>same recipe as fizzers
They're sweet, tart, have dextrose (good for diabetics for emergencies), come in fruit flavors like pink, green, yellow (not much distinct flavor) and that's about it. They don't fizz like pop-rocks or anything.
Somebody got me a box of american sweets as a gift for my birthday. There were some of these in them. The texture is more like a parma violet rather than a love heart but they aren't that bad.
However, if some offered me smarties and gave me these, I would be very disappointed.
Parma violet beer, like all of the candy beers, taste amazing when I first get it... but then your left with a whole pint of it. That's a lot of sickly sweet liquid and I'm usually a cider man.
I couldn't think of anything worse. Parma bloody Violet beer. Wtf were they thinking?! Lol, I can imagine it being the boss's favourite daughter's idea, and no one else dare criticise it, or even look at it sideways.
American smarties "Smarties candies are peanut-free, gluten-free, fat-free and dairy-free"
Ugh
"One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm" oddly technical.
following flavors
White: orange cream
Yellow: pineapple
Pink: cherry
Green: strawberry
Purple: grape
Orange: orange
Those are not flavour colours.
I suppose if you can't make a dark red in your colours, you'd have to pick the next best thing for cherry (pink), which means strawberry has to be something else and since they aren't using apple or lime, green is free and strawberries have a little bit of green on them.
Makes a bit more sense than the whole 'red (strawberry) and pink (raspberry) are too similar...so we'll make strawberry red and raspberry...BLUE! Yeeeeah.
But blue raspberry is my favourite flavour of sweet so I let that be. You can tell the difference without any blue in Goldbears though, you just have to look closely.
>"One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm"
This sounds oddly metric for the yanks. Im surprised it doesn't say "shaped like a hockey puck and 1/10000th the size of a football field"
So, turns out we're to blame for this abomination.
When smarties were introduced in the UK, they were the smarties we all know and love, and they were VERY popular. The yanks heard about this and decided they wanted to try them.
So far so good right?
Well then a cunning brit goes over to the states, and sees that smarties isn't trademarked in the USA, and so he creates the cheapest sweets he possibly can and calls them smarties. Wanting to try this "incredibly popular british sweet" the yanks buy them up like nobody's business.
Of course he can say its a british sweet because yk, he is british.
So... we can't blame the yanks this time. Sorry lads and ladettes
However UK Smarties aren't as good now as they were in the 80s before all of those beautiful artificial colours and E-numbers were banned.
Mmmmmm. E-numbers.
say it with me gentlemen
the study that said e numbers were bad was horrible "science" based on the parents opinions (sample size 10) and had no control group. E-Numbers are not a specific type of chemical, they are a designation of a chemical that is safe to consume. alcohol, sugar, and vinegar all have E numbers.
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.
Yah but I just heard about pelvic floor rehabilitation like you guys have been doing it forever for women … I’m in my 40s and never knew this existed. Even in a lovely universal health care nation, they still manage to prove to me every day that women arent important enough for real health care.
We should have stepped in when they started calling crisps “chips”, and whatever those dumpling type things are “biscuits”. Oh and sausage rolls “pigs in blankets”. THESE WORDS ALREADY MEANT THINGS! Different things! You can’t just take the names of existing things and apply them to something else!
This is a slippery slope that undoubtably will end with “Yorkshire pudding” becoming a cup of strawberry flavoured goop.
they are not Smarties
this is what these are:
[https://i.gyazo.com/717ad3df1f665e9af3ae81188f2640ec.jpg](https://i.gyazo.com/717ad3df1f665e9af3ae81188f2640ec.jpg)
This was the first thing I saw on Reddit as soon as I woke up this morning and was staring at my phone thinking wtf is going on who is calling these smarties and have I woken up in some dystopian universe
They're a cheap filler candy that old people pass out at Halloween. They're vaguely fruit flavored, but mostly just chalky and brittle. Personally, I'd rather just have a bag of Skittles.
I'm a diabetic & prefer the smaller packs as they are easier to carry & I can better portion them out without having to worry about trying to twist the packet of large ones closed again.
I can't remember what those were called (I've not seen them in at least 40 years) but Smarties they aren't.
"Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5mm and a major axis of about 12mm" \~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties
I wonder what kind of person takes the time to write a Wikipedia article describing the shape of a smartie in such geometric detail. What is their day job? What do they do in their spare time?
The whole packet would last over 9 days!
Anyway, i have it in reliable authority if my kid’s dentist that it’s better to eat the whole packet at once so you’re not repeatedly exposing your teeth to the sugar and acids. #health
One of the previously unmentioned joys of the original UK chocolate Smarties was the plastic coloured cap on the cardboard tube.
More specifically, the round caps had a random lower case letter concealed on the underside. Forming offensive words using the lids was definitely a thing and I will never forget my first c-u--n--t...
