Favourite brands of bubble gum!

[Hepcat]

Bazooka has a lock on the lead with Dubble Bubble holding on to second. The real battle though is for the bronze.

[Hepcat]

...but the Addams family cards always had the BEST gum...never stale, always soft with a different flavor than your average gum card sets featured back then.

Super Bubble was the Donruss brand:

[Hepcat]

Tabulating the vote totals of the leaders so far:

Bazooka 12
Dubble Bubble 5
Bubble Yum 4
Hubba Bubba 3
Pal 2

The silver and the bronze still appear to be up for grabs.

[frankenstein73]

I remeber when hubba bubba came out with chocolate mint gum, man that stuff was the bees knees. Do they still make it?

[Hepcat]

I'm not sure whether I remember Hubba Bubba chocolate mint or not. I'm sure I never tried it though. I've not found any on store shelves since you inquired about it. I believe it's no longer made.

The battle for the silver and the bronze has now become a three way battle between Dubble Bubble, Bubble Yum and Hubba Bubba. Pal has sadly dropped off the pace.

[frankenstein73]

I got to thinking and remembered it was bubblicious chocolate mint heres a scan of the wrapper. and i looked on the timeless candy source website and it shows it as discontinued.   it was so delicious!!!! i remember going to quick stop in gradeschool and buying it and other candies before school started in the mornings. i would then sell it to kids for 25 cents a piece. it was quite popular and a favorite ,and candy cigarettes were too, (most parents wouldnt let their kids have them. so they bought them from me.) my candy income alone supplied me with all the gum and comics i bought for myself. and i got alot of good trades too.  one kid traded me a new stomper truck when they first came out for a box of candy cigs., and one time i traded a single piece of gum for a giant rubber spider, i wish i still had it. it was awesome! i was the candy dealer of my school. i was so scandaless!

heres the link to the timeless candy source. http://www.timelesscandy.com/

[Hepcat]

...and candy cigarettes were too, (most parents wouldnt let their kids have them. so they bought them from me.) my candy income alone supplied me with all the gum and comics i bought for myself. and i got alot of good trades too.  one kid traded me a new stomper truck when they first came out for a box of candy cigs., and one time i traded a single piece of gum for a giant rubber spider, i wish i still had it. it was awesome! i was the candy dealer of my school. i was so scandaless!

That's economics for you! Outlawing an economic good thus restricting supply just acts to raise the price.

[Hepcat]

Dubble Bubble Original Flavor gum has been marketed in bulk Halloween bags for around twenty years.



While it has a very pleasant tutti-frutti taste, the problem I have is with the word "original" on the label. The Dubble Bubble I remember from the late fifties and early sixties was sold in little white wrapped rectangles for a penny and had a very long lasting spicy sweet flavour.



The Dubble Bubble I remember is still available but now costs a dime, has purple-pink wrappers and is most often sold out of brightly coloured little buckets:





Does anyone remember what's now called Original Flavor Dubble Bubble being sold 25 or more years ago in candy stores when they were kids?

[Sean]

Big League Chew

[Hepcat]

The other penny gum slabs that most commonly competed with Dubble Bubble for kids' coppers in the early sixties were Bazooka. They looked like this:



The gum was wrapped in comics that featured the adventures of Bazooka Joe:



I've not seen it sold at candy counters in my neck of the woods for twenty years or more but I take it that in the States it's now sold in little buckets:





Has anyone seen the little slabs of Bazooka lately?

[CreepysFan]

   

  It says "New and Improved" on the side of the bucket, I cringe everytime I see that in regards to bubble gum or candy. 

[CreepysFan]

   

  An old ad for Dubble Bubble.

   

[Hepcat]

Wow! I've never seen that one!



It clearly predates Zip codes so it appeared no later than 1963. I'm guessing it could have appeared in Boy's Life magazine.

[MDG]

Dubble Bubble ads were in comic books in the 50s (maybe even the 40s)--they all starred "the unfortunately-named Pud" (in the words of cartoonist Scott Shaw!)

[Hepcat]

Dubble Bubble ads were in comic books in the 50s (maybe even the 40s)--they all starred "the unfortunately-named Pud"....

And unfortunately shaped!