• @gerbler
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    23 hours ago

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

  • Thirsty Hyena
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    25 hours ago

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

  • @gmtom
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    35 hours ago

    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.

  • @Evotech
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    10 hours ago

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

    • @littlewonder
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      6 hours ago

      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.

      • @Psythik
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        19 minutes ago

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

    • @cimmerian
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      310 hours ago

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

  • @cynar
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    1314 hours ago

    “Going put to smoke a fag” means a VERY different thing in the UK to the US.

  • @[email protected]
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    10 hours ago

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

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    110 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 hours ago

    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

  • @MothmanDelorian
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    917 hours ago

    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

    • @littlewonder
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      26 hours ago

      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.

    • @ObsidianZed
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      515 hours ago

      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
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        15 hours ago

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

  • Diplomjodler
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    618 hours ago

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