As a farm kid from the southeastern US, it’s a good rule. You want your kids to be successful? Give them a hand implement and put them to work and ask them if they want to that for the rest of their lives.
A man is sitting on the train, chewing gum in silence. After a while, an elderly lady leans forward from the opposite and says: "Sir, it's very kind of you to tell me so much, but unfortunately, I'm deaf."
One of those UBIs (Useless Bit of Information) that has stuck in my head since the 1980's is that the arrow on the Wrigley's package originates in Mrs. Wrigley being a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, whose icon is an arrow. This was the sole positive outcome of my socializing with a young lady of that organization during a party. Sigh.
The Rules of Acquisition have been mentioned! Praise the Blessed Exchequer! What a great thing to enjoy in the morning. Thanks for another amazing and interesting video, THG!
In 1926, my grandmother came to the US from Sweden. After getting through Ellis Island she took a train to her brother's place on Long Island. She noticed something funny about other passengers. They were chewing nothing. She though that this was very funny and laughed. Later, her brother explained gum to her.
❤❤My grandma always had Wrigley's chewing gum in her purse for us kids. That and Bit O' Honey. Grandma singing "school days, school days good ol golden rule days" Bible stories while sitting on her lap and Wrigley's chewing gum, man I miss those days. I miss Grandma more.❤
What was the best Bible story she ever told you that impacted you the most or were you to busy not caring about scripture and only focused on your grandmothers loves and free tastey candy
Both of my grandmothers always had gum in their purses (I knew with my eyes closed which grandmas purse it was for when you opened them each had their own aroma, one grandma chewed juicy fruit and the other dentine gum. )I love my grandmothers and miss them dearly ❤
My father chewed Chiclet gum for decades. It was intended for breath odor control, not for chewing pleasure. Necessity demanded economizing on gum purchases, so Dad bit and only chewed 1/2 of a Chiclet at a time. Dad was a pastor, gum was routinely chewed prior to making a pastoral call or visit. For this reason, gum packs were kept in his top chest of drawers gum and the ash tray in the family car. My brother and I were allowed to chew Chicklets once each week. After Sunday morning church service we two small boys were allowed to raid the ash tray stash, but were limited to 2 pieces each. We had to frequently dodge the bitten 1/2 Chiclet. We were trusted to not over indulge by being charged to tattle tale on an offending brother.
My mom and I shared Juicy Fruit.❤ Later years when I had a daughter, my dad would ask her what she wanted when he came for visits. The answer was always gum! Pronounced “gom”!😅 But buddy, you haven’t lived until you’ve cleaned the underside of a church pew on a Monday morning! LOL!!🤪
As a boy in the 1950s, my absolute favorite gum was Beemans. May have spelled it wrong, now in my 70s, I wish I could find it today. Blackjack was my second favorite. The good old days eh?
@ the closest Cracker Barrel to me is 50 miles away. The gum should be at the front counter. If you have trouble finding it ask the cashier. Happy chewing!
Our daughter and son in law moved to Dover NH. in 2011. She showed us a candy store in her area that has all the old time chewing gum. Like Cloves, Black Jack, Beemans, those huge slow pole suckered, ect.
The money William Wrigley made selling gum led him to invest in a sporting venture, the Chicago Cubs. By 1921, he owned the majority interest in the team; and their home field. In 1926, the field was renamed after the owner; so the coming baseball season of 2025 will be the 100th season of the Cubs playing in Wrigley Field.
Gosh you just got me thinking about how many of these there are, and everyone over 45 will hear these in their heads: "Freeeeeedent's the one that took the stick out of gum... and put the fresh in your breath!" "Give your breath long lasting freshness, with Big Red!" "You're in the big league, when you're into Big League Chew" "Yikes, stripes! Fruit Stripe Gum!" "Double your pleasure, double your fun!" "Juicy Fruit! It's gonna move ya!"
The Adam's Chewing Company had their plant in Long Island City and both my Grandmother and mother worked there before WW2. The plants were still in operation until the 1980's when an unfortunate accident on the Fresh Mint line exploded killing several workers. The building is now LaGuardia Community College.
My mom used Witch Hazel liniment to remove gum from hair. Removing gum from carpet or fabric, and perhaps hair, is often best accomplished with an ice cube to make the gum crumbly so that you can pull off bits of it.
Advertising for chewing gum was all around us from the 1960 thru the 1990, with just as many commercials aimed at children as adults. When I was kid, it was all about Bubble Yum --especially the peachy "Wacky Fruit" flavor. As an adult, I settled on Trident Original and have stuck with that for many years. My local barber shop gave a piece of Bazooka bubble gum to kids who behaved while getting their hair cut. For several years in the 1990's I filled vending machines, where the gum and mints category was typically a mere distraction from selling candy, chips, drinks and everything else. It was not a big money maker. I was trained, for ease of counting, to place a different gum product behind what was already there. But, I found that once you discovered the most popular brand or flavor of gum at each location, you actually sold more if you kept re-stocking the same thing. So, I just learned to flip the last pack of gum upside down to facilitate easy counting. Ice Breakers cool mint by Nabisco/Hershey was my top seller in offices and hospitals but Juicy Fruit sold well at factories and schools.
