Code | Bazooka Joe

It was silly. It was inconsistent. It was impossible to read in the dark.

If you grew up anywhere between the 1950s and the early 2000s, the ritual was sacred. You peeled back the waxy paper of a piece of Bazooka bubble gum, popped the stale, pink brick into your mouth, and then—carefully—flattened the crinkled comic strip against your thigh. bazooka joe code

The "Secret Code" turned a $0.05 piece of stale gum into an interactive puzzle. It forced you to buy another piece tomorrow to see if the symbols changed. (They usually didn't, but the hope was there.) One of the most fascinating things about the Bazooka Joe Code is that there was no single code. It was silly