In time for Halloween...

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I was just reminded on Facebook that there is a confusion about some candy names - in particular, Smarties. I think in the States, Smarties are what we call Rockets in Canada. Our Smarties are more like M&Ms (which we also have - ah, Canada - the land of chocolate.)

Pretty catchy ditty, eh?

When you eat your Smarties,
Do you eat the red ones last?
Do you suck them very slowly?
Or crunch them very fast?
It's a candy-coated chocolate,
So tell me when I ask!
When you eat your Smarties,
Do you eat the red ones last?

Comments

[carriepika.livejournal.com]

Oh my god I haven't heard that jingle in years! I remember that commercial so well!

And now I'm confusing my husband by singing the song. Teehee~ He's not Canadian so he's never heard it before! XD

We have ways of making you sing the Smarties' jingle...

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Hee hee - I always figured, in an espionage film, if you had to test if someone was ~really~ Canadian, you'd ask them the following:
1) What's a loonie?
2) What's a timbit?
3) Sing the Smarties' jingle!

Re: We have ways of making you sing the Smarties' jingle...

[nosyparker.livejournal.com]

I could answer all of those, and I'm American! Grew up on the border. Yay CBC! And nowwww that jingle is back in my head. GREAT.

Re: We have ways of making you sing the Smarties' jingle...

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Great - now I have to revise my espionage screenplay! ;p

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw, did you use to wet the red Smarties and rub them on your lips for "lipstick" when you were little?

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

They have magical marketing properties - that's about it.

Cool video, but I kept expecting her to grab a box of Smarties and paint her lips red! ;p Funny how creepy that can make such a familiar space seem.

[inkytwist.livejournal.com]

OMG CANADIAN SMARTIESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[whoseline_wlsc]

It's a cute little jingle. They do remind me of M&Ms. Do the colors of Canadian Smarties taste different?

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Not to me - but I used to snarf them down pretty quickly!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

If they're like British Smarties, the candy shell tastes sweeter than an M&M, but they all taste alike.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

As a kid, relatives from N. Ireland would bring us huge boxes of wonderful British candies all the time. (OH Crunchies!). Smarties came in a cardboard tube, they were bigger and flatter than M&M's, and did not taste the same. Smarties are more like "pastilles". Objectively tastier, finer candy/chocolate, but not much in common taste-wise with waxy Yank "milk chocolate"(a legal term!) plus all those lovely chemical dyes. USA!

Now I want a Crunchie, badly.

[smelyoko.livejournal.com]

I don't think the different colours represent different flavours, but I personally prefer M&M's d:

[avec-bonheur.livejournal.com]

American Smarties are really Rockets? Like, those little candies that can be crushed into a powder that my elementary friends snorted?

[thesilverlight.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are!! :)

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

Aussie could answer that as well! Same Smarties and same old jingle. Ours were made by Nestle, which I think later amalgamated with Rowntree.

Did you guys have Milky Bars? They had a brilliant old commercial.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

We've got Milky Bars but I can't remember the commercial associated with it. There's a famous old ditty for Turtles that I should search for.

[xcarex.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I am definitely going to have that song stuck in my head all day. :D Good thing we got the huge Hallowe'en box of mini Smarties/KitKat/Coffee Crisp/Aero so I can take some to work. Yeah, that's right, they aren't for Trick or Treaters. They're for me to take a few each day to my regular adult job. And we're on our second box!

ETA: Also, I feel the need to protest the comparison to M&Ms. I think that might confuse people into thinking they're the same when they're totally not. Smarties are bigger and sweeter. M&Ms, while purporting to be Milk Chocolate, taste almost semi-sweet when compared to delicious wonderful Smarties. (I did a school project on the differences when I was a kid, and pitted the two against eachother. Smarties won!)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I've never really eaten a lot of M&Ms (why bother when you have Smarties) - next time I do, I'll pay closer attention to the taste.

I love mini-bars too! I don't know why, but KitKat are the most fun to open!

[jazzybabe56.livejournal.com]

weeLisa? you're Canuck too? YAY!! there are actually more of us out there than we realize....

and I DO eat the red ones last! however nowadays it's become a toss up between the red ones and the blue ones!

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Shhhhhh, don't let the rest of the world know Canadians are secretly taking over! ;p

[roeskva]

We have smarties in Denmark too - M&M's began showing up maybe 10 years ago? The smarties have changed colour last I saw them - they have natural colours now, so no more bright blue smarties :(

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

I love hearing about the "candy situation" in other countries. I'll have to pay attention the the colours of the Smarties here next time I eat them - what a good excuse to buy a Halloween bag and do "research"!