Try GFUEL. It’s an energy formula with 0 sugar and hardly any calories. I personally haven’t tried it yet although I’d like to because a lot of Pokémon RU-vidrs I watch really like it and are sponsored by GFUEL so they’re always promoting it.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I loved the taste of the candy cigarettes as a kid and as an adult.. I still buy them at the corner store to this day and I’m in my 20’s 😂
I am not embarrassed to say I liked them and still do. They're still available in Canada under the Popeyes brand as "candy sticks", and I think I'm going to pick some up soon. Guess what the solution is? You don't think about it too hard. It's just a stick of sugar, and I've always had a bit of an oral fixation. Never smoked, never will, and I grew up around a smoker. It helps I can't work a lighter even if it was to save my life.
The Zombie Skittles remind me of the Bean Boozled jellybeans, all the beans look like normal flavors and while some tasted like normal flavors, other beans had intentionally bad tasting flavors. Some boxes even had a spinner where you choose the bean the arrow lands on, eat it and hope it isn't bad
The zombie skittles sounds like the same kinda thing as jelly belly’s bean boozled, which was also intentionally bad flavours hidden alongside normal flavours.
Bean Boozled has a catchy name (bamboozled) and came out on the perfect times fads of viral challenges. I feel like that’s the only reason they survived.
@@faeri_ they survived because people usually buy them due to curiousity or as a party game for a quick laugh, no one buys them on their own when there's normal candy, unless they are masochists or adventurous
I love the shift into junk food videos! This is a niche I feel isn't really touched on much in the commentary community, and you definitely do your research. I like how wholesome this channel has always been. The world is so full of sadness and atrocity, it's great to have so many of these positive channels to kick back and relax to. And your community is just as nice as the content!
I 100% agree with you, but one problem i have is that his "coca-cola" jokes are weak and not really funny but If you don't mind these jokes or you agree with them i rightfully respect your opinion
@@manuelvasconcelos8982 I'll give you that! It might sound weird but I don't really come to Striders channel for comedy, moreso for just how pleasant he seems like as a person! I love any of those channels where it kind of sounds like a friend is just sitting down explaining things they're fascinated by to you, and he's a perfect example of that.
To me Pepsi Blue looked too much like you were drinking windshield washer fluid which could lead to cruel and dangerous jokes being played since windshield washer fluid is poisonous.
Calling cigarettes "deathsticks" just reminds me of that one scene in Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Remember, when someone tries to get you to smoke, tell them to go home and rethink their live, just like Obi-Wan said.
Being a Mexican myself I've never seen the chicos candy, and it translates literally into "guys", so the term itself hasn't any derogatory meaning IMO, the fact that they're chocolate and its color alludes to Hispanic people on the other hand might be the reason they got rebranded. A similar case happened here in Mexico where a chocolate covered pastry was called "Negrito"... things didn't go quite well and got rebranded into "Nito" which means nothing in particular.
Interesting... Hell even I never heard "Chico" used derogatorilly. Perhaps is one of those words where the derogatory meaning referes to a more archaic use?
@@TheArceusftw nope. I think it is something only a small portion of Americans, probably from a place in the West Coast, know. I've never seen that slur until today. And I'm Mexican.
One day on the school bus on the way home, one of the high schoolers had one of those candy cigarettes. They were the type that would even “smoke” if you blew the candy dust off of them. Well the bus driver saw the teen “smoking” & thought it was the real thing. The bus driver yelled & pulled the bus over. The teen ate the “evidence” & the bus driver refused to continue to drive home until someone fessed up & gave over the cigarette. There was nothing to give!! We sat there for hours until the school demanded we drive back to the school. Meanwhile, none of the parents (like mine) knew why the school bus was hours late & this was before cell phones. So all the kids on our route just “vanished!” In the end no one got in trouble - teen or driver - & I missed the Disney Afternoon that day because it was before we owned a VCR…
I can definitely relate to the sugar-free gummy bears one. I had a bag when I was visiting my older brother in Maine. The second day was spent on the hotel toilet with Pepto-Bismol
About Zombie Skittles, last year I went trick-or-treating with my friends. At one of the houses, the only thing there was a GIANT BAG OF ZOMBIE SKITTLE PACKETS.
As a latino I don't think the name "chicos" is offensive, i even find it adorable because the candies resemble baby-shaped people and chicos means "boys" anyway (sorry if my english is weird :(( )
I'm Cherokee/ Scot. Redskins may be a bit insensitive, but Chico certainly is not. Some folks just aren't happy, unless they're offended by something. 🙄👈
The funny thing with the Skittles is that this immediately made me think of just how far manufacturers went with the real life Every Flavor Beans, actually including all the nasty flavors that were mentioned in the Harry Potter books. But at least those had a legitimate excuse in that this was done to be as authentic to the source as possible. This just feels like a really bad Halloween prank gone wrong.
