Pink Smarties

[lupestripe]

I am drunk and eating pink Smarties - the best kind of Smarties :-)

Comments

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Nah that's not right - the brown ones were definitely there in the '90s. I think it's another case of Wikipedia being bollocks.

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

I hope so! BBC claims the blue ones came in around 1989.

Whatever, I remember the event. And they were a lovely vivid blue too. Actually, all the smarties were vivid (yay synthetic substances!) and I'm sure a lot more perfectly round / crisp than they are now.

I still miss the secret bar most of all. Not many folk remember it.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I definitely remember Secrets, they were tasty :)

I think they came in, then out, then in as I say. Blue ones probably did first come out in 1989 but then they returned about five years ago as I remember the "Blue Is Back" campaign.

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

Curiously I didn't know anything about that campaign.

But I do remember clearly walking around Tesco in Worcester when I must have been 9 or 10 or so - picking up a tube and really looking forwards to trying them :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

There was a definite campaign up here, as I remember being completely underwhelmed by it. Sadly though, this was contrary to when they first came out, when, like you, I was very excited about it.

I wish I wasn't old and cynical...