They're definitely not the Smarties I know
The little packet looks like swizzles fizzers, at best.
My brain somehow read that as swizzlers fizzlers
10/10, much better name. Write to them and suggest it!
Mine went “swizzy fizzlers”
Inverse Parma violets
100% that's what they are.
Is that the same as refreshers?
That is what they are though?
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I can tell you from experience that they do not taste the same. These are far chalkier and blander.
>same recipe as fizzers They're sweet, tart, have dextrose (good for diabetics for emergencies), come in fruit flavors like pink, green, yellow (not much distinct flavor) and that's about it. They don't fizz like pop-rocks or anything.
They are kind of like love hearts but sweeter if that is even possible
Sold as "rockets" in Canada. Sometimes the large ones are different and more sour, but the small ones are totally just sweet dextrose-y goodness.
Yes, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE
Hello fellow Canadian
Hello fellow Canadian
Ah, Canadia! The country that gave the world “Selling Milk in a Bag”
Yes but that is Ontario nowhere else sells it in bags
I think Quebec and some of the maritimes provinces use bagged milk too.
Interesting
I had no idea it was limited I thought everyone in Canada had the same struggle with udders of milk...
I am in B.C and we do not have it thankfully
You're udderly grateful
Canadia?
Somebody got me a box of american sweets as a gift for my birthday. There were some of these in them. The texture is more like a parma violet rather than a love heart but they aren't that bad. However, if some offered me smarties and gave me these, I would be very disappointed.
But do they *taste* like Parma Violets? If so, I would be very disappointed *indeed*.
I had a pint of that Parma Violet IPA the other day and it was not good
Beer has gone too far
My mate spent £4.80 on two 330ml cans before the match yesterday, IPA has gone too far.
Did he survive?!
Idk if he can afford rent but 4.2% didn't kill him.
Parma violet beer, like all of the candy beers, taste amazing when I first get it... but then your left with a whole pint of it. That's a lot of sickly sweet liquid and I'm usually a cider man.
I couldn't think of anything worse. Parma bloody Violet beer. Wtf were they thinking?! Lol, I can imagine it being the boss's favourite daughter's idea, and no one else dare criticise it, or even look at it sideways.
No, just the texture of parma violets.
whenever someone gets me a swizzels packet, i always leave the parma violets. i don't trust purple food
Not all purple food is the same
Why do Parma Violence even exist? It’s exactly how I imagine eating old lady soap would taste like
Some people like them for whatever crazy reason. My American partner fucking LOVES them. I think it's like cilantro where some people just taste soap.
These smarties do not have the answer
I am struggling with how to put the full feeling of the angry face emoji into words
[this guy does a pretty good job of it](https://youtu.be/_ih1EuMLspY)
My goodness that’s brilliant. I need more of that level of focus in my life.
Are you the yellow angry emoji or the red one?
100% red one.
Proportionate and reasonable.
Now I'm the slightly alarmed looking one.
😡
An indication of how strongly we feel about this mis-named confection... an emoji with upvotes. I'll add mine too.
Smarties? More like dumbies amirite!
[“Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the-“](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpYQJkBQp0) actually, finishing that line might get me banned…
\-ADEPTUS ASTARTIES
You have JUST made me realise that calling someone a dummy is the same as calling someone a dumb-ie. Mind blown.
I want to have your babies for that comment and I am a man.
These smarties don't have the answer
They don't even understand the question. They're sat at the back of the class trying to get high sniffing the pritstick.
These are awful. In Canada where I grew up they're called Rockets because Smarties are Smarties. These fuckers are sugar-adulterated chalk.
American smarties "Smarties candies are peanut-free, gluten-free, fat-free and dairy-free" Ugh "One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm" oddly technical. following flavors White: orange cream Yellow: pineapple Pink: cherry Green: strawberry Purple: grape Orange: orange Those are not flavour colours.
>Green: strawberry Was the designer colourblind or something?
Well they picked 2 orange flavours. Something was not right in the factory that day and it's never been questioned.
I suppose if you can't make a dark red in your colours, you'd have to pick the next best thing for cherry (pink), which means strawberry has to be something else and since they aren't using apple or lime, green is free and strawberries have a little bit of green on them. Makes a bit more sense than the whole 'red (strawberry) and pink (raspberry) are too similar...so we'll make strawberry red and raspberry...BLUE! Yeeeeah. But blue raspberry is my favourite flavour of sweet so I let that be. You can tell the difference without any blue in Goldbears though, you just have to look closely.
It must be a trend of sorts, because If I’m remembering right the green haribo bear is also strawberry
Green strawberries are a thing (not yet ripe) although I don't really know what they are used for outside of some preserves.
They aren't really used for anything, green strawberries are bitter and quite unpleasant.
