What type of candy cigarette was your favourite when you were a child?

There were also the white, chalky, sugar kind.

Chewing gum, you could blow on them and powdered sugar would come out looking like smoke.

These https://www.candystore.com/candy-cigarettes/ Kings.

The ones @cookieman mentions. They had a red tip too for added authenticity.

I always had a candy cigarette that later turned into bubble gum.

Same as @cookieman. And ours had the red tip as did @flutherother.’s We thought we were such adults pretending to smoke those. As I recall though, they didn’t have much, if any, flavor.

That’s right, @flutherother, they had the red tip too. And yes, @chyna, they tasted like nothing.

Both. Can’t beat ‘em with a stick.

They only had 1 kind.

We had three where I lived, chocolate, bubble gum, and the above referenced chalky kind with the red tip.

The chalk ones tasted best, but the chocolate ones looked the realest. I had to go to the one dingy conveience store in Mechanicsville I could find that carried the soft-pack looking chocolate ones with the red tips. It always felt like an illicit purchase.

The chalky kind was my favorite. The only place I ever saw them was a candy store in Virginia City, NV, an old Wild West town that we used to visit every summer when I was a kid.

I don’t recall the chocolate ones. Are you thinking tootsie rolls?

Naw @filmfann legit they’re like this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERChnciXUAA4L6C.jpg

@Smashley Never saw those!

@Smashley We didn’t have those fancy ones in my neck of the woods!

I preferred the ones that you could see smoke.

The History Of The Candy Cigarette?

I liked the chalky ones too. With the little powdery puff of smoke.

Smoking was strictly forbidden in my whole extended family, considered as evil, and the argument that they weren’t real cigarettes counted for nothing with my mother. She went with the biblical teaching “Abstain from all appearance of evil,” which covered a lot of territory.

But I liked the taste, the texture, and the sharp point it would come to after you sucked on it for a while. Then crunch, bit it in two and munched it down. So of course I simply did it when I thought my mother wasn’t looking.

I could handle that sugar in those days.