Smarties

[3] Smarties are sold primarily in Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia and the Middle East.

[7] Rowntree's was forced to drop the words "chocolate beans" in 1937 due to trading standards requirements (the use of the word "beans" was felt to be misleading[citation needed]) so adopted the "Milk Chocolate in a Crisp Sugar Shell".

Smarties in the UK were formerly sold in cylindrical cardboard tubes, capped with a colourful plastic lid usually having a letter of the alphabet on it.

[8] The purpose of this, according to a Rowntree's spokesperson in the 1980s, was for them to be useful as a teaching aid to encourage young children to recognise the letters.

question similar to those asked on the British television game show Blockbusters (which coincidentally were on hexagonal tiles), the answer for which can be read when the lid is open, next to the hole giving access to the rest of the tube.

The factory located at 72 Sterling Road in the Junction Triangle was originally built for Cowan Cocoa and Chocolate.

[20][21] For the purposes of assessing an "active learning approach to epidemiology and critical appraisal", a mock randomised controlled trial tested the hypothesis that red Smarties could increase happiness.

It was discontinued temporarily in 2012, brought back in early 2014 but withdrawn again in late 2015, being replaced with Oreo, but in some countries both are available.

These were trialled as "Smarctic Frost Bites", but upon their full release a year or so later, they were called White Chocolate Smarties.

In 1998, a product known as "Smarties Secrets" was introduced which contained sweets of varying designs, colours and flavours.

Holiday packaging for Halloween (sold as Scaries), Christmas and Valentine's Day (containing only pink and red Smarties) is common.

In the United States, a Smarties variant was introduced by Nestlé for a limited time as part of a product promotion for Disney's 1999 animated film, Tarzan.