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Kellogg's and LEGO team up to train children to choke

networkworld.com — We're talking about a children's snack shaped like the tiny plastic building blocks that every kid fortunate enough to have toys has put in his or her mouth at one time or another. What could they possibly have been thinking? And how did this ever get by the lawyers?

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  • greenguy2323, on 06/23/2008, -9/+18Whoops, seems like a big oversight by someone!
    • chrillen, on 06/19/2008, -3/+6You're paranoid.
      • dafragsta, on 06/19/2008, -4/+5You're a ***** dumbass. Here 2-year old Bobby, these are chewable snacks that look just like these non chewable choking hazards. See if you can tell the difference.
      • Cytranic, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4What ***** dumbass is giving their child candy legos at the age of 2? Here little 2 year old bobby, instead of suckling your moms nipple full of valuable niutriants, lets eat this suger filled super lego high snack and train you to eat everything in sight!
        • captainkeene, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2But you do have families with a 5yr old and a 2yr old, where the 2yo imitates everything the 5yo does.
    • debbiedragon, on 06/19/2008, -9/+4How are fruit snacks shaped like legos anydifferent than fruit snacks shaped like Dora, Spongebob or other character/shapes? My kids have dora and spongebob toys, but we still get them fruit snacks in those shapes and it doesn't cause them to eat their dora or spongebob toys...
    • JettaMan, on 06/19/2008, -2/+2I'd eat them. Who cares what they are shaped like?
    • rhinopig, on 06/19/2008, -2/+2They've been selling stuff like this for years. Not kellogs but I remember as a kid (10-15 years ago) seeing similar lego-block shaped candy at walgreens. And I thought the same thing the article says the first time I saw them.
    • ptsuk, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2Parents take some ***** responsibility. If your kids are too stupid or too young to distinguish the two don't buy the products. I know your little precious should get anything they want, but stop being a friend and be a ***** parent and say NO.

      I think there is a trend with parents that just say "little johnny can have anything he wants" and if any ill will would befall him the parent isn't responsible its the evil corporations and the parents sue!.

      For example this article reminded me of the 10 year old girl who swallowed all those magnets. did you see the interview with her and her dad. Both retarded, neither should be allowed to reproduce further.

      Here is s clip on the magnets http://youtube.com/watch?v=90m6Qebpx3Q which shows a group of ***** toddlers playing with the magnets with the mom sitting right there and she actually ***** bought them. The BOX HAS A Recommended Age AND a choking hazzard warning yet the parent sill lets the 2 year old play with it (and apparnetly swallowed one of em) go ***** figure! READ THE DAMN BOX PARENTS DON'T JUST BLINDLY BUY IT FOR YOUR CRYING LITTLE BRAT.
      • stretch611, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I agree that parents should take some responsibility. However making food products that look have the same size, shape, and look of non-food products that are regularly used by toddlers is ridiculous. It is not easy teaching very young children what should and should not go in their mouths; why would anyone want to blur the lines and make that process even harder? Corporations need to be responsible too...
        • ptsuk, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Sorry but I have to disagree with you. The "basic" bricks which these gummi's remotely resemble( they're gummies after all, barely have pegs no holes to insert said pegs to "stack or build" and also do not have a shiny sheen to them as the molds are made of compressed cornstarch and then the gumies are coated in edible wax) Are for at minimum 4+ years of age. If they are under 3 (which is a toddler) they should be playing with duplo bricks. So again this is the parents responsibility to know the recommended ages as stated clearly ON THE BOX and not purchase them for their underage child.

          That last bit of advice goes for all the parents who try and be their "friends" to their kids and buy them games like GTA4 and I get to hear a 10 year old whiny jackass over xbox live describing exactly how "gay, a fag, how i like sucking dick, or any other homophobic term they thing is "cool" to use or obsessively yell "take that ***** this and ***** that". GTA4 is mature that's 18+ don't buy it for your "tween" little bitches.

          Parents these days are just becoming bio vehicles and are NOT parents as today's youth clearly are idiots and have zero common sense or otherwise and are given zero direction/disipline.

          And again you don't HAVE to buy the gumie product OR the legos. If you do neither then your problem is solved. If you do buy both then i hope your child is smarter than you give them credit otherwise I hope the chaff is weeded out at that early age.
  • ohnoerino, on 06/19/2008, -6/+61Were they also made in China?
    • endlessoul, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9Depends.