I honestly feel like the Rotten Flesh Skittles was more an attempt to appeal to the spirit of the Halloween season gone too far than anything else. I mean, if you compare them to the Every Flavor Beans, you'll notice that those had flavors that were meant to be gross intentionally, most likely as a sort of "risk versus reward" kind of gamble, if you want to think of it that way, in my opinion. Besides, sometimes kids actually WANT to try something that sounds like it might be unappealing, even if just out of curiosity; in fact, I remember that my younger brother and sister had at one point when we went to a huge candy store each bought a bottle of bacon flavored soda, despite them not expecting it to taste good. It wound up sitting in our fridge for quite a long time (I think it was years, if I'm not mistaken) before they finally decided to try them out of curiosity, I took a sip, too, and while it was definitely odd, it wasn't as bad as I thought it might be, all things considered
if I'm honest I don't even think it was taken too far. the skittles were edible, i just find the concept a bit baffling. zombies don't exactly eat other zombies. i guess they wanted to capitalize on the zombie boom, but even considering that, they were a bit late for that train by 2019/2020. dunno, they could do green sludge or something like fanta when they did a blood red version a halloween or two ago.
the strangest thing is I actually saw the "cocaine" drink at five below the other day, so it is still mildly available at stores. edit: I also remember seeing a four loko can on the floor, and again I was questioning their legality
I used to mix a 20oz bottle of Pepsi blue and a 20oz bottle of code red every lunch break back in 2002ish when I worked at Kmart. This mixture turned into a fantastic kinda translucent purple drink that I’m sure has caused health issues. Tasted great though.
@@danielfranz6560 no bubblegum cigars are different. Bubblegum cigarettes looked like filterless cigarettes wrapped in white paper with powdered sugar on the inside of the paper so when you blew through them they would send out puffs of sugar that looked like smoke.
I actually remember candy cigarettes having the same branding as real cigarettes. I fondly recall getting a pack of Camel candy cigarettes a few times as a kid. I remember them being chocolate flavored. Always liked them, but hated smoking. I still hate smoking. Also, the fact Fritos didn't market Wow chips with the phrase "they're the shits", is a missed opportunity.
Oh yeah, haha, I used to get them when I was a kid as well. A bunch of my uncles smoked and I would always tell them not to, with a pack of chocolate cigaretts in my pocket lol
I remember when I was a kid, I used to buy those candy cigarettes from the icecream truck.. the ones they used to sell there, had extra powder wrapped in them that you could blow out so it looks like smoke! 🚬 I'm surprised nobody is mentioning that aspect of them. Thankfully, I never became a smoker but I understand how crazy it is that they were ever sold to kids!
I remember mindlessly picking up a zombie skittles packet from my Halloween candy bag. The flavors were pretty good but then I just started gagging when I took a green one. I had to read the packaging and I hated myself for the rest of the day 💀
Oh the candy cigarettes, I've only had them like once and they were given to me by my grandparents. I remember vividly the thing I thought was cool about them was that it was literally cigarettes but for me, and candy. A lot of my close family smoked and I was convinced I would do that when I was older. Now that I'm actually older, I get to see the consequences of smoking not just on my family but by the public as well.
We actually still have candy cigarettes over here at my little convenience store but they're not called candy cigarettes they're just called sugar sticks and they're a lot smaller and skinnier than candy cigarettes probably so that they look as little as a cigarette as possible
I remember being a kid in the early 90's and going to store with Mom, she would buy herself a pack of smokes and get me the candy cigs, until she quit awhile later.
I remember reading sugar-free gummy bear reviews with my family and dying of laughter at how creatively descriptive they all were. 10/10 would read again.
I *loved* Pepsi Blue when it came out and if I think long and hard about it, they might have definitely put something in it because it bordered on addiction. The aftertaste, as I remember, was more cotton candy than blueberry to me. And then they pulled it from shelves when the EU banned Blue 1 as an ingredient. I still miss it to this day.
#1 Pepsi Blue was an interesting soda with a berry flavor. I also remember Jolt Cola in the 1980s for the insane amount of caffeine. What I really like is the Mountain Dew flavors of "Code Red," "Voltage," and "White Out." This led to the Independence Day (July 4th) themed "Red White and Dew" flavor that mixed all three flavors that give the soda a purple color. It has a nice berry soda taste, and I'm one person petitioning Applebee's to feature this drink for the summers.
