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Paulmcall
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Anyone here old enough to remember being able to get a stick of gum in a loaf of bread?
I think it was Silvercup but I could be wrong.
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Gannon
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I remember when you could MAKE bubblegum out of Wonder Bread...
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Detroitej72
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I vaguely remember the gum. Kind of like the lousy pink stick you'd get in baseball cards.

I really remember the cool Star Wars cards in Wonder Bread in the 70's though.
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I remember vaguely Bond Bread offering baseball cards, but I couldn't tell you if they were full backs (with gum) or not.
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Maybe the Bond(s) bread came with steriods instead of gum?
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BIG grin.


Helps build strong bodies in THIRTEEN ways...
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I remember getting the trading cards in the Wonder Bread, but no gum. Can't remember what was on the cards. Probably not the Charlie's Angels pics, especially Cheryl Ladd, that I also remember when I think of the trading cards of the time.
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They were trading cards and stickers. Kind of like Garbage Pail kids but they were name brand product spoofs.
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wacky packs?
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I remember they had a 'Close Encounters of the 3rd kind' Series a long time ago.
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http://www.gasolinealleyantiqu es.com/celebrity/images/StarWa rs/sw-bread.jpg
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http://www.usfreeads.com/25861 3-cls.html
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars- 1977-Wonder-Bread-Vintage-Prom o-Card-Set-MINT_W0QQitemZ16002 4843660QQihZ006QQcategoryZ9998 9QQcmdZViewItem

http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2005/10/retro-toy-flashback-15-movie-and-tv.html



(Message edited by jt1 on September 13, 2006)
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Yes, Silvercup bread had the bubblegum on the end of the loaves. My mom and dad would buy the bread, give me the gum, and then we would go feed the ducks the bread on Belle Isle. This was about 1955. Wasn"t there a big old fashioned oven near Belle Isle advertising Silvercup?
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quote:

Anyone here old enough to remember being able to get a stick of gum in a loaf of bread?




in prison, if you are lucky, your wife might stick a gun in a loaf of bread. maybe silvercup could resurrect with that strategy?

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