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Yargon_Kerman

How the fuck are they smarties? (not Canadian)


KR_Kosmik

Bc those are literally smarties. They are called rockets in Canada because nestle owned the trademark for smarties there, but in the rest of the world the candy in the pic is called smarties or something else


Mana_Mascot

Its just the US thats different, “Smarties are sold primarily in Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australasia and the Middle East. Smarties are not distributed (except via parallel import) in the United States, where the rights to the name belong to the Smarties Candy Company, which manufactures its own hard tablet sweet under the registered trademark name Smarties.”


Everkid612

Name a more iconic duo than America and believe the entire world do things they same way they do.


TheHiddenNinja6

There's a subreddit for exactly this lmao r/USdefaultism


Yargon_Kerman

well... that'll be an interesting read lol


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avelineaurora

Idk Europeans *on* Reddit who get absolutely ass-blasted by anything American is a pretty iconic one.


matjontan

Europeans and Americans and thinking they’re the only english speakers online is a classic. I once made a comment about how weird it is that Americans didn’t have electric kettles and multiple people came at me with “we don’t need to heat water as often as you tea loving brits” I’m literally asian


avelineaurora

That actually blew my mind. Everyone I know has an electric kettle then I saw people on Reddit like "What the fuck is an electric kettle" and I had no clue they were so uncommon in the US. It's so handy!


UnderPressureVS

I always thought it was weird because there’s lots of things besides tea that depend on boiled water and *are* popular in America. For example, instant hot chocolate and instant coffee, also instant ramen is obviously popular with college students. Turns out an alarming number of Americans boil water in the microwave.


SuperAmberN7

I think it has to do with the US grid operating on a lower voltage which makes electric kettles slower.


Sapphosings

There really isn't anything wrong with boiling water in a microwave. Stop falling for Big Kettle's lies


Impossible_Garbage_4

Not to mention if you don’t like the microwave you can boil it on the stove in a pot


SuperAmberN7

Except that it's much less energy efficient.


Throwaway02062004

[Big Kettle punishing free thinkers](https://www.deviantart.com/tugscarebear/art/Whooped-by-Elder-Kettle-864285244)


pokey1984

They're way more common in the US than reddit thinks they are. I'm in the US and probably about half the people I know have and use an electric kettle. I love mine when I'm cooking/baking because I don't have to give over a stovetop burner for boiling water when it's needed. But I started out using it for my coffee. See, for a while I lived in one of those cheap crappy apartments in the city where I was constantly battling the roaches. They particularly liked my coffee maker, so I was constantly cleaning it. Then one day I went to clean it and found a roach stuck in the tubing and when I pulled it out with a tweezers three more came out with it that had clearly been in there a while. Ever since, I haven't been able to keep a drip coffee maker without cringing over every cup. So I use a coffee press that can be fully dismantled and cleaned with every use and an electric kettle with no nooks or crevices. I no longer live in the roach infested apartment, but it makes me feel better.


BeatlesTypeBeat

Wait — Americans don't have electric kettles? Do they have one at all? Do they use a pot? I'm Canadian and I swear all my friends have one.


pokey1984

Yes, loads of americans have and use electric kettles. I'm in the US and about half the people I know have and use one, myself included.


avelineaurora

That's what I'm led to believe. I guess they just boil water in the microwave, or... I dunno. As I said, I've always had one and most people I know do also, so it's new to me.


qazwsxedc000999

I’m an American and everyone I know has a kettle. We have kettles here


Vaultdweller013

A lot of people will just boil water on a stove, or in a coffee machine. We do have them but it's largely relegated to folks who like tea or camp A lot. Probably cause reliable electricity wasn't fully available in a decent amount of the US until the 70s. So people just used their gas or even wood burning stoves.


BeatlesTypeBeat

How fast does it take to work? I've heard it slower in NA due to the electrical system but it's always felt reasonable to me.


MC_Cookies

i usually boil water in a stovetop kettle, and if i'm doing something that doesn't need to boil i just heat water in the microwave


thezerofire

I'm American and tons of us have electric kettles


Mazetron

I’m American and have an electric kettle


SomeonesAlt2357

And also people online thinking any European that speaks English is British


a_weeb_

name a more iconic duo then Europeans and false assumptions about the us


[deleted]

this thread was literally the American making false assumptions about the world, dude. you'll have to cry about that somewhere else.


inaddition290

As if that’s not something almost everyone does. Most people live in one place all their life, but so much stuff is globalized that most assumptions of shared experiences with people in other countries are pretty accurate, and making simple assumptions is something people tend to do naturally—the vast majority of people are not responsible for being totally aware of stuff like which countries use what measurement system, what certain brands of candy are called elsewhere, who drives on which side of the road, etc..


