In the Netherlands they have a character in WInter time. It's always a white man doing black face. Find them in many markets. So inappropriate.... there are many real black people in the Netherlands du to that fucked up colonialism. And of course these black people have problems finding real jobs due to racism. Very strange. Netherlands just employ black people, there should be a quota I every market of at least 20 prozent black people. Very sad
Johnny Carson showed some toys on his show one night. Don't know if your old enough to remember. It had one of those basketball figures that you put a ball in it's upper spring arm, and shoot for the hoop. He couldn't make it and got frustrated. He also had a miniature cannon sold to children. He aimed it at the figure and fired it. It blew the doll across the stage and destroyed it.
"Creepily accurate" that or you'll get genshin impact ads despite your search history making it blatantly obvious that you're already playing their dang game.
I remember buying “bangers” as a kid. Basically a small explosive crystal wrapped in paper that made a bang when you threw it and it hit a solid surface. If you took all the crystals out, you could make a big banger (read “hand grenade”). Fun times.
We had (I have no idea what it was called) these guns that you put a "cork" like thing in the barrow of it and fired and it popped like a black cat. Well being kids we figured out you can get the core out and use it in a different way. Problem was that it was volatile, you so much as scratched it with your fingernail too hard and it exploded...... so for safety reasons we kept distance between our face and the job, fingers not that important, lots of spares..... I agree, Fun times.
I actually had a toy lighter! (1960s) You flipped open the lid (like on a Zippo lighter.) and pushed a button and a tiny light came on. Basically, it was a tiny flashlight in the form of a lighter. Perfect companion for candy cigarette! (Probably worth a fortune to a toy collector today!)
I remember buying candy cigarettes as a kid. I also remember buying Vicks Wild Cherry Cough Drops to have as a snack as well. Back then they were advertised as 'with codeine!' Of coarse, they kind of failed to mention that codeine was- and still is- somewhat addictive so, there's that. I can also say that I don't remember much of the 4th grade but hell- who wants all that learning anyway, right?
Pre 1990s over the counter medicine, as well as children's products, are both the ultimate wtf and could drive enough content for another 10 channels 😆
I also bought the candy sticks but never had the urge to smoke real ones, I also watched Cowboy movies and Tom and Jerry which "experts" said would turn you into a mass murderer I have yet to become one. However since I am 70 I guess I better get a move on. Oh stop typing I am joking.
@@donise8406 I remember the candy cigarettes too. As a tiny tiny child I wanted them to emulate smoking, but as a slightly older and larger child I just wanted them for the sugar. Merely sucking on one end might have been adequate for some, but I would chew the entire thing at once. But the thing I liked best about candy cigarettes was that they didn't taste anything at all like actual cigarettes, which I've always found revolting.
As a child in the 70'ies I had knowledge of the Robinson's jam doll, I had the candy cigarettes (I happened to have never smoked, but I'm an exception). I think the most dangerous toy I had was a working model steam engine, I knew it was dangerous as my father wouldn't let me fill it with water, parafin and then light the parafin, to make the steam. It would, when it had enough steam, chuff along. A rod came out of the steam stack with a wooden knob that allowed for stearing. It was awesome!
As a child born at the Cross over between Gen X and Millennial, I had the black face doll as a toy, ate candy cigarettes, and bought my own pocket knife at 11 with my saved up allowance. I also enjoyed the internet before there were parental controls on it. It was a weird time to be alive.
I used to buy those candy cigarettes as a kid. I remember the ones with the paper wrapping and the powder inside them so you could blow it out like smoke. Pretty crazy that was still around in my lifetime.
Up to the end of the last century "toy" chemistry sets were available with a selection of chemicals. Some of which could be used to make - nitrogylcerine!! One or two bright sparks (or dumb kids?) DID make a test tube full of this and took it to school to show the chemistry teacher how clever they were. Resluting in a call from the school to bomb disposal experts...
In the 1970's I was a part owner of a small gas station/convenience store that sold penny candy (although by that time two cents was a more common price.) I refused to stock candy cigarettes. Both hard candy and chocolate were available.
In Iran we have a genre of play called Siah Bazi that all characters have black face usually played before and after the Persian new year, the mascot of the new year is Hajji Firuz that is part of the tradition. It is the opposite of racism as it predates modern racism by thousands of years and it was originally intended so that people judged the actors based on their skills, not their face or ethnic group.
Yall got internet? If so your whole country has no excuse for such an objectively racist tradition. To be clear I'm not asking for any excuses I'm just leting u know that 2+2=4 and u are a part of the problem. Gross
@@nugboy420 out Santa comes by steamboat from Spain, the blackface dude is his muscle. His arrival is celebrated, no reindeer involved. Kids that weren’t good are stuffed into burlap bags and sent to Spain never to be seen again, or the parents are sent a whipping tool made from small twigs and branches. All in good fun … or is it?. Santa doesn’t really do anything but supervise the nationwide breaking and entering. You can’t persuade/bribe our Santa with cookies and milk, oh and he does the drop on December 5th not Christmas. The expression for framing someone to get the blame is termed “giving that someone the blackface Pete”. Yes, it’s all in good cheer :-P
Ah, I presume the book Simon refused to name was "Little Black Sambo." Also there used to be a restaurant chain called Sambo's. Which, technically, had no relation to the book - except for the decor. When I was in high school I worked at a Sambo's. It was my first job.
golliwog is the character that lady wrote about. My great aunt had a few of those books from when she was a child in her attic. Wildly enough we found out the books were highly valuable...
@@JT-rs5uk My mom immigrated here in her 20s and she has an old legit Golliwog! They still sell them loads of places over there apparently. She was gonna get my daughter one when she was born but I didn't really want her to. I'm rather glad she didn't 😅
I remember sambos, although they disappeared when I was a little kid (I was born in the 70s), a lot of people younger than me think I'm making it up when I tell them those restaurants existed
Grew up with most of these and it was a great childhood. Never wore helmets or seat belts. Drank from the garden hose after my dog, got my first bb gun at 8. I remember going to the store with my dad when he'd buy cigarettes and he always bought me the candy cigarettes. He'd light up a Marlboro and I'd pretend to smoke my cigarette on the way home. Good times.
A note-- growing up in the 80's, both my parents smoked heavily, and I ate the hell out of candy cigarettes, and 40 years later, still never had a smoke.
The fact that you DIDN'T include the doll that has a spot between her legs that makes her giggle when you touch it makes think you need a second episode!!!!
