Way to ruin a food blog...

[thistlechaser]

I love reading food blogs. Cooking blogs, review blogs, anything food related. There's one I've been especially enjoying, he reviews lots of funky things from his local dollar store. Then I got to an entry about candy cigarettes. The post started with:

Candy cigarettes. The very concept gives bluenoses, anti-tobacco fanatics, and health nazis apoplectic convulsions of self-righteous rage and indignation. Back when I was a kid - before America decided to roll up its sleeves and get down to the serious business of turning its citizens into pussies - candy cigarettes were not only widely available, but were marketed using real cigarette brands and package art.

I... wait... what? None of his other posts have had this feel to it, at first I was sure it was a joke or a parody or something, but nope. Now suddenly reading his blog has a Rush Limbaughesque feel to it.

Yo parents! Stop raising pussies! Forget the candy cigarettes, give your kids real ones! This is AMERICA after all!

Edit: He also picked and ate mushrooms growing in his yard without knowing what they were. D: D: D: Do not do that, people! Even if you think you know what a mushroom is, there are many that look alike -- poisonous ones that look like safe ones!

Comments

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

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!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I forgot about chocolate Ice Cubes! Those were so good!

And haha, I think you're right about the mushroom/brain cell connection.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to say, I looked on Amazon and you can order the chocolate ice cubes there. So tempting! Must resist! I thought they were long gone from this world.

[quistie.livejournal.com]

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...)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! I think you're right!

I still boggle at the idea of finding random mushrooms in your yard and eating them. How does anyone think that's an okay thing to do? I'd hope that even little children know the dangers of it!

[liedra.livejournal.com]

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 :(

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! One day I'll order Kinder Eggs online. The idea of a toy inside of chocolate is the best thing ever!

[prettyredeyes.livejournal.com]

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

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I had a lot of fun smoking candy cigarettes, but I'd never ever smoke real ones. He could have gotten the point across without all the extra stuff, yeah...

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

I remember not hating candy cigarettes...but then I had bad acid reflux as a kid, so the powdery antiacid properties might have something to do with it.

Now smoking...Man I started doing that young. Not for nicotine or to fit in, but because I could breathe smoke. I got to carry around a little thing that burned slowly and I could pass the time just watching something burn. Half the time, I'd take one or two puffs and spend the rest of the time watching the smoke curl. Or blow smoke rings. Almost never inhaled - I was an asthmatic kid, inhaling smoke was horrible.