Just like selection boxes, the giant tube of Smarties was something you only saw at Christmas time.This is how they looked in an ad from 1966.
You probably all did that thing with the ordinary sized tube, when the contents were finished, you'd put the lid back on the empty tube, give it a hard wallop with your fist, and the lid would shoot off across the room like a pop gun!
Well you couldn't do that with the giant one because it was too robust, so you'd have to put it on the ground and stamp on it, then it would go off like a grenade launcher!
The tops had letters on the underside and I remember collecting them for 'educational' games with the children - but I neve had a full set!!
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