Like Violet Beaureguard, the avid gum chewer in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," Curt Mueller hopes to find out just how much shelf life a piece of gum really has. A piece of Bazooka bubble ...

The company's first product was violet mints that Howard sold out of a pushcart in New York City. ... Gold Rush Bubble Gum was a novelty gum sold by Topps that was popular in the 1970s and '80s.

Super Bubble was a post-World War 2 invention, introduced to kids in 1946 as the first individually-wrapped bubble gum under the name Bub's Daddy, while Fruit Stripe Gum was created in the 1960s.