Category Archives: gum

Jun17

bazooka.

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when we were young

bazooka gum 

was the most popular

bubble gum

hard as a rock

we loved how sugary it was

the little comics inside

reading our fortunes

we had all summer

to play games 

think up things to do

one day

my sister, my friend and i

had a contest to see who

could get the most pieces of gum in their mouth 

bazooka was really really hard to chew

it took a lot of work 

to chew it and chew it and chew it

to make it soft

to make a bubble

 our friend won the contest

 ten pieces in her mouth 

while chewing it 

she won nothing but the glory

we all had

very, very sore teeth

very sore jaws

but what a contest

so worth it!

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Bazooka bubble gum was first marketed shortly after World War II in the U.S. by the Topps Company of Brooklyn, New York. The gum was packaged in a red, white, and blue color scheme and originally sold for one penny. Beginning in 1953, Topps changed the packaging to include small comic strips with the gum, featuring the character “Bazooka Joe”. There are over 1,535 different “Bazooka Joe” comic-strip wrappers to collect. Also on the comic strip is an offer for a Premium and a fortune.

“if summer had a flavor, it was pink bubble gum.” — Goodreads
Random Recent Comments:

“Bazooka Joe gum: It’s like chewing a mountain that someone shot a freeze ray into.” — Reddit / 30 Rock

“I think my jaws still ache from chewing all that bubble gum when I was a kid.” — Facebook 

Aug23

perfume and purse dirt.

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yes, i found this old piece of gum

on the bottom of my purse

half-opened with glittery stuff and crumbs of unknown origin stuck to it

what might you find in the bottom of your/your mother’s purse?

 

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“when your mom gives you a pre-ripped half piece of doublemint gum

and it tastes like perfume and purse dirt. “

– author unknown

Feb17

sticky business.

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i bought this gum

because is was $1.00 and it was sugarless.

 it also read “truth or dare – censored”

on the front of the package

and like a 13 year-old

i couldn’t resist seeing what it was all about.

inside the package

each piece of gum

was wrapped in a series

of fill-in-the-blank sentences

meant to be provocative in some way

with some of the words ‘censored’ out. 

i thought that i must have been the only one to buy this

because it was on sale and there was still a full shelf of it left

until i went to lunch and shared it with my friends

and one told me

that she had bought the “uncensored” version for her office.

what?  i mean #$% what?

“the only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen”

– tom smothers, 1960s