Food of the Eighties, SIXLETS
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Early-Mid 80's: Sort of knock-off of M&M's. Different coloured candies with a milk chocolate center. The sloagan was simple and to the point: "When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?"
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Hannah - January 04, 2008 - Report this comment
Didn't like them. Too small to reallly taste the chocolate. Well, they were just okay.
Nancy - July 07, 2008 - Report this comment
I remember getting them and the chocolate was just so funky tasting. Still wish they were around with all this other good stuff
pnutbutterprincess82 - July 08, 2008 - Report this comment
you guys are crazy those were the best little candies ever
Autumngirl - July 17, 2008 - Report this comment
Guess what? I just bought a box of these yesterday. They sell them at WALMART now!!!Love them!
lauren - March 21, 2009 - Report this comment
ohmygosh! i think they still have them. at walmart? i'll have to go find them.
gottaluvit - May 03, 2009 - Report this comment
I only ever remember eating these at halloween. Just a few in a plastic wrap. Yum!
shandin - May 17, 2009 - Report this comment
I just found them at the gift shop in Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park. The candy coating is so good and the milk chocolate is as delicious as I remember it. The chocolate sort of tastes like the kind in "Ice Cubes" candy- I think it's palm oil in it?
lila - June 02, 2009 - Report this comment
you can still get them. they are fruit flavored rather than just plain like m&ms.
Katie - July 21, 2009 - Report this comment
Cracker Barrel sells them in the gift shop
paiger - October 18, 2009 - Report this comment
I loved these so much I stole one of the teeny tiny packs from a 711 when I was like 5. lol my mom made me bring it back.
Rascal - February 16, 2010 - Report this comment
Ben Franklin sold them in their penny candy aisle when I was a kid.
Jay - March 19, 2010 - Report this comment
They aren't fruit flavored, just really sweet. I prefer them over M&Ms. You can buy them at convenience stores and Walmart. I just bought a pack for Easter. I still haven't found the really long tubes though. I remember trying to fit the whole tube's worth in my mouth. I think the tube was about 2 1/2 feet long, and it was bliss!
Alana Cicchi - January 04, 2011 - Report this comment
LOL I am eating some sixlets RIGHT THIS minute,as I type comments.They are sold all over MN,I think they might be made here,I know we still get some stuff because of General Mills being here.Sixlets are sold at walmart in Boxes,and long plastic bags tube shaped.there sweet chocolate,with a shell on. NOT fruity.
Alana - June 09, 2011 - Report this comment
Sixlets secret are that they are flavored with carob and chocolate BOTH, the shell is NOT fruit but it is flavored, not just like MnMs is.there round and harder to chew.
Dave - December 13, 2011 - Report this comment
The description is wrong as it's describing the Canadian/UK candy known as smarties which are shaped like M&M's but apparently they taste better. Sixlets are 100 times better than regular M&M's, but I still love Peanut and Peanut Butter M&M's. Also Sixlets are manufactured in Toronto, Ontario Canada and is now owned by SweetWorks(Hershey sold the brand to them).
Lottie - May 31, 2012 - Report this comment
I love the orange ones. They have a slight orange flavor. Why are they called sixlets? They come in small packs of eight or larger packages.
christi totally 80's - August 31, 2014 - Report this comment
also grew up with these good stuff great childhood memories
Barbie Dahl - December 03, 2019 - Report this comment
I have read that Sixlets date to at least the early 1960s although my first memories of them are from the early 70s.
Rob Lambert - December 03, 2019 - Report this comment
Trying to connect the historical dots,the Leaf Candy Co. (Chicago) had similar product called Whopper Juniors around 1965. Round, candy coated and small malted milk balls. Came in packets of six for a nickel. Many Leaf products became Hershey in the 1980s. The Canadian Sixlets were rightly described in Dave's remarks of 2011.
Jeff - September 09, 2021 - Report this comment
I have loved these since I was little kid growing up in the 90's! I am not sure what others refer to when they say that they had a hard time tasting the chocolate. It IS there. I love the crunch and the texture of the shell as well! So much L

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