Through the smoke-coat on his tongue, the taste of the bittersweet confection is like glimpsing a hooded figure through swirling fog.
The peer-reviewed Wall Street Journal recently explained: "Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are formed when fat drips down onto an open flame, sending up a column of smoke that coats the food with carcinogens.
The gentlemen, in beautiful frock coats, smoke cigars and drink rum cocktails and make bets.
No one was injured, but smoke and soot coated a large amount of equipment.
Just as we were leaving for a stroll round the local park, I noticed smoke coming from the coats hanging in the hall.
They found themselves in the landscape of nightmare, with jagged stumps marking where mighty buildings once stood, with the sky shrouded by smoke and the ground coated in ash, and search dogs overwhelmed by the smell of flesh in the acrid air.
Anyway, we used to have a shed that my brother and I would go and smoke weed in, before coating ourselves in Lynx and actually fully believing our mum had no idea what we were up to.
Here were guys in those familiar gray flannels, navy blazers, crew-neck sweaters over blue oxford shirts, and slightly oversize Chesterfields (the coat, not the smoke) that would have warmed a mother's heart if she had seen one of them coming across a prep-school lawn, fresh from morning prayer.
The film, and photographs for print ads, are by the filmmaker and photographer Dewey Nicks, who used effects like smoke machines and tennis balls coated with clay dust and glitter that explode off balls when struck.
It had been built for eternity, when the railroads looked to be with us forever — a four-square granite temple with marble floors, a high ceiling whose gilded coffers glinted through a coating of coal smoke, and tall-backed waiting benches as grave as church pews.
Officials from Russia's Federal Forest Protection Service express concern about the potential release of radioactive smoke in regions that were coated by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