@@OliverRatts I might actually have something to "one-up" you on this. PEEPS FLAVORED PEPSI. I am totally serious, and I tried this interesting flavor adventure. It is very sweet, but drinkable. It has a caramelized sugary finish to it. It is interesting, but I will not be drinking anymore of this. I think Pepsi wanted to bring in Spring and/or Easter with a splash. This was terrible!
I remember Jolt. I drank a can of it before I left Chicago and drove all the way to the middle of NY, the Mohawk Valley area, without stopping except to use the restroom. When I got to NY about ,16-18 hrs later, I was still jumpy and couldn't sleep until the next night. It lasted about 48 hrs for me, I guess bc I wasn't used to all that caffeine and sugar. I tried almost everything to flush it through my system and to calm down but it was no use it just had to run its course I guess. It was very powerful for me. If it's your first time trying any energy drink be prepared for anything. They are not safe bc it can lead to heart palpitations and heart attaches as well as weight gain and other issues to. Just remember everything in moderation, bc to much of any one l thing can be harmful.
If you’ve ever been to a Halloween party where they have those “feel the gross object” thing going on, that’s probably what makes Zombie Skittles so popular during the holiday: it fits the more “Do you dare” aspect without doing something rather questionable. The fact that it’s just a gross flavor that makes it infamous probably helps too, as it’s pretty much harmless in contrast to everything else on this list.
yeah, i think it just failed because bean boozled was already doing the same thing, and kinda did it better by having different kinds of gross flavors to make the challenge more interesting
@@garywheeler7039 And they actually came out with them IRL like another comment mentioned and then Jelly Belly brought them back as bean boozled, it's crazy how accurate flavors like dirt and grass were, and I could see earth worm being accurate but don't remember how close the ear wax one was. They're fun but are at least balanced with a good flavor of the same color and not knowing what you're going to get. Not sure if the Skittles one has good flavors mixed in or not. EDIT: I guess most are good flavors but still, a minority being one bad flavor is kind of weird and it could be any random color, not multiple weird flavors that are color coded but with a good one of the same color.
I loved candy cigarettes and never became a smoker. Just like I loved root beer and never became a drinker. I pretended like I was drinking beer when I was a kid. Choice is still king.
According to one tribe that once practiced cannibalism, human flesh tastes similar to to pork (which makes sense as pigs are sometimes used by scientists as human analogs due to similarities in body tissues) which is why they referred to it as "long pork". Saw it on an episode of River Monsters where host Jeremy Wade was investigating a case involving a species of fish that was attacking the "privates" of local men (known locally as the "Ball Cutter") and Jeremy used pork (as a substitute for human flesh) as bait. Ironically, he discovered the culprit was introduced species of piranha which normally feed upon nuts and vegetation, but unfortunately they became a invasive species and became carnivorous due to the ecological damage they caused by eating local plant life. The episode always stuck with me cause it answered the question, what does human meat actually taste like? So I'd imagine rotting human flesh would probably taste similar to rotting pork!
@@tonyrogganbuck2413 That's why the name the natives gave the attacking fish translates as Ball Cutter. Makes you wonder if they were attacking men's testicles cause they mistook them for actual NUTS.
The epic airport security review on Amazon of the sugar free Haribo gummies had me rolling and feeling horrified at the same time. The poor guy ate some while waiting in the airport security line and when the rumbling started the TSA thought he was smuggling something and well it didn’t end well for the TSA agent or the poor consumer.
I have never understood why anyone would want to give a drunk caffeine, especially if they are being obnoxious. You just ended up with a wide awake drunk.
Just wanted to comment and say your videos have been really wonderful to watch while I’ve been home sick! You are such a cheery and nice fellow, thank you for your kindness and the effort you put into your videos 😊
sounds to me like skittles tried doing their own take on the iconic "beanboozled beans" with their zombie skittles idea, which i guess makes sense, but in my honest opinion, if i wanted to do a new twist on a piece if candy, i wouldn't wanna mimick beanboozled in the slightest. what about making flavors meant to troll others is a good idea? just the gamble of it all? im overall very mixed on this
well in the case of beanboozled it leans more into the Russian roulette aspect of the candy in the form of the beanboozled challenge. in case you didn't know, the beanboozled jellybeans come in a special box/tin/case with a spinner wheel included. the challenge involves you and one or more of your friends taking turns spinning the wheel, with each space having corresponding jellybean, or rather two. this is where the risk comes in as you have to eat the jellybean matching the one you landed on, but there's a catch: as each jellybean on each space represents two different beans that, while the look the same taste radically different. (for example one could be peach or barf flavored.) with points being awarded accordingly. (two for swallowing a bad tasting bean, one for spiting it out and none for getting the non-gross bean.) with the goal of getting the most points at the end. though players are allowed to come up with custom rules to add to it, such as how many time a player must chew before swallowing the bean etc.