I remember me and my older sister walking to the store when we were kids. We got some candies and stuff. And candy cigarettes. We walked home pretending to smoke them. And a cop stopped us😂 Good times
I amost got suspended cause I bought a fake cigar from a county fair. Its was pretty legit. It was brown, had a red cherry tip, and I dont know how, but it made "smoke." The teacher that tried to bust me, was our part time cop too lol My brother talks about how our cops used to be the main connection for moonshine, and as the years went on they supplied the weed lol most recently, in a multiple state op they busted a few but one got suspended indefinitely for running and using meth. He's currently working as a EMT
@@nicholascorbett1256 I remember gum "cigarettes" that produced "smoke" when you blew in them from powdered dextrose flying off. The gum ones closely resembled real cigarettes. The candy ones looked more like cigarette-colored matchsticks. Add the lawn darts and we had the complete 'WTF 70's America?' set.
I loved candy smokes as a kid, they absolutely weren’t the reason I started smoking at 13. I started smoking because of peer pressure and a desire to look cool AF.
Fun fact Doctors also encouraged smoking for people with asthma as a “cure” especially for kids, their reasoning for this is that when you have asthma you have a hard time breathing & getting air in your lungs. But when you smoke you kinda force air in to your lungs & therefore it help’s your breathing & your asthma 👍
If you haven't done a video on Lawn Darts (aka Jarts) yet you really should. I had them as a kid but looking back now it is insane that they were a common child's toy back in the 80s. At least one kid died from from them when one pierced her skull.
Looking back, I'm just glad my friend was really good at it. I've had them whiz by my skull and land by my feet quite a number of times. Even then I could do the math and got scared, but we just kept tempting fate.
I was expecting them to be on this list. Even said it out loud at the beginning of the video. Lol I loved playing with them as a kid and was miffed when they were banned!
Two kids were killed before the first ban. The ban was compromised away and Jarts could again be sold as an "adults only" game. Then a Jart penetrated the skull of a 7 year old girl, she ran home, collapsed in her mother's arms and died 3 days later. Her father made the rounds in the media to get lawn darts banned for real after that. "From January, 1978 to December 1986 lawn darts were responsible for an estimated 6,100 hospital emergency-room treated injuries," the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported. "Approximately 81 percent of the victims were under 15 years old, and 50 percent were under the age of 10." (Quoted from the mashable article).
@@funguseaterAI I was around then. Lawn darts seemed particularly popular with the "Hold my beer and watch this!!" crowd. Get a few drinks in 'em and they'll still gripe about it.
My grandpa's 5 and dime store still carries the "dinosaur" sticks. When I was kid he had a version to that would "puff" powdered sugar. We had a blast.
My friend from Finland gave me some black candy that tasted like it was made out of chemicals you would find under the kitchen sink. I don't remember the name but it was the most disgusting foul thing I've ever eaten and it's famous in Finland
As a Dutch person, we never really had a history with minstrel shows, and a lot of people don't even draw a connection between Zwarte Piet and black people. Even referring to a racial group as black (or zwart) is a recent development and makes me very uncomfortable since it used to be a slur. I'm used it being followed up with statements about them being too lazy to work or being thieves. It's one step below calling someone the n-word with a very hard g and a very hard r.
Don't you mean "as a white Dutch person"? I doubt black people in the Netherlands agree with these sentiments. It's not a problem for you because you're not personally affected by it. 🤦🏻♂️
The most dangerous toy that I am aware of was Lawn Darts. I played with them as a kid and loved them but I can certainly see how dangerous they could be. They became most dangerous when kids would throw them straight up high into the air. Sometimes the darts would then come down on top of their head and punch right through.
I sort of remember candy cigarettes and chocolate cigars from when I was a kid, but Russell Stover's had so many more interesting things, I never felt all that compelled to try them. The joke shop fake cigs with the talcum powder or w/e that made them appear to actually give off smoke were fun tho. I remember walking away from the shop and my dad motioned like he was lighting up, took a "puff", and then handed one off to me. I was about 14/15 at the time, and small for my age so I probably looked younger. I took a "puff" and handed it down the line of my brothers, who were roughly 12, 9, and 6, at the time. (The youngest was, weirdly, the most convincing smoker. Natural mimic I guess) According to my step-mother, who'd stopped to window-shop and was catching back up to us, this apparent display of negligent parenting was drawing all manner of filthy looks and whispered comments from passersby.
In Sweden you can still buy Skipper Licorice (tabacco) Pipes, although they are pitched as a "heritage" product for the older generation. The Swedes are really into heritage sweets it seems, with recreations of the sweet boxes of the 60s and 70s of now largely defunct Swedish product lines in this age of globalisation coming into the shops or offered through mail order at Christmas time.
I remember one of my friends in the early 1950s came to school one day with crusty yellowish stuff all over his nose. The night before he had been messing around with his chemistry set and sure enough woom!
Some of the deluxe chemistry sets had a radioactive section. A friend had one and it was totally lame. There was a scintillation detector that presumably had a radiation source inside a cardboard tube with a screen above it coated with crystals that would fluoresce if impacted with a particle. You could stare into it for what seemed like hours (but was probably less) and maybe see one tiny flash.
We'd buy candy cigarettes at a joke shop next to a theater. They had a red tip. The shop also sold fake cigarettes that had cotton wadding in the business end and they contained some kind of powder that would puff out when you blew into the other end. I think you'd get a mouthful of powder if you sucked on them. Shockingly, having grown up with those, and Joe Camel, I've never smoked. I think parental involvement has more to do with kids smoking than eating candy cigarettes.
I'm a British Red Cross volunteer, in 2018 unfortunately my local Red Cross office was closing and we were relocating. While clearing out storage, we found a treasure trove of historical items from as far back as world war 2. The biggest surprise to me was that there was a Golliwog Doll, It is speculated that it was donated but may of got lost in storage. Needless to say as the Red Cross, THAT COULDN'T BE PUT UP FOR SALE OR GIVEN TO A SERVICE USER! The doll was taken home by a service manager who had one as a child with fond memories.
The dolls Simon wouldn't name are Golliwogs, my nan had a collection which I still have though obviously don't display them. I keep them for sentimental reasons, I really loved them when I was a kid before I understood them. My other nan gave me some of the old Enid Blyton's 'Noddy' books that had Golliwogs in them too. Believe it or not I saw some ornaments in a small seaside village shop in around 2015 (in Wales, UK) I also remember candy cigarettes/candy fags when I was a kid in the late 90s and I also remember the joke fags that had a red 'cherry' on the end that would light up/blow smoke. IIRC the brand was called 'Smiffy's' and also sold things like that fake chewing gum packets that would snap on your fingers, soap that would turn your face black, fake pieces of poo, rubber spiders etc.. ah, childhood! 😂
Correction: it was the last Governor and Attorney General of Virginia involved in blackface incidents, not the Lt. Governor. The last Lt. Governor was accused of sexual assault. And, these all came out within a few weeks of one another while all three were still in office. So, we had our governor and the next 2 potential successors all involved in major scandals at one time.
