I remember the commercials linking the neverending battle between students and the oppressive administrative authority in school in the battle over our right to chew. It was like a new era of gum was at hand when it hit the market in the early 90's. "It's six feet of bubble gum for you, not them."īubble tape was cool. Yes, Canseco was my favorite baller but the Cubs were my team. I'd always go grab a piece whenever I came over to watch my Cubbies play on WGN in the summers. For some reason my grandmother always kept a stash of this in one of her kitchen drawers. I mean who turns down a piece of gum as a kid. Now if a piece was offered I never turned it down. It's hard for me to place a finger on it but something about the flavor was not to my liking. Many here may prefer Double Bubble to Super Bubble like many of us choose to side with Cobra or the Decepticons over GI Joe and the Autobots, but personally I didn't much care for Double Bubble. All in all a good gum as it had a sweet flavor, nice bubble blowing capacity, and an average flavor lifespan.ĭouble Bubble, Super Bubble's evil twin. (No not an ice cold double deuce) Again it came in the age old staple of original, grape and the slightly lesser known sour apple. We all knew what awaited us in that little brown bag before the game. Before every T-ball/baseball game as a kid in elementary school our coach would stop by the local Pit Stop Market and would grab a handful of this bubble gum legend. This fact alone makes the 80's and 90's superior decades.Īh Super Bubble. Sadly today we cannot award success in our schools as our childrens' fragile egos cannot bear the burdens of competition and the possibility of failure. Of course we got prizes for academic success as well but PAL bubble gum is one I most looked forward to, maybe it's because we weren't supposed to chew gum in class. In elementary school our gym teacher would give us PAL bubble gum as prizes for competitions. The flavor was astounding yet short lived. ![]() Other flavors I was unaware of were watermelon (anything artificially watermelon flavored is gross, this is a fact) and sour apple. ![]() That's right Jose was my baseball idol as a kid) Like most gums back in the 80's this top tier gum came in two flavors, original and grape. (I'm sorry Raphael it is a Jose Canseco baseball bat. As kids all we knew was it oozed with coolness pretending we were grabbing a big hunk of chaw just like the big boys.Īs if the tobacco-like package wasn't cool enough, every pack had an animated musclebound athlete on the front of the pouch appealing to my desires to be built like He-man and hit the long ball like Canseco. Interestingly enough Big League Chew was pitched to Wrigley, the gum making giant, as a safe alternate to chewing tobacco. "You're in the big leagues when you're into Big League Chew!" It also didn't hurt that Bazooka was one of my favorite Joes. (It's ok guys you can admit to playing it as well.) ![]() Remember making fortune tellers in class and playing MASH. As a child the predicting the future was always a wonder. The real prize for me was the fortune at the bottom of the comic. Who can forget Bazooka? The coolness of Bazooka was forever ingrained in our young minds with the help of Bazooka Joe comics. Or maybe it was just one small piece in our quest to achieve coolness. Unique packaging, bright colors, extreme flavors, flashy commercials, and and us against them mentality in our right to chew gum. There is something unique about being a kid in the 80's and 90's that embodies the “Bubble Gum Warsâ€. The kid with a pack of gum was always the one you would pledge your everlasting best friendship for a piece of that sugary bubble gum goodness. Every kid remembers the coolness that was bubble gum growing up.
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