There was actually one that you missed... Called Chocolate Babies... You might obviously realize why they were banned and discontinued, but... Surprisingly enough, they were actually a favorite candy of the late Beatle George Harrison
My country sell something with a similar name, Choco Babies, but they're just harmless little chocolate pellets that look suspciously like rabbit poop.
The Nestle magic ball had a warning on the packet saying very clearly "warning toy is not suitable for children under 3 years old, choking hazard" My guess is adults brought them for under 3 year old children without even bothering to read the warning. I was 7 years old so I never stuck them in my mouth.
#9 I'm 51, and I remember these as a young kid in the 1970s in the U.S. They had a mint like taste, which was actually like mouthwash. In the 1980s, there was also Big League Chew bubble gum. This was shredded bubble gum that resembled an outsized attempt to look like chewing tobacco, and the bag it came in looked like a traditional chewing tobacco pouch.
The older version on candy cigarettes I remember in the 70s/early 80s were chocolate sticks wrapped in an edible rizla/rolling paper! They even came in boxes that were perfect recreations of genuine brands (I always loved the look of the Camel brand)
The ''older version" dates back to at least the '40's, when I was a kid. They were essentially molded powdered sugar with a dab of red food-coloring as "fire" and they were loosies, two for a penny.
I’m not surprised that the “blackout in a can” was made by people from Ohio University. I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life and both my parents went to OU for college. That city has so many bars and restaurants, it’s literally the perfect place for college parties.
Now that's how you do a sponsorship Strider! You really went above and beyond in making it personal and less soulless than others. Just a taste of personality and proof that the RU-vidr actually tried the sponsorship makes the ad actually watchable.
I'm in the US and you're absolutely right when you said "it starts with you". I had candy cigarettes in the 70's and I haven't ever once wanted to smoke. They were a fun novelty. No need to ban things, just teach the kids the difference between candy and cigarettes. It isn't that difficult.
I remember trying the rotten flesh skittle. It was pretty gross and tasted similar to the rotten egg jelly bean. It was fun trying it with my friends tho lol
i tried them, and it wasnt so bad. it's like those harry potter jelly beans. you know what your getting into by trying them, and the reactions more than make it worth the money.
Strider, you could literally make a top 100 list of the most boring words. I’d still watch it. You bring so much life to your videos and I’m really enjoying you branching out and trying new subjects. You are literally my favorite content creator on this website
I remember having the candy sticks back when I was younger, the one I would always go for was the Popeyes themed ones. Never realized people would actually smoke them like actual cigarettes though
I always got ones with Spiderman on them in my trick or treat bag as a kid! I knew they were supposed to be cigarettes but it never occurred to me to pretend to smoke them lol. My mom smoked and quit and then took up smoking and then quit again on and off throughout my childhood, and I had no desire to imitate that kind of behavior. Plus cigarettes make you smell like ass.
Honestly it stuns me that you grew up with no friends. You are one of the kindest most understanding people I've ever come across! I grew up without friends too. Your channel has helped me through panic attacks. Thank you for that
I tried the "Zombie" Skittles when I was in school. I remember it tasting like an expired drink but in a physical form. Another time I tried it, it tasted like dried orange pulp.
Candy Cigarettes in america (at least the ones I’ve been to Pennsylvania,Florida,Nevada)are very extremely rare to find usually only found in mom and pop candy shops
The rotten zombie skittles tasted to me what I imagine a mix of raw meat and some insanely sweet cherry would taste like, it was the worst tasting food i’ve ever eaten.
Those candy cigarettes have reached a point where they are rare enough in the States that trying to ban them now would just increase people's awareness that they even exist. I haven't seen one in 10 years
I’ve only ever seen them in tobacco stores. So the only people really exposed to them are smokers. They’re a great prop for high school plays for a prisoner character or something, and a way for people quitting smoking to get the whole oral fixation without the chemicals and stuff. Something more powerful got them off of mainstream shelves than governments: money. Advertising smoking directly to kids is distasteful, and turns people away from buying other stuff.
@@inkersbrew6370 I'm an 80's kid and I remember them. The last time I saw a pack in a Stop and Go was 1992 when my friend's sister pointed at them and their dad yelled "not even as a joke." I would have told anyone they tasted like chalk and I'm not surprised people told you that. Candy cigarettes were made more for the image than anything else.