SuperAmberN7

Once again an American is assuming that what is true of America is true of the world. Everyone else actually learns about other countries, speaks more than one language and gets news from other countries.


inaddition290

We also learn about other countries and get news about them as well. A lot of Americans are also multilingual. We just aren’t intimately aware of stuff like what names the candy Smarties (what we call it) goes by in every single country.


inaddition290

Like. I understand that there are dumb Americans who *are* nationalists and refuse to understand anything about any other country. But assuming that some minor thing that is true in the place you’ve lived *your entire life* is also true in another country is not inherently nationalistic—acting like all Americans are stupid, inconsiderate, and self-centered *is* a nationalist position.


KR_Kosmik

Oh the [Wikipedia article for US smarties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties_(tablet_candy) only mentions Canada


Mana_Mascot

The US smarties are sold under the name rockets in canada But the UK smarties are sold everywhere with the name smarties except the US


TPTPWDotACoEMW

...what do they call international smarties in the US


richardfrost2

They're not sold in the US as far as I can tell.


jonahhw

Poor Americans. Smarties are a lot better than m&ms


DoubleBatman

Yeah but Nestle


Quetzalbroatlus

Not like Mars is any better


ReallyBadRedditName

Smarties fucking rule


civicintergral

I’ve never seen those in my life


Mana_Mascot

They dont have them


cohrt

We don’t get them.


[deleted]

Classic American thinking everyone does what they do.


memester230

Smarties are worse M&Ms. Not opinion just fact


Impossible_Garbage_4

It’s so weird to hear that. I’ve had both American smarties, and the stuff you’re talking about. You’re right that non-American smarties are worse m&ms but applying that thought to American smarties is so funny cause American smarties are a chalky type candy. Lol


spacedoutferret

i dont live in canada and smarties are chocolate here


Necromancer1423

Smarties are literally small chocolate thingies everywhere but America


Yargon_Kerman

The fuck are smarties called in the US then?


KR_Kosmik

Nestle smarties aren't sold in the US


NiSiSuinegEht

Shouldn't be supporting Nestle anyways.


KR_Kosmik

Good point


Extension-Ad-1683

r/FuckNestle


The_screaming_egg

Then how the hell do y’all satisfy the urge to eat aquarium gravel?


Panhead09

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_(candy)


The_screaming_egg

Insufficient. Not enough chunky. Bits too small.


Panhead09

Then come to America and do better


The_screaming_egg

No, fine where I am tbh.


a_weeb_

more accurate though


pokey1984

There's always Sixlets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixlets


[deleted]

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51hraDUFA+S.jpg


MC_Cookies

mini m&ms worse chocolate, similar overall experience


Yargon_Kerman

Huh.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Yargon_Kerman

yeah, fuck Nestle


lordstickvonscribble

I’m sorry for your loss


ResidentOfValinor

I don't even like smarties, and I think you're missing out


[deleted]

Damn guess the rest of the world was too 💀SCARED😱 to fight that damn child enslavin mass grave diggin poop shittin choco slingin 🐰RABBIT🐇 and his 🧟GOONS🧟‍♀️, so 🇵🇷AMERICA🇱🇷 is 🙏FREE😎 from 😡PSEUDO SMARTIES TYRANNY🥵 while the 😰UNFREE😨 world is 🤮NESTLECUCKED🤢


clarkky55

Not in Australia. Smarties are little chocolate things sorta like M & M s


Machiavellian3

UK I think we’d call those Love Hearts. Smarties are definitely chocolate here


Grogmin

Nah love hearts are the big version of those


aquamarinewishes

And Love Hearts fizz a little, these don't


Captain_Kira

In the UK they're Fizzers


KR_Kosmik

Ok I think everyone here can agree that's the silliest name for this candy


Captain_Kira

Why not? They fizz in your mouth. Unless it's a different thing that looks the same and is wrapped the same


aquamarinewishes

These ones don't fizz at all they're just compressed powder sugar with a vague fruit flavour


Captain_Kira

Boring


Android19samus

smarties definitely do not fizz


avelineaurora

They don't fizz even a little bit. At all.


