It makes me smile and it keeps my teeth clean: the VINTAGE CHEWING GUM poll

Would love to vote Bazooka (mainly for the comics, that weird turtlenecked guy, what was his deal) but I recall the gum being like a little brick, took forever to get going.

Voting Juicy Fruit, for flavor.

clark's baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FmvrAwoyL0

I like the flavor of Bazooka, but it can take a little chewing to get going, for sure.

RIP Fruit Stripe. Also, I like for Big Red, for nostalgia reasons, but perhaps that's not vintage enough.

I was bummed about Fruit Stripe. But yeah, it was 1960 and Big Red is 1975. As a sequel we could poll '70s brands, Bubble Yum/Hubba Bubba/Bubblicious/Big League Chew etc.

Dubbie Bubble definitely underappreciated compared to its less venerable rival brands. You see it a lot in Major League Baseball dugouts for some reason.

Chiclets vs. Wrigley's Doublemint for me

juicy fruit or doublemint

but hubba bubba was my jam as a kid

Oh, I left out Clove gum (1914), still available.

oh yeah! clove is good too

Amazing that these are all still going concerns. Once you get a candy off the ground, it is hard to kill it.

sidebar Q: are there any sugar-free bubble gums? Seems like all the sugar-free ones are chewers not blowers

(voted Dubble Bubble which I stay away from now thx to diabeetus)

Used to be Carefree bubble gum flavor but that entire brand seems to be history

If we do a 70's era chewing gum poll I am gonna be all over Bub's Daddy. Remember those foot-long sticks of dental destroyers?

At a quick glance for sugar-free bubbles, there's Extra, and it looks like Dubble Bubble does a sugarless variety too.

Not that I understand the molecular wizardry of bubble gum, but I wouldn't think sugar would be a factor in making it blow-able. It seems like it's just flavor-absorbing plastic. But maybe it's harder to get artificial sweeteners to bind to it? No idea.

Bubble Yum used to have a sugarless but I haven’t thought about it in decades so idk if it’s still for sale

Voted doublemint bc it was my mom’s preferred gum before I started making her buy Chewels

I also thought doublemint was a real thing bc I literally didn’t know that mint was a plant that comes in different varieties. I thought they were all just flavors. Like bubble gum.

There's been a silent withering of bubblegum -- you barely ever see it on store shelves. I suspect it's tied to the rise of "natural" gums and fears of plastics and artificial flavors, but the ADA vaguely dental chewing gums seem to have escaped that stigma.

Bubble Yum apparently has a mascot that's a duck with a nasal piercing! Take that, bubble tape!

Also stigma against bubble blowing as rude/gross

If you can let Nicholson's dated nickname slide, great moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZYU8OGO6Q&

Developing a real gum addiction recently. I'll go through one of those 60-piece containers in four of five days.

Chewels, lol. Forgot about that one.

Fruit Stripe was the gum that your friend’s mom might have offered you, maybe something leftover from Halloween, never something you would buy on your own. But it’s sad that it’s gone. We hardly knew ye, Fruit Stripe.

Juicy fruit of these unless we are talking fruit flavored Chiclets, then it's chiclets.

but never tried beaman's, black jack or teaberry

Black Jack was . . . licorice flavored?

Juicy Fruit ftw. I was gonna post that "Cuckoo's Nest" clip, but it's the gum from my childhood. My mom used to chew it and snap it.

i think beeman’s is clove flavored iirc
also chuck yeager’s gum of choice

Bazooka but I also have not tried Beemans or Teaberry. The rest of these are pretty awful imo. Wrigley’s WinterFresh, imo

Bazooka did take a lot of jaw power to get going.

Write-in also for the stick they used to put in with sports cards.

juicy fruit was always best if you had a pack in yr pocket & you forgot & your next piece would kinda warm? is that weird to say

also not me forgetting packs in my jeans or jackets and going through the wash
rip all those pieces of gum

Yes, I totally get that, the warm gum was softer.

I love gum, but stepping on someone else's gum drives me into a blind rage.

the gum in the topps baseball card packs was cardboard-y trash tho i always put it in my mouth anyhoo

i ride w/bazooka joe 4eva

Wrigley's Spearmint

Honorable mention:

- Bazooka - Best gum for adding another piece every 10 minutes, rolling and smoothing it against my palate until it looks like a giant pink Superball.

- Beemans

- Clove - There should be more clove candy than just this gum and the purple Necco Wafers.

- Chiclets - Grandma gum--she always had a box of the Peppermint in her purse. I always sucked the candy shell off before biting the gum; I liked that the first taste of the shell was a thin coating of pure sugar before the peppermint flavor kicked in.

Special mention to the paper packet of mixed fruit mini-Chiclets.

i think beeman’s is clove flavored iirc

Pepsin (flavorwise, the midpoint between wintergreen and Pepto Bismal)

the gum in the topps baseball card packs

Or in Wacky Packs for us nerds.

https://images.bonanzastatic.com/afu/images/2064/2523/07/__57.jpg

It's a little weird the industry hasn't come up with a gum designed to be swallowed.

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130 years old, the winner and still champeen.

Gums that inspire songs win polls, simple as that.

Weren't DubbleBubble and Bazooka Joe the same kind of gum?

They’re both “bubblegum flavor” and individually wrapped, but different brands and companies.