THESE ARE BRITISH, AND THEY ARE NOT M&M'S. SUGAR COATED CHOCOLATE IS NOT THE SAME AS NUTS AT ALL. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT AMERICA. AND ALSO READ IT!
We already have a whole topic on Nutella, so why not these delicious sweets by Nestle?
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Nestlé Smarties are a colour-varied sugar-coated chocolate confectionery popular primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France and Greece. They have been manufactured since 1937,[1] originally by H.I. Rowntree & Co..
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, blue, violet, pink and brown, although the blue variety was temporarily replaced by a white variety in some countries, while an alternative natural colouring dye of the blue colour was being researched.
Rowntrees of York, England, have been making "Chocolate Beans" since at least 1882. The product was renamed "Smarties Chocolate Beans" in 1937.[2] Rowntrees was forced to drop the words "chocolate beans" in 1977 due to trading standards requirements (the use of the word "beans" was felt to be misleading) so adopted the "Milk Chocolate in a Crisp Sugar Shell". Later, the sweet was rebranded as "Smarties".
Smarties are no longer manufactured in York; production has now moved to Germany, where a third of them were already made. Outside Europe, Nestlé's largest production facility for Smarties is in Canada, where Nestlé has been manufacturing products since 1918.
In the UK, a bean-shaped luxury tasting version also called "Smarties Chocolate Beans" were made by Cadbury from 1958 to 1985. That year, Cadbury sold its KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolates to Nestlé because it was going bankrupt and had to make more money. The advertising slogan was "A handful of Smarties everyday will keep the blues away," which was changed to "They don't melt in your hand, they melt in your mouth" in the 1970s. The later slogan was similar to the one used for M&M's, Treets and Minstrels (chocolate). Colours (7 of each colour) used for the chocolate beans were red, purple, green, brown, yellow and orange (even though the orange ones were not orange flavoured). During this era, HB Ice Cream also manufactured a chocolate similar to Cadbury's British version. These chocolates, called "Beanos", were made and sold in Ireland.
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