Retsy Series 1 · Card 0002 · 80-CND
Bite the top. Slurp the juice. Chew the bottle.
Tiny wax bottles filled with neon fruit syrup, meant to be bitten open, sipped, then chewed like gum.
The story · 1981
Gulp & Gnaw came in a cardboard six-pack sleeve that made you feel like a grown-up at the soda fountain. You bit the cap off, tipped back about one teaspoon of syrup, then gnawed the wax for the rest of recess. Nobody liked the wax. Everybody chewed it anyway, because quitting felt like losing.
The blue bottle tasted like no fruit known to science, and kids argued about what it was for the entire decade.
Six finishes
Gulp & Gnaw Bottles comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-CND
Gulp & Gnaw Bottles is one of 32 cards in the 80s Candy set. Here are the other 31.
