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[Don Draper's Hat]

Why do the orange Smarties get their own distinct flavour when every other colour tastes the same as each other?

What's so special about those little orange fucks?

These Smarties:

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Do different colour smarties taste differently?

 

[blame space]

We're going to have to establish which smarties we're talking about

 

[Abstruse Moose]

You mean Rockets.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

Do different colour smarties taste differently?

Orange ones tastes like orange chocolate. The rest all taste just like chocolate.

 

[blame space]

🤔 chocolate

 

[GalacticToast]

theirs is more of an emotional intelligence

 

[ascii42]

Orange ones tastes like orange chocolate. The rest all taste just like chocolate.

So UK Smarties, not US Smarties. For those not familiar, M&M's are based on UK Smarties.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

You mean Rockets.

What? No. Smarties.

So UK Smarties, not US Smarties.

UK, yeah. Do American ones all have individual flavours?

 

[Abstruse Moose]

What? No. Smarties.

My apologies. I find they all taste the same.

 

[Dishwalla]

I always thought Smarties tasted like chalk.

 

[Pinko Marx]

What? No. Smarties.

UK, yeah. Do American ones all have individual flavours?

They just taste like chalk.

 

[ascii42]

UK, yeah. Do American ones all have individual flavours?

American Smarties are a completely different candy, like those Rockets posted above

 

[Poppy]

is this like a green m&m thing

 

[plagiarize]

Two drops of orange oil instead of one. That's what I remember being told.

 

[Wag]

Necco Wafers are better.

 

[Ridli]

UK, yeah. Do American ones all have individual flavours?

US Smarties are a traditional Halloween disappointment. They all taste equally bland.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

I'm talking about the real Smarties here, guys, the chocolate. Not jumped up Parma fucking Violets.

 

[yanipheonu]

Pretty sure all the (chocolate) smarties have the same flavour. Maybe you get a slight difference in the kind of food colouring used?

 

[PJV3]

Necco Wafers are better.

Is that like sherbet flying saucers?

 

[moggio]

Only Smarties have the answer to that question OP.

So UK Smarties, not US Smarties. For those not familiar, M&M's are based on UK Smarties.

Yes, but they're not quite the same (they're worse).

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

Only Smarties have the answer to that question OP.

This is all I wanted to hear in all honesty.

 

[mollipen]

US Smarties are a traditional Halloween disappointment. They all taste equally bland.

This is one of the worst opinions ever posted on this forum.

 

[Claude Kenni]

You mean Rockets.

Are you from one of those parallel universes?

 

[Wag]

Is that like sherbet flying saucers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necco_Wafers

Necco Wafers have been around since the mid 19th century. It's a Boston area thing, although you can find them all over.

 

[moggio]

American Smarties are a completely different candy, like those Rockets posted above

They look like Fizzers:

Except Fizzers are nice and fizzy.

Why are American sweets so bad?

 

[Plaguefox]

.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

TIL: America has its own inferior smarties

The US candy situation really is dire

Orange ones tastes like orange chocolate. The rest all taste just like chocolate.

So I guess that answers OP's question then

 

[DOWN]

US Smarties are best

Also are M&Ms or U.K. Smarties better? Which came first?

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

TIL: America has its own inferior smarties

The US candy situation really is dire



So I guess that answers OP's question then

No. I want to know why. What's so special about the orange ones? Why don't the green ones taste like mint? Red like strawberry? Purple like purple (purple's a fruit)?

 

[PJV3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necco_Wafers

Necco Wafers have been around since the mid 19th century. It's a Boston area thing, although you can find them all over.

A slight disappointment, a tube of flying saucers sounded really cool.

 

[Dishwalla]

TIL: America has its own inferior smarties

The US candy situation really is dire.

Why do we need these chocolate Smarties when we have the much more popular M&Ms?

 

[Earthbound64]

Purple like purple (purple's a fruit)?

The word that you're looking for is "grape."

 

[Pinko Marx]

This is one of the worst opinions ever posted on this forum.

US Smarties are kind of trash. As a kid they were acceptable, but now I'm an adult who can buy his own candies so I don't need to settle for halfway edible.

 

[moggio]

Why do we need these chocolate Smarties when we have the much more popular M&Ms?

Because M&Ms are an inferior knock off.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

The word that you're looking for is "grape."

Sorry.

Purple's a grape.

 

[Dishwalla]

Because M&Ms are an inferior knock off.

lol okay

 

[moggio]

lol okay

Seriously. The American sweet situation is dire.

Bet you don't even have Dip Dabs.

Fizzy cola bottles?

Foam shrimps?

Refreshers?

 

[emag]

TIL: America has its own inferior smarties

The US candy situation really is dire

UK Smarties are disgusting. US Smarties are bland, but no one actually buys them to eat.

 

[cyberheater]

Because M&Ms are an inferior knock off.

Peanut M&M's are awesome.

 

[moggio]

Peanut M&M's are awesome.

Yes, peanut ones are alright.

 

[Jackpot]

The word that you're looking for is "grape."

Only in poor America. UK gets superior blackcurrant.

Why do we need these chocolate Smarties when we have the much more popular M&Ms?

Both the chocolate and the shell of M&Ms are considerably lower in quality, though you do get a lot more of them.

 

[Elandyll]

It's funny in spite of having been in the US for over a decade I never realized that here the "smarties" are the shit chalk type.

I am used to the Nestle M&Ms (chocolate covered with a colored sugar layer) - kind, and I never even realized back then that different colors had different flavors for Smarties.

It seems that the orange one is the last one to have retained one (orange, in the coating), but apparently there used to be a light brown Smartie with coffee flavor.

 

[LakeEarth]

No. I want to know why. What's so special about the orange ones? Why don't the green ones taste like mint? Red like strawberry? Purple like purple (purple's a fruit)?

Can someone confirm that the orange ones have an orange flavor to them? I've eaten Smarties all my life and have never noticed.

 

[Summer Haze]

They're the only ones that taste like anything other than

Spoiler

sugar

chocolate.

 

[Stinkles]

Only smarties have the answer.

 

[moggio]

Only in poor America. UK gets superior blackcurrant.

Imagine living in a country without ever tasting Ribena or blackcurrant anything for that matter.

Awful.

 

[LQX]

You mean Rockets.

Aww the memories. We use to pretend these were drugs when I was a kid.

 

[PJV3]

UK Smarties are disgusting. US Smarties are bland, but no one actually buys them to eat.

I would prefer Jazzies to smarties, but they're not that bad.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Can someone confirm that the orange ones have an orange flavor to them? I've eaten Smarties all my life and have never noticed.

They are, yes. Always have been, as far as I remember. No idea why.

Smarties date back to 1882, incidentally, and predate M&Ms by almost 60 years. They also taste better.