In elementary school, I read the kid's adaptation of ET for the one and only book I had read for the school's short lived book club. I was so upset at the time when I read the author used M and M's instead of Reese's Pieces I never went back to the book club.
I couldn't believe they weren't Smarties! MUCH better than MMs.
Spangles unfortunately are no more, they're nostalgia sweets from the 70's. The ordinary ones were just fruit flavoured, but they did 'Old English' ones that were quite different.