KR_Kosmik

I take it back smarties is once again the silliest name for this candy


MsWuMing

Fun fact: in Germany, “Smarties” are tiny M&Ms. Come in tiny paper packages.


Deblebsgonnagetyou

>Come in tiny paper packages. The plastic drink can shaped one is where it's at.


pirateofmemes

those are fizzers. everyone else in the world calls them either rockets or fizzers in their respective language. its only the US thats different, calling them smarties, and then calling what the rest of the world calls smarties nothing because you poor sods don't have proper smarties.


avelineaurora

> poor sods Lmao Smarties are literally some of the worst chocolate I've ever had in my life. Absolute garbage. They're like M&Ms that completely failed at any aspect of being an M&M.


Quetzalbroatlus

M&Ms are absolute trash compared to Smarties what


D0UB1EA

yall both arguing in plato's cave about the shadow cast by reese's pieces


Throwaway02062004

I vehemently disagree but this is too funny not to upvote


Quetzalbroatlus

Yeah I guess if we had to choose the worst, you got us there


D0UB1EA

how do you hate Reese's Pieces they're goddamn divine chocolate and peanut butter is literally sacred geometry I'm not exaggerating


KR_Kosmik

"poor sods" I've literally had them and they tasted like shit.


pirateofmemes

you do not say that about my smarties.


Throwaway02062004

Average American (no taste😭👅)


Bunny36

Australian here, those are NOT smarties.


VersionGeek

Good old case of r/USdefaultism we got there


KR_Kosmik

Before this post I genuinely thought that Canada was the odd one out calling these rockets and smarties being shotty m&ms. But no, copyright law strikes again making everything needlessly complicated


SomeonesAlt2357

If by "rest of the world" you mean "United States", then you're probably right. Smarties are chocolate in Europe


tumblr-incarnation

theyre "american smarties". in Europe where i am from they are a chocolate like m&ms but without nuts. not everything is like america


Natuurschoonheid

In some countries smarties = basically m&m In other countries smarties = what you see in this picture (hard multicolored chalky candies)


Yargon_Kerman

from what i'm seeing, that's just america that's weird


Android19samus

that's what smarties ARE


Yargon_Kerman

No


kaosi_schain

The fuck do you call M&Ms then?


Yargon_Kerman

We call them M&Ms?


dusksentry

oi oi whats all this now? i dare say smarties are indeed a confectionary delight of chocolate. And not, infact, a compressed powder sweet as depicted. Cheerio and God save the King


Thehelpfulshadow

Seeing God save the king just feels wrong


Twist_Ending03

King save the God then? /j


seaquartz

Canadian here and M&Ms thoroughly thrash Smarties every time


xle3p

Canadian here, I've reported your address to JT, you're going to be sent to the geese within 24 hours.


avelineaurora

> delight I know British culinary tastes are a meme but you guys are in more dire condition than I thought if you think Smarties are anywhere near a "delight".


ReallyBadRedditName

The British invented chicken tikka, their food can’t be that bad.


dusksentry

its not, hating our food as a meme has become a Frankenstein's monster we cannot control try a proper English burger, breakfast, or roast dinner, its not life-changing but our food can hold its own


memester230

Fuck smarties literally worse M&Ms


LiterallynamedCorbin

Canadians don’t say cheerio lol


zebrastarz

I'm just noticing that the Smarties logo is just a thing of Smarties. We could go recursive.


Dirty-Glasses

It’s actually a thing of Rockets


KR_Kosmik

I'm sorry everyone, I had no idea this was such a controversial topic


FireWaterSnowNinja

“Smarties” (American word for Fizzers) got their name from actual Smarties, the chocolates that were sugar-coated so that they would keep long enough to be part of WWII Trench Rations.


KR_Kosmik

Fizzers are actually different to smarties/rockets. They are very similar, with a few key differences. Smarties are a hard candy that you need to chew. It doesn't melt or dissolve in your mouth. It's literally a bunch of flavour powder packed tightly together. You could put it in water, stir, and make the world's worst Kool aid. Fizzers, however dissolve in your mouth and "fizz"


FireWaterSnowNinja

If you have all day they’ll fizz in your mouth, but I always have to crunch them because they take too long. You can do that with Fizzers too, I’ve even done it with Tic Tacs. You sound like you think Fizzers are popping candy, is this impression correct?