      Does it contain lead?
    • PdxPhoenix, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Got a box in my desk drawer right now... Only address is Kellogg's in Battle Creek MI
  • Cancerkitty, on 06/19/2008, -3/+38Delicious!
    • 48days, on 06/19/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I know... regardless of what everyone else says, I want some of these!
      • VgRasta, on 06/19/2008, -0/+14These are the worst candies ever. They are too crunchy and taste like plastic.
        • TheAkolyte, on 06/19/2008, -5/+4I think you may have purchased ACTUAL legos
        • renegadeafk, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Thank you captain obvious!
        • crstern, on 06/20/2008, -2/+2nope... they are not. They make a candy that is kinda like lego pez. But these are fruit snacks. Just plain squishy fruit snacks.

          Hard to confuse with real bricks honestly.
      • howzitgoin88, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Hell yeah! I would to! To have the ability to build a castle, and then EAT it would be awesome!

        Now they need to release Star Wars varieties. Imagine eating a lego Death Star or Millennium Falcon... *drools*
    • amoirae, on 06/19/2008, -0/+8Why not just call these Darwin Snacks?
  • DeathWish808, on 06/19/2008, -4/+24Yeah, but can you build stuff with them? If you can then that solves the problem. Just sell edible legos. The only problem is you'll have a bunch of kids hopped up on more sugar than they already get and sticky legos stuck to every part of the house. :-D
    • iamgnat, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6Talk about never being able to find the piece you need though....
      • dsgamer, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Kid #1: "mom I cant find the last piece."
        Mom: "well where did you go with it last?"
        Kid #2: "I ate it"

        *Kid #1 proceeds to beat up Kid #2*
    • FleetAdmiral, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2I bought them to see if I could build something with them, the answer is no
      • nextekcarl, on 06/19/2008, -2/+1We all know you bought them to play with them. Hey, BTW, are they anywhere near as expensive as regular Lego?
    • sdrawkcaB, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4I've seen non-Lego brand candy called Blox or something that you could build with and eat. They're also harder than things like rockets or sweet tarts. Bulk barn carries it. They're rather good too.
      • bduddy, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2Those Blox (or whatever) are essentially hardened sugar, and probably shouldn't be given to children anyway because they're hard to chew. These are fruit snacks, which I'm sure are marketed towards very young children...
    • zydeco, on 06/19/2008, -0/+6No, you can't build anything with them. They're smaller than a standard Lego 4-peg brick and have no holes underneath. Here are my observations after watching my son rip through a whole box of these and then go without them for a week:

      1) You shouldn't be giving standard Legos to a kid under 3. Quattro or Duplo, sure. Regular Lego? No way.
      2) You shouldn't be feeding any fruit snacks to a kid under 3.
      3) If your 3Y+ kid is putting bricks in his mouth, you shouldn't have bricks in the house until he can manage. Kids are just too quick and sneaky to be left alone with choking hazards.

      That being said, they're still evil. Pure High-Fructose Corn Syrup, which is something I don't think anyone should be eating at all.
  • Disco1Stu, on 06/19/2008, -7/+21I was sure this was a fake story at first...good job Kellog's, I hope your nights are haunted by a thousand choking babies
    • Thrash16, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12I dont work at Kellogs but my nights are already haunted by thousands of choking babies...
      • dafragsta, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9Here we go with the dead baby jokes.
        • gojirakubuntu, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2What do you call 1000 choking babies on a Football Pitch?

