Meega gave me this!
One of my fond memories of going on road trips with my parents is the inevitable stop at the gas station for gas which allowed me to run into the convience store and purchase several dollars worth of candy for the gobbling while we continued on our cross country trips. In all honestly, I still love doing it today and can often be found running back to the car while Eric fills up with gas with a brown paper bag filled with Now or Laters, Dum Dums, Starbursts and chocolate. One of the candies that I always seemed to purchase when I was a youngster and on trips with my parents, was candy cigarettes and have, in the past year, mentioned to Eric how you can never find them anymore. I’m sure the production of candy in the shape of cigarettes was outlawed when the anti-smoking campaign made if politcally incorrect to light up in any public place. This was probably the same movement that made the giant smoking cartoon camel lay to rest as it appealed to children. So goodbye candy cigarette. . . . HELLO “Candy Stick.” That’s right. They were able to out manuever and not lay waste to thousand of cigarette by slapping Spiderman on the box and calling them sticks. So in one of Porter’s goody bags, given to him by his grandparents, “Meega and Pop Pop” he got a box of candy sticks. He got into the pantry and found said sticks and I come around the corner and go, “Where did you get THAT?” ”From Meega,” says Porter. Gee, thanks Meega for the candy stogies….
If you’re wondering why he’s actually pretending to smoke that thing it’s because his FATHER talked him into it so that we could make Meega feel bad…
He’s so mean.
August 21, 2008 at 9:44 am
I, like Cathy, didn’t know they still made these things. Other than a way for parents who smoke to bond with their children, I have no idea why these things are purchased by anyone… unless by accident. Next thing you know we’ll probably catch Porter trying to snort sugar and freebase brown sugar. As we all know candy sticks are a gateway candy to stronger forms of sugar until one day he’ll be eating 100% pure cane sugar to get his fix.
Okay, I’ll stop with the metaphor now.
September 3, 2008 at 7:49 am
It is a little disturbing to see my sweet Porter with a “cigarette” hanging out of his mouth..Thank you, Eric! To be honest, it never occured to me that the box of Spiderman candy I bought for Porter would be used by his parents to corrupt their child. This brings back a memory from my childhood that scared the fool out of me. (probably only the old folks will relate) When I was in the 6th grade, I was sent to the principal’s office, along with some of my friends, because we were pretending to smoke candy cigarettes on the playgound. We were given a stern lecture..with only the Threat of a paddling! So, you see, I would never want to be party to anything that could lead to such trauma in any of my babies’ lives. Not to mention, if any one of them chooses to smoke someday I might have to pull out the paddle myself!
February 26, 2009 at 2:18 am
Hi, Meega,
I ran across your Blog when I was looking up the name Meega, or (Mega). Meega was my great grandmother’s first name, and it seems to be very rare. My mother has been deceased for many years and she was the only child of her mom so I have no one to ask about the name. Could you tell me about it’s origin? I have two children and would like to tell them anything that I can find out about my mothers family and this may really help me.
Thank you Meega,
Liz
February 26, 2009 at 8:11 am
Liz,
I am afraid that I cannot be much help to you in your inquiry. “Meega” is my mother-in-law’s nickname for grandmother. She got her name when my son was about two years old. He had a problem reversing the symbols in words as was learning to talk. So instead of saying “cookie” he would say “Key-Coo.” When it came to saying Grandma, he someone concocted “Meega” and it stuck. It is now her nickname for all the grandchildren.
Meega is a very interesting name, I wish I could have been more help.
Thanks,
Catherine