It bothers me that the top type, in yellow, does not match the classic typeface of the packaging. Also, the yellow letters are touching each other and the whole thing is hideous. Poor man's Ingrid Bergman isn't helping, either.
The smokes fall out easier from a fully opened pack and random junk can fall in. The proper method is to tear off one side of the wrapper. It's easier to get just one smoke and you can keep the rest of the smokes bundled together by crushing the empty bit a little as you go through the pack. The less the smokes shake around the better the tobacco stays packed. (It makes it look cooler too when offering someone else a smoke like the attached picture.)
But not before I show you how poorly cut out the print block was for this old ad they’re selling in the Camel merch catalog. That C says “good enough!”
Cheaper tobacco from overseas was mixed with more expensive tobacco from Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina in the US. IIRC, American servicemen got the cheaper blended cigs in their daily meal rations during WWII and got used to it. The ones who made it home brought their preference for Turkish blend back to the US. Their friends and families also got used to the flavor. Camel and other brands catered to that.
Þey definitely had a distinct taste. My German GF went þrough a Gauloise phase but always fell back on Lucky Strikes. I always prefered Camels. I don't recall þere being different origins for Gauloise, but þey made a couple different styles wiþ different flavors, right? I have a memory of þere being different package colors for Gauloise; one was blue?
Camels taste pretty good for a cigarette, but half the fucking tobacco just falls out because of how loose they are packed so I never buy 'em. Feels like a waste of money (and I mean, more so than buying cigs usually feels).
Almost all soft packs are loose though. And with camels, I only got the soft packs. But yeah, I remember having to pack the hell out of camels when I used to buy them but they did taste better though.
I only ever get softpacks if I am completely outta smokes and it's all they have at the store (which is super rare). I'm pretty sure it's the fact they are a tad wider than most other cigarettes.
I don't like softpacks because I end up crushing and breaking everything when I sit down with them in my pocket.
Soft packs were always for a shirt pocket, and I used to only wear shirts with pockets so it worked out. With smoking though, cigarettes always tended to work themselves into a person's body language. Popping out a smoke from a soft pack and pulling it out with your mouth during an intense conversation said something: it was frustration or excitement or whatever. It was a style and a fix at the same time.
As an example, Kate Mulgrew (Capt. Janeway / Star Trek) was a an extremely heavy smoker. If you look at her acting and her body language, you can see that she was. That was a bit of a tangent, but something I find interesting.
There was just something about camel soft packs that always tasted better to me though. (Maybe they got stale quicker and I liked that? I dunno.)
Alas, I only vape now and that is much more helpful since I have somehow become a runner in my older age. Smoking (probably for the better) has become much more taboo these days anyway.
She quit smoking during the Scientific Method episode, so her on-screen frustration and and agony was mostly real. (She should have waited until the Year of Hell episodes, IMHO.)
I would also speculate that her general tone of voice was also driven by her smoking habit, but I can't say for certain.
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I wonder if 98 counts as retro at this point:
https://archive.org/details/camel-cash-1998-catalogue-red/mode/1up
damn
It bothers me that the top type, in yellow, does not match the classic typeface of the packaging. Also, the yellow letters are touching each other and the whole thing is hideous. Poor man's Ingrid Bergman isn't helping, either.
she looks like someone started drawing Ingrid Bergman and then saw a picture of Grace Kelly
What bothers me is that you shouldn't open soft packs like the way it is in the picture. That is an absolute abomination.
Why?
The smokes fall out easier from a fully opened pack and random junk can fall in. The proper method is to tear off one side of the wrapper. It's easier to get just one smoke and you can keep the rest of the smokes bundled together by crushing the empty bit a little as you go through the pack. The less the smokes shake around the better the tobacco stays packed. (It makes it look cooler too when offering someone else a smoke like the attached picture.)
Be fair, only the first three yellow letters are touching each other!
Arrrrghwhy. I can't unsee that.
Keming!!1
I’ll see myself out
But not before I show you how poorly cut out the print block was for this old ad they’re selling in the Camel merch catalog. That C says “good enough!”
Apparently this was before curves were invented
You legend, you don't have to see yourself out.
But they include a cool stamp size photo of your great grandpa's ghost.
Good eye there, like your positivity, you're obviously a Camel Man.
Free gloves to prevent yellow tar stains in every carton!
What the hell is even a Turkish blend?
Cheaper tobacco from overseas was mixed with more expensive tobacco from Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina in the US. IIRC, American servicemen got the cheaper blended cigs in their daily meal rations during WWII and got used to it. The ones who made it home brought their preference for Turkish blend back to the US. Their friends and families also got used to the flavor. Camel and other brands catered to that.
Companies fought to get their brands to servicemen, knowing smokers never switch brands.
I switch brands almost every pack
Turkish Royals, they're the best!
more like some mongol mix
I'd walk a mile for a Camel
If you can. ;) j/k
Not after smoking one, that's why you have to walk for it first. Lol
they got better after they started doing music. Snow Goose goes hard.
Sometimes I miss smoking. Seeing a pack of Camels does it; so good.
i miss the non-polish gauloises.
Þey definitely had a distinct taste. My German GF went þrough a Gauloise phase but always fell back on Lucky Strikes. I always prefered Camels. I don't recall þere being different origins for Gauloise, but þey made a couple different styles wiþ different flavors, right? I have a memory of þere being different package colors for Gauloise; one was blue?
You smoke whatever's on hand, of course.
Camels taste pretty good for a cigarette, but half the fucking tobacco just falls out because of how loose they are packed so I never buy 'em. Feels like a waste of money (and I mean, more so than buying cigs usually feels).
nothing beats handrolling though
Having them already rolled so I don't have to do work to get my nicotine fix beats it. 🤷♂️
Almost all soft packs are loose though. And with camels, I only got the soft packs. But yeah, I remember having to pack the hell out of camels when I used to buy them but they did taste better though.
I only ever get softpacks if I am completely outta smokes and it's all they have at the store (which is super rare). I'm pretty sure it's the fact they are a tad wider than most other cigarettes.
I don't like softpacks because I end up crushing and breaking everything when I sit down with them in my pocket.
Soft packs were always for a shirt pocket, and I used to only wear shirts with pockets so it worked out. With smoking though, cigarettes always tended to work themselves into a person's body language. Popping out a smoke from a soft pack and pulling it out with your mouth during an intense conversation said something: it was frustration or excitement or whatever. It was a style and a fix at the same time.
As an example, Kate Mulgrew (Capt. Janeway / Star Trek) was a an extremely heavy smoker. If you look at her acting and her body language, you can see that she was. That was a bit of a tangent, but something I find interesting.
There was just something about camel soft packs that always tasted better to me though. (Maybe they got stale quicker and I liked that? I dunno.)
Alas, I only vape now and that is much more helpful since I have somehow become a runner in my older age. Smoking (probably for the better) has become much more taboo these days anyway.
I miss it, tbh.
My view of Janeway is altered forever. I kinda always hoped that my Space Mom smelled like coffee.
She quit smoking during the Scientific Method episode, so her on-screen frustration and and agony was mostly real. (She should have waited until the Year of Hell episodes, IMHO.)
I would also speculate that her general tone of voice was also driven by her smoking habit, but I can't say for certain.
TIL!