Smarties, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 5Ben Gilbert 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Smarties comes up
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:03:36 David Rosenthal And I suspect many of our British friends are listening to all this and saying, like, hey guys, what about Smarties?
- ▶ 2:04:03 David Rosenthal Is that Roundtree's introduced Smarties to the British market in 1937.
- ▶ 2:04:16 Ben Gilbert So he's saying it's this Spanish-American war thing, but very plausibly he just saw Smarties in the U.K. and was like, I gotta go back to America and launch this quick.
- ▶ 2:04:25 David Rosenthal There is no way that Forrest did not see Smarties in the U.K. before he left.
- ▶ 2:04:32 David Rosenthal The early M&Ms came in tube packaging just like Smarties.
- ▶ 2:04:39 Ben Gilbert Also, for the American listeners, you're probably like, Smarties, those are a non-chocolate candy.
- ▶ 2:04:47 David Rosenthal British Smarties are delicious.