As a 67 yr. old I still have fond memories of getting a liquorice smokers set, complete with a liquorice pipe with red candy dots to resemble fire, and little white candy cigarettes,(I think there was more, but I can’t remember now).
We can still buy the white candy cigarettes, but now they're called Popeye sticks. The liquorice pipe set you can find at Dollarama every once and awhile (in Canada).
even in the 60"s there was still often little respect for radiation, as i was on a nuclear powered ship and when i had a film badge (to measure how much i was exposed to) that BLACK (= DANGER) i was told to stay away from the ares for 2 m lonths and they would check on me later(yeah - sure they did)
I really loved the chocolate sigarettes as a toddler. Growing older however, I started to dislike it more and more because by then I figured it tasted like cardboard.
I loved candy cigarettes! I am aging myself here. I am 66. As for minstrel shows, well Al Jolson was a favorite of my dad. My mom on the other hand loathed Jolson. He was trained as a Jewish cantor and my Jewish maternal grandfather thought he'd desecrated his calling by going into show business as a minstrel. My mom shared his opinion.
Me too on the candy. I always thought Al Jolson was annoying and black face seemed insulting to a 8 year old but when you had an uncle who told racist jokes on a regular basis and the nearest you ever got to another race than white was on tv I didn't think about it for long.
Zwarte Piet has nothing to do with Christmas for Dutch people… Zwarte Piet is Sinterklaas’s helper when they give presents to kids who have been good all year. It’s celebrated around the 5th of December each year. Zwarte Piet also has nothing to do with racism for people from the Netherlands. We LOVE Zwarte Piet.
Negrobilia is an entire category of collectible. eBay has, or had, an entire category just for it and antique shows specializing in Negrobilia are regular things.
Ahh...I miss the old candy cigarettes that had sugar dust in them. You got one good puff out of them that looked like real smoke. Even at the time we kids knew that they were...not good. But they looked real cool when we played "Vietnam" in the woods behind our houses.
My Dad and his brothers, growing up in Victoria, BC, would visit a shoe store with an X-ray machine. The gimmick was that you could get a more perfect fit using their machine. Dad remembered watching the bones of his feet wiggle, meaning that the machine was on continuously. He didn't remember how many times he did this, but he must have received massive doses each time. It didn't seem to do any of them any harm Uncle Mal: died aged 82, cancer. Wilf, died aged 95, old age. Les, still alive at 96. Dad, died aged 93, old age BIll, dad's twin, died age 91, old age and Post-polio syndrome. Beth, still alive at 86. I don't know if she joined in, but all the boys did.
I think we still have Popeye Cigarettes in Canada.... they have just changed the name to Popeye Candy Sticks, and they stopped adding the red food colouring to the tip to make them look like the cherry of a cigarette. I know for a little while they change the shape of them so they were like tiny bar but they eventually went back to the cigarette cylinder shape last I actually looked.
Can confirm. You can get them at the dollarama up the road from my house xD I still love them. The flavor is like nothing else, they were always one of my favorite candies at Halloween lol
Got a Chemistry Set for my 8th birthday. Figured out how to blow things up real good. For my 9th birthday, I got a Johnny Action weapons set, with uniform included. The mini-submachine gun fired rubber bullets. (Batteries not included.) Learned tactics and strategy. "Smoked" a pack of candy cigarettes a day. In high school, in my Physics class, I learned about fission and fusion, and the Principle of Less-is-more: (don't try this @ home) 5 kilos of fissionable material+H³+cobalt = Blow things up better. Later in life, I found myself in a "space" and a "place" where "things" were blowing up real good all around me. Ultimately... I understood a simple principle... actually two: 1.) What's bred in the bone... 2.) Adrenaline is the ultimate FIX. CAUSE AND EFFECT. Just the same: No regrets... just wonder. No mystery: What one does unto others, one does to oneself. I am. You are. We were. But spare your SELF and the children. They do not make this World, but live in it without a voice in larger "things". 👁️
The science kit is not the worst example of playing fast and loose with uranium. Fiesta dinnerware made from 1936 to 1972 contained radioactive glazing, and people ate off it! I remember a professor holding up a plate to a Geiger counter and being stunned how radioactive it was. Also, I grew up in the 70s and never saw a minstral doll, so they were probably rare by that time.
Even in the early 2000s, I grew up loving candy cigarettes even though I adamantly never wanted to smoke. Not surprised they're incredibly difficult to find nowadays, but they were as much fun as a kid as pretending your breath fogging up was a cigarette!
In Australia, you can still find them. Although the design and name has changed. The used to be white with a red tip, the red tip is gone now, and they used to be called Fags (a whole other issue we need not to into), now they're called Fads.
Pretty sure I've heard of this in a brain blaze video, but this is the beauty of having multiple channels is you can rehash the same subject from a different angle and present it differently.
I ROFLed at the Harry Potter broomstick thing. It's hard to imagine that absolutely no-one, from the designer to the executives to the manufacturers to the retailers, made the connection. And now I seriously want one... 😆😈
I am too young to know the original candy cigarettes but I still occasionally have the candy sticks which are basically the exact same thing but they are all white instead. I like the taste of them
I turned 6 in late 1965. I lived in a suburb of St Louis MO. The neighborhood was pretty much integrated. My best friend, Chuckie who lived 2 houses away, happened to be black. Somehow, we got it into our heads to trade places. We used my older sister's stage make-up and presto he was white and I was black. We exchanged clothes and proudly marched to the kitchen where his mother was having coffee with my mother. Needless to say the uproar was significant. We didn't get a spanking or anything like that, but the way our mothers, literally, hosed us down and scrubbed until we were raw. He and I learned we were brothers just pink now.
In Australia the minstrel dolls were called golliwogs and I remember both having 1 and the uproar when they were banned 🤷🤦🏼♀️ Mildly inappropriate but hilarious was then McDonald's released little midi players in their happy boxes.... And one of the songs you could get was Mambo no 5 🤣🤣🤣
There was a candy cigarette I remember seeing at least 14 or so years ago in Australia It was called Big Boss cigarettes and it had a mobster looking character on it
honestly, the Christmas tradition of wearing blackface in some parts of Europe often pre-date the minstrel shows in the USA by CENTURIES context is everything
I remember watching the Black & White Minstrel Show on the telly in the UK in the 1970's and 80's. The only black cast member they had at the time was Lenny Henry. Boy did he get stick for it! And I used to love the candy cigarettes back then.
