I grew up in the 1970s. We were eating candy cigarettes. 😄
I had them in the '80s definitely, maybe even into the '90s in the US. They’re still sold in Japan today (chocobaco or something like that).
They’re still sold in the US too, just as “candy sticks.”
“Big League Chew” the bubble gum was also supposed to resemble tobacco chew.
I loved big-league chew and bubble tape when I was growing up.
Edit: and I can’t forget Bazooka. Also, shitty trading card pack gum (for nostalgia but not flavor).
in the uk in the early 90s I definitely had some
I can still remember the terrible taste of them. And nobody was sure if we were meant to eat the paper, but we did anyway.
chocobaco or something like that
Orion’s Cocoa Cigarette. But Little Bobdog Cigarette is probably more popular.
We had these in Australia but they were called something way worse…
Fags, delicious fag sticks
Shove em in my mouth suck on them all day
I looked cool as hell with a fag in my mouth
I recall these having Spider-man on the box for a while.
I was eating candy pipes into the 2010s
Used to get candy cigarettes from the ice cream man in the 90s (maybe even early 00s)
Of course we didn’t have iPhones then. We had a pet in a small box and it died if you didn’t press the buttons the right number of times every day.
I’ve recently been feeling nostalgic for Tamagochi. The Minigames were kind of fun, I think. At least I remember them positively, but that might be rose tinted, I was a primary schooler then haha.
And if you didn’t have this tiny chirping pet, you were uncool! Very uncool and boring.
You could get one from KFC, but it was a GigaPet or something.
I was extremely extremely uncool, my parents hated going to fast food!
So did mine. They wouldn’t buy a digipet thing for me, either. I had a beta named Frank. RIP Frank, you finally beat your reflection.
Ah yes I remember the sound of dial up modems and churning butter like yesterday.
Ten-four!
I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.
In that cheap, thin-bottomed pot, that’s gonna bake so fast. You better be stirring, not posing with a spoonful.
Does putting a jumbo marshmellow on a saltine cracker and nuking it for 15 seconds in the microwave count as a baked sweet?
Depends how baked you are when you make it
I’m pretty sure that falls under the category of ‘rare delicacy.’
gourmet war ration
My parents thought I was a lunatic, I never knew there was another… Watching that marshmallow inflate like a balloon was icing on the cake.
Bitch, I spent hours on illegally copying a disc of age of empires I borrowed from a class mate. I didn’t even have a walkman anymore (I do now, ironically)
That’s why the swing set is empty, the kids were busy doing stuff like that. That’s ok.
Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.
Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
Shank. The verb form [ Shank.]
Maybe they meant 1898.
Or maybe they meant sweats.
Excuse me while I go crumble into dust and blow away.
Also, holy shit, at least where I was the late 90s were peak “low fat” (high sugar) product times, there was SO much sweet garbage to buy. If anything more than there is now, because now there’s the mindset among most people that we should probably cut back on sweets.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh yes I was born in 1990 those good old days where there were no cars, no electricity, no plumbing, no vaccines, people weren’t going to school ah yes the good old days
You wouldn’t last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.
The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines…
1998, where if you had home made desserts instead of Oreos, Pop tarts and lunchables, people assumed you were poor!
Ah yes as we know people in the 19th century didn’t purchase sweets like coca cola (1886) and Turkish delight (conflicting data but could go back to 1777, the Byzantine empire, or sefavid Persia but possibly earlier). Also as we know the concept of markets is a crazy new idea and we have absolutely no extensive written records of ancient civillians having markets where people would barter and trade goods.
/s
I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I’m old, too, BTW.
I do the same thing. And I say, “it’s got a 20th century kind of vibe” about movies and music and stuff from the 80s and 90s.
It’s true, but disorienting. I was born in 85.
What 1800? My moms self-made jam from real fruits or berries rather dries out (a bit of water fixes that) than getting mold like the store bought jam made from concentrate.