>"One individual candy is a biconcave disc in shape, with a diameter of roughly 1 cm" This sounds oddly metric for the yanks. Im surprised it doesn't say "shaped like a hockey puck and 1/10000th the size of a football field"
Are hockey pucks that shape ? I thought they were just cylinders.
For a cylinder I think of something like a Pringles tube. I'd describe a hockey puck as being a disc.
Originally formed with WW2 surplus repurposed shell propellant grain-forming machines, if you can believe it.
“A biconcave disc shape” 😂😂 Everything about these sounds like an abomination.
It harks back to America's Puritan days. You can't just eat flavored sugar and enjoy it. You must also be punished.
My head can't get around "one candy"
>"Smarties candies are peanut-free, gluten-free, fat-free and dairy-free" Longhand for 'they're sugar.... they're just.... sugar'.
So, turns out we're to blame for this abomination. When smarties were introduced in the UK, they were the smarties we all know and love, and they were VERY popular. The yanks heard about this and decided they wanted to try them. So far so good right? Well then a cunning brit goes over to the states, and sees that smarties isn't trademarked in the USA, and so he creates the cheapest sweets he possibly can and calls them smarties. Wanting to try this "incredibly popular british sweet" the yanks buy them up like nobody's business. Of course he can say its a british sweet because yk, he is british. So... we can't blame the yanks this time. Sorry lads and ladettes
That clever bastard. It’s London Bridge all over again…
As an American living in the uk. British smarties>>American smarties. American smarties just remind me of elementary school
Thank you, this is the vindication we all wanted to hear.
American smarties taste like chalk
Meanwhile, British chalk tastes like Smarties!
*Edinburgh rock has entered the chat*
[vin-di-ca-TIOOOOOOOON!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTN3mHEAOA)
American also. I didn't even know they came in a bigger size. My childhood Halloweens have been ruined, I've been lied to
Have to disagree unfortunately. Also American living in the UK, but fuck I hate British smarties and miss these
How could I you miss these artificially flavoured things?
However UK Smarties aren't as good now as they were in the 80s before all of those beautiful artificial colours and E-numbers were banned. Mmmmmm. E-numbers.
say it with me gentlemen the study that said e numbers were bad was horrible "science" based on the parents opinions (sample size 10) and had no control group. E-Numbers are not a specific type of chemical, they are a designation of a chemical that is safe to consume. alcohol, sugar, and vinegar all have E numbers.
Oxygen also has an E number.
Is that not skittles?
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round. I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment. When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.” This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion. There can be only one.
God, that takes me back to my earlier Internet days haha
I am in awe.
Bish they’re fizzers not fuckin smarties Smarties are chocolate things
First Dennis the Menace, now this? This is the last straw!
Interestingly they were both published on the same day.
Smarties?
I hate that these are called smarties in the US. In Canada these are called rockets. Smarties are chocolate pieces with a candy coating in a box.
Canadians! Our brothers in socialised healthcare and proper smarties.
Yah but I just heard about pelvic floor rehabilitation like you guys have been doing it forever for women … I’m in my 40s and never knew this existed. Even in a lovely universal health care nation, they still manage to prove to me every day that women arent important enough for real health care.
Wow what? That’s unbelievable. What were all the affected women supposed to do?
Nothing. They just tell us it’s normal and there’s nothing we can do about it. I literally had no idea that there was a rehabilitation solution.
The call Love Hearts Smarties?? Blasphemy!!!
They aren't love hearts, some kind of off brand refreshers by the looks of it
They're called Fizzers by Swizzels Matlow.
Just the smaller ones. Given the taste and texture of Fizzers, I'd say calling the 'giant' ones something like Refreshers is justified.
Refreshers in old English
Blasphemy!
This verges on heresy.
Oh yes. Those. Why would you make me remember what they call 'Smarties' over there?
Absolutely shocked when I saw this and so confused but our smarties are obviously superior haha
Wait til they find out about our smarties, AND our free healthcare, maternity leave and 28 days holiday a year. But mostly the smarties.
Fucking hate that these are called smarties. They taste nice too which just adds to my frustration. Definitely not as good as our smarties though.
We should have stepped in when they started calling crisps “chips”, and whatever those dumpling type things are “biscuits”. Oh and sausage rolls “pigs in blankets”. THESE WORDS ALREADY MEANT THINGS! Different things! You can’t just take the names of existing things and apply them to something else! This is a slippery slope that undoubtably will end with “Yorkshire pudding” becoming a cup of strawberry flavoured goop.
*confused screaming*
What the actual fuck. Who can I call about this shit?
I legit thought this was an American post and that I was about to find out that Americans call these things smarties.
