Tubes of Smarties...
Discussion
Hughesie2 said:
Are being replaced with Hexaganol boxes/tubes to reflect the product in the 00's
Can you believe it, no more ickle letters under the lid...
:serioslypeevedinlondon:
I heard this from Mrs Tiga last night in the pub, and a good job she told me there. Its a disgrace. Maybe if they stopped making things like "White chocolate curly wurly squirlies covered with a thick coating of Caramac before being made into a bar, then smashed into even smaller pieces, covered in thick Bounty Ice Cream, then blended into a drink" and concentrated on "normal" everyday things like Snickers, Mars, Twix, that everyone loves, they wouldn't have to bring it into the 00's. I went to the shop at lunch and couldn't even get a Crunchie. Gutted.
,i used to collect 3d bits in them 
This was raised months ago, and I have yet to see a hexagonal smarties tube. Indeed, I bought the kids some the other day and they were still cylindrical and had the top with a letter of the alphabet on them.
There was a bit of a hoo-ha about it last time I heard the plan, so perhaps they've come to their senses and realised that they shouldn't fix something that isn't broken, or would that be too much to ask of the monkeys in charge of large business these days?
There was a bit of a hoo-ha about it last time I heard the plan, so perhaps they've come to their senses and realised that they shouldn't fix something that isn't broken, or would that be too much to ask of the monkeys in charge of large business these days?
) and I might never be able to make it full circle!!!! 
TeamD said:
This was raised months ago, and I have yet to see a hexagonal smarties tube. Indeed, I bought the kids some the other day and they were still cylindrical and had the top with a letter of the alphabet on them.
There was a bit of a hoo-ha about it last time I heard the plan, so perhaps they've come to their senses and realised that they shouldn't fix something that isn't broken, or would that be too much to ask of the monkeys in charge of large business these days?
Shop across the road from me has just got their first conseignment of hexa-smarties. It's just not right....
Hughesie2 said:
What? When I was a kid smarties came in a long thin rectangular box made of cardboard.
Wow, your old
yep way back in late 20th century, in the forgotten decades of the 1980's and 1990s that was all you could get...
[note: just did some research, apparently its different all over the world, couldn't find a pic but Australia is closest to canada, but our boxes aren't as wide.]
Hughesie2 said:
note: just did some research,
Old and sad eh, not a lot going for you there fella
I remember boxes of smarties as a kid from the cinema in the earlyish seventies
yes sad I know, still a five second search on google (what I call research
) isn't as sad as someone who acutally has a smartie collection and makes a webpage on it! www.classaxe.com/smarties/
Zod said:
This is terrible! One of the joys of Smarties tubes was poking out the cardboard end when empty and using the tube as blowpipe to fire the plastic cap at someone.
I used to reckon you got more range by leaving the cardboard end in and creating the required overpressure by putting the tube on the table and thumping it.
All marketroids should be shot. With a strychnine-coated Smarties cap, of course.
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