America's original bubble gum attacks with a four-part horror show for Halloween! With varieties like "Slime Ball" lime flavor, "Pumpkin Seedlings" with candy seeds inside, "Count Blacula" with cherry blood and "Horror Eyes"... we ask, scary? Eh...J-Lam says:
I will forever remember Dubble Bubble as the brand that first led me to an understanding of TMJ. At the tender age of nine I threw one of their ubiquitous pink cylinders in my mouth and chowed down with the mistaken impression that Dubble Bubble was kind of like Bubble Yum.
Not so.
The resulting instant pain and day of discomfort was technically caused by the strain of my lower jaw moving about an inch to the left of my upper jaw. But the real cause was that Dubble Bubble was rediculously hard gum. Only rivaled by Topps and Bazooka Joe, both of which at least come to you with edges and corners that make you instinctively slow down.
Anyway, I do have to give Dubble Bubble props for packaging their same-old-same-old flavor in a brand new look for the Halloween season. These four varieties look good, and their fun names and decor will no doubt appeal to the little trick-or-treaters to which they're aimed. The gum tastes as good as it always has, i.e. it's tough and hurts to chew for more than a few minutes, which is ok because the flavor is gone at that point.
Each flavor has a very slight difference as you crunch down on the candy coating, but after a few moments, you're chewing the same old thing you've chewed before, so I hesitate to agree with the flavor labels. All-in-all, though, not a bad rehash for a brand that has stood the test of time and continues to provide solid chewing entertainment for the 21st century.
TERRIFIC!
B-Com says:
As I'm looking at the Halloween-style package of gum, with four different flavors (?) I have a few questions:
Pumpkin Seedlings looks like a pumpkin, and when you bite into it you get this little burst of irritating flavorless specks that get jammed in your gums and leave you feeling "I am now annoyed at a gumball." They felt like they were burrowing into my gums. Very unpleasant. I couldn't think of a good analogy. Lame, sorry.
Where this gets interesting is in the lime (Slime Balls) and the cherry (Count Blacula) filling. In those cases, I did definitely note the flavor. The fillings are quite dense, so when you chew into it, they actually changed the consistency and flavor of the gum. If you happen to remember Rascals (which was a candy that turned into a gum) this masterful work of engineering turns from a gum into... mush? I had a hard time keeping it together in my mouth, and once it did finally solidify, the flavor was gone.
So the gums that taste the best don't even last the full 30 seconds you get from the worse flavors. So here's my dilemma. It's sugar gum, so I'm going into this knowing 30-seconds-or-less is the rule. Trash it, get another piece. So... what do I base this on?
Are these things fun? Yeah, absolutely. If I'm a kid, do I want to just tear into this whole bag and have it next to me like a vampire needs blood? Sure! So, with that being said, even though all of the above seems kind of negative, I really think they've hit the mark on this product. I'm going to do the old loop-the-loop on this one and give it a
As I'm looking at the Halloween-style package of gum, with four different flavors (?) I have a few questions:
- The packaging says Halloween "combo". I'm not sure if that refers to the fact that there are different varieties in the bag, or the fact that sometimes the individual wrappings include one gumball, sometimes two, and sometimes one and a half (which must be a warning to the other gumballs that if you don't take your vitamins and say your prayers, this could be you!)
- After getting over the combo question, I wonder if the four varieties are supposed to be one bubble gum with three unique flavors and an eyeball-painted original? Or is it the filling that provides the additional flavor? Or am I being fleeced? Only one way to find out...
Pumpkin Seedlings looks like a pumpkin, and when you bite into it you get this little burst of irritating flavorless specks that get jammed in your gums and leave you feeling "I am now annoyed at a gumball." They felt like they were burrowing into my gums. Very unpleasant. I couldn't think of a good analogy. Lame, sorry.
Where this gets interesting is in the lime (Slime Balls) and the cherry (Count Blacula) filling. In those cases, I did definitely note the flavor. The fillings are quite dense, so when you chew into it, they actually changed the consistency and flavor of the gum. If you happen to remember Rascals (which was a candy that turned into a gum) this masterful work of engineering turns from a gum into... mush? I had a hard time keeping it together in my mouth, and once it did finally solidify, the flavor was gone.
So the gums that taste the best don't even last the full 30 seconds you get from the worse flavors. So here's my dilemma. It's sugar gum, so I'm going into this knowing 30-seconds-or-less is the rule. Trash it, get another piece. So... what do I base this on?
Are these things fun? Yeah, absolutely. If I'm a kid, do I want to just tear into this whole bag and have it next to me like a vampire needs blood? Sure! So, with that being said, even though all of the above seems kind of negative, I really think they've hit the mark on this product. I'm going to do the old loop-the-loop on this one and give it a
TERRIFIC!
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