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==Records== |
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The 23-inch bubble blown by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California in 1996 still holds the [[Guinness World Record]]. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011 |
The 23-inch bubble blown by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California in 1996 still holds the [[Guinness World Record]]. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011. |
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Sylvanus Brown holds the record for Largest Bubblegum Bubble Blown at 50.8cm (20 inches), without using his hands, on 24 April 2004. <ref>{{cite web|title=Largest Bubblegum Bubble Blown|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/size/largest-bubblegum-bubble-blown|publisher=Guinness Book of World Records|accessdate=2 November 2011}}</ref> |
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Bubblegum is a type of elastic chewing gum, designed to be blown out of the mouth as a bubble.
History
In 1928, Walter Diemer, a monetary for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble. Original bubble gum was pink because that was the only dye Diemer had on hand at the time.
Flavors
Bubblegum is available in many different colors and flavors. A "bubblegum flavour" is the taste of the plain[clarification needed] gum, and it is made from manufactured chemicals, such as ethyl methyl phenyl glycidate, isoamyl acetate fruit extracts and others. The true ingredients being kept a mystery to customers.[citation needed] When blended, the chemicals and extracts fuse together to make a sweet, palatable flavour. Like vanilla, coconut, peppermint and almond extracts, a bubble gum flavour oil can be purchased.
Flavours also include blue raspberry, strawberry, apple, cherry, watermelon, cinnamon, banana, and grape of which strawberry and banana can be achieved with ethyl methylphenylglycidate and isoamyl acetate limonene, respectively. Malic acid can be used for apple flavour, allyl hexanoate for pineapple, ethyl propionate for fruit punch, cinnamic aldehyde for cinnamon and acetophenone for cherry. More unusual ones like berry, cola, lemon lime, peach, tropical fruit, pineapple, orange and fruit punch can be found as well. They usually can only be found in special shops and the flavour is almost always cheap and artificial, as natural flavours are more expensive.
Records
The 23-inch bubble blown by Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, California in 1996 still holds the Guinness World Record. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011.
Sylvanus Brown holds the record for Largest Bubblegum Bubble Blown at 50.8cm (20 inches), without using his hands, on 24 April 2004. [1]
See also
References
- ^ "Largest Bubblegum Bubble Blown". Guinness Book of World Records. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- The Great Idea Finder: Bubble Gum Retrieved September 29, 2011
External links
- FordGum.com, The Story of Gum
- IdeaFinder.com, Bubble Gum History
- bubblegumblog.com, Bubble Gum Swallowing Myth
- BubbleGumBubble.com, How to Blow a Bubble with Bubble Gum
- [1], Maple Leaf Amsterdam History