Those candy cigarettes were a popular thing in the UK well into the 2000s. I used to get them all the time from the ice cream van as a kid. They also sold just straight up fake cigarettes. Not even candy ones.
I grew up in the 60's and loved candy cigarettes. I would have probably went to smoking (my parents both smoked 2 packs a day) but as it turned out I was allergic to cigarette smoke (no worries, my parent's weren't inconvenienced as they continued to smoke even in the car while I choked in the backseat). As an aside smoking killed my mother (she lived to 79 but was suffering for dementia for the last 10 years of her life).
Ah the old days where "good parenting" was that careful mix of neglect and abuse. Where you'd kick someone's ass for hitting their dog but praise their firm parenting if it was their kid. Takes me back.
@@orangegalen you will probably right, I smoke for 30 years before finding out I was allergic to tobacco. Always had sore throats and choked in my sleep which went away within 2 weeks of quitting smoking. I can't believe I went all those years and it never dawned on me it was the cigarettes
That poll you mentioned (3/5 of people think such-and-such...) I think that is a reference to the "3/5 Compromise" that might have gotten sneaked into the references used to produce your script. At the time, politicians were arguing about how to count slaves in regards to the national census. Slaves either added or not added to the total population could effect a whole lot of money and services going (or not going) to one's district. In the end, it was decided (Compromised) that each slave would count as 3/5 of a person . I.e. (5) slaves would be counted as (3) people. Yup, they stuck it right there into the Constitution, yo.
I remember junior aspirins, which were aspirins with a nice orange flavour to make them more palatable for children. I think it's pretty obvious why these stopped being made.
Bayer still makes low dose, orange flavored "Children's" aspirin. Maybe other companies? I dunno. I think parents stopped buying it when aspirin was connected to Reye's syndrome. However, low dose aspirin has been recommended for reduction of risk of stroke in adults.
Remember seeing ads for these in 1960s and 1970s comics. There were even endorsements from schools (true or false?). Nice to see they were actually done.
I remember chocolate cigarettes, but mostly the chalky crunchy kind and the bubble gum cigarettes, that were coated with powder that you could puff out like smoke. I never smoked as an adult though. Possibly because my father, a two-pack a day smoker, died of a heart attack at 43 (when I was nine).
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Do a poll on whether or not TH-cam has enough videos about the demon core and if people would watch your version regardless.
In the Netherlands they have a character in WInter time. It's always a white man doing black face. Find them in many markets. So inappropriate.... there are many real black people in the Netherlands du to that fucked up colonialism. And of course these black people have problems finding real jobs due to racism. Very strange.
Netherlands just employ black people, there should be a quota I every market of at least 20 prozent black people.
Very sad
Johnny Carson showed some toys on his show one night. Don't know if your old enough to remember. It had one of those basketball figures that you put a ball in it's upper spring arm, and shoot for the hoop. He couldn't make it and got frustrated. He also had a miniature cannon sold to children. He aimed it at the figure and fired it. It blew the doll across the stage and destroyed it.
"Creepily accurate" that or you'll get genshin impact ads despite your search history making it blatantly obvious that you're already playing their dang game.
OMG "Criticality Accidents!" Yes, Simon, you TOTALLY should cover the Demon Core.
I'm pretty sure that they've covered the Demon Core before...
I'm pretty sure hes already covered this
I think he did.
With the amount of channels he has, he 100% has covered it long with the elephants foot
Not sure, but Kyle Hill has a very good piece on it as does Plainly Difficult.
I remember buying “bangers” as a kid. Basically a small explosive crystal wrapped in paper that made a bang when you threw it and it hit a solid surface. If you took all the crystals out, you could make a big banger (read “hand grenade”). Fun times.
I did that once. Used like ten packs. Had no clue what I was doing. Exploded a chunk off my bicycle. Lmao
We had (I have no idea what it was called) these guns that you put a "cork" like thing in the barrow of it and fired and it popped like a black cat. Well being kids we figured out you can get the core out and use it in a different way. Problem was that it was volatile, you so much as scratched it with your fingernail too hard and it exploded...... so for safety reasons we kept distance between our face and the job, fingers not that important, lots of spares..... I agree, Fun times.
You can get those at any firework shop or even party stores sometimes. They often call them "pop its". They're fun to snap in your fingers
I actually had a toy lighter! (1960s) You flipped open the lid (like on a Zippo lighter.) and pushed a button and a tiny light came on. Basically, it was a tiny flashlight in the form of a lighter. Perfect companion for candy cigarette! (Probably worth a fortune to a toy collector today!)
oh man, love the jab at the Canadian PM, and omg that make up kit
I remember buying candy cigarettes as a kid. I also remember buying Vicks Wild Cherry Cough Drops to have as a snack as well. Back then they were advertised as 'with codeine!' Of coarse, they kind of failed to mention that codeine was- and still is- somewhat addictive so, there's that. I can also say that I don't remember much of the 4th grade but hell- who wants all that learning anyway, right?
Pre 1990s over the counter medicine, as well as children's products, are both the ultimate wtf and could drive enough content for another 10 channels 😆
I also bought the candy sticks but never had the urge to smoke real ones, I also watched Cowboy movies and Tom and Jerry which "experts" said would turn you into a mass murderer I have yet to become one. However since I am 70 I guess I better get a move on. Oh stop typing I am joking.
The teacher would tell you to spit out the candy and you could say, oh no, cough drops. Teacher couldn’t do much.
@@donise8406 I remember the candy cigarettes too. As a tiny tiny child I wanted them to emulate smoking, but as a slightly older and larger child I just wanted them for the sugar. Merely sucking on one end might have been adequate for some, but I would chew the entire thing at once.
But the thing I liked best about candy cigarettes was that they didn't taste anything at all like actual cigarettes, which I've always found revolting.
Meanwhile in Japan, we had the cigarette-shaped chocolate.
I've read that the Atomic Energy Lab received glowing reviews back in the day;)
Nice one
As a child in the 70'ies I had knowledge of the Robinson's jam doll, I had the candy cigarettes (I happened to have never smoked, but I'm an exception). I think the most dangerous toy I had was a working model steam engine, I knew it was dangerous as my father wouldn't let me fill it with water, parafin and then light the parafin, to make the steam. It would, when it had enough steam, chuff along. A rod came out of the steam stack with a wooden knob that allowed for stearing. It was awesome!
