Chocolate Cigarettes question.

cosgrove80

Quick question.

I did a search but couldn't find the answer.

You know those boxes of chocolate cigarettes you can buy in sweet shops, can you eat the paper or not?

I've always unwrapped the but am worried that if it is "eating paper" I'm missing out on the full experience.

fade2black

Haha...I knew that was going to be the question when I saw the thread title. Course you can eat the paper. Unfortunately I mean this in the same sense that you can eat the paper of the books in your house.

passive

Which is, of course, a perfectly legitimate and delicious sense .

cosgrove80

So it is paper paper then?

I was hoping it was like the giant pink & yellow etc. banknotes you could buy.

Damn I'll have to find another way to look cool at the disco

tuxy

When I was young i ate the paper then threw it up 20 mins later. Defiantly not for eating .

Ruu_Old

Used to think you could eat it but it didn't dissolve on your tongue like the bank note stuff does.

whiskeyman

I'm pretty sure now you're not supposed to eat it, but as kids, you'd nearly eat anything.
I saw my 9 yr old cousin chug down a packet of them the other day. He assured me the paper was edible, but I'm not quite sure...

The chocolate in them is naff though. Doesn't even taste like choccy. It's like some kind of rough paste. I guess kids buy it coz it's called chocolate. If only they called spinach and broccoli 'chocolate vegetable', Mothers across the land would be in heaven...

Scraggs

Can anybody remember the different 'brands' of em? My local shop no longer sells them but I remember when I was younger asking for them by names like 'Everest' and my sister asking for 'Old Toad' thinking we were so cool *cringe*.

Faith

I think there was Camels. I remember noticing them a few years ago, when I'd grown up and started smoking real Camel cigarettes. Then there was one in a light blue pack, but I can't remember what it was called.

griffdaddy

it doesnt matter now anyway, they're illegal in ireland since the last piece of smoking legislation was passed, and no i'm not joking.

Faith

griffdaddy wrote:

it doesnt matter now anyway, they're illegal in ireland since the last piece of smoking legislation was passed, and no i'm not joking.

Source?

Hagar

This may be the relevent link.
It's quite wordy so use edit>search on this page to look for the word "confectionery"

Faith

Hagar wrote:

This may be the relevent link.
It's quite wordy so use edit>search on this page to look for the word "confectionery"

Cheers, Hagar. I googled, but only found references to Spain and Holland.

That's crazy though. I know I ate chocolate cigarettes, and later started smoking, but I wouldn't have said they influenced me!

Hagar

You're welcome. I googled for "cigarette confectionery ban" and selected Ireland on the radio button below the search box.

griffdaddy

it was in all the papers including all broadsheets. it came in with the law to ban 10 packs of real smokes. dont really know how to use unison or anything?

griffdaddy

Faith wrote:

but only found references to Spain and Holland.

please tell me they're banned in Holland, that would be irony on a truly epic scale!

Deliverance

Is this thread from the 1980's or what? I haven't seen a choccy ciggy since that decade I believed they were banned long ago for obvious reasons. My brand at the time though were the ones that came with that fine sugary powder which you could puff on to make real looking smoke and look cool. Hmmmm, they were definately banned.
Oh yeah and the paper was as edible as eating the corners of your copybook in school out of boredom. It was all a matter of taste.

Donegal Lass

no, dont eat the paper!!

:|

Ah the ultimate question!

on an aside, I loved those banknotes mmmmmmm

The candy sticks were nicer. And you got a free football card.