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Only Smarties Have The Answer

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 11:36am on 25/10/2006
I wonder what will happen if I eat a 170g tube of Smarties? I guess I will find out soon enough. I had a spanakopita at the weekend though (mistaking it for a samosa) with no ill effects. Maybe the dairy intolerance is wearing off?

There was no letter embossed on the tube lid. There was a number "5", but in a font and size more suggestive of stock control than of childhood learning.
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posted by [identity profile] cookwitch.livejournal.com at 10:35am on 25/10/2006
Spanakopitta is made with feta, and a lot of feta is made of a sheep/goat milk mix. Maybe that's why it didn't upset you?
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 10:44am on 25/10/2006
You can get a rather fine vegan version, too - although I doubt this was that. I suppose there's no easy method of testing the dairy intolerance apart from ingesting the darn stuff?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 10:45am on 25/10/2006
Good point! I'd forgotten about that. I should perhaps do a more targetted trial.
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posted by [identity profile] hawkida.livejournal.com at 11:14am on 25/10/2006
There are no Smarties any more. Smarties don't come in hexagonal flimsy things, they live in proper tubes with plastic caps that you can blow out of the tube from the other end to make it hit your brother.
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 11:31am on 25/10/2006
Too true :-(
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 11:31am on 25/10/2006
Well, don't expect any hyperactivity from the excess intake of artificial colours: they've all gone. The items now dubbed Smarties are a pale, pale imitation of their forebears and in the wrong shaped packet.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:48am on 25/10/2006
These Smarties being entirely pink ones, the only colours used are titanium dioxide and carminic acid. Yum!
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 12:19pm on 25/10/2006
Where does one acquire boxes of monotone Smarties?
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 12:32pm on 25/10/2006
I won it it a Breast Cancer raffle but I could keep a look out. Woolworths would be my first guess.
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posted by [identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com at 11:33am on 25/10/2006
ON the basis that adverts never lie...

I think you'll rattle in a tube of Smarties like manner if somebody shakes you gently.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:47am on 25/10/2006
*shakes* *listens*
No, I think they must be packed in too tightly.
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posted by [identity profile] brixtonbrood.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 25/10/2006
Dairy intolerence does wear off in some cases, especially in infants, but also when it was acquired as the result of a bout of gastro-enteritis.
Probably worth some gentle experimentation (picking a time when you can afford to spend the next twenty four hours discovering that no, it really hasn't worn off) - it's a bore to live vegan if you don't have or want to.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:02pm on 25/10/2006
It's not something which tends to manifest strongly or swiftly - more usually, if I've got into the habit of having a shop bought sandwich for lunch, after a week I notice my joints ache. Then it takes another week to go away...

Luckily I don't have to live vegan - much though I love vegetables, and can and do eat meat (but not hugely keen on it).

Now is a good time for experimentation, I think. So I'll keep clean for a week and see what (if anything) happens as a result of the Smarties.
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