Like you, dental work has kinda ended me and gum, but my best memory of gum comes from Desert Storm.. In our MRE's, the 1st generation of MRE's, a few had Chiclets peppermint gum, most of the guys I served with didnt like them, but I did, so whenever someone got a little pack of Chiclets they would drop them off on my cot and before we left and returned to Germany, I had to throw away the gum because even the Kuwait's I tried to give them to didn't even like them, I have Grandkids now, and keep some Chiclets in a bowl on the coffee table, I guess one likes them because when they leave I have to replenish the bowl.
I'm addicted to Ice Breakers wintergreen, and it replaced my smoking addiction. A container of 40 pieces is roughly $4.50. It lasts a lot longer than the pack of 20 cigs used to! Which were nearly $6 when I quit.
The Yucatan Peninsula was the number one exporter of natural "chicle" or the original "buble gum" used by Adams for his Chiclets. Native Mayan "Chicleros" would go to the Eastern and Southern Yucatan jungle to "hunt" for "Chicozapote" trees and would scratch on the tree bark with a knife and "milked" the fat in a manner similar to how maple syrup is collected from trees. It had to be done during late Spring to early Fall (the wet season) since when late fall brought cooler but drier breezes from the north and with it the dry season, which is when the bark would harden and the drips would dry up. By then the chicle sap blocks was taken to Progreso, El Cuyo, Holbox, Chelem, Ria Lagartos, Chibxulub if the sap was collected in the East and to Campeche/Lerma, Seybaplaya, Celestun and particularly Ciudad del Carmen (not to be confused with Playa del Carmen on the other side) from the one recollected in the South. Also Chetumal and Belize City and Corozal had their own chicle sap exports, the one from Mexico made its way to the USA and sap from the Colony of British Honduras (present day independent Belize) went to the USA, Canada and the UK. This lasted until World War II when artificial chewing gum came about. My grandmother used to buy little natural chicle balls without flavoring sold in the cities markets or by street sellers from local sap. She remembers it as being naturally sweet and needing no sugar or honey. She would chew them with a little branch of mint.
"Child Labor Laws???" What are those??? "You're old enough to work. Now, go out and, help pay your way. NO SONS OF MINE ARE GONNA BE "WELFARE BRATS!!!" Ahhh, yes. The things ya remember from your childhood!!! LOL
Tha was really fascinating. There was one gum you didn't mention that was big when I was a kid: Where does Bazooka Bubble Gum become popular. That brand was often given out when I was trick or treating at Halloween
My third grade teacher, Mr. Levine, would give out Mary Janes to anyone who caught a fly ball during recess!!! God, I miss that man!!! Loved him ta death!! One of my favorite teachers, growing up!!
If I had of had a Teacher like this guy education might have been fun, I always learn something new even when I think I know the subject? Gum who knew? I guess it’s both content and delivery. Proud to be an OG subscriber❤
My Grandma grew up extremely poor, she told me that she would chew bits of road tar because they couldn't afford gum. She was born in 1915 and kept most of her teeth until she passed at 104.
May i just be the first to say that I genuinely enjoy the fact that you are still here doing what you do for the rest of humanity and i am grateful for you as a "person amongst people"!! Who gives us information about life and things in our wolrd that fascinate myself and im pretty sure alot of millions of other people here in humanity amongst humans. Thank you for your presence in this world 🌎
As I was scrolling through my TH-cam video suggestions, I realized when I roll up on a "The History Guy" video I don't even have to look at the title, I just automatically download it with the other videos I want to watch that day, not wondering if it will be something I like, because I know it will be. There's not many channels i can say that about. I always think if my History teachers were more like Lance I would have gotten a lot more out of my classes. Thanks, and keep up the great work.
Oh man…. Double Bubble was my go-to. Every night in summer after finishing dinner I’d grab a piece of Double Bubble from “that kitchen drawer” and dash out the door to go play. Such an indelible memory. I can still smell it, picture the little comic strip in the wrapper….
Thank you for reviving an old memory! My dad used to tear a stick of Wrigley's Spearmint or Beechnut Peppermint gum in half to share with me. Later, and full sticks, came Doublemint and Juicyfruit!
