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a pink rebellion you blow up just to watch it collapse on your face
means A soft, stretchy chewing gum, usually sweet and pink, designed to be blown into bubbles.
from A plain English compound of "bubble" and "gum," the bubble being the whole point. Chewing gum is old, but bubble-blowing gum is an early 20th-century American invention — the first commercially successful version, Dubble Bubble, was pink reportedly because that was the only food coloring the inventor had on hand, and the shade stuck as the genre's signature color. "Bubble" itself is an old imitative word, echoing the soft burst of air in water; "gum" comes via Old French from Latin "gummi" and ultimately an Egyptian word for tree resin, the original sticky stuff people chewed.
- original color
- pink because it was the only dye leftover
- accidental invent
- created by an accountant testing other formulas
- world record
- largest bubble was 20 inches wide
- chewing time
- flavor dies in under 10 minutes
- latex base
- now made from synthetic rubber, not chicle
hubba bubba — wrigley's pink bubble gum launched in 1907, known for large bubbles
bazooka — topps bubble gum brand created in 1947, included comics in wrapper
dubble bubble — fleer's bubble gum from 1928, first penny bubble gum in america