When you eat your smarties

wadingmoose

Do you eat the red ones last?  (For the Americans, smarties are candy coated chocolate goodness, like an M&M only better).I just realized I eat my chocolate bars weird.  Like a skor, I'll eat the chocolate off first and then eat the wonderful candy middle, ditto an Oh Henry.  Coffee crisps I eat in layers.  Smarties (M&M's skittles, runts) I eat by colour.Anyone else obsessive compulsive about their chocolate/candy eating?Great.  Now I have the smarties song stuck in my head.  "When you eat your smarties, do you eat the red ones last, do you suck them very slowly or eat them very fast?..."

nicoleabrock

I only eat Twix strangely.  I eat all of the chocolate off the top and then the sides and then the bottom.  I eat the carmel off the top next and then lastly I eat the cookie.

alixzafiris

Nope. I eat the brown ones last, they're my favourites. I know, odd.Doesn't everyone do that with Skor bars? I always nibble off the chocolate and then suck on the inside. That sounds dirty, but you get it. Yeah...

danieliza1127

In the U.S., smarties are those candy things that come in a wrapper, you know they're small and different colors and chalky.  [img]http://caffeineplease.typepad.com/caffeine_please/images/2007/11/12/smarties.jpg[/img]When I eat M&Ms, sometimes I suck the candy coating off and then eat the chocolate.  When I eat Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I like to poke out the inside and eat it first and then eat the edges. 

kikibaby

Yes- I eat Reese's cups chocolate off first (outside edges, then top and bottom) and eat the PB by itself.With Kit Kats, I eat them one layer at a time.I eat the chocolate off the outside of Twix first, too.

arbolita

I eat my snickers in layers, and I have to eat M&M/Skittles and any colors candy two at a time and chew one on each side of my mouth

[Deleted User]

See I thought you were talking about the sugar, sweet-tart candy smarties.  Those are good.  Nope, I just usually eat it as fast as possible so nobody steals it away.

alixzafiris

And Kit-Kat! Those are the best to eat all ridiculously, the chocolate peels off so easily. Now I'm nibbly, thanks Moose! *death-stare*

[Deleted User]

Is it just a color thing then?  I don't understand saving a certain color for the end, don't they all taste the same?

missy68

I like to pair my skittles - purple with green or orange, red with yellow, etc.Or sometimes, I divide them by color.I bite all around my Reese's cups, then eat the middle.I try to do the same thing you do to a Skor or a Heath bar, and I try to bite all the edges off a caramel, so I can eat the caramel alone. You'd think I'd just buy a bag of wrapped caramels...

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

I eat the smarties like Dani posted, and I arrange them in colors and have to eat them at least two at a time. If there is an odd number of one color, I will pair it with another odd color, but it has to be the next shade in the color specturm (for example, I can't eat yellow and purple together. Purple must go with white or blue/green)I put my M&M's and Skittles in groups of their same color. Reese's pieces too.

wadingmoose

That's why I clarified what smarties where.  I didn't want you to think I was talking about what we call "rockets" here I think.  I could be wrong.  I used to just trash them when I got them at Halloween.

wadingmoose

Yeah, they all taste exactly the same.  It's just a colour thing.

danieliza1127

I just thought it was funny that you have a candy called Smarties and we have a candy called Smarties but they're totally different.I always M&Ms, Smarties, Goldfish crackers, at least two at a time.

lannerjarv

i thought it was suck them very slowly or CRUNCH them very fast.. and it's super bad how fast that jingle came into my head.i eat the blue ones last and the brown ones first, cause brown is the icky colour.i eat chocolate bars the same way as you moose.i don't like skittles.