          Coventry City plus a few of their fans.
  • ColonelTribune, on 06/19/2008, -5/+34Remember when flavored markers were the "it" thing, despite everything we know telling us NOT to sniff markers?
    • emalen, on 06/19/2008, -1/+23Scented, not flavored.
    • rryanhayes, on 06/19/2008, -5/+0The "in" thing, not the "it" thing.
    • AriaStar, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4I forgot about those scented markers.
    • Coffeedemon, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2One of our boardrooms has a box of scented whiteboard markers. Probably highly toxic but beats the old green ones that smell like feet.
      • bipolarruledout, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Except the "flavored" ones were non-toxic. It's the dry erase and permanent ones that have the darwin approved solvents.... and I don't see kids using to many of these. Not until Jr. "high" at least.
  • stephhicks68, on 06/19/2008, -6/+51Just to play the devil's advocate here, does everyone remember candy rocks? Those look just like "real" rocks, and I don't think that they actually encouraged kids to go and eat real rocks. Most kids over the age of 3 (no one younger than that should be eating fruit snacks anyway because fruit snacks are small and constitute chocking hazards no matter what shape they are) can recognize the difference between food and toys.
    • AriaStar, on 06/19/2008, -1/+1Those candy rocks were also brightly colored.
      • TheSabre, on 06/19/2008, -1/+5Yeah... and these squish. What's your point?
    • beanland, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3And what about the candy blocks that they sold (and as far as I know are still selling), which are also shaped like Legos? You can actually stack them; they're not gummy.
    • NJank, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1my 2 year old loves her fruit snacks :)
  • louiebaur, on 06/19/2008, -3/+6Yummy cant wait to get some:-)
  • ubernoggin, on 06/19/2008, -4/+124I used to love Gummi Worms. Now, every time it rains, the sidewalks are crawling with delicious treats.
    • schure1, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11I personally can't resist chewing on coca-cola bottles because they remind me of the gummy cola bottles.
    • dafragsta, on 06/19/2008, -5/+2... and those delicious treats are equally rainbowy aren't they?
  • yeblonski, on 06/19/2008, -3/+11If it can bring allot of cash - then it's legal
  • MattBlackCat, on 06/19/2008, -4/+7WTF ?
  • westbay1, on 06/19/2008, -1/+12At least kids can now eat the LEGOS that doctors pry out of their noses...
  • mrblaack, on 06/19/2008, -2/+84In 3 Delicious New Flavors - "Gaspin' Grape, Raspin' Rasberry, & Chokolicious Cherry!!"
    • Swallowell, on 06/19/2008, -0/+26And now introducing "Asphyxiating Apple and Stranglin' Strawberry!"
      • endlessoul, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9Holy crap, you're both geniuses.

        You're both hired.
    • anagoge, on 06/19/2008, -2/+10Blockage Banana
      Lungproblem Lime
      Airtight Orange
      Problematic Pear
      Coughin' Clementine
      Lastbreath Lemon
      Medicalemergency Melon
      DOA Dewberry
      • Puffles, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4I almost died when I read "Problematic Pear."
  • CoffeeJoost, on 06/19/2008, -8/+9I have a 4yr that plays with Lego's. This is disturbing. Are they really that ignorant? What will they think of next?
    • FyreGoddess, on 06/19/2008, -1/+33Is your 4 year old unable to tell the difference between chewy candy and hard plastic with sharp edges?
    • iamgnat, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9So maybe i'm thinking that you as the parent don't buy said treats for the kid?

      What am I thinking, this is America. It's always better to give said treats to said kid, wait for kid to become "confused" by the real thing and choke, then sue everyone that remotely had anything to do with the idea/manufacture/packaging/distribution/sales of said treat. Love those family values...
    • myhandleondigg, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Natural selection.
  • dsa202, on 06/19/2008, -3/+53Finally! Less babies.
  • HeatherH88, on 06/19/2008, -1/+31(Again)
    Legos go in, lincoln logs come out! The fun never ends! :P
    • lordgibbon, on 06/19/2008, -0/+12But what happens when lincoln logs go in?
    • PeppermintPig, on 06/19/2008, -0/+9Build your very own fecal fortress!?!
  • kmckanna, on 06/19/2008, -1/+16You can have your Lego... and eat it too!
  • bigsteve3OOO, on 06/19/2008, -26/+0this is almost as bad a combo that if Osama picks Hillary for veep
    • VolSurrealist, on 06/19/2008, -1/+3I hope you mean OBAMA...
      But I'll just assume you're a right-wing-racist-red-neck-*****-for-brains idiot and really did mean to say osama...
      • bigsteve3OOO, on 06/19/2008, -3/+0it was a typo sorry I really like Mr. Obama but I do not really like his socialist views. I prefer him to Macain he is just more GW and I don't like his abuse of his executive privileges. My sincerest apologies.
        • Puffles, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Socialist? What the hell are you talking about?

          And in case you didn't realize, this thread is for an article about Lego fruit snacks.
  • pcpimpster, on 06/19/2008, -6/+2This is baffling.



