Bubble gum Bubble gum Bubble gum is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant 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 because of its stretchy texture. The original bubble gum was pink in color because that was the dye that Diemer had most on hand at the
The Pink and the Green The Pink and the Green Le Rose et le Vert (French for The Pink and the Green) is an unfinished novel by Stendhal. "The Pink and the Green" was written in 1837, after Stendhal had abandoned "Lucien Leuwen" in 1834 and before completing "The Charterhouse of Parma" the following year. The novel began as a reworking of a story entitled "Minda de Vanghel", which Stendhal had written immediately after "The Red and the Black". Stendhal completed approximately one hundred pages and estimated that he had maybe 800 more before it would be finished. The meaning of the title is unclear.