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The Spectator does not allow anonymous comments and requires a valid email address. Based on historical accounts, Wrigley found the gum to be more popular than the soap and baking powder he was pedaling, so he switched gears and began selling chewing gum. Within the next several years, Wrigley introduced the Spearmint and Juicy Fruit names and opened several factories.
Within the first quarter of the 20th century, the company had a presence in other countries. Gum chewing took on a new dimension in when Walter Diemer created a recipe for bubble gum. Diemer, an accountant with the Fleer chewing gum company, was known to spend time off the clock trying out different gum-related recipes.
Unlike traditional chewing gum, Diemer's recipe for bubble gum was less sticky and stretched more easily. More than 50 years after the invention of bubble gum, the Wrigley company introduced Hubba Bubba in It was Wrigley's first foray into the bubble gum market.
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Whether or not you thought it tasted implicitly better than bubble gum that wasn't in tape form, if you chewed it you definitely have strong memories of the hockey puck packaging and tearing off strips of gum for you and your friends. Chances are, though, that you haven't had it in years. So, why was Bubble Tape such a memorable product, and why isn't it as popular today? The initial popularity of Bubble Tape was, at least in part, due to the company's slightly edgy marketing strategy aimed at pre-teens.
Commercials featured adults like your principal and your aunt Edna who wears too much lipstick berating Bubble Tape in front of a very late's early's background and ended with the slogan "it's six feet of bubble gum — for you, not them" them being the lame adults who don't like Bubble Tape.
Some of these ads can still be found on YouTube , and are pretty hilarious.
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