As a child born at the Cross over between Gen X and Millennial, I had the black face doll as a toy, ate candy cigarettes, and bought my own pocket knife at 11 with my saved up allowance.
I also enjoyed the internet before there were parental controls on it. It was a weird time to be alive.
I used to buy those candy cigarettes as a kid. I remember the ones with the paper wrapping and the powder inside them so you could blow it out like smoke.
Pretty crazy that was still around in my lifetime.
Up to the end of the last century "toy" chemistry sets were available with a selection of chemicals. Some of which could be used to make - nitrogylcerine!! One or two bright sparks (or dumb kids?) DID make a test tube full of this and took it to school to show the chemistry teacher how clever they were. Resluting in a call from the school to bomb disposal experts...
Candy cigarettes were still a thing when I was a kid in the late 90s. Both chocolate and gum variations, kind of weird now that I look back on it.
Mmm chalky candy sticks
I still remember how they taste
In the 1970's I was a part owner of a small gas station/convenience store that sold penny candy (although by that time two cents was a more common price.) I refused to stock candy cigarettes. Both hard candy and chocolate were available.
In Iran we have a genre of play called Siah Bazi that all characters have black face usually played before and after the Persian new year, the mascot of the new year is Hajji Firuz that is part of the tradition. It is the opposite of racism as it predates modern racism by thousands of years and it was originally intended so that people judged the actors based on their skills, not their face or ethnic group.
I can still remember the taste of candy cigarettes, and never once did it make me think, "These make me want to smoke *_real_* cigarettes."
'Zwarte piet' isn't a Christmas thing in The Netherlands. They're associated with Sinterklaas, which we celebrate on december 5th :)
Do you mind me asking what the heck is that? :) sounds interesting
Yall got internet? If so your whole country has no excuse for such an objectively racist tradition. To be clear I'm not asking for any excuses I'm just leting u know that 2+2=4 and u are a part of the problem. Gross
@@nugboy420 out Santa comes by steamboat from Spain, the blackface dude is his muscle. His arrival is celebrated, no reindeer involved. Kids that weren’t good are stuffed into burlap bags and sent to Spain never to be seen again, or the parents are sent a whipping tool made from small twigs and branches. All in good fun … or is it?. Santa doesn’t really do anything but supervise the nationwide breaking and entering. You can’t persuade/bribe our Santa with cookies and milk, oh and he does the drop on December 5th not Christmas.
The expression for framing someone to get the blame is termed “giving that someone the blackface Pete”.
Yes, it’s all in good cheer :-P
I was gonna say Google it but wow....wow....you are amazing Maurice! My stoned mind was blown away
Also zwarte piet and black face ARE NOT THE SAME. Just to be clear….
I had Johnny Eagle guns as a kid, they fired reloadable, spring powered bullets. I also ate candy cigs but never got into smoking.
Ah, I presume the book Simon refused to name was "Little Black Sambo." Also there used to be a restaurant chain called Sambo's. Which, technically, had no relation to the book - except for the decor. When I was in high school I worked at a Sambo's. It was my first job.
If My memory is correct, the name Sambo's was a combo of the two men who started it. had nothing to do with the book as you pointed out.
golliwog is the character that lady wrote about. My great aunt had a few of those books from when she was a child in her attic. Wildly enough we found out the books were highly valuable...
@@JT-rs5uk My mom immigrated here in her 20s and she has an old legit Golliwog! They still sell them loads of places over there apparently. She was gonna get my daughter one when she was born but I didn't really want her to. I'm rather glad she didn't 😅
I remember sambos, although they disappeared when I was a little kid (I was born in the 70s), a lot of people younger than me think I'm making it up when I tell them those restaurants existed
@@maxdanielj turns out one of the last ones closed in utah in the mid 80s
Grew up with most of these and it was a great childhood. Never wore helmets or seat belts. Drank from the garden hose after my dog, got my first bb gun at 8. I remember going to the store with my dad when he'd buy cigarettes and he always bought me the candy cigarettes. He'd light up a Marlboro and I'd pretend to smoke my cigarette on the way home. Good times.
Did the same. Never smoked for real as an adult.
@@fluffy6169 Same.
I agree with Mitchell Forney below: "OMG "Criticality Accidents!" Yes, Simon, you TOTALLY should cover the Demon Core."
A note-- growing up in the 80's, both my parents smoked heavily, and I ate the hell out of candy cigarettes, and 40 years later, still never had a smoke.
The fact that you DIDN'T include the doll that has a spot between her legs that makes her giggle when you touch it makes think you need a second episode!!!!
It was featured on another of his channel's recently.
Wait, what?!
Wtf
That's horrible! Where? :P
That reminds me of a story about a defective tickle me elmo that would only laugh if you rubbed it's junk.
I remember me and my older sister walking to the store when we were kids. We got some candies and stuff. And candy cigarettes. We walked home pretending to smoke them. And a cop stopped us😂
Good times
Got detention for the same concept. Good times indeed! 😂
I amost got suspended cause I bought a fake cigar from a county fair. Its was pretty legit. It was brown, had a red cherry tip, and I dont know how, but it made "smoke." The teacher that tried to bust me, was our part time cop too lol My brother talks about how our cops used to be the main connection for moonshine, and as the years went on they supplied the weed lol most recently, in a multiple state op they busted a few but one got suspended indefinitely for running and using meth. He's currently working as a EMT
@@nicholascorbett1256 I remember gum "cigarettes" that produced "smoke" when you blew in them from powdered dextrose flying off. The gum ones closely resembled real cigarettes. The candy ones looked more like cigarette-colored matchsticks. Add the lawn darts and we had the complete 'WTF 70's America?' set.
A friend of mine was stopped by the Guards (Ireland) one night because they saw him snorting sherbet.
The idiot.
Yes it was a popular candy and gum in a pack that is incredibly similar to cigarette pack. 😂😂
You know what I legitimately want to know? Where did you get your shirt? 😌 now I’m going to be up on Amazon all night 😂
I loved candy smokes as a kid, they absolutely weren’t the reason I started smoking at 13. I started smoking because of peer pressure and a desire to look cool AF.
Agree 100% I had a serious candy smoking problem as a kid. Never smoked for real.
