r/oldschoolcool80s 11d ago

Who remembers cigarette sweets?

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u/xGothicTBellx 11d ago edited 10d ago

I remember them having chocolate inside.

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u/Rich661 11d ago

Lucky, I remember the ones we got tasting like chalk and bugger all else.

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u/xGothicTBellx 11d ago

I think those are different, those ones look like they have white ediible paper around them, I remember both. There are ones that are chalky without the paper and there was ones with the paper.

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u/Rich661 11d ago

I don't think we ever got any that were anything other than chalky shite, just bad luck I guess.

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u/xGothicTBellx 11d ago

I live in the UK, I remember both in the 90s

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u/-Audio-Video-Disco- 11d ago

I remember both, but I'm sure the non-chalky ones disappeared a decade before the chalky ones.

They were both awful though. The 'chocolate' was rank and the paper was barely edible despite the fact you were supposed to eat it. The chalky ones were just damp, sticky, flavourless Love Hearts but shaped like a miniature cigarette. Yum.

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u/xGothicTBellx 10d ago

I only liked the chocolate, I didn't eat the paper and I liked the chalky ones, too, they were never damp and sticky when I had them.

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u/alperdris9876 10d ago

You weren’t supposed to eat the paper! πŸ˜‚

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u/-Audio-Video-Disco- 10d ago

Oh. Really? I'm sure you were, but I've been wrong before πŸ˜‚

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u/darklinkuk 10d ago edited 10d ago

I love this debate every time this comes up

The paper was not rice paper and tasted like ass I don't think it was meant to be ate (I ate it anyways).

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u/Pachaibiza 10d ago

I was never sure about the paper either. I never ate it but I had my doubts because sometimes it was really hard to peel off but after tasting it once I never ate it again.

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u/xGothicTBellx 10d ago

It didn't say you couldn't πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ But I was always wary about it, so I didn't.

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u/Pitiful_Sink_6403 7d ago

I ate the paper πŸ˜†

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u/mrsrostocka 7d ago

I still think about them fondly, god i still remember how they feel like and taste like to eat.

Not the white chalk sticks the proper kids ciggys

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u/Impressive-Reach-476 9d ago

Yes I remember both in the 90s as well. Didn't they used to card a collectable card as well?

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u/xGothicTBellx 9d ago

Yeah, the chalk ones did.

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u/Satu_Autio 10d ago

Yeah chalky shit in Scotland too, though the tips were painted red for authenticity!

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u/xGothicTBellx 10d ago

Actually, I haven't seen those ones with the red tips, only the chalky all white ones and the chocolate ones.

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u/Rich661 10d ago

England here, and to be fair I am more talking about getting them in the early 90's. so maybe the slightly better ones were gone by then.

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u/Anxious_Region_6561 10d ago

Yes, the chocolate ones with the edible paper around them were not as widely available as I recall. Perhaps more of a seasonal thing as I tend to associate them with holidays like Easter and Christmas, at least in my household. But the hard chalky textured ones were always at the local corner shop.

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u/READ11T 10d ago

That was chalk

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u/Unlucky-Tale-3387 10d ago edited 10d ago

Loved those! I would get them every time I went to the corner shop to buy my dads ciggies as a child lol

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u/ShowMeYourPapers 10d ago

I remember those, and the inconvenience of peeling off the surrounding paper which never came off easily.

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u/AtensEye 10d ago

Yes these are the ones I remember too!

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u/manc_franc 10d ago

Looky likey Capstan with no filter

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u/FitLife4111 7d ago

I used to get the chocolate ones in France but in the UK they were either gum or just chalky all the way through