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Candy cigarettes and cigar gum

Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:12 pm
Posted by dexy82
Madison, WI
Member since Sep 2004
2136 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:12 pm
Who’s old enough to remember them?

I remember getting candy cigarettes when trick or treating

They had different old school monsters on each little box of the candy cigarettes

Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
45105 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:13 pm to
<--- checking in.

Cigar gum can still be had at hospital gift shop. Candy cigs probably at a specialty candy store.
Posted by dexy82
Madison, WI
Member since Sep 2004
2136 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:14 pm to
Oh wow

Never thought they were around in any capacity
Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
15598 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:16 pm to
Candy cigarettes could be sharpened into a weapon simply by twirling one around your mouth.
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
19448 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:16 pm to
and Big League Chew

Posted by BrohemAlem11
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
13767 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:16 pm to
IN. "My brand" was the one with the torch on the front
Posted by LSUJML
Central
Member since May 2008
55394 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:16 pm to
You can get a 24 pack of candy cigarettes from Amazon for 13.50
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
74879 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:16 pm to
Me! The cigarettes were terrible candy, but sometimes you just had to have them.
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
17384 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:18 pm to
I definitely remember the candy cigarettes. The good old days before the pussification of America
Posted by Honkus
Member since Aug 2005
57771 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:19 pm to
Use to buy em off the ice cream truck until my dad found out one day and tore my arse up
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
131298 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:19 pm to
Stallion GOAT

Posted by dexy82
Madison, WI
Member since Sep 2004
2136 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:20 pm to
I remember you could puff out candy dust/powder?
This post was edited on 4/5/22 at 12:21 pm
Posted by BasilFawlty
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2014
1304 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:23 pm to
quote:

Big League Chew


Fun fact...Big League Chew was invented by Jim Bouton, former MLB pitcher and author of "Ball Four". The original plan was for the gum to be brown like chewing tobacco.
Posted by Sea Hoss
North Alabama
Member since Jul 2013
1117 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:27 pm to
<----This guy

God that pink cigar gum was awful, but I liked the cigs. Come to think of it, that might be what caused me to steal my Grandma's Pall Mall's
Posted by Roovelroe
Mandeville
Member since Jan 2005
4372 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:27 pm to
This!

It was sad though that you only got one "smoke puff" per cigarette. And right out of the box, the end was colored orange so it looked like it was lit.
My aunt used to buy me packs of those all of the time....of course, she also let me "smoke" her real cigs when my mom wasn't around (just some puffing). I thought I was bad arse...sitting up on her counter, smoking while she cooked. Oh, and she would let me "flick" her ashes on her cigarette as well.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
10229 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:29 pm to
quote:

and Big League Chew


Can you still get the dip cans that are actually ground up beef jerky?

I used to get my maw maw to burn the ends of my candy cigs with a match so it looked "real" when I lit one up.
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
45105 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:30 pm to
quote:

might be what caused me to steal my Grandma's Pall Mall's
my brother and I were buying pack of cigs from Time Saver when we were teens. Hilarious, but we actually wrote a note to the store from my "mom" that they were for her. The dude laughed but sold us the pack anyway. LOL.
Posted by Tiger in the Sticks
Back in the Boot
Member since Jan 2007
1828 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:33 pm to
Seems like the cigarettes tasted like wintergreen Lifesavers.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
19430 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:34 pm to
I remember pulling out a pack of candy cigs back in the day in 4th-5th grade, and my tennis coach freaked the frick out thinking they were real
Posted by Sea Hoss
North Alabama
Member since Jul 2013
1117 posts
Posted on 4/5/22 at 12:35 pm to
quote:

my brother and I were buying pack of cigs from Time Saver when we were teens. Hilarious, but we actually wrote a note to the store from my "mom" that they were for her. The dude laughed but sold us the pack anyway. LOL.


Oh yea, Maw Maw would send me or any of my cousins down to the Winn Dixie at the end of the street to get her smokes. She would say "If they question you, tell them they are for Geenie"
They would sell them to us everytime, but probably didn't matter, if you had change you could buy them from the cigarette machine.
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