  • cfisavant, on 06/19/2008, -1/+13These have been out for years. I buy fruit snacks all the time...for my kids...yeah the kids.
    • benmiller313, on 06/19/2008, -1/+7AND THEY HAVEN'T CHOKED TO DEATH YET?!?!?!?!?!?
    • whiskeyclone, on 06/19/2008, -0/+16Yeah I spotted them on the shelves a while ago and thought "Hey, why not submit that to Digg". Oh how foolish I was:

      For those interested (apparently not many as it got 4 Diggs first time around), here is my submission - now over a year old.

      http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Kellogg_s_want_children_ ...

      submitted 1 year and 130 days ago.

      I got 4 whole diggs. One of which is my own brother. The shame.

      Things I apprently did wrong:

      a) Didn't get "Lego" in the title.
      b) Found original content myself, and had the good sense to post it to digg without creating a blog with a butt load of ads, making a post about this, and submitting said blog.
      c) Didn't link to 3rd party new site for scathing commentry and witty jibes.
      d) Didn't submit once Penny Arcade had flagged it as being totally retarded - thus alerting the wider world to the grand retardation of the situation.
      e) Didn't amass a huge legion of 'friends', followers, etc on Digg before submitting.
      f) Had faith that the system works, believed in the wisdom of the crowd, democratic voting.
      g) I didn't get "Lego" in the sodding title. Damn.

      Still, nice to know that I submitted something that was interesting to some 500+ people - just timed it badly. Like, 500 days off badly.

      Bitter? Me? Never!

      Sorry for ranting, but I believe I've submitted some 4 articles ever. And I check PA after playing on the rain slick precipise of darkness to see a post about it. Then see it on Digg front page - over a year down the line from my original sub. It's a little surreal to say the least.
      • cpk121, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2*Sympathy vote-up on whiskeyclone's comment*
    • ScrGrl, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2h) You're not MrBabyMan
  • blowedupt, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2yummy
  • Gunbard, on 06/19/2008, -2/+5I've had these before. I was sorely disappointed when I discovered that they were all the same 4x4 block and you couldn't even build stuff out of them because there are no holes under the blocks.
  • jerrolds, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24OM NOM NOM NOM
  • DeusNova, on 06/19/2008, -2/+10I thought this was a Onion article at first.
  • grail1973, on 06/19/2008, -3/+46Another case of fear mongering, especially with the comments already posted here. If you can't tell a lego from a gummy snack, then you and your kid deserve to choke. Natural selection. Bring back lawn darts.
    • doctechnical, on 06/19/2008, -0/+26*****' A, bubba. I had toys when I was a kid that'd put an eye out if you did something stupid enough. I had toy guns realistic enough you hold up a liquor store with'em. I had chemistry sets that I could make fireworks with. If we saw a kid in our neighborhood riding a bike wearing a helmet we'd have beat the crap out of him just for wussing up the place.

      Kids today. Molly-coddled crumbcrunching crotchfruit, I tell yas! Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
    • lordgibbon, on 06/19/2008, -0/+13***** this *****, I'm giving my kids (if I have any, I AM on Digg, after all) rusty saw blades and an old school chemistry kit.

      They would turn out fine.
    • ufia, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9I remember playing with liquid mercury in my hands when I was a kid.

      Today it's like we should keep our children locked in a sterilized room without any toys, they might catch cancer.
      • Digitalicious, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2Playing with liquid mercury is still a bad idea though... A really bad idea.
        • doctechnical, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2If you do it over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

          Kinda like drinking, smoking, Digg - "Moderation in all things".
    • Lavarock, on 06/19/2008, -1/+6If you can't tell a lego from a gummy snack, then you might be 2 years old.
      • celticchrys, on 06/19/2008, -0/+5And if you are two years old, and your parents give you tiny candies to eat, and you choke, then it's your parents' fault, not the candy company's.
        • chiefbandit2200, on 06/19/2008, -0/+3And if your kid is two years old, you should probably give him the big legos (the ones for preschoolers) instead of the small ones anyway...
    • AriaStar, on 06/19/2008, -1/+1I wonder what would be involved in making knock-offs.
    • sodoh, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Obvious you don't have any kids.
  • bobalien, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10i call this a great experiment in social darwinism: "The kid that shoves too many marbles up his nose doesn't grow up to have kids of his own..."
    • stevealford, on 06/19/2008, -0/+0Hello George Carlin. I didn't know you were on digg.
  • mechnoch, on 06/19/2008, -4/+18My grandmother got me a box of these for my birthday. I used to play with LEGOs constantly as a kid. I think people who think that eating these will train kids to choke on LEGOs is seriously underestimating their kids' intelligence. It's pretty easy to tell the difference between a fruit snack and a LEGO block. And if you're that worried about it, just don't buy them. That goes for you too, Gabe from Penny Arcade http://penny-arcade.com/2008/6/18/#news_22519
    • kepano, on 06/19/2008, -3/+1I think you're underestimating human stupidity.
    • ptsuk, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1I completely agree. Frankly gabe if your child is that stupid please don't reproduce.