TiDa2009

I did not realize that Smarties were a Canadian thing.  Huh... I usually leave one colour for last, not necessarily red, though.  It varies. I eat chocolate bars weird, too.  Twixs, I east the caramel off the top and then the cookie part.  Mars bars, I eat the chocolate off the ends and sides, then the caramel, then the nuggety part.  Oh Henrys, I eat the chocolate and peanuts first, then the caramel.  Coffee Crisps I eat in layers. I think this is why I don't eat many chocolate bars.  They're too much damn work!

lannerjarv

[img]http://www.jodiferous.com/images/canada%20smarties.jpg[/img]

BecW2be

I sort all assorted colored candies and eat them in order of the ROYBGIV prism model. I was that kid who organized all her Halloween candy in groups and then placed it in ziploc bags. OCD is awesome! I also eat Smarties like this, and I nibble the raised edge off each one and then chew it up. This thread caused me to grab the Smarties out of my goodie bags from yesterday and that shall be my lunch. Thanks!

alixzafiris

In the UK the orange ones are orange chocolate, then I eat those ones last because orange chocolate = ahmazingness. Thank god Christmas is nearing and I can have my Terry's. Yum.

sarabellam

If the flavors are different (skittles), yes definitely in a certain order. I don't tend to eat that much candy (thank you, sister, who got me hooked on Swiss chocolate that I either can't afford or can't even get in this country because they don't export the really good stuff), so whenever I eat "regular" candy, it's just normal.

wadingmoose

You are correct Lanner, it IS CRUNCH them very fast.Gah.Sheesh, I was wrong yesterday AND today.  I don't know if I can handle this.

mandysmear

Smarties got rid of any unnatural dye coloured smarties I heard.  When I eat mars I eat the sides off first, then I'll eat the caramel, then the nougat... except for the last bite, it has to have all 2.When I get cheeseburgers I order them plain and then I dip it in ketchup and/or mayo.  Some bites I prefer without and others I like with.Milk has to be ice cold or I won't drink it.  I usually put it in a frosty mug so it stays cold enough throughout my whole meal.

mandysmear

the smarties dani posted are rockets!

Marina007

Fluck. Chocolate craving activated.

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

I was that kid who organized all her Halloween candy in groups and then placed it in ziploc bags. OCD is awesome! Me too! Stop being too cool for words :)Okay, have to ask - when you got a new box of crayons, did you dump them out and put them in color order? I still do that. In fact, H got me a box of 96 crayons last year in my Easter basket JUST so I could put them in color order.

BecW2be

Vogt, yes I DO! It's really bad when I get new prismacolor pencils or markers. There are hundreds of colors, and mine have to be arranged perfectly in ROYGBIV, from darkest to lightest in each color. I have so many issues.

wadingmoose

Well, if we're going to get into OTHER foods:I eat my pizza toppings first, then crust all by itself.Fries, if I get gravy, it's on the side and I'll mix ketchup in then dip.Assorted tempura is eaten in this order:  cucumber, broccoli, onion, sweet potato, shrimp.  I'm always thrown off if they add different veggies.KFC - the skin is always peeled off and eaten last.FI didn't understand the "Save the best for last" mentality and he has a bad habit of picking off my plate.  He thought if I picked something off my food and didn't eat it, he could have it.A swift fork in the hand solved that

mandysmear

I do that with gravy too moose!  I don't always order it.  I only order it if I know it's going to be good for sure.  The quebecois in me has made me very picky about gravy.I haven't had KFC in forever.  Probably a good 2 years.  I think we might be  having it on our next cheat day :)I love reading about other people's OCDness it makes me feel better.

Soon-to-be Mrs. Vogt

Moosey, I do that too, save the best for last. H starts with the best and ALWAYS tries to pick at my favorite things. He's almost gotten a fork to the hand on several occassions. Don't mess with my mashed taters, H!Bec, I'm in a total OCD fit when I have to work on my stamps/cards, because the colors don't go in color order. They're sorted into "families" - natural shades, bright shades, soft shades, and rich, I think. Annoying as all hell.

3plus2=5

Thank you ever so much, moose,  I am now singing that too!Smarties I eat by colour but Skittles I eat by the handful (well not quite a handful) to get a full fruit explosion in my mouth. Yummm!Skor, Twix and those little Reisen chocolates have to be eaten chocolate first.I also have to eat all of the chocolate off first when I get a Timmies chocolate dip doughnut. 

maggyruth

I so want to go buy candy now...sigh.