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Why complain?!? They were like sweet peppermint sticks.
This reminds me of a slightly different holiday memory.

During all of High School, by tradition, I would come in with a tin of King Leo peppermint sticks to share with everyone.

Besides being my favorite in terms of flavor, one of the things I loved about them was that, due to their length and thickness (they're a soft, air filled peppermint stick, so they tend to be shorter and fatter than hard ones like candy canes,) they were PERFECT for doing an imitation of a cigar and doing Groucho Marx impressions (I once really blew my chemistry teacher away by showing I could do the crouch walk as well.)

Pity I can't do any of those things anymore(my back would never let me do the walk, I'm no longer in highschool (or any other social group where it would make sense), I couldn't hand the sugar and, most specifically, King Leo seems to have changed the formula so the new ones are thinner, bumpier, and a lot harder (for a while I though there were two different version the "classic" (blue tin, old logo) and the newer ones (red tin different logo). But then the blue started being filled with new ones, then came the half size tins with half size sticks, and now I'm not sure I know of anywhere they carries any of them*)

*The half tins were carried by Bed Bath and Beyond until it went out of business. I think I saw some peppermint bark from them in Home Goods once, but that was probably fifteen years ago.)
 
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What I remember about using the darn things was that ..

. they stuck to my lips.

I suppose that I was relieved to have an easier time sucking on tobacco cigarettes when I began to use them later. Unfortunately, they were more difficult to be unstuck from over time ...

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Same here.
I laughed at the memories of them but they were a bad thing, it ingrained into childrens minds the idea that cigarettes were a good thing too do 👎
Probably the dumbest candy idea since Chilly Chilly Bang Bang ! (a sugared drink packaged in a gun shaped container where you stuck the end of the barrel in your mouth and pushed the trigger to "shoot" the fluid into your mouth).
 
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