Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: Not for Girls Edition

Why?  What do Smarties taste like in the US?

Hot librarian Brad in the background...

"@Sinnix said:

" Whoa whoa whoa... what the hell do Smarties look like in the States??? They're not cheap M&M rip-offs down there? "

According to Wikipedia, what the USA call Smarties, Canada call Rockets and England calls Fizzers.  A sort of fruit-flavored sugar puck thing. "

You guys don't have coffee crisp? That's a real shame they are rather delicious.
Humpty Dumpty brand chips however have me completely baffled. Is that an east-coast thing? 'Cause we sure as hell don't have that in BC

This video makes me wish that I could eat crazy candy from far-off places even more so now.

" @Trision said:

" Now someone send them a Timbit and a Beavertail (a kind of pastry) and they'll be really freaked out. "

You can't be Canadian without knowing what a Beavertail is. Well, I suppose you might be able to get away with it..."

Coffee Crisp is the shit..... Good choice whoever selected those.

funny. moussex is not for girls

That's not what passes for Smarties in Canada. What you Americans know as Smarties are marketed in Canada under the name "Rockets". What you received in this video are the "real" Smarties.
 
Nestlé's Smarties are distributed worldwide, except for in the US. Probably because Ce De already distributes a candy called Smarties. In Canada they're allowed to co-exist by rebranding Ce De's Smarties as Rockets, but I'm not sure what would happen if Nestlé tried to sell their Smarties in the US. Rowntree/Nestlé was using the name before Ce De, but most Americans probably associate the name with Ce De's product.

I'm proud Canadian candy got on giant bomb :-)

Probably already been said but, Yorkie ain't Canadian, it's British. And no, they don't make a candy bar for girls. Because girls totally suck.

I'd say I want a Yorkie, but then I'd be promoting their idiotic tagline. Sounds like the combo's genuinely good to chew, but I'll stick with Carmello, Rolos, Milky Way, Cadbury Cream Eggs, and, you know, all those other candy bars that don't make having a penis or lack there of an issue.

Always a good show, seeing Americans eat food from Canada. Still baffling though, how Smarties (and Nestle as a whole) aren't in the most important market in the world. And Smarties are better than M&Ms. As proven by the Coconut M&M video. 

Can't believe there's no Yorkies or Smarties in America. Thoe Ringo Lo things are pretty much hula hoops right? Wahoo Sexist candy, no female counterpart.

fuck australia and our bland ass chocolate treats.
 
FUCK THIS SHIT.
 
WE HAVE NO PEANUT BUTTER M&MS PEOPLE.
 
WE ARE LIVING IN SOME KIND OF HELL!!!

Ringolos kick all sorts of ass. I love 'em, but that could be my Canadian Bias talking.

Jeff is such a Rest-of-the-world-A-Phobic :¬P
 
Most of those sweets were British as probably a metric tonne of people have already stated of which I am of course stereotypically proud, no really I am.
 
Yorkie is "not for girls!" because it has always been marketed as a product for lorry drivers (truckers) and such due to its overly large size. Of course these days food (outside America at least, trust you guys to buck the trend lol) has gotten smaller for various boring reasons and so Yorkies don't appear quite so formidable a chocolate treat. Fascinating eh? There was a pink Yorkie made for the ladies a few years back and yes some other people still find the whole thing offensive but then those feminists should be in the kitchen making babies yadda yadda sexist talk.

MMMM Yorkies, There no "girl" version of this bar just the manly one. A friend whos in the royal marines gave me a yorkie out of his ration packs and instead of sayin "its not for girls" it says "its not for civilians" which i found pretty amusing hehe :D

Who needs Nestle when us here in America have Hershey's! Hell yeah! But Nestle is good too...I guess...

I live in the UK and have just found out you guys must have no such thing as Hula Hoops over there in the States, because Rigolos? Those are exactly what Hula Hoops are. Also the sexist branding of Yorkie bars has always amused me. I get this picture in my head of a thick-headed guy in a pub somewhere in Britain buying a Yorkie, believing he's making the macho choice in chocolate bar purchasing.

DUDER, I LLOVE RIGOLOS!!

Culture shock!

Wanting some Hula Hoops now!

Man, I didn't know Coffee Crisp was just a canadian thing!?
You poor Americans don't know what you're missing! That is my favourite chocolate bar by a long shot.

"those humpty dumpty things are hula hoops "

I've also heard that they don't have Ketchup Chips in the States.

" @Xeiphyer: 
 
YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!!!!! There is no such thing as French only signs in Québec! Canada is NOT bilingual and NEVER will be! In fact, the only place where bilingualism is practiced is in Québec.   "They're dickish about it..." NO ASSHOLE! You're the prick; if you can't accept that Québec is a Francophone nation than fuck off back to England and take your goddam queen and you fucking mounties with you!   law 101 PROTECTS English rights in Québec; bet you didn't know that did you? I'm sick of you fucking anglos and your Rhodesian attitude!   CANADA IS A LIE! "

" @Xeiphyer: 
 
You're completely wrong. Canadians are the snobbish asshole you're the ones who think your better than everyone as evident by sample your state funded chauvinist media. 
 
Québec receives NO special treatment at all. In fact we're  the one who treat Anglos as if they were special; like a Rhodesian minority who expects superior treatment because you speak the queen's language. That's why we protect your language in our laws and subsidize your schools and hospitals disproportionately to our own whilst Francophone minorities outside Québec have been decimated and are left to fend for themselves in a hostile English Canada.   "Every one hates Québec". They like us a lot more than you, you arrogant, chauvinist, colonial, American wannbes.  I get your your vicious racist propaganda shoved down my throat everyday and I'll be DAMNED if I'm gonna put up with that shit here.  YOU HEAR ME ASSHOLE! "

i life in canada so screw off

I'm from Michigan and I recently found out they sell Yorkies at the international food section of my local Meijer.

Actually there is no Yorkie Bar for girls, there is only one.

Ringolo's fucking rock! (Yes, I'm Canadian)

I had no idea they had Yorkie's outside of the UK. It's not for girls because they're so chunky and the advertising campaign years ago had a big grizzly lumberjack style dude, so it's like a man's chocolate bar.
 
They did in fact release a limited edition one that came in a pink wrapper with little flowers on it. No difference to the product, just the wrapper.

I sort of miss the old office after watching this.

Yorkies actually abort unborn babies.