Dubble Bubble remained the only bubble gum on the market until the Topps Company introduced Bazooka bubble gum in Toggle navigation. Bubble Gum - History of Bubble Gum. Walter Diemer's original Dubble Bubble formulation was dyed pink because that was the only food coloring available at the Fleer Company factory.
Since then, pink has been the most popular bubble gum color. Before putting bubble gum into production in , Diemer wrapped pieces of Dubble Bubble, and tested selling it at a local candy shop. Throughout the s, gum sales had staying power. The gum was so popular it was distributed as part of military rations at the outset of the war. By , the government tightened rationing of sugar and latex, bringing production of bubble gum to an end until after the war.
When Fleer began making the gum again, it regained its popularity. For a number of years, Dubble Bubble had the bubble gum market to itself. Then in , the Topps Company came out with Bazooka bubble gum. In the Fleer Company changed the gum-wrapping process, inserting a funny paper within the gum wrapping.
In addition to Dub and Bub, customers also received Fleer Fortunes and Dubble Bubble facts on the tiny piece of waxy paper. At some point during the s, Fleer dropped Dub and Bub and replaced them with stick people comics. In about , a character named Pud and his neighborhood gang replaced the stick characters. By the s Fleer was still relying on Pud but in an attempt to modernize, the cartoonists slimmed him down.
Diemer became a senior vice president at the Fleer Company and was also put on the board of directors. He stayed with the company for the rest of his career, retiring in , but remaining on the board for a few more years. As for the Fleer Corporation, the Philadelphia factory was closed in , and the family put the company on the market. In Concord Confections purchased the candy division of the company.
Concord picked up production of most of the original products and added a bubble gum ball that sold well. In the Tootsie Roll company bought Concord.
Dubble Bubble continues to be manufactured—two of the three plants are now in Canada. To read about the first chewing gum, click here. And to read about other sweets, read the stories of jelly beans and candy corn. Gooley, www. To whom it may concern my son was so intrigued by the double bubble story and cannot get enough of it wants to know everything about double bubble that can be known and other Bubble Guppies he could not believe that the company left the United States to go to Canada why did double bubble leave us please reply.
How terrific! Thank you for posting, and please tell your son I will look into it and get back to you! Hi Kate Kelly! Your email address will not be published. Table Of Contents. Pud replaced Dub and Bub. He lost many of his Photo courtesy of Pixabay.
If you want to blow the ultimate bubble, take it slow. This allows the bubble gum to stretch and grow. Of course, it takes a lot of practice to become a bubble-blowing champ. An American man named Chad Fell holds the record for the largest bubble-gum bubble. He used three pieces of gum to blow a bubble that measured over 50 centimetres around. Close-up of gum balls. One of the problems with so much gum being chewed is that it ends up in our landfills. But some smart-thinking inventors have created special waste containers for gum.
They recycle the gum to make rubber toys or containers. The alleyway has been a landmark for gum-chewers for about 20 years. It now features millions of pre-chewed, colourful wads of gum. In the past, the alleyway has been completely cleaned of gum. So Bubblegum Alley remains in all its gum glory! A vintage gum ball machine.
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