. And booby shut up

I thought this was a picture of the flavours, and I was like, holy fuck, I think orange flavoring is the LEAST of what's wrong here.

[sonrisa]

No, no, no. This was a point of contention among the 6 year old set. The orange definitely tastes best. THe difference is subtle but it matters.

I'm noticing some who disagree also like the flavor of cool whip ;-)

[tdk2]

Jul 10, 2013 15:13:04 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

No, no, no. This was a point of contention among the 6 year old set. The orange definitely tastes best. THe difference is subtle but it matters.

I'm noticing some who disagree also like the flavor of cool whip ;-)

huh. 

I'll have to try them again when I'm there.  I've never noticed a difference, but I don't eat them very often.
Honestly, I really only have them when people decorate a bday cake with them, so I think most flavors are masked by icing then.

[tdk2]

(I ration my extra delicious calorie intake to awesome cadbury ice cream and mango ice cream popsicles lol) I've tried most of the various candies/lollies/choccies, but over many years and haven't found any I'm fanatical about except some of the cadbury. Oh, and I love violet crumble!! (seafoam, essentially)

[pedanticwench]

I've never understood chocolate smarties. Just eat M&Ms.