I miss the crazy intricate whacky gumball machines that used to be everywhere in the 90s and 00s. I wouldnt even want one. I just wanted to watch the machine work. All the crazy scoop lifts and swirly ramps. I was amazed
My late brother-in-law and his father worked for the company that made many of those machines, as well as the gumballs that filled them. That company is still in business today.
My Great Grandmother always had Juicy Fruit. She kept it so much that her handbags smelled of Juicy Fruit years after she passed away. ❤I, too, would love to chew gum again😢
My grandma was an avid chewers of Wrigley's Doublemint. If she wasn't eating, she was chewing Doublemint. She carried it in her pocket, purse, car, and always had several packs around the house.
I use a Xylitol-sweetened "dry-mouth" lozenge before bedtime to keep my mouth moist because I sleep with a CPAP machine. I have to be careful to keep those things away from the dogs however because xylitol can kill a dog quickly by causing a precipitous drop in blood sugar.
My Mom also had Wrigley's Gum (usually Doublemint, my favorite) in her purse, and she also tore each piece in half to give to us kids. I think EVERY mom did that back then (this would have been in the 1970s & 1980s).
Especially if you're familiar with a certain series of video by some user called Psqueez on a different type of video platform. Let's just say The History of Gum on the Internet is not something you should look up at work if you often mistype C for G.
I recall as a child living in the north of Scotland in the early 1950s, being brought over Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum by my father's New York agent, Harold Bryson. This was not available in the UK at the time from both from import restrictions and due to rationing, which for confectionery remained in force after WW2 right up until 1953. It was a great treat.
Exploitation begins at home, ha ha ha ! This is why I love watching your videos! I’m in my mid 60’s and I do still learn something new every time I watch your videos. Keep up the humor it is always great to hear in these times we live in we could use more.
My grandma always had Big Red and Juicy Fruit in her purse to give to us kids. She chewed Freedent herself because of her dental work. But she always kept a supply of gum for us kids. That's just the kind of woman she was, kind and thoughtful.
.... "gummed up the works" I see what you did there T.H.G. --- Very clever! ..... 😊 Sadly, you left out the blond gal twins that advertised "Double-good" / "Double mint gum" from Wrigley's. 😪 I liked "Black Jack" and "Juicy Fruit" gum. "Clove" gum was harsh. I had one stick and gave the pack away. One guy who was trying to quit smoking cigarettes chewed "Clove" gum,,,, said it was the only thing that worked for him. I never could blow a bubble as other kids (and adults) did. Mom would not let my sister & I have bubble gum because she thought it would stick in our throats, and we would choke to death.
My mother told me about when she was growing up they would take a wad of sweet gum sap and a few stretchberries and chew them together for homemade gum.
Chewing gum: a material that has flavour for 47 seconds, then causes the jaw to ache. It's an example of marketing winning over function, and is the curse of schools and public spaces where playgrounds and footways are covered in the pernicious gunge, which costs a fortune to clean up.
In the book "The Mouse That Roared", there's a paragraph pertaining to blobs of sticky gunk on the sidewalks of New York, which the small armed-invasion force in the book think must be some kind of germ or chemical warfare but which is of course blobs of chewing gum.
I've never gotten into chewing gum, though occasionally I'll pick up a pack and chew a couple pieces. A couple years ago, I picked up three varieties that, as it happens, my mother remembers from her childhood. If I remember correctly, one of them was Black Jack or some similar licorice-flavoured gum. As we don't see each other regularly, that visit was pretty memorable.
My favourite gum-related quote from WW1 is "The moral of the men was greatly improved by an issue of chewing gum; on a scale of three pieces per four men"
My aunt had the big packs of Big Red, Juicyfruit, Doublemint, and Spearmint in her purse at all times in the 80s. I can't chew it much now, because I now have TMJ from chewing too much in my younger years.
My mom always had gum in her purse and would split it with me, too. Eventually I moved on to bubble gum. So, does that make juicy fruit a gateway gum. 😀🖖❤️
"I'm old," says you, yet you age handsomely! 😊 Always fun to watch and I've watched since almost the beginning. This one was great as usual, but I enjoyed it because I as well can't chew gum any longer thanks to dental work. 😂 I can't imagine what pine tar gum or spruce gum would do to me, though a childhood where we did that might explain why I have dental work. 😂
Anybody else notice Steven Tyler stick his gum under the grand piano as he sat down to play in the Coliseum ? Watch his right hand as he approaches, takes gum from his mouth and makes to pull himself up but is depositing gum under the corner.
Put a stick of juicy fruit in a bag of trick-or-treat candy, and let it set for a few days, and everything in the bag will carry the taste of the juicy fruit.
Mastic, being a tree resin, is quite different frim natural chicle, which is a *latex rubber* once used for chewing gum but now replaced by synthetic rubber compounds. I tried Mastic when I was vacationing in Greece and it tastes decidedly like pine trees, with a slight bitter undertone.
