I do not eat smarties (Nestle Smarties)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Nestle Smarties
Date:	14/08/04 (241 review reads)
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Smarties

I was looking in the sweet category for inspiration and discovered Smarties. Now I have not eaten a Smartie for many a year. Why? Partly because I am grown up but mostly because they are made by Nestle.
As a child in the 50’s I was given Smarties as a treat. There were not such a wide variety of sweets available then

When they were originally marketed Rowntrees produced them in 1937.They sold in bags for 2d that’s about 1p. In 1988 they were bought out by nestle.
A small smarties tube costs 30p in tesco’s

. It is possible to by other makes of small coloured sweets similar to Smarties. Glisten a firm in Lancashire makes them as do Solerco in Cheshire. Fair trade also makes a chocolate bean not quite the same, as they do not use the bright colours. There are also m&m’s made by master foods these are very similar sweets.


As a child in the 50’s I was given Smarties as a treat there were not such a wide variety of sweets available then.
So what are Smarties? Smarties are small chocolate disks covered in a crisp coloured sugar coating measuring 8mm across by3.55mm thick

Some nutritional details
Per 100g Smarties contain, amongst other things
Wheat flour
E numbers 171, 104, 124, 110, 122, 133, 120,
16.4g fat
4.1g proteins
73.5g carbohydrates

Have you a favourite colour? Which colour always gets left till last? I seem to remember as a child I ate the orange ones first left the dull brown till last.
There are 8 colours, red, green, and yellow, orange, brown, mauve, pink, blue.

How do you like to eat yours? Do you eat them single savouring each one individually? Or do you cram as many in your mouth as possible? I like to eat mine one at a time letting the coating soften and lose its colour I used to stick my revolting orange coloured tongue out at my parents. (Ugg disgusting child.) I would let it melt slowly in my m
outh and then swallow the melted chocolate.


SMARTIES (coloured chocolate beans) are useful for cake decoration ideal for making faces on a birthday cake, faces can be made on biscuits with them a variety of designs can be made using smartest. Smarties can be used to make trifles or ice cream exciting for children’s parties.

Smarties can be bought in many different packages the small boxes that can be bought in multi-packs make ideal prizes for a goody bag at the end of a party, and larger boxes to share.

There are the small tubes with the coloured lid that has a letter of the alphabet printed on it. I wonder how many of you have collected these letters? I cannot remember the letters when I was tiny but I know when I was training in childcare they were there.

Large tubes of smarties are available at Christmas time As are Smarties Easter eggs at Easter.

There are chocolate bars with Smarties added I remember seeing these in Spain years ago and buying one for Sally, I remember the delight she showed when finding a chocolate bean inside the chocolate. An ice cream is available with added smarties. There is such a huge variety of chocolate products with Smarties in I cannot name them all.

The packaging is bright and attractive I can see why people collect them.
There is a site on the web belonging to a guy called Martin, he has made a collection of smartie bags and tubes.

Although Smarties are attractive to children , great to use in decoration of children party food I will not use and find an alternative. If you wish to know more about my reasons for boycotting Nestle go to www.babymilkaction. And read the info there.
Thanks for reading my opp Best wishes Mary

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