Ah, candy / bubble gum cigarettes. Something to tide us over until we were old enough for the real thing. They tasted good, though. On a personal note, this author thought the best ones weren't the gum ones, the best ones were the hard, tasteless, chalk-like, candy variety..
Friday, April 10, 2009
I know our parents just wanted to kill us:
Ah, candy / bubble gum cigarettes. Something to tide us over until we were old enough for the real thing. They tasted good, though. On a personal note, this author thought the best ones weren't the gum ones, the best ones were the hard, tasteless, chalk-like, candy variety..
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Ah yes, I remember those. I too liked the chalk ones. And the gum cigars.
I too preferred the chalk ones. I liked Big League Chew as well.
Nowadays you'd be reported to DHR for giving your kid candy cigarettes.
I too liked the chalk-like ones and believe it or not have come across them within the last year or so. I did hear they were renaming them as candy sticks.
I started out with the chalk ones, but when the gum ones wrapped in paper came out - where you could blow the powdered sugar out of them like smoke - I switched immediately.
Retro: Oh I forgot about the gum cigars. They were great.
Gilligan: I liked the strawberry big league chew the best.
Jim: "Candy sticks"?? I'll have to look them up.
Film Father: Haha
The chalk ones were better better IMO. It's amazing how much can change in such a short amount of time. back then our parents thought nothing of buying us candy cigs, pop guns, those switchblade combs. Now a days people would look at you like you grew two heads if you by any of these things for your own kids. You actually feel guilty for letting you kids have the same fun you did as a kid.
Ah, the "good" old days...
Chalk ones for me too!
Haha. Then it's unanimous!! Chalk were the best!
I too, liked the chalk ones where you could blow the candy "smoke"!
loved the candy ones, did not like the gum cigars, but never started smoking because of them so they must over dramatize things.
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