Bubble Yum

And...

It says, we are shocked, this bubble yum, we are shocked that someone has started malicious and completely false rumors in your neighborhood about bubble yum.

We believe you owe it to yourself and your children to read the truth.

Quite bluntly, the rumors are absolutely ridiculous.

I love it.

Someone started a story that there are unclean, impure ingredients in bubble yum and that these ingredients are harmful to children.

There's not a shred of truth to this story.

It is a lie.

And that to me used to make stuff special.

I remember when I was a kid in the 70s, you could only get bubble yum in like California and Arizona.

Yes.

The only place.

Right.

Everywhere else you had, you know, juicy fruit and whatever Wrigley was was pumping out.

Bubble yum existed in like two states.

And so if you knew a kid who was taking a vacation with his family to California, they'd come back with these stacks of bubble yum.

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the, the catchphrase or, or what made, uh, Hubba Bubba unique compared to the rest, like Bubble Yum and the other gums? You were talking about with Bu- Kevin Butler-

Hubba Bubba

... having-

Well, you know, in between plays, in between pitches, you know, there's fans, there's players on the bench.

There's these small moments where, you know, a baseball player's trying to put gum in his mouth and he ends up getting it somehow on his beard, and he's trying to unwind it from his beard and it's hilarious because here's this big pro athlete and he's got Bubble Yum stuck in his beard.

So, you know, if, if you're, if you're looking for these moments or you see, like, the little girl with her dad at the baseball game and she's literally feeding her dad a piece of popcorn.

Oh.

... to Five Below, and, um, he couldn't find anything he wanted, which was a shock.

So he decided on this jug of bubblegum, and it came in this little, like, antifreeze jug, and so it's Bubble Yum, like, powder chips.

So he's eating it.

How much asbestos and red dye number four is in this?

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Bubble Yum.

That all-

Yeah

That-

Who at EJD had a whole stock of Bubble Yum bubble gum-

Yeah, that-

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Like, it was a new flavor.

Yep.

And Tim had the whole, like, a whole shelf dedicated to Bubble Yum, and between class you'd go buy a piece of gum off of him, and that...

I was like, "Cotton candy? Yes, I will."

And so I'm like nine or ten years old and this is like a really defining moment in my childhood.

Was it Hubba Bubba or Bubble Yum? Hubba Bubba.

Not Spurt? Remember Spurt? Spurt.

Is that real? Yeah, you bite into it and liquid would squirt in your mouth.