![]() ![]() Mummy Shark readers should recall this old post where I bitched about an eBay auction for Strawberry Stripe Bubble Yum somehow reaching 482 dollars. I didn’t want to chew gummy basketballs from 1996 anyway. The gum has grown darker and more misshapen over time, suggesting that the Michael Jordan busts aren’t completely airtight. It was my own Procession to the Calvary, albeit with a happier ending.Įach plastic Michael Jordan bust hides a handful of orange gumballs, which I assume are meant to represent basketballs. The only negative about the experience was needing to cart four cases of Space Jam Trophy Treats up the entire length of the Atlantic City boardwalk, barely able to hold them while strangers viewed me with a mix of confusion, fear and embarrassment-by-proxy. I found this at the same dollar store previously celebrated on Dino Drac. Nothing makes me happier than store owners looking the other way while I deplete their stock of 18-year-old bubble gum. This was just last year, but the candy is from 1996. If you follow me on social media, you might remember the time I went to Atlantic City and found 48 Space Jam “Trophy Treats” for the low price of ten cents a pop. If you bought Freddy’s Bubble Gum, you were only after the tubes.) (The actual gum was just an assortment of multicolored Tiny Chiclets. “The Freddy nobody knows” is the most mysteriously disturbing, but if I had to pick a world champ, it’d have to be the package of bubble gum that says “Quiet – I’m killing someone!” on it. The quotes on the plastic tubes weren’t pulled from Freddy’s movies, but were rather written by someone at Topps who apparently went to work while shrooming. ![]() Kids knew who he was before they really knew who he was. One-liners from the movies aside, I think that had more to do with the swell of Freddy Krueger Halloween costumes than the films. In fact, most Nightmare on Elm Street merch from the ‘80s was targeted at kids. Made by Topps in 1989, Freddy’s Bubble Gum proves that Krueger’s reputation as a jokey, kid-friendly antihero really does date back that far. Now I have all six versions! Yes! Six different Freddy photos with six different oddball sayings! I’ve written about Freddy’s Bubble Gum before, but since that time, I managed to complete the set. Finally and for once, we had too much gum! Well, you couldn’t do that with the Mega Roll. I think we’ve all done that thing where we tried to chew the whole six foot roll at one time, a process I’d describe as jaw-achingly unpleasant but still altogether possible. This was major! The usual six feet was impressive, but ten feet was taller than Andre the Giant. By 1995, it was popular enough to warrant several spinoffs, including this “Mega Roll,” which upped the ante with TEN FEET of bubble gum. (Remember the tagline - “It’s six feet of bubble gum… for you… NOT THEM.”)īubble Tape debuted in the late ’80s and immediately became the in-thing. The old commercials treated Bubble Tape like some magical thing meant to help kids take special pride in their non-adult status, portraying everyone over 18 as unhip harpies who didn’t deserve rolls of chalky gum. I’m sure a great many of you will look at that photo and remember how well they worked as portable coin banks.īubble Tape is still made and still chewed, but if you weren’t around for its debut, you missed the mantra. The best part was how you could repurpose the tins after the gum was finished. “Band-Aid gum” doesn’t sound immediately thrilling, but the draw was in carrying around blazingly pink aluminum tins. Sold in tins meant to look like Band-Aid containers, each stick was wrapped in a bandage-like wrapper. The real reason everyone bought it was for the insanely cool packaging. ![]() In truth, the gum couldn’t have mattered less. Made in the early ‘90s, Ouch was like a less flashy Fruit Stripe. While Ouch (properly styled as “OUCH!”) still exists in a less-interesting form, this is the original version. May they help you remember a time when perusing the candy rack at your local deli meant everything in the world. Turning frivolous purchases into Dino Drac content is my eternal salvation, so here we are.īelow: Five bubble gum brands from the ‘80s and ‘90s. Very old bubble gum that I spent too much money on. ![]()
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