{"id":6208,"date":"2012-08-30T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2012-08-30T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:07:49","slug":"mr-t-gold-chain-bubble-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6208","title":{"rendered":"Mr. T Gold Chain Bubble Gum!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ah, Mr. T and his Gold Chain bubble gum.\u00a0 I don’t have much to say about this that hasn’t already been said.\u00a0 But having recently acquired a pack, I thought it warranted a dedicated post.<\/p>\n

Produced in 1985 by novelty confectioners Amurol, Mr. T Gold Chain gum was a large flat piece of gum with chains carved or die-cut out of it, and I use the term “chains” loosely. \u00a0 They were more like long flat noodles of gum than chains, but they did the job that was required of them.<\/p>\n

The pack I acquired still had the 27-year-old gum inside but that had melted a bit and sludged down into the bottom of the cello pack.\u00a0 There might have been some critters in the pack at one time too, as there were a couple of what looked like small bore holes in the cello.<\/p>\n

This is what it looked like when it came to me:<\/p>\n

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Amurol-Wrigley – Mr T Gold Chain bubble gum – cello pack with gum – 1985<\/p><\/div>\n

In rare cases I do keep packages intact with the product still inside, but not when I fear that doing so will endanger the package down the road.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in this case I could see that leaving the gum inside would lead to further damage, so I set about to divest it of its contents.<\/p>\n

The bottom of the cello was pretty shredded, so I carefully cut the crimped section off.\u00a0 That allowed me to get at most of the gum and remove it, but small pieces and some nasty residue remained.\u00a0 I decided the best way to preserve this was to run it under hot water in an attempt to loosen the heat seal on the back of the package.\u00a0 After a bit of time under the faucet, the heat seal slowly started to come loose.\u00a0 As I got to the top, I realized I’d also have to snip the top seal off as well.\u00a0 Trying to pry it apart would have only caused shredding on the top of the pack.<\/p>\n

Once that was done, I was able to fully clean the inside of the pack and after drying it this is what I had (scanned against a green hardcover book):<\/p>\n

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Amurol-Wrigley – Mr T Gold Chain bubble gum – cello wrapper disassembled – 1985<\/p><\/div>\n

I think that one turned out pretty nice.<\/p>\n

Mr. T was definitely on a roll in the mid-80’s and his image was everywhere.\u00a0 Even so, I think Gold Chain gum is the only piece of candy or gum he ended up on back then. \u00a0 Here’s something else from the era, loaded up with Mr. T awesome-ness:<\/p>\n

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Quaker – Mr. T cereal box – Mr. T Stickers – 1984<\/p><\/div>\n

I could go on and on about Mr. T, but I’ll leave it to you to have some fun with this one.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Mr. T and his Gold Chain bubble gum.\u00a0 I don’t have much to say about this that hasn’t already been said.\u00a0 But having recently acquired a pack, I thought it warranted a dedicated post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,127],"tags":[349,541,539,133,37,540,128,41],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-bubble-gum","category-novelty","tag-1980s-candy","tag-1980s-gum","tag-a-team","tag-amurol","tag-bubble-gum-2","tag-mr-t","tag-novelty-2","tag-wrigley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1C8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}