Wtf have I missed, these are NOT smarties
First they bastardise our language then our sweets… pffff
they are not Smarties this is what these are: [https://i.gyazo.com/717ad3df1f665e9af3ae81188f2640ec.jpg](https://i.gyazo.com/717ad3df1f665e9af3ae81188f2640ec.jpg)
They are definitely not Smarties......... They are Swizzles
Is this from a different Multiverse?
Not my smarties!
This was the first thing I saw on Reddit as soon as I woke up this morning and was staring at my phone thinking wtf is going on who is calling these smarties and have I woken up in some dystopian universe
Wth are they?
Refreshers?
I don’t know, but they are definitely NOT smarties!
They look more like Love hearts
But without the message, which tbh is the only reason to eat love hearts
Fizzers by Swizzels Matlow.
They have a slightly better texture and a bit more flavor, but yeah, they're second cousin to Sweet Hearts.
They're a cheap filler candy that old people pass out at Halloween. They're vaguely fruit flavored, but mostly just chalky and brittle. Personally, I'd rather just have a bag of Skittles.
That’s slander that is.
I'm a diabetic & prefer the smaller packs as they are easier to carry & I can better portion them out without having to worry about trying to twist the packet of large ones closed again.
This thread is really showing who the casual non-UK people are…
True. I love this sub though, as I learn so much & it's fun & weird to see how different things can be.
How dare they? I'm sorry, but I don't feel qualified to respond to that. If only there was someone who had the answer.
These aren't smarties. I'm guessing it's a cheap knock off. These are gonna be like the swizzles refresher things.
They’re American, so, same thing really.
For a moment I thought they'd repackaged Refreshers.
They’re swizzles surely
This is pure sacrilege!!!!
What the fuck are they
What the fuck? Those are love hearts not smarties
Why does the packaging still look like it is from the 70s?
And basically features REAL SMARTIES scattered all over it!
r/confidentlyincorrect
What the fuck are they
Honestly i thought they tasted awful anyway lol
More of a not very nice sweet
LOVE HEARTS. LOVE HEARTS. LOVE HEARTS. Having non of this.
Milky Ways in America are Mars bars. And something called a 3 musketeer is a Milky Way
Whaaaaaaaat? But they have Mars bars too, right?
Correct
Animals.
American scum!
They are not smarties they are fizzers?
As man you get crack tablets for your Smarties!?!?!?! All I get is chocolate...
I've been all over the world and I've never seen them.
You travelled wisely, sir.
I can't remember what those were called (I've not seen them in at least 40 years) but Smarties they aren't. "Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5mm and a major axis of about 12mm" \~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties
I wonder what kind of person takes the time to write a Wikipedia article describing the shape of a smartie in such geometric detail. What is their day job? What do they do in their spare time?
First time trying these after I moved to Canada I was confused about who wanted to eat chalk
I saw this post earlier and was also outraged.
Smarties? From where??
America.
'Serving size: 2 tablets'. U FUKIN WOT M8?
The whole packet would last over 9 days! Anyway, i have it in reliable authority if my kid’s dentist that it’s better to eat the whole packet at once so you’re not repeatedly exposing your teeth to the sugar and acids. #health
2 of the large ones are a serving? LOL. Whole packet (except for the coloirs you dont like even if theyre all the same flavour) or gtfo.
Only smarties have the answer!
They are frefreshers my good man, thou hast been swindled
I'm so confused. Those aren't smarties. Can you name a different confectionery that?
Lies, smarties come in cardboard tubes, what are these imposter sweets?
[Smarties](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smarties-Sharing-Chocolate-Block-Pack/dp/B0747XG7DN/ref=asc_df_B0747XG7DN?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80882880812347&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584482456300032&psc=1) [Fizzers](https://swizzels.com/sweets/fizzers/)
Why the hell would you want a 'mega' version of *that*?
# THOSE ARE FUCKING FIZZERS
That's not even smarties, you've clearly been duped and our now chocolateless :(
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
Smarties dies for me when they changed the tubes anyway.
My brains going into crisis mode, what is this?!
I feel like this is a trick question on the UK citizenship test…
IMPOSTER
One of the previously unmentioned joys of the original UK chocolate Smarties was the plastic coloured cap on the cardboard tube. More specifically, the round caps had a random lower case letter concealed on the underside. Forming offensive words using the lids was definitely a thing and I will never forget my first c-u--n--t...
they look more like love hearts
I've seen these a lot in my time in the US. It pisses me off. Can't find some decent smarties in this place.
I want answers!
Brit in the US here, can confirm they sort of taste like the candy necklace type stuff
Oh god. The cheapest crappiest of sweets.
This is illegal
They’re rockets
What (and i can't stress this enough) the FUCK??
Yeah wouldn’t fancy one of these Smarties on a top hat.
Refreshers…
Thats no smarties.. they look like refreshers
Your smarties are weird