I had to go to a tourist retailer who sold all sorts of more obscure candy to find them. The rock candy on the shelf next to it and the chocolate coins were far more appealing to me though
Fun fact with the wonderballs, a big part of their repeated reappearances had to do with people smuggling Kinder Eggs in from Europe which were very popular, it was an attempt to cash in on the popularity with people [the most common story is a foreign relative or family friend sneaking a case of them in via their luggage, usually with glowing nostalgia] but often failed because they usually didn't understand that the toy/candy filling was fairly secondary to a fond family memory and actually fairly unusual chocolate for an American palette [Kinder Eggs are two-toned, german milk chocolate on the outside, white chocolate on the inside, and the chocolate softens and turns flexible before it melts] and so they'd usually flop. They finally managed to regain some staying power in the last rough decade.
I didn’t know about the history behind Pepsi Blue. A year ago I just saw it at the local gas station, was curious and tried it. I liked it. I’m a little sad to know it might never come back
I'd buy those candy cigarettes solely for the box art. They're very cool. Also here in my country we had chocolate cigarettes until the 90s, but just one brand made them so no collectible potential. Nowadays they are rebranded as innocuous colored pencils. They still taste like crappy hydrogenated "chocolate" though. Ah, the nostalgia.
I actually my play group did have Candy Cigarettes. We were doing a production of the Outsiders and in context of the book, the main cast are teenagers in gangs, which included drinking and smoking… so we had prop cigars that did look like it puffed smoke and the candy ciggerates… I was such a non smoker that I didn’t even try the fricking CANDY cigars cause I was worried it would lead me to real smoking…. Amazing list like always Strider!
24:34 that’s rich coming from a company like Nestle. Also, thank you for handling the controversial topics with respect. It felt refreshing to watch as well as insightful.
My step daughter was the victim of SA because someone gave her a 4-loco. We had to pick her up from the police station, puking blue, swearing at cops and take her to the hospital. She didn’t realize what had happened to her until the next morning. 🤬
I loved Pepsi Blue. When it originally came out I remember the day it disappeared from the shelf. When I asked where it was at, the guy at the convenient store told me that I was the only one buying it and they don't have it anymore. Then a couple years back when they re-released it I was in heaven... but that was short lived.
To be honest, it's more the personality I feel that makes these videos interesting. You can have the most interesting video topic in the world but I'll still be checking my watch if there's no shits given in the presentation. For instance, a lot of the time with Top X videos, you've seen them once you'll never go back. A lot of them are done-in-one throwaway mindless content. Think Watchmojo, it's dozen spin-off channels or Top 15s. Strider's content exists in a weirder place in that even his worst videos (mainly from using examples that he's used before like SpongeBob's multiple Top X lists) he's already used in other videos) are still very watchable just because he shows some personality beyond "dead inside robot."
The cocaine drink is a really awful example of companies not caring for people as much as they act. If they really cared they wouldn’t have changed the name back to cocaine! Great video, Strider. I love the wholesome content on this channel.
They didn’t accept the FDA telling them what to do and didn’t allow their double standard of allowing a soda product that still to this day, although you won’t see it on the ingredients list for obvious reasons, still includes a very small trace of actual cocaine and banning them, a product which simply uses the word cocaine as a trademark. I’ll agree though that calling your energy drink that definitely isn’t the smartest from a sales and marketing perspective, and while it does have an absolutely absurd amount of caffeine, at the end of the day it’s up to any potential consumer of it to remember: _caveat emptor_ (“Let the buyer beware.”).
I miss the original 4Loco. The combination of alcohol and caffeine is traditional; think of Irish coffee. But the mistake was that many people thought you should drink 4 of them! No, one represents 4 ordinary beers. By drinking 4, you are in effect drinking 16 high alcohol beers with no chance to recover, because of the stimulants. I still drink the current 4locos. The grape is my favorite, the lemonade is a close second. However, one is enough, for at least 4 hours!:)
Well, I can *BARELY* taste the depiction of battery acid in normal Coca-Cola. And yes, I mean *BARELY.* I don't taste that at all in Pepsi. I would seriously give the revamped version of Pepsi Blue a try, if PepsiCo gave the drink another chance.
