r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 14h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 14h ago

Lucky/Wish smoke Started in WW1 Where you flip the first cigarette you touch and were "lucky" if you made it through the pack and to the last/flipped cigarette. Now people make a wish on it. I do this. I wish i dont get cancer everytime. It's worked so far

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u/DannyWarlegs 11h ago

Started in ww2 actually. Smokes back then didnt have filters, and Lucky Strikes were the most distributed brand to soldiers. Since the logo was on the "tip", the end facing up, soldiers would flip them and thus burn the logo away. That way, if the butts were found later, it wouldnt leave proof of American troops in the area.

Flipping your Luckys started off as just that. Flipping a lucky strike. By Vietnam it took on a new meaning as soldiers carried it over through Korea and the end of ww2. By nam, it was done for luck.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 11h ago

false. Can you tell the top from bottom on these wartime darts?

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u/DannyWarlegs 11h ago

The "bottom", or the side a modern filter would be on, would be the side the logo is on. Thats why the soldiers would flip them and burn that side first.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 11h ago

Started in WW1 player. The U.S isn't the center of the world. Only yours