EL BUBBLE ORIGINAL BUBBLE GUM CIGARS - Banana

We just can't help imagining these Dubble Bubble El Bubble Original Bubble Gum Cigars as props for costumes -- with Groucho Marx glasses/nose/eyebrows, or with a top hat and monocle, like the rich guy in Monopoly. Or five or six of us, dressed in dog costumes, playing poker . . . with bubble gum cigars! Their charm is all in the detail: each Bubble Gum Cigar comes in it's own cellophane sleeve, sealed with a paper cigar band (which alas is probably too small to make an impromptu engagement ring for a grown-up's fingers. You'll have to pretend to get engaged with a napkin ring or something.)

Bubble Gum Cigars are all about make-believe, whether you're a grown-up or a kid, and these cigars obligingly come with exotic-sounding names: there's the yellow Golden Dragon (banana-flavored); the green El Bubble (apple-flavored); and the Pink Owl (fruit-flavored). And since bubble gum cigars are all about pretending, they're perfect for any milestone or coming-of-age celebrations, from baby showers to bachelor/bacherlorette parties and from Bar and Bat Mitvah and Quinceañera to college graduations.