Apparently some little kids in either New York or Chicago started telling people that the reason Bubble Yum was so soft was because the gum had spider legs in it. It spread all over the country ...

The bubble in bubble gum is getting frayed at the edges. What may be a $600 million-a-year business is taking a tumble-tonnage sales were off 4 percent in the final quarter of 1988-and the drop is ...