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Commentor Name:	Marty
Comments left:	Black Cat Bubble Gum was the most awesome bubble blowing gum I have ever come accross. It was a flat rectangle shape wrapped in a yellow waxed paper with a slinky black cat on the front of the wrapper. Sometimes there were small comics wrapped inside as well that were printed on the same waxed paper. There were also other things inside the wrapper at times but I just can't recall what they were. The gum had an aniseed flavour and we used to be able to buy 5 pieces of this wicked gum for only one cent! It was very popular because of how big the bubbles were but there was always a sense of fear that overcame you when you blew a really big Black Cat bubble... Black Cats were well known for how seriously sticky they were if you got it on your face, or worse in your hair. In my opinion Black Cats were stronger than Super Glue! I don't know of any solvent known to man that would dissolve a Black Cat and if it did end up in your hair then the only solution was to cut it out with scissors. Many a hair dresser have made their fortune by being kept busy with cutting Black Cats out of kids hair. I had one boy in my school class who had a Black Cat bubble pop onto his face and it was there for more than a week. As a matter of fact he ended up with scabs on his lips because he tried to pick the gum off his face and it took the skin off. True Story! I must admit, this instilled a healthy respect for this fearsome lolly, and I never was game to go all the way with a bubble even when I knew I could blow one bigger then my own head! Imagine that popping and encasing your entire head in a thin inpenetrable film. Like being shrink wrapped! Does any one know of any deaths being attributed to the bursting of a Black Cat bubble? We have asked everywhere and can't get them anymore. I can't quite recall who manufactured them and it always makes you wonder if something that was so powerfully sticky was discontinued because it had a problem. Something that tough surely has to be carcinogenic! For anyone who was at primary school during the late sixties and early seventies, Black Cats were a staple part of their lolly diet. Black Cats,...industrial strength professional bubble gum that only the truly fearless would dare blow a serious bubble with.
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