Fun fact
Doctors also encouraged smoking for people with asthma as a “cure” especially for kids, their reasoning for this is that when you have asthma you have a hard time breathing & getting air in your lungs. But when you smoke you kinda force air in to your lungs & therefore it help’s your breathing & your asthma 👍
If you haven't done a video on Lawn Darts (aka Jarts) yet you really should. I had them as a kid but looking back now it is insane that they were a common child's toy back in the 80s. At least one kid died from from them when one pierced her skull.
Looking back, I'm just glad my friend was really good at it. I've had them whiz by my skull and land by my feet quite a number of times. Even then I could do the math and got scared, but we just kept tempting fate.
I was expecting them to be on this list. Even said it out loud at the beginning of the video. Lol I loved playing with them as a kid and was miffed when they were banned!
They often come up in those dumb "when I was a kid safety wasn't a thing" Facebook posts
Two kids were killed before the first ban. The ban was compromised away and Jarts could again be sold as an "adults only" game. Then a Jart penetrated the skull of a 7 year old girl, she ran home, collapsed in her mother's arms and died 3 days later. Her father made the rounds in the media to get lawn darts banned for real after that.
"From January, 1978 to December 1986 lawn darts were responsible for an estimated 6,100 hospital emergency-room treated injuries," the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported. "Approximately 81 percent of the victims were under 15 years old, and 50 percent were under the age of 10." (Quoted from the mashable article).
@@funguseaterAI I was around then. Lawn darts seemed particularly popular with the "Hold my beer and watch this!!" crowd. Get a few drinks in 'em and they'll still gripe about it.
My grandpa's 5 and dime store still carries the "dinosaur" sticks. When I was kid he had a version to that would "puff" powdered sugar. We had a blast.
My friend from Finland gave me some black candy that tasted like it was made out of chemicals you would find under the kitchen sink. I don't remember the name but it was the most disgusting foul thing I've ever eaten and it's famous in Finland
Nicholas you legend! That joke at the start of the video was great, it caught Simon off guard as well, brilliant.
Lawn darts, had them, smoked candy cigarettes, never real ones, had the lab that melted monsters you made, it smelled awful.
I remember having candy cigarettes and they tasted disgusting, though we all thought we were so cool when we got the ones that appeared to smoke.
As a Dutch person, we never really had a history with minstrel shows, and a lot of people don't even draw a connection between Zwarte Piet and black people. Even referring to a racial group as black (or zwart) is a recent development and makes me very uncomfortable since it used to be a slur. I'm used it being followed up with statements about them being too lazy to work or being thieves. It's one step below calling someone the n-word with a very hard g and a very hard r.
Don't you mean "as a white Dutch person"? I doubt black people in the Netherlands agree with these sentiments. It's not a problem for you because you're not personally affected by it. 🤦🏻♂️
I didn't realize it was even blackface until I was like 16. I didn't know that was a thing!
Not even ten seconds into the video and I already say “And I took that personally.”
Add lawn jarts to your list. The jarts are made out metal with plastic fins and they are tossed into the air at a target some 40 ft. away.
The first time I saw JARTS, I knew they had great potential for injury. We were very careful with them.
The most dangerous toy that I am aware of was Lawn Darts. I played with them as a kid and loved them but I can certainly see how dangerous they could be. They became most dangerous when kids would throw them straight up high into the air. Sometimes the darts would then come down on top of their head and punch right through.
I sort of remember candy cigarettes and chocolate cigars from when I was a kid, but Russell Stover's had so many more interesting things, I never felt all that compelled to try them.
The joke shop fake cigs with the talcum powder or w/e that made them appear to actually give off smoke were fun tho. I remember walking away from the shop and my dad motioned like he was lighting up, took a "puff", and then handed one off to me. I was about 14/15 at the time, and small for my age so I probably looked younger. I took a "puff" and handed it down the line of my brothers, who were roughly 12, 9, and 6, at the time. (The youngest was, weirdly, the most convincing smoker. Natural mimic I guess)
According to my step-mother, who'd stopped to window-shop and was catching back up to us, this apparent display of negligent parenting was drawing all manner of filthy looks and whispered comments from passersby.
Sulphur filled "stink bombs" 3 for .75 cents
In Sweden you can still buy Skipper Licorice (tabacco) Pipes, although they are pitched as a "heritage" product for the older generation. The Swedes are really into heritage sweets it seems, with recreations of the sweet boxes of the 60s and 70s of now largely defunct Swedish product lines in this age of globalisation coming into the shops or offered through mail order at Christmas time.
The atomic energy lab was probably safer than most chemistry sets of the day.
I remember one of my friends in the early 1950s came to school one day with crusty yellowish stuff all over his nose. The night before he had been messing around with his chemistry set and sure enough woom!
Some of the deluxe chemistry sets had a radioactive section. A friend had one and it was totally lame. There was a scintillation detector that presumably had a radiation source inside a cardboard tube with a screen above it coated with crystals that would fluoresce if impacted with a particle. You could stare into it for what seemed like hours (but was probably less) and maybe see one tiny flash.
WAIT. Simon, factboy, you HAVENT talked about the demon core? MADNESS. I DEMAND AN EPISODE IMMEDIATELY... EVENTHOUGH IVE WATCHED ALL ABOUT IT
I genuinely think I woke up half the neibour hood laughing "children are easily amused, which is probably why we still have an audience"
We'd buy candy cigarettes at a joke shop next to a theater. They had a red tip. The shop also sold fake cigarettes that had cotton wadding in the business end and they contained some kind of powder that would puff out when you blew into the other end. I think you'd get a mouthful of powder if you sucked on them.
Shockingly, having grown up with those, and Joe Camel, I've never smoked. I think parental involvement has more to do with kids smoking than eating candy cigarettes.
I'm a British Red Cross volunteer, in 2018 unfortunately my local Red Cross office was closing and we were relocating.
While clearing out storage, we found a treasure trove of historical items from as far back as world war 2.
The biggest surprise to me was that there was a Golliwog Doll, It is speculated that it was donated but may of got lost in storage.
Needless to say as the Red Cross, THAT COULDN'T BE PUT UP FOR SALE OR GIVEN TO A SERVICE USER!
The doll was taken home by a service manager who had one as a child with fond memories.
You should definitely cover the two Manhattan project scientists just the history or the core that killed them both is amazing
The only reason I would argue is that there's already a *lot* of YT videos covering this already...
