Bazooka (chewing gum)

Bazooka is the trading name of the U.S. manufacturer Topps Company a chewing gum.

Characteristically, in addition to the pink color of the chewing gum composition, especially the particularly popular with children intensely sweet taste of the flavors of wintergreen shrub, which is reached in the preparation by the aromatization with (though as so-called nature-identical flavoring artificially produced ) wintergreen oil.

The manufacturer began during the Second World War with the creation of this product, which is reminiscent in its blue-white- red packaging in the U.S. national colors. With the Bazooka Gum therefore American patriotism is always associated. Production is now in Mexico. The packaging is also a small comic strip with the main character Bazooka Joe is traditionally included.

The Bazooka gum was available until well into the 1990s in Europe and a well-known brand product, but today found only rarely. In Germany he was expelled by the end of the 1980s about the company August Storck whose license contract with the company Topps expired and then was no longer extended.

The name of the gum is supposed to be derived from the musical instrument bazooka, which was developed in the 1920s by Bob Burns. The bazooka designation is used for the Kazoo, another musical instrument.