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Submitted by katsak
“For you, not them.” Remember those terrible commercials? Just in case you don’t remember, here’s the one with the lunch lady and gym teacher:
Maybe the reason we can’t understand how this compelled us to buy a 6-foot strip of mostly tasteless chewing gum is because we have become “them”.
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Congratulations. You win the Internet.
I’m sure every kid who got their hands on this stuff tried to put the whole roll in their mouth at once.
Then you realize you can’t chew it very well, so you gag, cough it out, and now the gum is ruined.
wrong, never tried it.
I had Bubbletape exactly twice, but the fact that I kept choking on it kind of put me off of it for the rest of my life. D:
Can’t say I ever choked on Bubble Tape. I’d just have to keep spitting it out and putting more in because it would lose flavor very quickly.
I never choked on it, but I did lose a tooth in a huge wad of it one time…
This is still my favorite chew. Great bubbles!
Loved it —- even tho the flavor runs out in 2 seconds, then I’d get a headache and feel dizzy.
Lol – Saying “I can fit the whole six feet of gum in my mouth” sounds much cooler when you’re a kid… If you say it after 15 you sound like a whore…
Unfortunately speaking from experience…
I used to love this stuff. Sometimes I would just bite into the whole roll.
When I was a toddler, I would sneak into my teenage brother’s room and steal his Bubble Tape. At that age I did not understand the concept of bubblegum and I would just swallow it. I loved the powdery stuff on the outside and how soft it was once you’d chewed it a bit. Then, down the hatch!
Whoa, that’s the exact same thing i did.
I have a faint memory of being 3 or 4,
having no experience with gum, my cousin gave me a stick of big red
and she told me to chew it. The sht was so intensely cinnamon that i swallowed it. ha xD
that is so cool!
I still have some rolls of this stuff…of course, they won’t last long, now that I’ve been reminded of the epic awesomeness.
I can’t see how this can be a nostalgic win. It’s still being sold. Along with the Nerds, and Warheads, and Quaker Oats. It looks like they take any submission they get.
dood.
i am not a “them”! i refuse.
*stamps foot*
I totally remember this commercial! I actually just bought a roll of this stuff last week!
better than big league chew!?
this stuff…god, it was so hard to get it out of your hair once it got in
but it was hilarious to see the school bully fail on a dare to eat 2 whole rolls of it at once
it’s also difficult to get off your retainer…..i know i know…the sad part is i was 12 already
So it’s not just me that tried that… at 12, too!
Even as a kid, I could tell exactly how manipulative those commercials were – it was pretty easy to figure out that buying more gum as per the instructions of a gum-producing company does not equate to a revolution of children against authority figures…something like the “Get what you want” line that Honeycomb cereal was trying to put out a while ago, or the whole “You rule” thing. What utter crap. Kids are some of the most powerless creatures around, really; it’s kind of heartless to try to convince them that spending their money on candy and sugar-stuff constitutes a rebellion.
Also, the gum was (and still is, for all I know) pretty tasteless. Agreeing with vikingwarbrides 100% on this.
LMAO I took some of the electric blue flavored bubble tape, put it on my nose……
Three hours later, my nose was SO red from all the scraping I had to do to remove it. XD
These were so fun. I kept a roll in my room so I could chew gum randomly.
This has a story that will live on forever in our family – My daughter was busted stealing one of these from the local K-Mart. I made her take it back, admit what she did to the security guy (in his office), then take it to the counter, pay for it w/ her own money – and leave it at the store. Scared her so much she never even thought of stealing again.. LOL *Mom’s Epic Win!
Good for you! I wish my mom did that with me. I once accidently stole candy from a store. She told me I could buy something, and I ended up putting it in my pocket and completely forgetting about it. When we went to another store, I dug into my pocket and showed her, telling her I forgot. She was shocked and just told me to leave it on a shelf.
Oh god, the thought of bubble tape makes me sick. I was addicted to the stuff as a kid. Put more in my mouth than I could handle, made my jaw sore and my stomach ill.