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Or have smarties got darker?

I only noticed the other day when I was finding something to fill my gumball machine (I'm fed up of bubblegum). The green and brown ones look like army camouflage now...

Naughty pb. Well done worry, with it being summer I'm sure the weight will melt off =)

Dont get me wrong I'm a chocolate lover myself ^^ Though apparently our chocolate isnt real chocolate =( so I wanna taste the real stuff.

When I came back from Devon, we stopped off at a service station and I had a pix'n'mix ^^ I made sure I had those white buttons with all the hundreds and thousands on. Oh and the white chocolate mouses =D

ah, those mice are lovely.

Asda do some good chocolate, but they're too far away. Tesco is nearer, but no match.

pb wrote:
> Or have smarties got darker?
>
> I only noticed the other day when I was finding something to
> fill my gumball machine (I'm fed up of bubblegum). The green
> and brown ones look like army camouflage now...


To Actually answer you questions, Smarties no longer have artificial flavouring and colourings in them so they are darker colours.Too many children flying around screaming buzzing their balls off on E numbers. They stopped the plastic lids for weird Hexagonal box's due to the number of kids chocking on the lids every year.

DoomBaboon1982 wrote:
> pb wrote:
> Or have smarties got darker?
>
> I only noticed the other day when I was finding something to
> fill my gumball machine (I'm fed up of bubblegum). The green
> and brown ones look like army camouflage now...
>
>
> To Actually answer you questions, Smarties no longer have
> artificial flavouring and colourings in them so they are darker
> colours.Too many children flying around screaming buzzing their
> balls off on E numbers. They stopped the plastic lids for weird
> Hexagonal box's due to the number of kids chocking on the lids
> every year.

E numbers are just something for parents, Jamie Oliver and politcians alike to have a moan about, like caffiene, junk food and vending machines.

pb wrote:
> Or have smarties got darker?

maybe you`re getting cataracts? :P

Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> DoomBaboon1982 wrote:
> pb wrote:
> Or have smarties got darker?
>
> I only noticed the other day when I was finding something to
> fill my gumball machine (I'm fed up of bubblegum). The green
> and brown ones look like army camouflage now...
>
>
> To Actually answer you questions, Smarties no longer have
> artificial flavouring and colourings in them so they are darker
> colours.Too many children flying around screaming buzzing their
> balls off on E numbers. They stopped the plastic lids for weird
> Hexagonal box's due to the number of kids chocking on the lids
> every year.
>
> E numbers are just something for parents, Jamie Oliver and
> politcians alike to have a moan about, like caffiene, junk food
> and vending machines.


Yeah and smoking, alcohol, crack and heroin.... you keep telling yourself that. Are you, by any chance, pale and ever so slightly greasy :P

DoomBaboon1982 wrote:
> Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> DoomBaboon1982 wrote:
> pb wrote:
> Or have smarties got darker?
>
> I only noticed the other day when I was finding something to
> fill my gumball machine (I'm fed up of bubblegum). The green
> and brown ones look like army camouflage now...
>
>
> To Actually answer you questions, Smarties no longer have
> artificial flavouring and colourings in them so they are darker
> colours.Too many children flying around screaming buzzing their
> balls off on E numbers. They stopped the plastic lids for weird
> Hexagonal box's due to the number of kids chocking on the lids
> every year.
>
> E numbers are just something for parents, Jamie Oliver and
> politcians alike to have a moan about, like caffiene, junk food
> and vending machines.
>
>
> Yeah and smoking, alcohol, crack and heroin.... you keep telling
> yourself that. Are you, by any chance, pale and ever so slightly
> greasy :P

Smoking, alcohol, crack and heroin are all illegal for under 16's (obviously Crack and Heroin being completely illegal for all ages), were as E-Numbers, caffeine and junk food aren't.

YET!!!. Just because something isn't illegal doesn't mean it isn't harmful. Poppers are not illegal but they can give you brain tumours. They are already outlawing certain things in fast food. The whole point is they brought in legislation which said that it was illegal to use certain E-numbers in childrens food..... hence the whole Smartie change. Also they have made it illegal for ready meal and fast food producers to include trans fats and certain levels of salt in their products. Dont get me wrong, I believe in everything in moderation both good and bad. However as a nation we spend many times more money treating fat people, both to lose the weight and to deal with medical conditions resulting in such weight, than we spend on alcoholics, smokers and drug addicts (This info has been released by the NHS). Throughout history laws have been introduced to protect the way of life of the rich and their governments from losing money, so is it really that unbelieveable to think that laws may be introduced to curb the expence of our increasingly "wobbley" nation.

I blame Mr Blobby.