Seen at a comment left at Wyatt’s Blog by the tao of fish:
And remember to have a packet of smarties some time today (it’s a new ritual for the 2nd of April…). You must sort them before you eat them, and you must eat them in a specific order of your choice. Those are the only rules.
I’m not in a country that sells Smarties*, but we do have M&Ms, which I hope are an acceptable substitute. Bede sorted mine for me, and in fact fed them to me, one by one, in this color order: red blue brown green yellow orange. That’s all the reds, then all the blues, and so forth.
*Smarties here are a horrid little candy that consists of long cellophane wrapped tubes of sugar pills, and we mostly only eat them around Halloween.
Ah, thank you, of course they are called M&M’s on your side of the world. Thanks for supporting this really important campaign… 😉
I eat my m&m’s two at a time in pairs of matching colors. When matching colors run out I have to give the rest of them away. I’ll eat a bag today. 🙂
Doesn’t EVERYONE eat M&M’s that way? weird.
Ahem. Some of us actually do not find American Smarties to be horrid. (You will find us bouncing off walls everywhere … )
teehee
Yeah, I bet you like the little BE MINE and LUV U candy hearts too, huh?
Blech! 😛
Hey, I like both those! And I don’t like M&M’s. Yes, Fee, you can shoot me now.
NECCO Wafers.
I love smarties! Yes, the american kind. But I can’t find gelatin-free conversation hearts anymore. 🙁 Used to like those, too.
Yep, I like convo hearts too. The sugar free convo hearts (DD is diabetic) rock. NECCO wafers, though? Vomitrocious!
I was under the impression that I was the only person in the world who sorted M&Ms by color before eating them.
This is very reassuring to me.
I eat them two at a time, and when I eat two of different colors (which I do when I have an odd number of a color, because desire for sugar trumps desire for aesthetic order), there is discomfort mixed in with the sugary satisfaction. It is alleviated somewhat if I can think of a significance to attribute to the combination of the colors (such as a logo).
How serendipitous that I should have been eating M&Ms on M&M Autism Day!
(my husband is reading over my shoulder and shaking his head)
Oh, boo! I missed M&M day. Well, I’ll just have to eat two packages today (fun size) to make up for it. 🙂
I always line up all the M&M’s in stripes by color (brown, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue), noting how many of each color I get. Then I eat the excess of each color until all colors have the same number of M&M’s. Then I eat all the browns (’cause brown just isn’t as pretty as the others), all but one of the reds, all but two of the oranges, etc., so I make a triangle (I may have to reorder the colors if there are too few blues, etc.). Then I eat one of each color so I have a smaller triangle. I keep going till they’re all gone.
No, I’m not autistic, but I’m a math geek who likes to look for patterns in things — and my brother’s as autistic as they come. Go figure. 🙂