34th rule of Acquisition! The Grand Nagus would be pleased.
😂
I almost wrecked my car when you said that!!
As a farm kid from the southeastern US, it’s a good rule. You want your kids to be successful? Give them a hand implement and put them to work and ask them if they want to that for the rest of their lives.
"Inconceivable"
I busted out laughing while making supper. Big nerdy smile on both my wife's face and my own. Thanks!
A man is sitting on the train, chewing gum in silence.
After a while, an elderly lady leans forward from the opposite and says: "Sir, it's very kind of you to tell me so much, but unfortunately, I'm deaf."
🤣😂🤣🖖❤️
Lol🤩😚
😂😂
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😂 thank you!
One of those UBIs (Useless Bit of Information) that has stuck in my head since the 1980's is that the arrow on the Wrigley's package originates in Mrs. Wrigley being a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, whose icon is an arrow.
This was the sole positive outcome of my socializing with a young lady of that organization during a party. Sigh.
Struck out hunh...
Down the road the I Felta Thi sorority party was a lot more lively. 😅
@@skydiverclassc2031 I knew a lot of guys in the I Tappa Kegga frat.
Maybe (looks over glasses)
she was making a point.
@@skydiverclassc2031 Okay. That joke is mine now. Thanks.
The Rules of Acquisition have been mentioned! Praise the Blessed Exchequer!
What a great thing to enjoy in the morning.
Thanks for another amazing and interesting video, THG!
Whisper your way to success.
The 34th rule of acquisition is "War is good for business".
@JeffBilkins Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own.
A wise man can hear profit in the wind.
@DBZVelena Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
14:13 *Bazooka Joe! Another thing I haven't thought of in ages. Boy, today's episode is a real trip down amnesia lane. Megadose of nostalgia.* ☺️
Dude. The Bazooka Joe comics!!! Okay, where's my cane, walker and, dentures. I need some Geritol, too, while I'm at it!!! LOL
@DerekChristopherNordbye-w7s Brother, can you spare some fixodent? 😅
@HM2SGT
Bruh. I use SeaBond. LOL
😂 @@HM2SGT
In 1926, my grandmother came to the US from Sweden. After getting through Ellis Island she took a train to her brother's place on Long Island. She noticed something funny about other passengers. They were chewing nothing. She though that this was very funny and laughed. Later, her brother explained gum to her.
❤❤My grandma always had Wrigley's chewing gum in her purse for us kids. That and Bit O' Honey. Grandma singing "school days, school days good ol golden rule days" Bible stories while sitting on her lap and Wrigley's chewing gum, man I miss those days. I miss Grandma more.❤
Reading and writing and rithmetic ...😂❤
My dad always had Bit' O'Honey and my grandpa had Sugar Daddy candy
What was the best Bible story she ever told you that impacted you the most or were you to busy not caring about scripture and only focused on your grandmothers loves and free tastey candy
@@Bill-cv1xu 🎶Taught to the tune of a hickory stick🎶😊
My kinda grandma!!!
I enjoy these "offbeat" topics the most!!! I get tired of wars and destruction. ❤
Aye.
Nature decays, but resin lasts forever. - The 102nd *rule* of Gum *Acquisition*
It is amazing how long the gum sticks around. Old RAF mess tables still have gum stuck underneath left by GI's.....
Both of my grandmothers always had gum in their purses (I knew with my eyes closed which grandmas purse it was for when you opened them each had their own aroma, one grandma chewed juicy fruit and the other dentine gum. )I love my grandmothers and miss them dearly ❤
My father chewed Chiclet gum for decades. It was intended for breath odor control, not for chewing pleasure. Necessity demanded economizing on gum purchases, so Dad bit and only chewed 1/2 of a Chiclet at a time. Dad was a pastor, gum was routinely chewed prior to making a pastoral call or visit. For this reason, gum packs were kept in his top chest of drawers gum and the ash tray in the family car.
My brother and I were allowed to chew Chicklets once each week. After Sunday morning church service we two small boys were allowed to raid the ash tray stash, but were limited to 2 pieces each. We had to frequently dodge the bitten 1/2 Chiclet. We were trusted to not over indulge by being charged to tattle tale on an offending brother.
34th rule of acquisition. Very good!
The 34th rule of acquisition is "War is good for business
@@nline2blast722that would make the 35th Rule of Aquisition: Peace is good for business.
Perhaps he was thinking of ROA 111
My mom and I shared Juicy Fruit.❤ Later years when I had a daughter, my dad would ask her what she wanted when he came for visits. The answer was always gum! Pronounced “gom”!😅 But buddy, you haven’t lived until you’ve cleaned the underside of a church pew on a Monday morning! LOL!!🤪
Ugh, every desk in my Junior High was carpeted with the stuff. It opened in 65, and I'm sure there's plenty of that vintage still stuck there
I remember cleaning school desks. We had cans of something that froze it solid so it would come off easier.
