Only Smarties Have The Answer

[bugshaw]

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.

Comments

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

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?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

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?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Good point! I'd forgotten about that. I should perhaps do a more targetted trial.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

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.

[muninnhuginn]

Too true :-(

[muninnhuginn]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

These Smarties being entirely pink ones, the only colours used are titanium dioxide and carminic acid. Yum!

[muninnhuginn]

Where does one acquire boxes of monotone Smarties?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I won it it a Breast Cancer raffle but I could keep a look out. Woolworths would be my first guess.

[aardvark179.livejournal.com]

ON the basis that adverts never lie...

I think you'll rattle in a tube of Smarties like manner if somebody shakes you gently.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

*shakes* *listens*
No, I think they must be packed in too tightly.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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.