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THEY ARE CRAPIt’s not a tube!
What fool decided that it was a good idea to scrap the old Smarties tube packaging for a hexagonal box of thick paper? More importantly who let them scrap the plastic tops with the letters on them. Collecting the tops to see if I could spell my name, popping the tube so the tops flew off, shakin’ them around like maracas when I was half way through a packet; these things are more than packaging perks, they are the stuff that childhood memories are off! The first time I saw the new packs in the shops, I felt like someone had changed the locks on my front door. The old tube is gone, and it’s not coming back.
I must confess I have not bought a packet for a while, but I always new it was there if I wanted it!
I propose a Grade listing for UK brands, similar to architecture. Certain brands should be safeguarded, eg. Digestive biscuits, Des Lynams Moustache, glass milk bottles.
POSTED by: oldhector on 5 October 2006 at 10:15 am
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I feel as betrayed as when wagon wheels were shrunk, crisps got foil packaging & monster munch lost the Smokey Bacon flavour. Oh and also when Ribena axed orange and apricot flavour.
DAMN YOU SNACK BOSSES DANM YOU!
i felt like the world is against me when Blockbuster (video rental chain in North America) stopped carrying salted sunflower seeds…
Back on the smarties issue, the new ‘natural colours’ are crap! Bring back the acid greens and electric blue ones!
yeah, smarties used to be cool, what happened to the special bits on haqlloween with the scary faces printed on them…they where so so special. not anymore tho! i’d like to see what they do for this halloween! but i definatly agree with the old popping the tops off! that was great especially if you’d get someone in the eye! haha! oh and has anyone else noticed that lion bars taste different - for the worst! picnic bars are smaller and whatever happened to that chocolate bar called secret? that was my favourite, it came with a cardboard container inside the wrapper to keep its delicate chocolate lacie whisps from getting on the delicouse interior mousse! yummy
Too true, too true, how can they change the tube? its like the sky being red or the grass being green, cylindrical tubes are the universal constant in smartie packaging and no matter what they should never be any thing else! they just dont taste the same!
I feel comforted that its not only me that has been upset by this! If we get enough smarties blogs here, maybe we should look at petitioning the smarties headquarters!
We used to have fun with those tubes
We used to aim the tube so the lid was facing the person/object the give it a good squeese then… BANG! and the lid flew off and it hit the thing that we were aiming for. How BOOOOORRRRING is a hexagonal tube?!
the hexagons are no where near as good as the tubes.. my childhood memories have been taken away now the tubes have gone.
we used to collect the lids and try and spell out our names.. though i never found a ‘y’..
now i cant fire lids at joseph henderson :’(
its all SO sad..
They are so hard to open as well then they rip as you try and get the last ones out the bottom!!
i reckon that we should start a petition against the hexagonal boxes cos they SUCK! xD
What is the point of buying Smarties if you can’t use the packaging as a weapon?