As a boy in the 1950s, my absolute favorite gum was Beemans. May have spelled it wrong, now in my 70s, I wish I could find it today. Blackjack was my second favorite. The good old days eh?
Try going to Cracker Barrel, if there is one in your area.
@@sonjaroberts2723I may have to make a road trip! Thanks for the suggestion!
@ the closest Cracker Barrel to me is 50 miles away. The gum should be at the front counter. If you have trouble finding it ask the cashier. Happy chewing!
Our daughter and son in law moved to Dover NH. in 2011. She showed us a candy store in her area that has all the old time chewing gum. Like Cloves, Black Jack, Beemans, those huge slow pole suckered, ect.
I always liked the Clove gum flavor !
My 102 year old grandmother is keeping Wrigley chewing gums stock prices at a all time high as she is always chewing it.
The money William Wrigley made selling gum led him to invest in a sporting venture, the Chicago Cubs. By 1921, he owned the majority interest in the team; and their home field. In 1926, the field was renamed after the owner; so the coming baseball season of 2025 will be the 100th season of the Cubs playing in Wrigley Field.
🎼 _Brush your breath, brush your breath, brush your, brush your breath with Dentene!_ 🎶
Gosh you just got me thinking about how many of these there are, and everyone over 45 will hear these in their heads:
"Freeeeeedent's the one that took the stick out of gum... and put the fresh in your breath!"
"Give your breath long lasting freshness, with Big Red!"
"You're in the big league, when you're into Big League Chew"
"Yikes, stripes! Fruit Stripe Gum!"
"Double your pleasure, double your fun!"
"Juicy Fruit! It's gonna move ya!"
@fisharmor 😂🫶 as I read it I hear the jingle! You have a much better memory than I. 😃
@@fisharmorDarn it, haven’t thought of the Juicy Fruit song in years and now it’s going to be in my head all day. 😝
The Adam's Chewing Company had their plant in Long Island City and both my Grandmother and mother worked there before WW2.
The plants were still in operation until the 1980's when an unfortunate accident on the Fresh Mint line exploded killing several workers.
The building is now LaGuardia Community College.
Double your pleasure, double your fun, with Doublemint Doublemint Doublemint gum!
With two hot blonde twins!
Charlene and Marlene! Chew your gum, sweethearts. (President Scrooge, Spaceballs)
You just "dated" yourself, bruh!! LOL
No worries. SO DID I!! LOL
@sailordude2094
YYYYEEEESSSSSS!!!! Dude!!! I wanted ta bang 'em so bad, when I was a boy!!! If any man says otherwise THEY'RE FREAKING LYING!!! LOL
And the Doublemint Twins. Those Barnstable girls from Kentucky! Ah. Childhood.
My mom used Witch Hazel liniment to remove gum from hair. Removing gum from carpet or fabric, and perhaps hair, is often best accomplished with an ice cube to make the gum crumbly so that you can pull off bits of it.
dry ice is more fun, though, and doesn't leave a wet spot
not that I know much about wet spots
Advertising for chewing gum was all around us from the 1960 thru the 1990, with just as many commercials aimed at children as adults.
When I was kid, it was all about Bubble Yum --especially the peachy "Wacky Fruit" flavor. As an adult, I settled on Trident Original and have stuck with that for many years. My local barber shop gave a piece of Bazooka bubble gum to kids who behaved while getting their hair cut.
For several years in the 1990's I filled vending machines, where the gum and mints category was typically a mere distraction from selling candy, chips, drinks and everything else. It was not a big money maker. I was trained, for ease of counting, to place a different gum product behind what was already there. But, I found that once you discovered the most popular brand or flavor of gum at each location, you actually sold more if you kept re-stocking the same thing. So, I just learned to flip the last pack of gum upside down to facilitate easy counting. Ice Breakers cool mint by Nabisco/Hershey was my top seller in offices and hospitals but Juicy Fruit sold well at factories and schools.
Being from Maine and a Star Trek fan, I very much enjoyed this episode. Though, I enjoy them all. Great job.
Like you, dental work has kinda ended me and gum, but my best memory of gum comes from Desert Storm.. In our MRE's, the 1st generation of MRE's, a few had Chiclets peppermint gum, most of the guys I served with didnt like them, but I did, so whenever someone got a little pack of Chiclets they would drop them off on my cot and before we left and returned to Germany, I had to throw away the gum because even the Kuwait's I tried to give them to didn't even like them,
I have Grandkids now, and keep some Chiclets in a bowl on the coffee table, I guess one likes them because when they leave I have to replenish the bowl.