6:57 the reason candy cigarettes aren't banned in the USA is that we have no reason to ban them. outside of symbolism they have no ill effects and can't be pulled legally. and I honestly think that's a good thing. I'd rather see a kid with a candy cigarette in their mouth than a real cigarette and most people i know say that they taste bad enough that they make real cigarettes seem much more unappealing. the thought process goes "if this is how bad the candy version is the real one must be nightmarishly bad"
When I saw the explanation of Zombie Skittles, I thought of BeanBoozled jelly beans. I never tried those jelly beans, but when looking at the boxes alongside Harry Potter themed jelly beans, I saw a few "gross" flavors in common between them, though not identically named
As someone who lives in the US and is a candy lover, I'm disgusted that candy cigarettes are still on the market and being sold. However, I know that each time I go to a candy store that sells them, it's always in full stock.
As a kid, anti smoking PSAs scared me away from any cigarettes. Even seeing candy cigarettes made me feel disgusted. Hearing that tobacco companies were preying on kids to smoke doesn’t shock me in the slightest. Imagine a vape candy 🤢 Also those skittles remind me of those jellybeans that could taste like pear or boogers and stuff like that
I was born in the mid 50's. So I grew up watching commercials on tv where they claimed that DOCTORS recommended certain brands of cigarettes. Then as we, as basically an entire generation, became old enough to smoke, big tobacco companies started adding chemicals to the tobacco to get us and KEEP us addicted.
As a Latina, we don't mind the Chicos name. In fact we love it. We're just happy to get some acknowledgement Also I distinctly remember Wonder Balls and Pepsi Blue and enjoyed both. I had no idea about Pepsi Blue causing cancer though
Also a Latina here but I gotta partially disagree. This was my first time seeing/hearing about it and I at first didn't understand why they were controversial. I didn't mind it but I also had no idea 'chico' was a derogatory term used for us.. upon learning that, I rather not have that type of acknowledgement..
So i had a bag of sugar free haribos back when was trying to cut back on sugar because it makes me break out and I genuinely regretted my life choices. I actually had to stay home from school because of it
There used to be an energy drink called "Tweeker" which was sold at the Dollar Tree. You'd expect it to be terrible, but they copied the Red Bull recipe EXACTLY. Ingredients, taste, color, even carbonation level. Plus it was 77% less expensive per ounce compared to Red Bull!
My sister and I used to get those packs of candy cigarettes each week. I liked the Round Up packages with the cowboy, she got the Stallion packages with the black horse. It wasn't until my mid 20's that I took up e-cigarettes due to working in the movie theater business, but still limited myself to one each holiday season (otherwise known as absolute hell at that job). When the theaters closed in 2020 I quit. Took it back up when I briefly rejoined that industry for three months in 2022, but haven't smoked since. My sister never took up the habit at all.
I've been subbed for years and years. And still you're doing such unique and special videos with a style of your own. Just wanted to thank you for this. Much love
I’m curious if there’s enough candidates for cancelled cereal products such as the Froot Loops cereal straws. I feel like such a list would be neat. Also as an American while candy cigarettes aren’t banned, they aren’t sold anywhere major either.
Right, I remember I used to get these things in every Easter back I would get as a kid. Which kind of annoyed me cuz I was never into candy cigarettes. I was very very picky with my candy. By the time I got to high school it's like they just disappeared. Never saw a box again in stores or an Easter egg baskets or anywhere really. I mean, this is literally vanished straight off the earth. I can't remember the last time I've seen anybody eating a candy cigarette
@@supersmilyface1 I haven't seen them in gas stations for a long time, but then again I haven't stopped by a particular gas station in years. The only place I've seen them being sold now is a cigarette store in a town I usually go to once or twice a month.
I can just imagine the execs when coming up with that energy drink name...:"Here's a good idea, let's call our drink Cocaine, because there's no way that could ever go wrong!"
I feel like the whole appeal of the Zombie Skittles was supposed to be akin to the Bean Boozled challenge from a few years back. You get to play something of a party game with your friends or prank someone and then shove it online for internet clout. I'd say they had pretty damn good reason to rail on this and not the original, though; the original Bean Boozled challenge had quite a bit of variety in the flavors, good and bad, while with the Zombie Skittles you only get, like, 10 flavors if you count each "zombie" variant as a different flavor.
After hearing that opening, I’ve decided it Strider is literally the most perfect human being on this planet. He has no flaws. He is pure, and none of us deserve him
As a fellow Latino... I don't know which specific countries say chicos is derogative, but in Chile it's not derogative, like a all. Chicos means boys, like kids. Between friends we even call ourselves chiquillos. Hell, chico/s is used constantly here in Chile (some places even using chico as part of their name). We Latinos normally don't care about the names, except if it's REALLY insulting. But most most of the time we laughed it off xD In fact, what actually makes us angry is when people not from latin america say we found something offensive when it's not (the speedy Gonzales controversy and the Whitewashing in Encanto come to mind). Also when you call us latinxs, please never do that If we don't raise our voice about a topic we actually don't really care. Sometimes we like this kind of stupid representation xD
As a latino myself I was confused about how chico was even supposed to be offensive until I looked it up. Apparently in Australia it's used in a insulting and racist manner towards latinos and since the candy is based there, that can explain why they rebranded.
