I Broke Down and Bought Cigarette…
Candy. From World Candy Confections. Some observations:
- The individual “packs” are quite cool. The designs are pretty simple, but with a bit of touching up could be made to look cooler than most real cigarette packs. The brand names are actually better than a lot of the real ones. I’m eating a “Victory” brand now, which makes me think of 1984.
- Other brand names include Target, Stallion, King, Lucky Lights, and Round-Up. I particularly like Target and King as designs.
- The “Carton” doesn’t actually say “cigarettes” on there anywhere. I don’t know if that’s a recent development or they never did. I can see why they don’t now.
- The pieces themselves don’t look nearly as cigarette-y as I remember them. I suspect this was the case before. But in my mouth they look as much like a glorified toothpick as anything.
- They taste exactly as I remember them.
- These things used to be relatively ubiquitous. For a time, anyway. It’s not surprising that they mostly went away.
Wow yes I remember them. Like sugar flavored chalk with the pale red tips right?Report
The “Carton” doesn’t actually say “cigarettes” on there anywhere. I don’t know if that’s a recent development or they never did. I can see why they don’t now.
They definitely did say “cigarettes” on the packaging when I was a kid. Though you could get pretty much the exact same thing (absent the red end, maybe) as “candy sticks.”Report
I was more fond of chocolate cigars as a kid.Report
I vaguely remember a brand that had confectioners sugar on it such that you could actually simulate puffing a smoke cloud. Did I invent this memory?Report
No, those really existed.Report
Ain’t that America…Report
something to see, babyReport
Whenever someone mentions candy cigarettes, I’m always reminded of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znOx8gFvr2QReport
I can’t remember which timeline that happened in.Report