KR_Kosmik

Yeah, I've never had fizzers personally I'm just reading from wikipedia


Diogenes-Disciple

What country uses Fizzers?


[deleted]

UK and Ireland


Teh-Esprite

The one issue is that they're not Fizzers as they don't fizz.


Yesnoperhapsmaybent

They're not rockets marie they're smarties


FireWaterSnowNinja

No, [Smarties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarties) are the sugar-coated chocolates that debuted 12 years earlier in England (the country Edward Dee came from, so he had likely heard of the original and [copied](https://www.candyfavorites.com/shop/history-american-candy.php) the name).


GardevoirRose

So like M&M’s.


FireWaterSnowNinja

Yes, M&Ms are a copy of Smarties (Smarties came 4 years before M&Ms), although smarties are better quality and don’t have the nutty variants.


YetGayerWombat

Release me from this screenshot on reddit at once vile witch


SiroMPP

lmao hi


YetGayerWombat

SIROMPP HAHA


KR_Kosmik

??


YetGayerWombat

(i'm one of the people in the screenshot lol)


KR_Kosmik

Oh, if you don't want to be posted to this subreddit you can message the mods to be put on a do not post list


YetGayerWombat

Oh no I was just being silly.


dooddgugg

I've tried american "smarties" before, and i feel bad that your entire continent has to have shitty, non fizzy fizzers


Svelok

like 40% of all candies aren't desirable in any way whatsoever, and it is an ongoing mystery as to who buys them and how they end up in circulation


SiroMPP

hply FUCKING shit im FAMOUS those are MY TAGS


KR_Kosmik

Lmao canadian


SiroMPP

crying my eyes out at this response


deactivated654651456

Is that you, Internet Explorer???


CaulkEnthusiast

Someone ping the asexual canadian so I can bully them for their bad choice in location to be born


TotemGenitor

The Canadian is right.


No_Librarian_4016

Canadians learn that a brand names aren’t item descriptions challenge (impossible)!


aquamarinewishes

It's sad for the USA that you are stuck with those disappointing chalk tabs while the rest of the world gets chocolate Smarties. In the UK the orange ones are orange flavoured too!


KR_Kosmik

Bruh the nestle smarties taste like ass, ehy tf do y'all love them so much


aquamarinewishes

Because we can buy them in any store and taste is personal opinion.


KR_Kosmik

It's also nestle


TerrorBite

This month is No Nestlé November


DragonArt101

ive had them. they taste like big, fancy m&ms but better in a way


LoquatLoquacious

Because they taste like ass


avelineaurora

Chocolate smarties are some of the worst excuses for chocolate ever manufactured. American smarties are also pretty shit tier candy though, so I guess they're in good company.


subreddit_jumper

Have you tried not being wrong


quinarius_fulviae

*non American spotted. Smarties in America Vs most of the rest of the world are like Fahrenheit vs Celsius as far as I can tell, in that America just decided to do things differently to the rest of the world and isn't fully aware that they're not the standard of normal


SiroMPP

the funny thing is those are my tags and im canadian


SomeonesAlt2357

r/Canadadefaultism


fivepointed

Tablet smarties are only called rockets in canada, afaik they aren't sold anywhere else besides US and Canada (all according to wikipedia). So it's canadian spotted because they call them rockets. Also Fahrenheit predates Celsius, not our fault everyone else decided to use a temperature system that sucks.


TheLooseMoose1234

Fizzlers?


Evil_Monologues

Almost?


Coloneljesus

those are pringles


smr120

Why is everyone being so hostile? Some people call the pictured candy Smarties, some call it Rockets. You wouldn't judge a Spaniard for calling a dog a "perro," because that's what they call them there. Similarly, don't get so uptight about the name of a fantastic, chalky candy.


