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Can't get enough chewing gum? If you are a daily gum chewer, stock up on your favorites from Sugar Stand. You'll find a huge selection in a variety of flavors and packaging. Whether you prefer minty flavors, Chiclets, bubblegum, Dentyne, Wrigley's, Bubblicious, Big League Chew, or even blow pops, you'll find your favor chew right within our pages.
Chewing gum is sticky, chewy, sweet, and lasts!
Thomas Adams is credited with the invention of chewing gum in 1869 as a result of an experiment gone awry. He was also awarded the patent for a machine that manufactured the chewy treat in 1871. However gum has been around in various forms throughout recorded history. Ancient Greeks took the resin of the mastic tree and created a chewy treat called mastiche. The women favored mastiche as a teeth cleaning aid and for freshening their breath. Mayans, who also loved chocolate, chewed the sap of the sapodilla tree known as chicle. Native Americans took sap from spruce trees and chewed that. Early settlers learned about chewing sap from the Native Americans and soon took up the habit.
The first commercial gum introduced was a spruce gum sold in 1848 and the first official chewing gum patent was finally awarded in 1869 to William Finley Semple.
At the same time, Thomas Adams was busy trying to use chicle from the sapodilla trees to make rubber and failing miserably. One day he chomped a spare piece of the chicle and had an idea. His first gum, New York Gum No. 1 launched his gum-making career and his company soon became large and prosperous thanks to the success of the Chiclets brand. You'll recognize where the name Chiclets came from now that you know a little background.
Gum today is chewy and delicious. Early gums couldn't hold flavors very well but that problem was overcome. Now you can enjoy long-lasting flavors in every flavor imaginable. From the first flavored gum, Black Jack which was licorice flavored, to the mints, tootie-fruities, and spicy hot cinnamons, gum is yum!
Not much has changed except for two things: bubblegum and packaging. Blibber-Blubber gum was the first bubblegum however it never made it to market. That's too bad because Blibber-Blubber is a great name! Frank Fleer created Blibber-Blubber but never perfected it. Instead, one of his company's employees, Walter Diemer, took the original formula and improved it twenty years later. As a result, Double Bubble was born.
Chewing gum packaging has progressed from chunks to sticks to creative designs such as pouches of shredded gum, bubblegum tape, blow pops, and many more fun packs!
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