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BUBBLE GUM 😍

On May 29, 2024   /   Blog   /   2 Comments
Tags: Blowing bubbles., bubble gum tattoos., Bubble-gum, Childhood pleasures, Confectionary, Gum, social history, Walter E. Diemer
BUBBLE GUM 😍

Bubble gum was one of my old Dad’s pet hates. Any gum was bad, but bubble gum was beyond the pale. Of course we kids adored it and took no  notice of him whatsoever. It was invented by an American (well naturally eh?) in 1928. When  a

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STICKY SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES!

On August 27, 2012   /   Humour   /   9 Comments
Tags: Bubble-gum, F.A.O. Schwarz, Gulliver's Travels. Niagara Falls, Hershey Bars, Pogo sticks, Root Beer, Tasmania, Travel Tales
STICKY SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES!

My first visit to the United States was in the 1980s, about thirty years too late.  If only I could have arrived  as a ten year old, when I was obsessed with Yankee comic books. For years I  lusted after  Hershey bars , fudge brownies, double malts

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