This pack of gum was the coolest candy of the ’90s. Even if some parents found it scary.
Children of the '90s know that the Bubble Beeper was a must-have.
The nostalgia blog Dinosaur Dracula (which also provided two pics for this story) probably puts it best: "We bought Bubble Beepers for the containers alone, which were to be used as a clip-on coin purses long after the gum had been chewed."
But what you may not remember was the controversy surrounding the BB.
(Photo courtesy Dinosaur Dracula)
DRUG DEALERS.
Yeah, that was actually a thing. In a scene in the very first season of The Real World in 1992, one cast member's beeper goes off, and another roommate asks, "Why do you have a beeper? Do you sell drugs?"
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