{"id":115,"date":"2009-06-22T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:09:11","slug":"candy-stick-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Stick Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8871be0151e9a1cce1d799e087a990f7\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Talk about politaclly and morrally incorrect. In the 70s if you could teach kids the wrongness of smoking from an early age, then rot their teeth at the same time! today they are known as candy sticks, which keeps everyone happy and means the red tip is no longer needed on the end of the stick.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1904\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1904\" title=\"Sweet-Cigarette-Cards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\" alt=\"Candy Stick Cards\" width=\"700\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candy Stick Cards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The hook wasn&#8217;t nicotine, but the set of 40 to 50 cards to collect. There were loads of weird looking animals like some set of drawings from Ricky Gervais&#8217; Flanimals. They were called Animals of Secret Island and were availble in 1975 onwards. They were the same size as Brooke Bond tea cards and were aimed at younger children, surrounded the antics of the inhabitants of a secret monster island.<\/p><div class=\"8871be0151e9a1cce1d799e087a990f7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Follow the exploits of Dinosaurs Dippydactus &amp; Babydactus and their friends, Hector the Frog, Maxwell the Spider and the Glumph. Very weird and difficult to understand why Bassett produced such weird combinations.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the range of cards were so successful that a competition was held for children to design their own monsters to appear in Series Two &#8211; however the second set was a real mistake, relying on the original children&#8217;s drawings rather than adapting them in the same style, producing a set of scrap drawings from 3 year old, as they were just that.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-160x127.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Candy Stick Cards\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards-377x300.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><p>Talk about politaclly and morrally incorrect. In the 70s if you could teach kids the wrongness of smoking from an early age, then rot their teeth at the same time! today they are known as candy sticks, which keeps everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoon","category-lunchbox","tag-54","tag-53"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Candy Stick Cards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Candy Stick Cards - Very Collectable in the 1970s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skooldays\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"headline\":\"Candy Stick Cards\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-06-22T05:10:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-08-23T17:09:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1960\",\"1970\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Cartoon\",\"LunchBox\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\",\"name\":\"Candy Stick Cards\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-06-22T05:10:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-08-23T17:09:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/7737d0880c9ea762e2b2c2475c12a0ca\"},\"description\":\"Candy Stick Cards - Very Collectable in the 1970s\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sweet-Cigarette-Cards.jpg\",\"width\":\"700\",\"height\":\"556\",\"caption\":\"Candy Stick Cards\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/candy-stick-cards\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Candy Stick Cards\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Skooldays\",\"description\":\"Nostalgic &amp; 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