From: bastets_place	Date: January 8th, 2013 06:23 am (UTC)		(Link)

May I add, as a non-pussified American that happens to possess one, candy cigarettes were dreadful. The world is much better off without them. They tasted like a cross between powdered sugar and tums.

Gum cigars, now, those were also pretty bad; not as bad, but bad - like off brand grape hubba-bubba. Strongly fake flavor with too much mass.


Mind you, the mushroom thing does explain, possibly, why he misses candy cigarettes, of all things: he fried a few too many brain cells. If you REALLY want to regret the loss of a candy that was WONDERFUL as a child, but is no longer widely available, miss Ice Cubes chocolates. Miss orange flavored baby aspirin. (seriously - I loved those as a kid, and now that I HAVE to take baby aspirin, can I find them? No! argh!) Miss merry-go-rounds and tall swingsets and jungle gyms in metal and playing on real grass and in real water on real rivers. Miss running around the neighborhood in packs, not getting home until JUST before full dark, filthy, hungry, and exhausted.

Candy Cigarettes. Bah!

	From: quistie	Date: January 8th, 2013 06:55 am (UTC)		(Link)

I suspect eating random mushrooms in his yard probably had something to do with the post in question...

(I don't even eat "safe" mushrooms, let alone random mushrooms in a yard somewhere...)

	From: liedra	Date: January 8th, 2013 07:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Haha, you can still get them in Australia, they're called "Fads".

I was surprised to find out that you can't buy Kinder Surprise eggs in the US, because someone is worried that kids might choke on the toy inside. LOL.

The toys are fun (and quite innovative)! The chocolate is delicious too, so you're really missing out :(

	From: prettyredeyes	Date: January 8th, 2013 11:03 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I admittedly enjoyed candy cigarettes. And I admittedly used to pretend I was smoking them. XD I never ended up smoking though. All the feigned smoking action was purely fictional. My mom and I have reminisced about the time of candy cigarettes (because that's one of the few things she grew up with that was still around when I was a kid and I remember enjoying) and we both miss them.

But I think he definitely could have gone on about his love of candy cigarettes without that sort of post. That wasn't necessary. :c