Category: childhood
06/03/06 03:01 - ID#35948
I want candy
I found a bunch of old toys and trinkets from my childhood. A near future post will reveal a few of those items. Besides those things, I thought about other childhood memories of toys, hobbies and even candy. Which brings me to this post.
I remember chewing Bazooka bubble gum
and reading the comics contained inside the wrapper.
Does anyone remember opening the wrapper and having, instead of a comic, a note that said "help, i am trapped in a bubble gum factory" ??
hehe, I hope it was a joke..
And then remember these... How I LOVED candy cigarettes
I never saw this.. crazy!
heh, and I really wanted to be a smoker. No one in my family smoked, but my mom had a couple of friends who did. I would watch them and then imitate their smoking by using a straw. It was extra special and fun when I could go buy a pack of candy cigarettes or a "carton" (six boxes wrapped together). I would puff on them with no control. An open pack of candy cigarettes were quickly "smoked". At like, 4 years of age how cool did I think I was..
sad.
Fortunately, I realized by the time I was 12 that real second hand cigarette smoke maked me ill. I get nauseaus, irritated, red eyed, and over all ill feeling when i am around it. 98% of the time it has this effect on me. Fortunate that it kept me from smoking. Not fortunate in that it can be annoying to not be able to handle being around smokers for long. I guess that isn't a bad thing either.. just makes it difficult to ignore, and difficult when people think you are looney for getting headaches around cig smoke.
Anyway, I am a non smoker and always have been, but really wanted to when I was a kid.
I am sure these are still made..
Fun Dip. Straight to the point, I like it!
I used to buy Dinosaur eggs. They came in a package of two and were pretty big, I think (I was five years old, ofcourse they were big!). They had a gobbstopper type of texture. I always purchased them at a small store in St. Catherines and not sure if I ever bought them anywhere else. I couldn't find any pictures as I hoped.
And thats about it. What are you childhood candy memories?
Actually, my original post was a comment to (e:metalpeter,654) who I began writing quite a bit in his comment section, then decided to trasnfer it to a post, but then my computer froze and everything disappeared. So now that I have no functioning brain cells at this point in the night, I wont be getting back to those thoughts! Definitely later..
heh, I think I spelled every other word wrong.
Bed time.
Good night peeps :)
I remember chewing Bazooka bubble gum
and reading the comics contained inside the wrapper.
Does anyone remember opening the wrapper and having, instead of a comic, a note that said "help, i am trapped in a bubble gum factory" ??
hehe, I hope it was a joke..
And then remember these... How I LOVED candy cigarettes
I never saw this.. crazy!
heh, and I really wanted to be a smoker. No one in my family smoked, but my mom had a couple of friends who did. I would watch them and then imitate their smoking by using a straw. It was extra special and fun when I could go buy a pack of candy cigarettes or a "carton" (six boxes wrapped together). I would puff on them with no control. An open pack of candy cigarettes were quickly "smoked". At like, 4 years of age how cool did I think I was..
sad.
Fortunately, I realized by the time I was 12 that real second hand cigarette smoke maked me ill. I get nauseaus, irritated, red eyed, and over all ill feeling when i am around it. 98% of the time it has this effect on me. Fortunate that it kept me from smoking. Not fortunate in that it can be annoying to not be able to handle being around smokers for long. I guess that isn't a bad thing either.. just makes it difficult to ignore, and difficult when people think you are looney for getting headaches around cig smoke.
Anyway, I am a non smoker and always have been, but really wanted to when I was a kid.
I am sure these are still made..
Fun Dip. Straight to the point, I like it!
I used to buy Dinosaur eggs. They came in a package of two and were pretty big, I think (I was five years old, ofcourse they were big!). They had a gobbstopper type of texture. I always purchased them at a small store in St. Catherines and not sure if I ever bought them anywhere else. I couldn't find any pictures as I hoped.
And thats about it. What are you childhood candy memories?
Actually, my original post was a comment to (e:metalpeter,654) who I began writing quite a bit in his comment section, then decided to trasnfer it to a post, but then my computer froze and everything disappeared. So now that I have no functioning brain cells at this point in the night, I wont be getting back to those thoughts! Definitely later..
heh, I think I spelled every other word wrong.
Bed time.
Good night peeps :)
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I always preferred the gum cigarettes. You could blow through them and the sugar puffed out like smoke. MUCH more realistic!! lol
Anyways, those candy cigarettes are bad...Why put something like that in the hands of a child when they won't know anybody for quite a few years?
There was a place in new orleans that always cracked me up... Quaglino's candy and cigarettes. How fucked up is that?! We always imagined some kid with a smoker's voice going 'MOM!! Take me to quaglino's!" hehe.
p.s. the 'wine' was mediocre. ;)
My grandmother used to smoke, all the time telling me how terrible it is and feeding me candy cigarettes. Some advocacy groups have asserted that candy cigarettes are a gateway confection. I guess that never really affected me much, because, like real cigarettes, candy cigarettes taste terrible.
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