a friend of mine, a newbie called crazy_nut, is sitting next to me now and wants to ask the all-knowing teeming millions: why was bubblegum invented? and NOT when. (actually, i’d like to know too) 
well? will some kind soul please enlighten us? (cough cough[sub]oh Fenris…[/sub])
This site tells about the invention of bubble gum.
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://yesrick.com/rh011398.htm
This has links about gum in general:
In short, gums of various types go back a looooong way, with improvements being made along the way. One such “improvement” just accidentally created what we know today as “bubble” gum.
I changed the title of this thread from **Will SOMEBODY puh-LEEZ tell us… ** to Bubblegum. Please try to choose more descriptive thread titles in the future.
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