I'm old enough to remember candy cigarettes for sale in Britain when I was a kid, they were cheap, very sugary, and thus quite popular
The dolls Simon wouldn't name are Golliwogs, my nan had a collection which I still have though obviously don't display them. I keep them for sentimental reasons, I really loved them when I was a kid before I understood them. My other nan gave me some of the old Enid Blyton's 'Noddy' books that had Golliwogs in them too. Believe it or not I saw some ornaments in a small seaside village shop in around 2015 (in Wales, UK)
I also remember candy cigarettes/candy fags when I was a kid in the late 90s and I also remember the joke fags that had a red 'cherry' on the end that would light up/blow smoke. IIRC the brand was called 'Smiffy's' and also sold things like that fake chewing gum packets that would snap on your fingers, soap that would turn your face black, fake pieces of poo, rubber spiders etc.. ah, childhood! 😂
Ahh the good old days I remember them well lol.
Correction: it was the last Governor and Attorney General of Virginia involved in blackface incidents, not the Lt. Governor. The last Lt. Governor was accused of sexual assault. And, these all came out within a few weeks of one another while all three were still in office. So, we had our governor and the next 2 potential successors all involved in major scandals at one time.
Well, they got a free pass, because you know, Democrats they were.
I love seeing this side of you Simon. Just cracking jokes, laughingm and having fun. Keep up the great work.
Ah yes, I have fond memories of receiving chocolate cigarettes from Zwarte Piet as a (Dutch) child >_
I love how Fallout 4 included the nuclear play kit :3 “Collected Fissile Material x 1” lol
One of your best vids! I remember eating/smoking those candy cigarettes…chalky sugar is an accurate description.
As a 67 yr. old I still have fond memories of getting a liquorice smokers set, complete with a liquorice pipe with red candy dots to resemble fire, and little white candy cigarettes,(I think there was more, but I can’t remember now).
We can still buy the white candy cigarettes, but now they're called Popeye sticks. The liquorice pipe set you can find at Dollarama every once and awhile (in Canada).
Toasted shredded coconut for tobacco
even in the 60"s there was still often little respect for radiation, as i was on a nuclear powered ship and when i had a film badge (to measure how much i was exposed to) that BLACK (= DANGER) i was told to stay away from the ares for 2 m lonths and they would check on me later(yeah - sure they did)
I really loved the chocolate sigarettes as a toddler. Growing older however, I started to dislike it more and more because by then I figured it tasted like cardboard.
I loved candy cigarettes! I am aging myself here. I am 66. As for minstrel shows, well Al Jolson was a favorite of my dad. My mom on the other hand loathed Jolson. He was trained as a Jewish cantor and my Jewish maternal grandfather thought he'd desecrated his calling by going into show business as a minstrel. My mom shared his opinion.
Me too on the candy. I always thought Al Jolson was annoying and black face seemed insulting to a 8 year old but when you had an uncle who told racist jokes on a regular basis and the nearest you ever got to another race than white was on tv I didn't think about it for long.
I still cannot figure out what this channel even is lmao.
Also do the nuclear accidents episode you were talking about please :)
Zwarte Piet has nothing to do with Christmas for Dutch people… Zwarte Piet is Sinterklaas’s helper when they give presents to kids who have been good all year. It’s celebrated around the 5th of December each year. Zwarte Piet also has nothing to do with racism for people from the Netherlands. We LOVE Zwarte Piet.
Negrobilia is an entire category of collectible. eBay has, or had, an entire category just for it and antique shows specializing in Negrobilia are regular things.
I want to hear more about the nuclear scientists
Ahh...I miss the old candy cigarettes that had sugar dust in them. You got one good puff out of them that looked like real smoke. Even at the time we kids knew that they were...not good. But they looked real cool when we played "Vietnam" in the woods behind our houses.
Gilbert made the best stuff.
What kid and their friends would NOT want to re-create the Manhattan Project down in the basement or out in the garage ?
My Dad and his brothers, growing up in Victoria, BC, would visit a shoe store with an X-ray machine. The gimmick was that you could get a more perfect fit using their machine. Dad remembered watching the bones of his feet wiggle, meaning that the machine was on continuously. He didn't remember how many times he did this, but he must have received massive doses each time. It didn't seem to do any of them any harm
Uncle Mal: died aged 82, cancer.
Wilf, died aged 95, old age.
Les, still alive at 96.
Dad, died aged 93, old age
BIll, dad's twin, died age 91, old age and Post-polio syndrome.
Beth, still alive at 86. I don't know if she joined in, but all the boys did.
The benefit of well fitting shoes?
I think we still have Popeye Cigarettes in Canada.... they have just changed the name to Popeye Candy Sticks, and they stopped adding the red food colouring to the tip to make them look like the cherry of a cigarette. I know for a little while they change the shape of them so they were like tiny bar but they eventually went back to the cigarette cylinder shape last I actually looked.
Can confirm. You can get them at the dollarama up the road from my house xD I still love them. The flavor is like nothing else, they were always one of my favorite candies at Halloween lol
Comedian Simon is a big improvement.
Got a Chemistry Set for my 8th birthday. Figured out how to blow things up real good.
For my 9th birthday, I got a Johnny Action weapons set, with uniform included. The mini-submachine gun fired rubber bullets. (Batteries not included.) Learned tactics and strategy. "Smoked" a pack of candy cigarettes a day.
In high school, in my Physics class, I learned about fission and fusion, and the Principle of Less-is-more: (don't try this @ home) 5 kilos of fissionable material+H³+cobalt = Blow things up better.
Later in life, I found myself in a "space" and a "place" where "things" were blowing up real good all around me.
Ultimately... I understood a simple principle... actually two: 1.) What's bred in the bone... 2.) Adrenaline is the ultimate FIX.
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
Just the same: No regrets... just wonder.
No mystery: What one does unto others, one does to oneself.
I am. You are. We were. But spare your SELF and the children. They do not make this World, but live in it without a voice in larger "things".
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1:35 - Chapter 1 - The atomic energy lab
5:10 - Chapter 2 - Minstrel dolls & makeup kits
8:35 - Mid roll ads
10:05 - Chapter 3 - Candy cigarettes
12:45 - Chapter 4 - The worst offender
I remember the Lawn Darts controversy. We actually had those when I was a kid.
The science kit is not the worst example of playing fast and loose with uranium. Fiesta dinnerware made from 1936 to 1972 contained radioactive glazing, and people ate off it! I remember a professor holding up a plate to a Geiger counter and being stunned how radioactive it was. Also, I grew up in the 70s and never saw a minstral doll, so they were probably rare by that time.
Even in the early 2000s, I grew up loving candy cigarettes even though I adamantly never wanted to smoke.
Not surprised they're incredibly difficult to find nowadays, but they were as much fun as a kid as pretending your breath fogging up was a cigarette!