      Frankly penny arcade is hit or miss, typically its just a bunch of ranting with a few swear words thrown in to sound "cool". Very, very, very rarely do they have a clever strip.

      Its rather sad to see them "blow up" they way they are with video games deals/etc..

      Which after listening to the pvp and penny arcade 4th ed podcasts it sounds like they'd be "OK" guys to hang with, but deep down i fear its not the case as i think that if you don't have a like mind with those two they couldn't get along with you and just keep throwing snide remarks.

      unlike kurtz straub where even if you've got different view points they wouldn't treat you any differently. Maybe because those two are more "grown up" about things. I dunno.....

      Either way if kids can't tell the difference then let the Darwinism commence!
      • 1duck, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0I would agree but penny arcade is just miss.
  • nyeus, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10This seems just like the same argument about kids not being able to tell the difference between real life and video games. Any kid can tell the difference between what is edible and what isn´t. Hard plastic and hard candy tast very different. I think if your kid isn´t intellegent enough to know what not to swallow, you probably should´nt give him hard candy to begin with.
  • gannondork, on 06/19/2008, -1/+7dugg for pennyarcade being credited.
  • joehoevah, on 06/19/2008, -1/+4OMG, these are the best fruit snacks ever though. I keep them at work and eat them when I am feeling snacky. They are only 80 calories per bag and they are the best fruit snacks by taste. The Lego thing is lame, but by flavor alone they are an A+ (for fruit snacks, at least).
  • nevetando, on 06/19/2008, -4/+42Sweet holy lord people... anybody that is crying about this IS NOT a parent.

    A. if you have legos laying around (toys for kids over 5 or so) where your 1-2 year old is going to get them and put them in their mouth... there is a problem with your parenting skills.
    B. an oversize squishy kinda-sort-of block doesn't come close to looking like a real one... only to a 1-2 year old.. hmmm see A.
    C. If you have a kid over 3... that STILL puts EVERYTHING in there mouth, I am sorry there is a problem there. Here is hint, don't raise your kids on TV, and the playroom. get of your lazy butt and raise them already. Take them to the park, scold them when they pick up gross stuff and put it in there mouth. You have to teach those bad habits out of them.
    D. Do we really need to continue to stupid victimhood culture of the US... something bad happens and it IS ALWAYS somebody else's fault? take some accountability for once in your lazy life...
    E. Oh yeah, what in the Hell are you doing feeding your 1-2 year old fruit snacks??? bad parent. sorry. you are.
    • TheHeat, on 06/19/2008, -1/+7I think you're neglecting the fact that alot of todays parents are still kids themselves.

      I've seen MUCH more awful parenting in the last 3 years than I've seen decent parenting. I don't live in the best city, but I'm just being realistic here. People are ***** stupid. And there will be plenty of toddlers that don't know whether the snack (they shouldn't be eating that young anyways, again, bad parenting) is a toy or a snack, and son enough bad things will happen, all over, and often.
      • PeppermintPig, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4Idiocracy was a documentary about the future I take it...

