These "F*g" candy sticks from the 1980's (F@g is a another word for cigarette in the U.K and Australia)

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Evotech@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Censoring the title makes the word worse than it is. Change my mind.

SpaceFox@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I tried posting it uncensored but it doesn't allow me

Psythik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Find a new instance. Lemmy.ml is pro-tankie. That alone is a good excuse to jump ship.

Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

We got maga basement dwellers on Lemmy wtf

littlewonder@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Some instances have automod for certain words. OP was just trying to post without getting caught in the filters. Be angry at the instances, not the OP.

cimmerian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Agreed. Also why didn't OP censor every mention of it in the picture. I'm deeply offended /s

cactus_head@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think in a way thats the point.

Here in middle east/Arabic counties ppl call black people slaves and dont mean just as an insult. it is so common that as i kid i thought it was a name of a tribe

B312@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I think it was originally a racist thing but it got so ingrained into our culture it kind of isn’t anymore.

Evotech@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

It's more like servant no?

ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Fags contain Glucose, lmao

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

They’re sweet.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thinking it over it's kinda shocking that we had play cigarettes. Then again David Lynch started smoking at 8.

Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y


(Yes, that's a real, lit cigarette)

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

The ones we had were wrapped in paper and you could blow in one end to make a little sugar/corn starch "smoke cloud" come out.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fjkqQiV_Has

cynar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

"Going out to smoke a fag" means a VERY different thing in the UK to the US.

gnutrino@programming.dev · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

As does bumming a fag

DWin@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
dan1101@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

I always internally chuckle when my British friend says he's going out to have a fag.

MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Candy cigarettes or bubblegum? In the USA candy cigarettes that weren't bubblegum were a weird white sugar stick with almost no flavor and a red tip. If you're younger and American they tasted like the sticks in Lik-m-aid/FunDip

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Dip

ObsidianZed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yep, I remember when they stopped calling them candy cigarettes and just changed them to the candy sticks. They also had candy cigars, but I don't remember trying those myself.

reddig33@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Candy cigars were usually bubblegum (at least in the US).

egrets@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

weird white sugar stick with almost no flavor and a red tip

Exactly right!

Contentedness@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

In New Zealand we had Space Man Candy Sticks and the art on the little box is amazing!

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Popeye up in Canada

littlewonder@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I like the taste of the fun dip sticks and the taste of candy cigarettes from when I was a kid :c

Oh no, I might be a beige millennial. Help.

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I used to, but I haven't smoked a fag in thirty years.

SpaceFox@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I hate removed's, always spreading diseases through people throats

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y

I also hate removeds

gmtom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Yeah I remember eating fags during dinner break at school with my mates, some of my mates like to suck on them and savour it, but I just swalled them quickly so I could have more. And we had to find somewhere secluded to do it so the dinner ladies wouldn't catch us.

CannonGoBoom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They later renamed these to “Fads”

SpaceFox@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Where they?

essell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Seen em around lately?

thirstyhyena@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Without looking at the thumbnail, I was wondering if it's Fag, Feg, Fig, Fog, Fug, or really F*g.

Hamartia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I think I remember these. They were a low quality chocolate stick wrapped in paper. I didn't like them. I think I got that they were preying on kid's desire to ape adult behaviours but I may be conflating a decade of memories.

egrets@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think you're thinking of a different product - these were white candy sticks made from corn starch and sugar/syrup. Your comment on the behavior is dead on, though!

Hamartia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Maybe so. I don't remember the packaging half as clearly as I do the crappy chocolate.

gerbler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

These were renamed to Fads at some point. I grew up with the latter.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y

I remember when they removed the red bit at the end 👎

steal_your_face@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Playtime is the time for Fags ಠᴗಠ

AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

I remember, vaguely, that a lake resort my aunt runs (ran?) had something similar, and we aren't even in a backwater, middle of nowhere area of the US. Candy cigarettes in the 2000s seems insane looking back. Hell, pretty sure one of the last times I was there in the 2010s they still had them for sale.

altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Always reminds me of that clerk's episode

https://youtu.be/SjaDG2G-_go

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

In Canada it was a slur for religious people but I think that’s gone out of favour and been replaced with the American meaning of gay

reddig33@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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Boomkop3@reddthat.com · -1 pts · 1y

disgusting