# R.I.P. Bazooka Joe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640 "2012-12-01T02:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/21 "2012-12-03T20:33:05Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I had no idea Bazooka bubblegum was still around. Who buys it? There was an article about this in the Times - IIRC they said kids 10 - 13. Interest drops off sharply after that. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/22 "2012-12-03T20:33:32Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > It’s sad when you realize your country is as insignificant as Fiji and Iceland, isn’t it? 😉 Aaw, Airstrip One, we still love you. Almost as much as Israel. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/23 "2012-12-04T02:37:23Z")
You wacky UK dudes and your Christmas crackers! ETA: stop that, it tickles! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/24 "2012-12-04T04:40:45Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > There was an article about this in the Times - IIRC they said kids 10 - 13. Interest drops off sharply after that. For some stupid reason, this is interesting to me. And it does sound about right. That’s about the last time I remember chewing Bazooka bubble gum. It’s only slightly better than the crap you’d get with your Topps baseball cards, which tasted half of stale bubblegum and half of cardboard, with the texture of shards of glass (until you got it well chewed-up.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/25 "2012-12-04T05:01:00Z")
I was going to comment that part of the reason they were rebranding is that nobody remembers the Joe Palooka comics that inspired the name. But I can’t find where in the hell I read about this connection. In any case, I for one saw this coming when Archie comics stopped gamely referencing short-lived youth trends of the 1930’s. The entire culture is up in the air now. Next thing you know, they’ll start stripping the anti-semitism out of The Saint. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640/26 "2012-12-04T07:49:58Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > **Happy Lendervedder**!= “America.” Silly boy. I \*am \*America. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-bazooka-joe/642640.md?page=1)