These Retro Gum Brands Taste Like Your Childhood

What was more dear as a kid than chomping on a big old mouthwateringly-sweet cud of bubble gum? NOTHING. These gums will bring you back to summer store, with a little bit of lemonade-stand money in your pocket.

Tongue splashers tasted like regular gum with extra food dye but you'd have a nice stained tongue all day.

These little cartons of gum nuggets were so cute.

Nothing better for a scraped knee than a band-aid made of gum.

Anything with Slimer on it > any other thing

What's better than gum? SIX FEET OF GUM

Big League Chew was a nice alternative to chewing tobacco for kids.

Even Garfield got in on the "shredded gum" action.

as did Michael Jordan.

The flavor lasted all of 60 seconds and the "tattoos" were crap, but damned if we didn't love Fruit Stripe.

Some of us were Crybabies.

God help you if you've ever had the misfortune of trying Chowards...

...or Thrills. Yuck.

Bubble cigars didn't taste great, but they made you feel like a boss.

Sweet, crunchy and tiny.

Razzles was basically gum having an identity crisis.

Nothing greater than chewing sweet dust into a wad of stiff, flavorless gum.

Sports gum - for when you want to exercise without drinking water.

We were all hoping for that double pleasure, that double enjoyment.

Another infamous brand of jingle gum.

Gum company pitch meeting:

"How can we make gum fresher?"

"Let's add goo in the middle!"

Gum flavored like drinks??!! Amazing.

you could even chew a Slurpee!

and cherry cola!

If your mom wouldn't get you a real beeper, at least you could pretend.

More goo hidden in unsuspecting gum.

Bubble cigarettes looked cool but tasted like nothing.

We still don't know what "flavor crystals" are, but we miss them.

Gumball eyes were a Halloween classic.

The kind of gum your babysitter liked.

The kind of gum your grandparents would chew.

The best 5 cents you ever spent.