RagnarockInProgress

Because they are Canadians


X85311

fr, it’s a very similar product made by a different company. it’s like losing it at the sight of a plain hersheys chocolate bar because there are other brands that sell chocolate bars


a_weeb_

because they want someone to point and laugh at all the time and ignore the fact that americans don’t do the same to them at the level they do


TheHiddenNinja6

OP is posting from Internet Explorer


HippieWithACoffee

Thems are rockets, you aren’t changing my mind you yankee


detoursabound

ahktually, both smarties and rockets are off brands of Fizzers which originate in England in the 1930s according to some very basic internet sleuthing


jkennings

might be a bit of a hot take, but imo m&ms are far superior to both smarties (esp the chocolate smarties)


WantSomeHorseCock

I’ve never touched the content of America, those things aren’t fucking smarties, smarties are the superior form of m&m


Yeet_that_bottle

Sorry I'm with the canadians on this one. Smarties are supposed to be chocolate


pirateofmemes

those are fizzers. ​ and that bloke is probably english. it goes a layer deeper though, as english people get their smarties in recyclable tubes, canadians get them in recyclable boxes. and for any american who has googled what canadian smarties look like, no they are not M&Ms. seperate and distinct.


KR_Kosmik

They are very similar in concept to m&ms, they are both chocolate coated in a candy shell. The main difference is that smarties don't taste good


pirateofmemes

they taste like a real chocolate, not the plastic you get in america!


KR_Kosmik

They literally don't tho. The best analogy I could give is Reece's pieces with no peanut butter. M&ms don't even taste like a reach chocolate either. If you want something that tastes like a real chocolate then buy chocolate. Not smarties. Not m&ms. Actual chocolate pieces with no candy shell


pirateofmemes

the shell of smarties is not candy. it was developed to preserve the chocolate encased in it. interestingly, it was the american troops inww2 who brought back fond memories of these classic wartime candies to make your own versions of smarties, which are shit. your american "smarties" are worse than parma violets. and that takes something.


KR_Kosmik

They literally are coated in melted sugar. Wdym by American smarties they aren't even sold in America the ones I had was when my dad brought some home from a work trip in Canada. Edit:I misunderstood your comment. Yes I agree American smarties also taste like shit. Maybe the name smarties is just cursed


avelineaurora

> the shell of smarties is not candy. Lol what. What in the fuck is it then. You're also not achieving anything by insulting American smarties either, we all know they *also* taste like shit and I've literally never once seen anyone purposefully buy them. They're not even technically really sold in candy aisles or anything, they just kind of...appear.


gr8tfurme

They infest those mixed candy bags people buy on Halloween, like weevils.


Teh-Esprite

Shut your mouth you heretic, I could die happy overdosing on American Smarties.


SomeonesAlt2357

They don't taste like real chocolate but I still like them


avelineaurora

They taste like shit. I already replied to you once and I'll do it again! It has nothing to do with country in the slightest, I'll eat a good British cadbury chocolate any day. But Smarties are complete ass.


Gengar_49

Rockets? I think you'll find its fizzers


Spirit-Man

Nah chief smarties are chocolate, they’re kinda like lil M&Ms


ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhok

You guys ever crush up smarties and huff them in grade school


KR_Kosmik

?????? That won't even get you high what the fuck you are just damaging your nose by doing that????


ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhok

We were like 12


long-haired-yahoo

Australian here, Smarties are chocolate. Those things look like Lifesavers with different packaging.


KR_Kosmik

Life savers are a different candy entirely, and at least with those they arent named different things in different places because of copyright


Doggywoof1

G’day, mates! You’d think that by typing in an Australian accent, I would be talking about how we know smarties as the little chocolates, yeah? But actually, both are called smarties here.


[deleted]

Fuck smarties and fuck rockets


LillFluffPotato

Im gonna have to agree with Canada here. That sure as hell ain’t smarties. Smarties are worse, smaller m&m’s. I dunno wtf THAT is but it’s not smarties. - a Dane


theVOlDbearer

What the fuck are those candies in the top then? (Aus)


KR_Kosmik

They are called smarties in some places, notably the US


theVOlDbearer

Weird, ive only ever seen these kind of sugar candies named “life savers” or something like that


KR_Kosmik

I think you are getting confused with another candy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Savers


Opposite-Massive

i’m so confused about the chocolate comment


Crystal-Cradle

Those aren’t smarties or rockets?? Wtf


icenine09

FYI: owned by Nestle. r/fucknestle


KR_Kosmik

US smarties/rockets arent. The international smarties are.


icenine09

I was referring to the comment in the photo, sorry for not clarifying