In Australia, you can still find them. Although the design and name has changed. The used to be white with a red tip, the red tip is gone now, and they used to be called Fags (a whole other issue we need not to into), now they're called Fads.
I've seen them as recent as a few weeks ago in a local gas station here in kansas. They just took away the red lit ring back in the late 90s.
I too used to eat them all the time. Never smoked!
Oh for a time our shadows neither scared us, nor offended others.
@@stevenjoy3537 Ah yes, and your single story erases all the kids that did go on to smoke! The studies done on the subject are now meaningless!
Pretty sure I've heard of this in a brain blaze video, but this is the beauty of having multiple channels is you can rehash the same subject from a different angle and present it differently.
I ROFLed at the Harry Potter broomstick thing. It's hard to imagine that absolutely no-one, from the designer to the executives to the manufacturers to the retailers, made the connection. And now I seriously want one... 😆😈
Yo, that opening joke kills. Well played, Simon.
I am too young to know the original candy cigarettes but I still occasionally have the candy sticks which are basically the exact same thing but they are all white instead. I like the taste of them
I turned 6 in late 1965. I lived in a suburb of St Louis MO. The neighborhood was pretty much integrated. My best friend, Chuckie who lived 2 houses away, happened to be black. Somehow, we got it into our heads to trade places. We used my older sister's stage make-up and presto he was white and I was black. We exchanged clothes and proudly marched to the kitchen where his mother was having coffee with my mother. Needless to say the uproar was significant. We didn't get a spanking or anything like that, but the way our mothers, literally, hosed us down and scrubbed until we were raw. He and I learned we were brothers just pink now.
I’ll say now those candy cigarettes are delicious. I get them at the beach every time I go there.
My brother and I had a chemistry set in the 1960s. Our favorite project was making gunpowder.
Simon, you have an excellent narration voice, very entertaining 😀
I don't think you'd be deservatively cancelled for saying the character's name, "Golliwogg".
My parents gave me the lead casting set when I was 12. I also had a power drill, and a soldering iron at that same age.
In Australia the minstrel dolls were called golliwogs and I remember both having 1 and the uproar when they were banned 🤷🤦🏼♀️
Mildly inappropriate but hilarious was then McDonald's released little midi players in their happy boxes.... And one of the songs you could get was
Mambo no 5 🤣🤣🤣
There was a candy cigarette I remember seeing at least 14 or so years ago in Australia
It was called Big Boss cigarettes and it had a mobster looking character on it
You can still get "Candy Sticks" in the UK too.
honestly, the Christmas tradition of wearing blackface in some parts of Europe often pre-date the minstrel shows in the USA by CENTURIES
context is everything
Impossible. Everything bad is clearly American.
@@TJDious whoever said it was bad?
I remember watching the Black & White Minstrel Show on the telly in the UK in the 1970's and 80's. The only black cast member they had at the time was Lenny Henry. Boy did he get stick for it! And I used to love the candy cigarettes back then.
Those candy cigarettes were a popular thing in the UK well into the 2000s. I used to get them all the time from the ice cream van as a kid. They also sold just straight up fake cigarettes. Not even candy ones.
Remember the Ipana tooth paste tv commercial with "Hexa-hexa- hexachlorophene"? Showed a little girl cheerfully brushing her teeth.
I grew up in the 60's and loved candy cigarettes. I would have probably went to smoking (my parents both smoked 2 packs a day) but as it turned out I was allergic to cigarette smoke (no worries, my parent's weren't inconvenienced as they continued to smoke even in the car while I choked in the backseat). As an aside smoking killed my mother (she lived to 79 but was suffering for dementia for the last 10 years of her life).
Ah the old days where "good parenting" was that careful mix of neglect and abuse. Where you'd kick someone's ass for hitting their dog but praise their firm parenting if it was their kid.
Takes me back.
Technically, I think everyone is allergic to cigarette smoke...
@@orangegalen you will probably right, I smoke for 30 years before finding out I was allergic to tobacco. Always had sore throats and choked in my sleep which went away within 2 weeks of quitting smoking. I can't believe I went all those years and it never dawned on me it was the cigarettes
Smoking killed my father, and raped my mother.
Seriously my favorite video so far my friend.
F■■KING hilarious!!!
i still remember those candy cigarettes from my childhood... there were chocolate ones and cigarettes made out of bubblegum
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That poll you mentioned (3/5 of people think such-and-such...) I think that is a reference to the "3/5 Compromise" that might have gotten sneaked into the references used to produce your script. At the time, politicians were arguing about how to count slaves in regards to the national census. Slaves either added or not added to the total population could effect a whole lot of money and services going (or not going) to one's district. In the end, it was decided (Compromised) that each slave would count as 3/5 of a person . I.e. (5) slaves would be counted as (3) people.
Yup, they stuck it right there into the Constitution, yo.
That intro... That first line... What is this, Brain Blaze?!?!?!?!
2&0??? Wait till they are 10ish.... Then get back to us on that. 😂
excellent video. Not a word about lawn darts...
I remember junior aspirins, which were aspirins with a nice orange flavour to make them more palatable for children. I think it's pretty obvious why these stopped being made.
Bayer still makes low dose, orange flavored "Children's" aspirin. Maybe other companies? I dunno. I think parents stopped buying it when aspirin was connected to Reye's syndrome. However, low dose aspirin has been recommended for reduction of risk of stroke in adults.
I remember having candy cigarettes as a kid in the early 90s. I didn't pretend that I was smoking, I just liked the taste. They were also very cheap.
If possible please also look into a video about Fort Knox. Thanks again.
Remember seeing ads for these in 1960s and 1970s comics. There were even endorsements from schools (true or false?). Nice to see they were actually done.
We need another episode! Even though some of the subject matter is a bit dark, it's an interesting topic.
You can still get candy sticks in the UK. They're not allowed to be in cigarette style packaging any more though
Voting a *strong* YES for a video on "the Demon Core" and various criticality accidents!
If he doesn't do it. Check out Kyle hill's video
@@theUglyGypsy
Indeed...I have enjoyed that video - as well as most of Kyle Hill's other half-life series. Interesting stuff.
I remember chocolate cigarettes, but mostly the chalky crunchy kind and the bubble gum cigarettes, that were coated with powder that you could puff out like smoke.
I never smoked as an adult though. Possibly because my father, a two-pack a day smoker, died of a heart attack at 43 (when I was nine).
Any videos on the Manhattan Project would be interesting. Also the first electronic computers. :-)