Are you old enough to remember " Candy Cigarettes"?

[Union Label]

It just came to me, my other half was rubbing Ben-Gay on my back and the smell of it hit me, DAMN that smells like those candy cigarettes from when I was a kid.

[Broken_Hero]

1. yep, I remember them

they were crappy bubblegum sticks....but I still ate them...:)

[reyd reid reed]

2. Oh, I remember them...

Is that what Ben-Gay smells like? I knew it reminded me of something....

[erinlough]

3. yep, loved them.

[Union Label]

6. Me too

Those little things are as addicting as real one's.:evilgrin:

[mduffy31]

4. Oh I loved them

...but I had to quit, I was up to 3 packs a day.

[Withywindle]

5. Yup, I remember 'em well.

Too chalky and nasty to make a good gateway drug, though. Pixi Stix powder was a far better introduction to cocaine.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Ewwww!

I'd put cocaine up my nose before I'd snort a Pixie Stix. Somehow I imagine that as really hurting when snorted.

[Withywindle]

12. Cocaine hurts a bit too...

...but you know what's REALLY bad to snort? Powdered No-Doz. (Ah, college days.)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Yeah, but at least you get some fun out of it.

Pixie Stix...well, your nose just hurts and you have a sugary, fruity drip.

Worse than trying to snort No-Doz is opening up an energy pill and snorting the powder. Holy crap! It hurt worse than getting punched in the nose (which I've experienced many times).

[Withywindle]

17. Ow!

Ick, no, too granular!

(For the record: no, I never actually snorted Pixie Stix. I wasn't that much of a bad seed. :P]

[martymar64]

30. I snort seashells by the seashores!

To paraphrase Paul Rubens in Nice Dreams

[Mutley]

32. I once snorted a Pixie Stix.

And Oh Yeah did it hurt. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

36. Yeah, I knew I was right about that.

It just seemed like it would be really painful.

[MiniMandaRuth]

8. They were delicious.

I still see them from time to time in novelty stores at tourist traps. I buy a few packs.

Yum.... Edible chalk sticks.

[qnr]

9. Sure do... was just looking at some (after seeing your question)

http://cardhouse.com/a/candy/candy.htm

They're readily available online too.

[Floogeldy]

10. You can still buy them here.

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/candy-cigarettes.htm

:)

[Nicole]

11. Yes!

I loved them. My daughter couldn't believe we had them when I was a kid. She's never seen one.

[begin_within]

13. The flavor is wintergreen oil - same oil used in Ben-Gay. They also put in

a powder inside the paper wrapper, so that you could "puff" on them and make a couple of puffs of smoke which was the most fun part. Actually chewing the gum wasn't as much fun as puffing the "smoke" out.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Oh yes, I remember them, my dear Union Label!

But I have no desire to return to those days!

:hi:

[Richard Steele]

16. Oh yes, indeed.

Bubblegum cigars, too. Those things had the BEST bubblegum!

[mykpart]

18. Oh, yeah! The classic ones tasted like

Wintergreen Lifesavers, although sweeter and less minty. I liked to carve mine into little totem poles with my teeth.

There were also bubble gum cigarettes (and cigars!) and chocolate cigarettes, but the white chalky ones are the classics.

Lol! I remember seeing a commercial for Winstons where Garry Moore (anybody remember him?) held up two cigarettes, one Winston and one Brand X. He asked, "Which of these two tastes better? Brand X, of course, it's chocolate!" And then he took a big bit of it.

[Kickoutthejams23]

19. Oh yes I do. You can still buy them in foreign countries, Make

great gifts for bratty nephews and nieces. :silly: (Rule 1. make sure they don't tell your sibling. Rule 2. Make sure they bring it to school :evilgrin: )

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

25. Hmm...that would probably explain why I remember them up until

I was about 10 (and we moved out of the city to the suburbs). I lived in an almost entirely Hispanic area (even most of the store signs were in Spanish). Hence as a kid, I ate plenty of foreign candies (and really sketchy but good plaintain chips) purchased at the corner bodega.

[Union Label]

20. HA, I just hit Ebay

And there on there too. http://search.ebay.com/candy-cigarettes_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8

[sce56]

21. I remember trying to light one up with the candle in the Jack-O-Lantern one

Halloween and getting my lip burned! Back in the sixties.

[GirlinContempt]

22. Yeah, now they're candy sticks, and they dont have red dye on the end

it just isn't the same.

[Placebo]

23. They were DELISH.

Mmm...

:smoke: = :9

[flamingyouth]

24. Yes.

They had a weird taste, IIRC.

[Spirochete]

26. Yeah, I remember them

Sort of clove tasting or something? Didn't they have similar boxes names of regular cigarettes, only altered (Poll Moll, Camal, etc.)?

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. Yes I do... and you can still get them here in penny candy stores.

I'm in MI. :hi:

[Debi]

28. You can still get them, they're just called candy stix

Remember the bubble gum ciggarets that you could blow on and have the powdered sugar come out the end to look like you were smoking?



and the Cactus flavored ones 'for manly men'

[mad-mommy]

29. YES, still can get them around here

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. Yes! And they went away for a while, then I've seen them not

too long ago. :) :9

[catmandu57]

33. Oh yeah

I remember sucking on one pretending to be an Eddy G. Robinson tough guy.

[Eurobabe]

34. Yeah those were icky, I liked the bubble gum ones that puffed

fake smoke, or whatever rancid chemical shit they put in it.

[LSdemocrat]

35. Umm, yeah, they still called em candy cigs in the late 1980's

I know I saw them when I was in elementary school at that time

[mwooldri]

41. And I bought them!

I was in primary school at the time. I am not sure if they are still sold back home or not. Probably not thanks to peer pressure. But they were under the candy sticks rather than candy cigs. And definitely not candy fags (fag==cigarette in colloquial English).

[Kajsa]

37. Yep, and I really liked them.

Thanks for the memory--

;-)

[YankeyMCC]

38. Wow, I hadn't thought of those in a long time

I guess those were pretty evil candy if you think about the possible (intentional ?? ) message to kids about cigaretts.

But I do remember liking them a lot.

And I did end up smoking from Junior High through most of High School

[Gormy Cuss]

39. We weren't allowed to have candy cigs

My mother was big on reminding us that fake or not, she didn't want us to take up the habit. None of us became smokers even though both of my parents were smokers when I was young. Maybe she was on to something.

[ceile]

40. They rocked!

used to get them at the Stop n Go after shcool.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. Yes, indeed...

My uncle ran a small country grocery store in the little town of Gurneyville, Ohio. He always had candy cigarettes on hand.

[LibertyLover]

43. One year for Halloween

I went as a beatnik. As part of the costume, I had a foot long cigarette holder that my mom put one of the chocolate cigarettes in for effect. If I recall, she glued it in to make sure it wouldn't fall out. I also remember the bubblegum and white candy ones. The white candy were fun 'cause you could puff the powder out and pretend you were smoking. Funny thing was I only knew one person who smoked in my neighborhood. A friend's father would occassionally smoke a cigar.