Bubble Gum Day 2025 is on Friday, February 7, 2025: When was bubble gum invented?

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In 1928, bubble gum was invented by a man named Walter E. Diemer. Here's what Walter Diemer, the inventor himself, said about it just a year or two before he died: "It was an accident." "I was doing something else," Mr. Diemer explained, "and ended up with something with bubbles." And history took one giant pop forward. What Mr. Diemer was supposed to be doing, back in 1928, was working as an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia; what he wound up doing in his spare time was playing around with new gum recipes. But this latest brew of Walter Diemer's was -- unexpectedly, crucially -- different. It was less sticky than regular chewing gum. It also stretched more easily. Walter Diemer, 23 years old, saw the bubbles. He saw the possibilities. One day he carried a five-pound glop of the stuff to a grocery store; it sold out in a single afternoon.

Before long, the folks at Fleer were marketing Diemer's creation and Diemer himself was teaching cheeky salesmen to blow bubbles, to demonstrate exactly what made this gum different from all other gums. The only food coloring in the factory was pink. Walter used it. That is why most bubble gum today is pink.

Gilbert Mustin, President of Fleer named the gum Dubble Bubble and it controlled the bubble-gum market unchallenged for years, at least until Bazooka came along to share the wealth. Walter Diemer stayed with Fleer for decades, eventually becoming a senior vice president.

He never received royalties for his invention, his wife told the newspapers, but he didn't seem to mind; knowing what he'd created was reward enough. Sometimes he'd invite a bunch of kids to the house and tell them the story of his wonderful, accidental invention. Then he'd hold bubble-blowing contests for them.

How did you celebrate bubble gum day?

I chewed it over for a while, had a really big blow out, but then the bubble burst and I was left feeling rather deflated.

Does anyone have a recipe for chewing gum or bubble gum?

this is the joke of the day?if i had one i would be rich now ha ha ha ha,but i'll help you

And, here is a recipe to make bubble gum:

"How to Make Bubble Gum

Materials Needed:

one oz. package of bubble gum base

one and a half teaspoon of bubble gum flavor

volumetric measuring cup

two small cookie cutters(3/4 in.)

one and a half tablespoons of corn syrup

one cup of confectioners sugar

microwave safe mixing bowl

wooden mixing spoon

measuring spoons

oven mitt

rolling pin(optional)

wax paper

Instructions

1. First thing's first wash your hands

2. If the corn syrup is not liquified, put the bottle in a pot of hot

water to liquify it.

3. Put one cup of confectioners sugar in the microwave safe mixing

bowl and make a crater in the center.

4. Empty the one oz. package of bubblegum base into the crater and put

the bowl in the microwave on meidium to meidium high for 15

seconds.Wearing a oven mitt carefully remove the container and press

against the bubble gum with the wooden spoon. If the bubble gum is

soft and mushy, remove it.If not microwave it like before until it's

soft and easy to mash with a wooden spoon.

5. When the base is soft, add one and a half tablespoons of liquified

corn syrup and heat again on meidium high for another 15 seconds and

remove from microwave.

6. With the wooden spoon, mix the bubble gum base, the corn syrup and

the sugar until they are about halfway mixed together, then add one

half teaspoons of bubble gum flavor and continue mixing until it is

blended together.When the mixture has cooled and it gets hard to stir,

kead it with your hands. The consistency you should have will be

similar to cookie dough. Once you have a soft dough like lump of pink

bubble gum place it on a sheet of wax paper dusted with confectioners

sugar.

7. Now you are ready to shape the bubble gum. You can flaten it with

your hands or with a rolling pin and cut it with a bubble gum cutter

in to the shape you desire.

8. After you have cut the bubble gum let the bubble gum dry for one

hour, then lightly dust each peice with confectioner's sugar and store

them in a air-tight container. If you want to you can wrap each piece

of bubble gum individualy in wax paper instead of storing them in

container, if you do the gum should stay fresh for to weeks.

9. When you are cleaning the mixing bowl ad the wooden spoon try to

wipe off most of the mixture with a paper towel before washing. Then

wash them with warm water and soap."