#Novelty Candy

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Video thumbnail — Bubble Jug History and Review
Food early 1990s–mid-2000s (revived 2024)

Bubble Jug

A little flip-top plastic jug of powdered bubble gum you poured straight into your mouth. Made by Amurol — Wrigley's novelty-gum shop, the same one behind Bubble Tape and Big League Chew — Bubble Jug was an early-'90s corner-store dare: tip in too much powder and your whole mouth seized up.

Video thumbnail — Do You Remember Wax Bottles? Nik-L-Nips
Food early 1900s–present

Nik-L-Nip

Tiny wax bottles filled with a swallow of sweet, fruit-flavored syrup. You bit the top off, drank the little sip inside, and then — the part that made no sense and everyone did anyway — chewed the leftover wax like gum.

Video thumbnail — Tongue Splashers Bubble Gum Can Unboxing
Food 1993–1999

Tongue Splashers

Bubble gum whose entire point was dyeing your tongue neon — you chewed, you stuck your tongue out at your friends, that was the product. It came loose as gumballs and, most memorably, in a miniature paint can promising to paint your mouth "with a splash of color."

Video thumbnail — 1998 Baby Bottle Pop Candy Commercial
Food 1998–present

Baby Bottle Pop

A lollipop shaped like a baby bottle's nipple, sitting in a tub of flavored powder you were meant to dunk it into. The jingle did the rest. Filed by everyone under 90s candy — which it isn't, quite.