Topps stays afloat on its slowly growing confectionery business--Bazooka Bubble Gum and Ring Pops.
Bubble gum sales have deflated over the last six years as parents steered kids away from the sugary stuff.
For example, there's a chocolate doughnut that increases speed, bubble gum that slows players down and bowling pins that can be used as clubs.
When I was a kid, we had two types of merchandise included with our packs of cards: fresh bubble gum and stale bubble gum.
So Tylenol and cold medicine are also sold alongside bubble gum.
Thomas project, where crack cocaine was sold in bubble gum wrappers.
The Atlanta-based entrepreneur has collected antique firearms, watches, and what's likely the world's most authoritative survey of chewing gum (he once owned Fleer Confections, the inventors of Dubble Bubble gum).
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Other competitive categories included The Fastest Time for Five People To Each Sit in All Five Seats of a Prius, Heaviest Mass of Gold Chains Worn in a Prius and Most Bubble Gum Bubbles Popped in a Prius in 30 Seconds.
Young kids are constantly seen playing pickup games and carrying their baseball gloves around, pastimes that have mostly gone the way of the10-cent bubble gum card in the U.S. In short, Japanese pro baseball is a gem that's lost some luster in recent years, due to bad positioning in the global marketplace.
And as I understand it, the reason Kathleen made this decision was she could not be confident that a 10-year-old or an 11-year-old go into a drugstore, should be able -- alongside bubble gum or batteries -- be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse effect.
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But the decision that the Secretary made was to say yes to or say no to the allowing of any girl of any age -- or younger girls included -- I mean, not just 16-year-olds, but it was a -- it would have resulted in allowing, as the President said, somebody to buy it along with batteries and bubble gum.
Like so many other spirits, I was first introduced to the cane spirit during college after it had been blended (poorly) into a trash can filled with sparkly carbonated stuff a ton of artificial fruit juices, some citrus that I think was left over from the previous year, bubble gum and some hard candies with ice bought at the gas station up the street.
A. has stood out so prominently, especially against the current backdrop of bubble-gum pop and gangsta rap.
The nursery, meanwhile, had a cottage feel, with bubble-gum-pink curtains and sage-green-and-white wallpaper.
The light-handed renovations kept the original ornate jade and bubble-gum pink tiles intact.
Check out his stylish '70s-inspired kit at this years U.S. Open, where he first turned heads in 2010 wearing a bubble-gum pink shirt.
Employee John Spragg recounts the story of one customer who wanted the color of his Bentley to match a bubble-gum wrapper he had saved.
The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.
Wrigley could burst this bubble if it ever produced a biodegradable gum.
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