| The Bubble Gum has gone through a lot over its long | | | | steam-jacketed kettles where they are cooked at high |
| history. In the early 1900s, a man named Frank Fleer | | | | temperatures until melted and become as thick as |
| tried to come up with the perfect bubble gum recipe | | | | maple syrup. While maintaining the high temperature, |
| for his candy company. He experimented with a lot of | | | | the syrup is passed through mesh screen filters. They |
| gum recipes to find it. His first bubble gum however | | | | are then moved into vacuum strainers. After this, the |
| turned out to be too sticky and his recipes were never | | | | hot liquid mix is poured into a machine that has slow |
| sold.In 1928, Walter Diemer was able to discover the | | | | revolving blades. It is here that sugar, flavoring and corn |
| bubble gum recipe by accident. He was experimenting | | | | syrup are added into the mix. In making sugarless gum, |
| with different gum recipes when he stumbled upon a | | | | sweeteners like sorbitol, xylitol, or mannitol substitute |
| mixture that started to form bubbles. He took this | | | | the sugar.After this step, the sweetened liquid moves |
| discovery and brought it to a grocery store to test it. | | | | to a cooler where the temperature is dropped to |
| All the gum was sold in a single day.Walter Diemer | | | | slightly solidify the gum and is prepared for the |
| brought his invention to the Fleer Company and was | | | | extruder machine. The extruder machine will maneuver |
| named and marketed as "Dubble Bubble" gum. To help | | | | the gum to achieve a certain texture. When set, the |
| sell the gum and help people understand, Diemer taught | | | | mix is passed through a roller where the gum is |
| the salesmen how to blow bubbles using the gum. The | | | | flattened. The thinnest sheets are made into stick gum |
| salesmen in turn taught the people who bought the | | | | while the thicker sheets are made into candy-coated |
| gum. It was a huge success and for many years the | | | | gum. The stick gum then goes through high powered |
| Dubble Bubble gum was the only bubble gum on the | | | | machines where it is wrapped, packaged and shipped |
| market.The Topps Candy Company started | | | | to different candy stores around the world.The |
| manufacturing bubble gum at the end of World War II. | | | | candy-coated gum though needs to go through more |
| The company introduced the famous Bazooka Bubble | | | | work. The thick sheets are cut into pellets and then |
| Gum. This was named after the musical instrument | | | | sprinkled with powdered sugar. The sprinkled pellets |
| that was created in the 1930s by Bob Burns. As an | | | | are then set aside and allowed to set for 48 hours. |
| added gimmick, the gum had "Bazooka Joe" comic | | | | When set, these pellets move into large revolving |
| strips on the gum wrapper which contributed to its | | | | machines that coat them with candy until they reach |
| popularity. Also as incentives for children, the Topps | | | | the desired coat thickness. They then go through high |
| Company included gum to the Bazooka Joe baseball | | | | powered machines where they are wrapped, |
| cards in 1953.Each type and brand of bubble gum, may | | | | packaged and shipped to the different candy shops.At |
| it be bubble or chewing gum, has its own unique | | | | the present day, blowing bubbles has become a |
| formula. But generally, these steps are followed in | | | | tradition that friends and families have where they |
| making gum. The ingredients are placed in large | | | | pass on the joy of blowing bubbles with bubble gum. |