@haroldvoss5886 I remember them. There were 2 chiclets in each box, and I, too, loved them and traded other items for em...
@@Wil_Liam1
Yep two in a little cellophane baggie.
@haroldvoss5886 ---> Hello; they were also in the "C-Rations" before the M.R.E.'s came along. Two per meal.
...yall are great 🫡🤙
I'm addicted to Ice Breakers wintergreen, and it replaced my smoking addiction. A container of 40 pieces is roughly $4.50. It lasts a lot longer than the pack of 20 cigs used to! Which were nearly $6 when I quit.
Kids and I stopped on the way to the homeschool co-op, for a pack of gum.
Love listening to your episodes on the way to school.
I loved homeschooling! Our kids are all in college now and I have a paying job, but it was a wonderful experience!
The Yucatan Peninsula was the number one exporter of natural "chicle" or the original "buble gum" used by Adams for his Chiclets. Native Mayan "Chicleros" would go to the Eastern and Southern Yucatan jungle to "hunt" for "Chicozapote" trees and would scratch on the tree bark with a knife and "milked" the fat in a manner similar to how maple syrup is collected from trees. It had to be done during late Spring to early Fall (the wet season) since when late fall brought cooler but drier breezes from the north and with it the dry season, which is when the bark would harden and the drips would dry up. By then the chicle sap blocks was taken to Progreso, El Cuyo, Holbox, Chelem, Ria Lagartos, Chibxulub if the sap was collected in the East and to Campeche/Lerma, Seybaplaya, Celestun and particularly Ciudad del Carmen (not to be confused with Playa del Carmen on the other side) from the one recollected in the South. Also Chetumal and Belize City and Corozal had their own chicle sap exports, the one from Mexico made its way to the USA and sap from the Colony of British Honduras (present day independent Belize) went to the USA, Canada and the UK. This lasted until World War II when artificial chewing gum came about.
My grandmother used to buy little natural chicle balls without flavoring sold in the cities markets or by street sellers from local sap. She remembers it as being naturally sweet and needing no sugar or honey. She would chew them with a little branch of mint.
'Put your children to work early '...oh yeah, my parents believed in that wholeheartedly!
When I was 10, I became a groundskeeper and a sanitation engineer. I mowed the lawn and took out the garbage.
"Child Labor Laws???" What are those???
"You're old enough to work. Now, go out and, help pay your way. NO SONS OF MINE ARE GONNA BE "WELFARE BRATS!!!"
Ahhh, yes. The things ya remember from your childhood!!! LOL
My father liked to say, “If you can’t use children as servants, what is the point of having them?”
The Rules of Acquisition, such a useful tome!
The comments are almost as good as the History Guy's video. They definitely bring back memories. 😄
Tha was really fascinating. There was one gum you didn't mention that was big when I was a kid: Where does Bazooka Bubble Gum become popular. That brand was often given out when I was trick or treating at Halloween
If you're so interested why don't you just Google it.
I remember those weird cartoons they had.
I always preferred Bazooka to Dubble Bubble. Bazooka was sweeter.
@@anglend I had to leave out several brands.
My third grade teacher, Mr. Levine, would give out Mary Janes to anyone who caught a fly ball during recess!!! God, I miss that man!!! Loved him ta death!! One of my favorite teachers, growing up!!
We always had dentine, four out of five dentists agreed it was best. The fifth was a sleep.
😀🖖❤️
If I had of had a Teacher like this guy education might have been fun, I always learn something new even when I think I know the subject? Gum who knew? I guess it’s both content and delivery. Proud to be an OG subscriber❤
I’m glad you are sticking with the video subject even if you can’t chew on it!
Gum is also a great way to start a conversation with someone, it's always rude not to offer someone a piece of gum if you're chomping on one
My Grandma grew up extremely poor, she told me that she would chew bits of road tar because they couldn't afford gum. She was born in 1915 and kept most of her teeth until she passed at 104.
Incredible she lived so long. Many people who lived in poverty and did that, ended up with severe health issues because of how carcinogenic it is.
Good Morning THG and all you history fans out there
May i just be the first to say that I genuinely enjoy the fact that you are still here doing what you do for the rest of humanity and i am grateful for you as a
"person amongst people"!! Who gives us information about life and things in our wolrd that fascinate myself and im pretty sure alot of millions of other people here in humanity amongst humans. Thank you for your presence in this world 🌎
My grandma always had Beemans Pepsin Gum and Black Jack gum.
Love Beeman's gum
Love the Star Trek reference, my dude! ❤
This honestly is information.I never would have thought I wanted but in the end realised how much I enjoyed and needed
As a child, my favorites were Fruit Stripe, Black Jack, and Juicy Fruit.
We were fairly poor, and it was always a treat.
