Chocolate Cigarettes

MattLamb

Got to talking about these with the missus. My favoured brand back in the day was Old Toad...

I reckoned the paper around them was edible, but she may have convinced me that in fact it was just paper, wrapped around the (crappy) chocolate.

What do you think?

mile

dont think i ever ate the paper.

dont remember them being that nice either, think i only ever got one pack. :D

MattLamb

I think the soft corrugated cardboard that made up the middle of the pack was tastier than the actual chocolate. The paper around the cigarettes was probably a lot like actual rolly papers, so those of use who ate it found it melted away quite quickly!

Still healthier than proper snout anyway.

fog

I remember getting "eating paper" years ago.. although it's just flavoured rice paper as a kid.

MattLamb

Yeah, I remember buying 50 pence worth of that as a kid - it was a penny a sheet, just smaller that A5 in size. Each one was a different colour.

I ate the lot before first lesson and felt like sh*te, really dehydrated. It may have been a coincidence, and I was sick anyway, but I felt and looked really ill, and my mum ended up having to collect me from school!

fog

well thats why to stick ya water logged mobile phone in a bag of rice to absorb the water ?

I remember glutinous rice is well nice, but only had that in my mid 30's

deadpan666

I used to eat these...and the paper bits! But I think the paper was just paper..seem to remember it being similar to when I chewed the ends of my Maths jotters... :D

ZnorXman

I don't recall having the choc cigs but do remember the chalky ones. They were chalk, right? Hmmm, or were they more like gummi bears but white? Ahhh, whatever. I'm glad I got over that addiction, one pack was enough for me!

Hairy

I just ate a rizla paper and it tastes the same from what I remember.

fog

ZnorXman wrote: »

I don't recall having the choc cigs but do remember the chalky ones. They were chalk, right? Hmmm, or were they more like gummi bears but white? Ahhh, whatever. I'm glad I got over that addiction, one pack was enough for me!

the clue would have been if there was a board duster with it...

but if you had the same teacher we did, then you might find the duster for it was embedded in the wall from near hitting one of my class mates...

I do remember one of my classmates dropping a test tube out of a 3rd floor window (that was over a walkway) and nearly hitting him.. he went ballistic.

ZnorXman

fog wrote: »

the clue would have been if there was a board duster with it...

*sigh* guess I walked into that one, bow on top and all! :lol:

Not that the candy cigs were made out of chalk, but resembled them much.

fog

ZnorXman wrote: »

Not that the candy cigs were made out of chalk, but resembled them much.

we did have em here, but they were like maybe about the width of a biro perhaps. and the top bit had a bit of reddish dye to make it look like it was lit.

Grunaki

I remember both kinds of them.. The chocolate ones with the paper wrapped around (pretty sure you were meant to peel it off, but I think I ate a few with it still on over the years..) and the crappy white ones, usually with a dab of red food coloring on the end to look like the 'cig' was alight.

I remember around the late 80s when they cracked down on tobacco advertising, the 'candy cigarettes' became 'candy sticks', but basically remained just the same.

The Starglider

It was rice paper (yes, the same paper that Rizla's use), and it's totally edible.

thx1138

any one remember the smokers sets?

pipe, matches, cigs, etc al out of chocolate?

what about the candy tobacco pouches?

zx1

ZnorXman wrote: »

I don't recall having the choc cigs but do remember the chalky ones. They were chalk, right? Hmmm, or were they more like gummi bears but white? Ahhh, whatever. I'm glad I got over that addiction, one pack was enough for me!

I remember the candy ones too, they were sicky sweet and weren't all that good. I don't think they make them anymore due to the social climate regarding smoking.

MattLamb

thx1138 wrote: »

any one remember the smokers sets?

pipe, matches, cigs, etc al out of chocolate?

what about the candy tobacco pouches?

I don't remember seeing them, but I was a slave to a liquorice pipe...

Bermondsey Bob

zx1 wrote: »

I remember the candy ones too, they were sicky sweet and weren't all that good. I don't think they make them anymore due to the social climate regarding smoking.

No, they DO still make them as I saw some in a shop yesrerday! I may pop out and buy some later :D

joefish

I remember the chocolate cigs - you could eat the paper but it was bland and got stuck around your mouth. The 'chocolate' was awful too.

I did get the packs of white sticks with the red ends - I seem to remember Spider-Man branding on the packs. At the same time Superman was beating up Nick-O'-Teen and telling kids not to smoke, Spider-Man was telling us, hey, but it's cool, kids!

You can still buy the sticks (without the glowing end) by weight. Unfortunately, according to my local sweet shop, they just stopped manufacturing the pink strawberry ones.

festershinetop

It's almost flipped round the other way now. I use an electronic cigarette and the nicotine liquid is flavoured with the same artificial flavours as sweets.

I recently mixed some Blackcurrant which tasted exactly the same as Blackcurrant Chewits and by adding a bit of menthol the result is near identical to Blackcurrant Tunes.

As for the Chocolate cigarettes i used to use a Krakatoa pack to keep my rollies in at school.

Graz

Yep, you can still buy the choccy ones. I bought some recently. The paper is edible and they are YUM!

MattLamb

festershinetop wrote: »

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As for the Chocolate cigarettes i used to use a Krakatoa pack to keep my rollies in at school.

Love it!

Wookiee

these were verboten in my house growing up...a few clandestine ones left me cold though