Sonic the Hedgehog has taught me so much over the years. He's shown me that big hair is fine and ankle socks are still stylish. And now he's pushing cancer sticks -- how trendy! [lights up]
[blows out smoke] Okay, so these aren't real. They're candy cigarettes, and fruity ones at that. UK:Resistance found this 24-pack of Sonic the Hedgehog endorsed/branded stick candy cigarettes in the Phillipines.
The only thing the packaging tells us is that these are "New Tasty 100%," so we'll assume the following from the picture:
- these taste of green apple, pineapple, and strawberry
- they are freakishly long
- they make you run fast
- they might have something else in them to make you run fast
I'm guessing that Sonic's extended finger is like a wordless warning, urging you to only take one at a time. Full picture after the jump.
[Thanks, *ahem* Gynecologist Cobra]
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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Contest:
10:41 AM on 04.17.2008
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Sorry Sonic... Even a a plumber in a overalls is cooler than you nowadays.
Not even smoking can make you cool now! (Especially fruity ones!)
what's better, lung cancer or Shadow The Hedgehog?
Gotta go faster
Gotta go faster, faster, fasterfasterfaster!
Yeah, the Sonic does look out of place next to the fruit, and there doesn't appear to be a prominent Sega and/or Sonic logo anywhere...
Still, I'd love to have me a fruity cig right about now.
I would buy some though just so I can show em off.
I used to do the same thing
Well, unless it's all modified food starch, dyes, and corn syrup. Um, never mind.
Then a few years ago they changed the name to "fads".
These remind me of them.
"take it! take it! take it! take it! take it!"