From 'One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest', when offered, the very tall and robust Native American would always mutter, 'ahh, Juicy Fruit'!
Fun gum fact: Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum was the first product with a bar code.
The fact that bubble gum is pink even today only because that was the only available color in large quantities that day in the factory is incredible.
*I haven't thought of Teaberry and blackjack for ages, and I don't think I have had any since the 20th century. Memories of mom indeed* 😻🫶
its still available, but the flavor doesn't last as long as it used to seem to do.
As I was scrolling through my TH-cam video suggestions, I realized when I roll up on a "The History Guy" video I don't even have to look at the title, I just automatically download it with the other videos I want to watch that day, not wondering if it will be something I like, because I know it will be. There's not many channels i can say that about. I always think if my History teachers were more like Lance I would have gotten a lot more out of my classes. Thanks, and keep up the great work.
Oh man…. Double Bubble was my go-to. Every night in summer after finishing dinner I’d grab a piece of Double Bubble from “that kitchen drawer” and dash out the door to go play. Such an indelible memory. I can still smell it, picture the little comic strip in the wrapper….
Thank you for reviving an old memory! My dad used to tear a stick of Wrigley's Spearmint or Beechnut Peppermint gum in half to share with me. Later, and full sticks, came Doublemint and Juicyfruit!
My Dad told me that as a child (in the 1920’s) he and his friends used to pull off little pieces of freshly laid tar to chew.
Yuck.
WTF
I miss the crazy intricate whacky gumball machines that used to be everywhere in the 90s and 00s. I wouldnt even want one. I just wanted to watch the machine work. All the crazy scoop lifts and swirly ramps. I was amazed
My late brother-in-law and his father worked for the company that made many of those machines, as well as the gumballs that filled them. That company is still in business today.
My Great Grandmother always had Juicy Fruit. She kept it so much that her handbags smelled of Juicy Fruit years after she passed away. ❤I, too, would love to chew gum again😢
fascinating, and many happy memories. I'd forgotten Double Bubble used to have comics.
My grandma was an avid chewers of Wrigley's Doublemint. If she wasn't eating, she was chewing Doublemint. She carried it in her pocket, purse, car, and always had several packs around the house.
Still my favorite gum
Dubblemint adds to your fun, Dubblemint chewing gum!
Chewing gum sweetened with xylitol is actually good for your teeth as it inhibits the growth of cavity forming bacteria.
I use a Xylitol-sweetened "dry-mouth" lozenge before bedtime to keep my mouth moist because I sleep with a CPAP machine. I have to be careful to keep those things away from the dogs however because xylitol can kill a dog quickly by causing a precipitous drop in blood sugar.
It also helps for people with Sjogren's, like me, as it encourages the production of saliva.
My Mom also had Wrigley's Gum (usually Doublemint, my favorite) in her purse, and she also tore each piece in half to give to us kids. I think EVERY mom did that back then (this would have been in the 1970s & 1980s).
The lower end point of the G in the thumpnail doesn't nearly go far enough.... seeing it from the corner of my eye made it look like very SUS video!
Especially if you're familiar with a certain series of video by some user called Psqueez on a different type of video platform. Let's just say The History of Gum on the Internet is not something you should look up at work if you often mistype C for G.
I recall as a child living in the north of Scotland in the early 1950s, being brought over Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum by my father's New York agent, Harold Bryson. This was not available in the UK at the time from both from import restrictions and due to rationing, which for confectionery remained in force after WW2 right up until 1953. It was a great treat.
Exploitation begins at home, ha ha ha ! This is why I love watching your videos! I’m in my mid 60’s and I do still learn something new every time I watch your videos. Keep up the humor it is always great to hear in these times we live in we could use more.
I’d heard about Santa Ana and chicles years ago, but I’ve never seen it confirmed. Thank you!
Thankyou. Good memories are hard to find some days. Chew on that.
4:01
I caught that ST reference!!!
Well done!
I used to love the gum they included in a pack of baseball cards. And double bubble wasn't very common. It was Bazooka.
Did they find the ancient gum stuck under the corner of a school desk? 😂
THE HISTORY GUY CUFFLINKS !!!
My grandma always had Big Red and Juicy Fruit in her purse to give to us kids. She chewed Freedent herself because of her dental work. But she always kept a supply of gum for us kids. That's just the kind of woman she was, kind and thoughtful.
Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?..
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My mom used to sing that. 🙂🖖❤️
😅😂🤣 I was looking for this comment. I knew someone would make it.
Epic cuff links, my friend!!
.... "gummed up the works" I see what you did there T.H.G. --- Very clever! ..... 😊
Sadly, you left out the blond gal twins that advertised "Double-good" / "Double mint gum" from Wrigley's. 😪
I liked "Black Jack" and "Juicy Fruit" gum. "Clove" gum was harsh. I had one stick and gave the pack away. One guy who was trying to quit smoking cigarettes chewed "Clove" gum,,,, said it was the only thing that worked for him.