        Dumb ***** are ruining everything good in the world like Lego with emotional blathering about safety.
      • celticchrys, on 06/19/2008, -0/+4Far more people had children at far younger ages in the past in this country. Yet, somehow, we survived.
    • zydeco, on 06/19/2008, -2/+1I hear ya. Let's talk about M&Ms in non-standard orifices in toddlers before addressing these things.
    • teethandeyes, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2I couldn't agree more. I see displays of 'parenting' every day that make my head spin. Some people shouldn't be allowed to procreate.
      The sad thing is, that the lower end of the gene pool is breeding at much higher rate than the intelligent side. As a species, we are unfortunately devolving.
      It is the duty of the intelligent and more highly evolved to breed more and help offset this imbalance
  • jordanleegauci, on 06/19/2008, -1/+3i can't wait for cereal bars lego flavoured
  • TheHeat, on 06/19/2008, -3/+1Lego snacks? It sounds like a bad dead baby joke, here we go again ..
  • frenchylefrench, on 06/19/2008, -2/+0From the makers of lawn darts, razor toss and scissor juggling!
  • Brainmodder, on 06/19/2008, -1/+5I'll have to buy some, because they'll get banned they'll go up in value.
    • larryk12308, on 06/19/2008, -0/+0Better be quick, if CNN or Fox covers this they'll be off the shelves the next day.
  • xrod, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10That's why they have BIG LEGOs. For the kids who put toys in their mouths. You would think that once a child has developed the dexterity necessary to assemble a small LEGO kit, they would have beat out natural selection with respect to eating small chunks of hard plastic. If you're giving your three year old the smaller LEGOs in the first place, you need help.
  • benmiller313, on 06/19/2008, -1/+9People need to stop over reacting to this stuff. did no one else have those delicious Lego shaped hard candies when they were young? I had those all the time at a young age and i never remember eating them and then looking over at my Lego and deciding i could eat my toys because i confused them with candy.
  • buba1243, on 06/19/2008, -1/+4gotta love people that submit there own articles to digg that work for networkworld
    • TheSabre, on 06/19/2008, -0/+2Gotta love people that don't know the difference between there and their.
  • sunshinev3c, on 06/19/2008, -1/+5I think they are still making candy cigarettes, so gummy Legos should be the least of anyone's concerns. I personally think kids are smart enough to tell the difference between candy and harmful objects though.
  • ToddSchishler, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11Haven't they had Lego shaped candy for years?

    Also could have sworn they tasted like chalk.
    • JakeyG14, on 06/19/2008, -2/+8Dude, that was just regular Lego you were eating.
    • MasterTroll, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3I know what you're talking about. Damn.. what were those called though?

      Edit: here we go. candy blox. http://www.candywarehouse.com/candyblox.html
      • Rothgarr, on 06/20/2008, -0/+3Yup, that's them. And they are delicious.

        Why freak out over the Lego candies when these knockoffs have been around, since as long as I can remember.

        Parents, just do your job.
  • MatildaMiller, on 06/19/2008, -2/+17They used to make candy cigarettes when I was a kid. My "child car seat" was a wooden box in the back of a Jeep. My playground had actual teeter totters, swings and other crazy things that generated no end of welts.

    Give 'em their candy Legos. I say you should even mix them together with real ones to teach the damned kid to eat slower.

    We're raising generation after generation of completely safe wimps.
    • chiefbandit2200, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1they still make candy cigarettes
    • jedinate, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4I remember those, they also made gum cigarettes that were wrapped in paper and you could puff powder out the front of them by blowing in them.
    • mrblaack, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1mom?
  • kensterdotnet, on 06/19/2008, -1/+3I saw a hard version of this candy on Unwrapped. This is from a different company which calls them Candy Blox.
    http://candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net/candyblox5lb.h ...
    • Black6x, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1And they have holes in the bottom for stacking.
  • Barackalypse, on 06/19/2008, -3/+2Kudos for networkworld for crediting Penny Arcade as the original source for this. Obama supporters and haters alike can all enjoy the deliciousness that is Penny Arcade. http://www.penny-arcade.com
  • urothane, on 06/19/2008, -2/+3I like this line the best:

    I can only assume that their next product is fruit flavored thumbtacks.
  • gskill, on 06/19/2008, -3/+0Now that was interesting.
  • jp12380, on 06/19/2008, -2/+1Mmmmm.....

    Thumbtacks!
  • jetblackz4, on 06/19/2008, -4/+3That's about as smart as candy cigarettes.
    • Synapse84, on 06/19/2008, -1/+3Candy cigarettes were awesome!
    • johnpaul191, on 06/19/2008, -1/+2I used to love bubblegum cigarettes and i never smoked once in my life (i'm 34). Maybe i was just smart enough to know that one was gum and one was poison.... when i was eight years old?!?!
  • Falldog, on 06/19/2008, -5/+5Good. ***** children.
  • teethandeyes, on 06/19/2008, -1/+5Wow. At first I thought this was an Onion article. ***** hilarious. I want to pass these out on Halloween.
    I love when something like this comes along, it just helps to speed up evolution and weed out the dumb.
    • dvsbastard, on 06/19/2008, -0/+3Same... except I am going to mix in real lego with the candy...

      Trick or treat bitches!
  • icenine6, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10Lego shaped candy has existed for years, I remember eating them as a kid.
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