Today, at the corner store near my job, I found these in a small counter display featuring some other flavors (the last one is an admirable attempt at multiculturalism, I must say). This is fucked up on so many levels.→[More:]

First off, no self-respecting cigar buff I ever met would feel the need to put evn some fifty-cent Topstone in a flavored tobaccotortilla, so that destroys any pretense of what these contraptions are actually being used for (NTM, any pretense that these company are not 'marketing to young people.'). Second of all, chocolate chip cookie dough?* I like chocolate chip cookie dough a lot, but I never in my life said, 'hey, this is good, but what I really want to do is light it on fire and inhale the vapors!'

When I told the twenty-somethings at work about this, however, they were thrilled. They're apparently big fans of the strawberry and cherry flavored ones. [*sigh*] Call me Old School but when I smoke the wacky-tobacky, I like to taste it, but the kiddy-smokers seem to need candy coating. Generation gap strinking again. We did have fun coming up with future flavors, though: Nacho Cheese, Sour Cream & Onion, BBQ, and my personal suggestion-Ham, just so one could say 'I'm smokin' ham, dude!' It's a weird world out there.

*I did once buy some Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop-Tarts which were kind of disappointing, since once you toast them you basically have a pop-tart with a cookie inside.