I never could blow a bubble as other kids (and adults) did.
Mom would not let my sister & I have bubble gum because she thought it would stick in our throats, and we would choke to death.
My mother told me about when she was growing up they would take a wad of sweet gum sap and a few stretchberries and chew them together for homemade gum.
Chewing gum: a material that has flavour for 47 seconds, then causes the jaw to ache.
It's an example of marketing winning over function, and is the curse of schools and public spaces where playgrounds and footways are covered in the pernicious gunge, which costs a fortune to clean up.
In the book "The Mouse That Roared", there's a paragraph pertaining to blobs of sticky gunk on the sidewalks of New York, which the small armed-invasion force in the book think must be some kind of germ or chemical warfare but which is of course blobs of chewing gum.
Presented like a true Drama Queen. Lighten up, Louie..
My grandma used to keep Wrigley's chewing gum for us kids . It was a part of growing up .
My daughter did a reach project in 3rd grade about the invention of bubble gum, so I learned most of this from her. 😄
I've never gotten into chewing gum, though occasionally I'll pick up a pack and chew a couple pieces. A couple years ago, I picked up three varieties that, as it happens, my mother remembers from her childhood. If I remember correctly, one of them was Black Jack or some similar licorice-flavoured gum. As we don't see each other regularly, that visit was pretty memorable.
Love the cuff links! Classy.
Gum and mints! The candies that make jobs and school not as monotonous. Helps the day pass by just a little bit faster.
There is a gum wall in Seattle that is both amazing and gross at the same time.
Omg! Sharing half a stick with my mom, torn while still wrapped. Thank you for that reminder
But can you walk and chew it at the same time?
Does it lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?
@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 If your mother says "don't chew it", do you swallow it in spite?
"Can you catch it on your tonsils? Can you heave it left & right?"
My favourite gum-related quote from WW1 is "The moral of the men was greatly improved by an issue of chewing gum; on a scale of three pieces per four men"
*morale*. It would certainly be a wonderful world if we could improve the morals of men just by giving them chewing gum!
My aunt had the big packs of Big Red, Juicyfruit, Doublemint, and Spearmint in her purse at all times in the 80s. I can't chew it much now, because I now have TMJ from chewing too much in my younger years.
Ahhhh I remember stuffing my face FULL of Big Red... 😂
My mom always had gum in her purse and would split it with me, too. Eventually I moved on to bubble gum. So, does that make juicy fruit a gateway gum. 😀🖖❤️
Yes. Yes it does.
Grew up on Black Jack and other licorice flavored candy. Favorite of the grandparents.
Who else likes “black jack” gum?
"I'm old," says you, yet you age handsomely! 😊 Always fun to watch and I've watched since almost the beginning. This one was great as usual, but I enjoyed it because I as well can't chew gum any longer thanks to dental work. 😂 I can't imagine what pine tar gum or spruce gum would do to me, though a childhood where we did that might explain why I have dental work. 😂
My Granny used to tear the double mint in two... Big Red if we were in church!!! Great memories...
4:38 So _that's_ where are the Chiclets name comes from 😃
Thank you History Guy
Dear History Guy...wtf...I just purchased bubblegum yesterday for the first time in 15 years...
Sincerely, WTF. 💜
Omg you quoted the rules of acquisition. I scared my dog laughing at that. Nerd! ❤️
Anybody else notice Steven Tyler stick his gum under the grand piano as he sat down to play in the Coliseum ? Watch his right hand as he approaches, takes gum from his mouth and makes to pull himself up but is depositing gum under the corner.
Put a stick of juicy fruit in a bag of trick-or-treat candy, and let it set for a few days, and everything in the bag will carry the taste of the juicy fruit.
Wrigley's was almost but not totally impossible to blow bubbles with.
Good morning, professor! 👋🏽 😊
My late mother chewed nothing but Wrigley's Doublemint. Still my favorite gum.
OmG, a Ferengi reference! I love it! You must be a Trekkie too, History Guy!
I chewed a lot of gum as a kid. I probably wouldn't have chewed so much but after about 60 seconds the flavor was gone. Time for another piece.
I remember my first piece. It was 2001. It was a birthday party. It was Double Bubble. I can't believe i remember that I'm 30 years old now
Mastic, being a tree resin, is quite different frim natural chicle, which is a *latex rubber* once used for chewing gum but now replaced by synthetic rubber compounds. I tried Mastic when I was vacationing in Greece and it tastes decidedly like pine trees, with a slight bitter undertone.
I hear a rule of acquisition, and I upvote
As a kid I took wheat corns and chewed on that, the gluten in it also provides a gum for chewing.