Candy cigarettes and big league chew
16In my childhood there were candy cigarettes and big legue chew. One was basically tubes of chalky candy and the other shredded bubble gum. Both were supposed to emulate adults with cigarettes or chewing tobacco. Now nobody does either of those things but those addicted to nicotine use vapes. Do you think in the next few years someone will make vape candy?
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Isn’t vaping already like candy? At concerts it always smells like cupcakes.
@sammydog01 Sure that is what you’re smelling at concerts?? I seem to get stuck next to the people who are apparently vaping out the ass-end of a skunk w/ diarrhea…
@sammydog01 @tohar1 That’s called marijuana.
@tohar1 @zinimusprime It’s that smell at reggae and Grateful Dead tribute concerts- otherwise it’s cupcake.
@sammydog01 Can you imagine if they sold cupcakes at concerts? Concert arena smells of cupcakes. You begin to crave cuppycake deliciousness, and what do ya know!? Someone is SELLING those sugarbomb crackcakes!
Last concert I attended smelled like the beach, Ben-Gay, Patchouli, old lady rose perfume, weed, and beer.
I had both and was not swayed to smoke or chew. Just sayin
@tinamarie1974 Your bad gurl behavior manifests itself in other ways
@mfladd me, no. I am an innocent former catholic school girl
@tinamarie1974 I knew it! 'nuff said.
@mfladd hahaha I
that episode
@mfladd @tinamarie1974 You two should really just get a room already.
@mfladd @ruouttaurmind oh where is your sense of adventure
You can still buy both.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Confections-Candy-Cigarettes-Pack/dp/B000BXSRT2?th=1
https://www.amazon.com/Big-League-Chew-Original-Watermelon/dp/B06XS23N23/ref=sr_1_3
Ban all the candy! Everyone gets a trophy! No one is ever wrong! Promote emotionless intimacy under the guise of liberation! All the satire!!!
Did anyone else eat shredded beef jerky as a kid? That stuff was good as hell and I never made the connection to dipping tobacco until I was an adult, despite being around plenty of rancher folk.
@Moose That stuff looks like sweepings from the jerky factory floor. lol
@Moose Yup. Wild Bill’s was the best. We used to even pack it like dip. Hold the can between your thumb and middle finger and flick your wrist downward to snap your index finger onto the top. Then we’d put it in our bottom lip, just like dip. Good times.
Nah, I don’t think they’ll make that candy, I write, as I frantically file a design patent . . .
@Pavlov mehbe use cotton candy for the ‘vape’…
(Keep me in mind for the kickstarter…)
Yeah, I thought Big League Chew just announced it would feature a female softball player on the package for the first time.
I remember them. Just what kids needed: a “soft” introduction to tobacco as candy.
And remember those rolls of caps we bought/got as presents so we could fire them at people from our toy pistols and shotguns? And, of course, the more realistic-looking the firearm, the more desirable to the kid.
On the other hand, without cigarettes, booze, fast food, LSD, guns, Vietnam, the Cold War, and assassinations, there might be even more of us Baby Boomers around being supported by the tax dollars of the Millennials.
@rockblossom We had a dope all-black “sub machine gun” that was battery-powered and would automatically feed through a the roll of caps. It had a tiny orange insert at the end of the barrel. The caps would get stuck all the time, but it was still crazy cool. In those days, however, most people didn’t have real military-like guns. Now, police have a lot tougher job since everyone is packin’ and you have to assume it’s a real gun.
Big League Chew was actually developed by former big league pitcher Jim Bouton (of “Ball Four” fame) during his attempted comeback of the late 70’s.
At the time of its release in 1980, societal norms had already changed enough that there was some pushback in public opinion regarding a candy that some argued would encourage kids to want to try chewing tobacco. Actually, the numbers suggest that it might have actually replaced tobacco in many of a high school dugout.
@DrWorm Yeah, I thought I remembered it being marketed to baseball players as an alternative for dipping.
@ddbelyea @DrWorm I don’t know how baseball players get all those good looking wives what with the spittin’ and the scratchin’.
@ddbelyea @DrWorm @therealjrn more greedy people
@ddbelyea @DrWorm @therealjrn @tinamarie1974 I assume you mean gold diggers. Far more confusing is how baseball players have any gold to dig. Or who is giving it to then to watch such a horrible game.
@ddbelyea @DrWorm @therealjrn @unksol yes yes and I agree. More of a hockey fan myself!
Looking at through the optics of the society of today, it seem baffling that candy cigarettes exist, but I thought nothing of it as a kid.
Its weird that I positively loathe being around someone smoking (always have, even when my parents did it when I was a kid), but I still look at them with some sense of nostalgia