Smarties or M and M's?

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ugh... All this candy talk is making my teeth hurt. I can eat it any, I
guess I'm getting too old for it.

Anyway, M&M's no contest.
 
I prefer M&M's, smarties are a bit harder and dont taste as good IMO.
 
Smarties haven't been marketed to the US very well.

Wikipedia ("Nestle Smarties")
Smarties are oblate spheroids with a minor axis of about 5 mm (0.2 in) and a major axis of about 15 mm (0.6 in). They come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, green, mauve (or purple), pink and brown in the UK. In Canada and Australia, blue smarties are included.

In the UK, an average of 307 packets are consumed every minute. Sales of Smarties are worth £73 million each year.
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I have an aunt who lives in Ohio, and she always brings back a bulk container of Smarties to her neighbours and friends because she's never seen them sold in America.

I guess I prefer smarties, but the chocolate M&Ms are a very close second. Smarties actually do melt in your hand (and your mouth), or rather the color runs off the candy coating and you're soon a mess. They're the main marketing competitor with M&Ms in Canada, and it's probable that that's where M&Ms came up with that tagline. ("Melts in your mouth, not in your hand")

Famine
Smarties = Small chocolate disc covered in slightly-crunchy sugar coating (that gets stuck in your teeth) with multiple different colours.
M&Ms = Small chocolate disc covered in slightly-crunchy sugar coating (that gets stuck in your teeth) with multiple different colours, and a white "M". And a price premium. And E-numbers.
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In the mid-late 90s, the indigo smarties used to have black sunglasses painted on them.
 
Year.Zero
M&Ms came up with that tagline. ("Melts in your mouth, not in your hand")
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I'm not sure when M&Ms had that tagline, but Minstrels (4 times the size of an M&M/Smartie, but only chocolate flavour coatings) had it in the UK in the late 1970s/early 1980s...
 
Tophaticent
EDIT: Reeses Pieces are better than PB M&M's. :grumpy:
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Like hell they are. Peanut Butter M&M's wreck Reeses Pieces.


Oh, and having actually had Smarties, I can say that M&Ms have better chocolate, and Smarties are too crunchy. But Skittles kill both of them.
 
Really? I've never met someone who doesn't like them. However, if it were not for the crispies I'd take the standard Smartie over the M&M.

I just find that they are more stomach-friendly when eating a large amount.
 
I had them, and decided it was like eating nothingness. I just don't like the way they feel, and I think I might have had a problem with the taste.
 
Famine
I'm not sure when M&Ms had that tagline, but Minstrels (4 times the size of an M&M/Smartie, but only chocolate flavour coatings) had it in the UK in the late 1970s/early 1980s...
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Wikipedia
In 1954, Peanut Chocolate Candies were introduced, while the M&M's brand characters and the famous slogan "The milk chocolate that melts in your mouth, not in your hand" were both trademarked.
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:sly:
 
Year.Zero
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
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My arse they don't... atleast with Smarties (or M&M's) you got a multi-coloured hand for your troubles if you held on to them for too long. I always liked Smarties best because the orange ones are orange flavoured. This had the somewhat weird side effect of making children believe that every other colour apparently just tastes like chocolate...
 
Year.Zero
Smarties haven't been marketed to the US very well.



I have an aunt who lives in Ohio, and she always brings back a bulk container of Smarties to her neighbours and friends because she's never seen them sold in America.

I guess I prefer smarties, but the chocolate M&Ms are a very close second. Smarties actually do melt in your hand (and your mouth), or rather the color runs off the candy coating and you're soon a mess. They're the main marketing competitor with M&Ms in Canada, and it's probable that that's where M&Ms came up with that tagline. ("Melts in your mouth, not in your hand")



In the mid-late 90s, the indigo smarties used to have black sunglasses painted on them.
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Blue Smarties were available in South Africa for ages as well. They also had sunglasses painted on them for a long time. Not sure if the two were introduced at the same time but they did coexist.
 
M&M's all the way. I've never had those other smarties but I love M&M's so I'm sure I would still choose them even if I had those smarties.
 
Touring Mars
My arse they don't... atleast with Smarties (or M&M's) you got a multi-coloured hand for your troubles if you held on to them for too long. I always liked Smarties best because the orange ones are orange flavoured. This had the somewhat weird side effect of making children believe that every other colour apparently just tastes like chocolate...
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That's the smarties you're talking about (at least, in my experience with candy colored cl—coloured candy confectionary), they always seemed to melt the quickest. M&Ms might do it too, but I've yet to really fondle them long enough to find out. ;)
 

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