This reminds me of the controversy around the episode of The Golden Girls that was removed from Hulu. A lot of people of color, my family included, found the situation funny. Another complaint I saw on Reddit was the guy that called Crayolia, can’t spell, racist because the Spanish word for black is negro. There are some things that are obviously wrong, but if you’re not sure, look to see how the specific group feels.
I agree. I am in the usa and never hears Chico used as a racial slur (it may be in some areas) I have heard of people saying "Chiks". I am glad however that they changed the names. To be Cheekies sounds much cuter!
Actually tried the 2021 version of Blue Pepsi once and it was pretty alright, It had a nicely subtle blueberry flavor. Now if they could bring back Crystal Pepsi…I can’t help but miss it.
I got one releases of Blue Pepsi (that one from the Philippines in 2018 or 2019 (?) ), and I can tell you it just tasted like blueberry Pepsi. Also in 2018(?) Coca-Cola Clear got released in Japan and I also got it. And it tasted like a citrus soft drink (like 7up or Sprite) but just a little bit sugary and with a pinch of salt (well it's normal for Japanese Coca-Colas to have salt added to it). Another less known Coca Cola, because it was another Japan-exclusive was Strawberry Coca-Cola (in 2020) and it was your typical Japanese version of Coca-Cola (it has more caramel taste than sugary sweet (or terribleness of artificial sugar found in the "diet" version of soft drinks) and has that pinch of salt in it) mixed with a creamy strawberry soft drink (yea creamy sodas and other soft drinks of this type are popular in Japan and many other countries from Asia region). And those two things mixed worked very well. It's so sad it was a limited release. I hope someday it would come back. It was one of my favorites.
@@RyeLeeBread I saw it as well! Loved it as a kid and wanted to try it again! I can't remember, but it was missing something (either sugar or caffeine?) I think. Those would have been the only reasons I can think of for not buying it. I was an EMT so caffeine and sugar was something I wanted lol.
Four Loko is an interesting sort. Had it not been for this video, I would've just wrote it off as one of the other 27 types of beer sold at the 7Eleven I worked at senior year of high school.
I find it humorous that Strider is practically the anti-MatPat due to his pure disdain for Coca-Cola, which was MatPat's favorite soda for the longest time (well, Diet Coke actually, but you get what I mean)
As a native American and Mexican, I'd prefer to be made fun of just like everyone else, but people are always telling me what I need to be offended by, and when all the funny native jokes go away, we're left at the bottom of society still pushed into America's dark corners not even left with jokes to acknowledge our existence. Also Chico has always been a fairly endearing term imo, my grandparents called my Chico and it's really cute
Yeah, you ever notice its always rich white people pushing this crap? LOL at him thinking it had nothing to do with cancel culter. THese companies don't give a crap about any color except green. Also find it funny he brings up BLM imagery considering they were infact a scam run by terrorists.
Bro, same. I'm a bit more annoyed that people were offended by the word chico. It's literally just a Spanish term for boy. Chico could be used in the derogatory manner depending on context and who is being spoken to. But so can the English word boy. If you're talking to a black man in a condescending tone. That doesn't mean the word boy and of itself is a condescending word. It just depends on context. Like all of human language. Frankly I feel more offended that people keep being offended for us. As if we can't take a fucking joke. Oh, half of the time us Latino's are making more offensive jokes than white people or half the other races. Except black people. They're just making as much offensive joke as us. That's why so many of the Great comedians are black men. Those men know how to take a joke, give a joke, and can crack a smile on anybody's face. Even if they don't understand the experience. Dave chappelle, Chris rock. In comedy is supposed to be offensive. Or it wouldn't be comedy. It wouldn't be a joke. I wish more people would understand that. I have no doubt that you do my man. But I just wish more people would understand that. And honestly, the Redskin name change does make sense. That one's literally adjusted derogatory term. Chico isn't in any way from or fashion. But hey, if you didn't care and didn't mind poking jokes about it then that's great. But just in my opinion, that's the only name change that really made any sense between the two. Well, I am also find it weird that they changed the word fags on the candy cigarette. Yes it's a derogatory term, but I imagine that in Australia and in the UK the word fag is still a word that just means cigarette. Which, once again, it just depends on context. Since technically that word can have three different contexts. A slur for gay people, referring to a cigarette, or a bundle of sticks. It's original definition. But then again, with that word as a slur catching up so quickly amongst English speakers all over the world then I guess it makes sense to change that one. Teaching kids to smoke is bad enough, don't need to teach them new slurs. 🤷
I have German British and native American in my blood and unless it's a trail of tears or Holocaust joke I don't care. I always get so pissed when people think that a German Bar Maiden outfit is offensive like no it's only offensive if you go out of your way to be offensive to Germans. Also I don't care if someone has a Dream Catcher I'm like okay and it may help them sleep it's not offensive like wearing a headdress when you aren't a Chief to some stupid music festival
@@elizabethsmith3374 that, are people just get them for decoration. There are plenty of people even within the culture that don't believe in that shit. But they still get a dream catchers just because they're decoration. I agree, there's nothing wrong with that. I've seen plenty of people of plenty of ethnicities, people were not even part of their culture have dream catchers. Plus, I doubt the people of said culture would be offended that people are interested in their culture. Interested in their traditions. I would imagine most other people would find that flattering. Like so many people nowadays who are into Japanese culture. Or the Japanese being into you're German culture. Which I'm just finding out recently that for some reason, as seen in a lot of their anime, the Japanese have somewhat of a little bit of an obsession for the German culture. At least a minority group within Japanese society. And personally I think it's fascinating. I don't see anything wrong with people being fascinated by another culture that's not theirs.I've been interested by so many things of so many cultures that are not mine. Both are in the present and in ancient times. Or comparing cultures and traditions with another culture and tradition that's similar. Such as Mexico's Day of the Dead tradition and, I forget what it's called in japan. They do something very similar. But with the addition of letting lanterns go in the sky the way to honor a dead family member. I could be butchering the explanation of that tradition come and again I don't remember it to a teeth. But in so many ways it's very similar to The Day of the Dead from Mexico. Which honestly surprises me how similar those traditions are from two different cultures on two different sides of the world. Let people have their dream catchers, their samurai swords, whatever the fuck they collect from another culture. There's nothing wrong with intriguement and fascination of a culture that's not yours. What matters is that people respect that culture that's it and that's all. Plus, it's not like you have to be those ethnic people to be a part of that culture. Whether it's just joining in on traditions with Friends of that culture, marrying a lover of that culture and ethnicity, or even just being born within the culture even though you were never blood related. And since I was using Mexico and Japanese people as examples, there are actually plenty of Japanese people within mexico. During world war II they couldn't go to Canada or the us. Till they ended up going Mexico to avoid the war. Same with the plenty of koreans. Same with some chinese. So there's quite a healthy population of Asian people in mexico. Plenty of Asian mexicans, even if they're not ethnically Mexican they are nationally mexican, that grew up with the culture. Plenty of people that are probably more Mexican than me. Being a half-blooded Mexican. For the simple fact that that's the culture they grew up in. Yes or ethically japanese, and hopefully they didn't completely abandon their original culture for their own. They can easily still keep both. But since they grew up in it, since that's a part of their life, I would say that's very much their culture as much as it would be mine by blood. Cultures and traditions are meant to be shared. Even with those who are not blood related. Even thoughs not originally part of the culture. As a wonderful thing. When people can share each other's cultures with each other. Share each other's traditions. If more people would do that, more people would be together, more people would be close to each other. More people would have a better understanding of the other. You being a better place if we shared everything including our cultures. Maybe the world would have more respect for each other like the Greek State for the egyptians. When they first stumbled on to them back in the day, way back in the day, they fell in love with their culture and their architecture. Although the Greeks did many great things in their own civilization, they were mesmerized by the ancient Egyptians culture. I mean how come there's a reason why we have geometry and a lot of stuff. You'd be amazed by what we got from the Egyptians just because they give it to the Greeks. Out of all the ancient empires that existed in the past, those two got along the best. A full-blown symbiotic relationship. Something the world could really use right now.
OMF CANDY CIGARETTES…I’m an 80’s baby so I’m part of the last generation where these were perfectly commonplace. The chalky hard candy ones were bad enough but there were also bubble gum ones covered in powdered sugar that “poofed” when you exhaled over them and I clearly remember being 6 years old going over to see if my friend could come outside and play, puffing away on my “cigarette” and thinking I looked cool as hell. I, however, draw the line at placing the blame on these for encouraging smoking. I mean, yeah, I smoke, have smoked since the first moment I was able and pretty much everyone I grew up with either ended up smoking at some point and quit or still smokes, but that’s simply correlation, not causation. >_>
