The Snack Show with Jami Fallon

Episode 70: Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun (Chewing Gum)


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Welcome to The Snack Show with Jami Fallon!


If snacks is the #1 thing that brings people together, I think we can say that gum is the #2 thing that brings people together. We all got opinions and we all got favorites! Also, WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SHARE GUM? Like it's so cheap and we act like it's a treasure. Well, today we are talking all about the treasure that is chewing gum -- where it came from, what we love, and some fun snacks to try with gum! Tune in!


Here's a brief history (find the long form content at History.com): Gum first came on the scene when Northern Europeans were chewing birch bark tar. The ancient Mayans also chewed a substance called Chicle from a sapodilla tree to curb hunger. Indigenous folks were also chewing spruce tree resin and in 1840, John Curtis took this idea and created the first commercial gum factory by boiling this resin, making strips, and coating it in cornstarch. Tunes out this doesn't taste great & is brittle. So pivot to paraffin wax (petroleum, coal, and oil). Around the same time, a guy by the name of Thomas Adams got his hands on some chicle and created chewing gum in the states as it was imported in from Mexico. (Chiclets?!)


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Chewing Gum:

  • Fruit Stripe (Zebra Gum) -- find it at Ace Hardware
  • Ouch Bubble Gum
  • Wrigley's Big Red
  • Wrigley's Juicy Fruit
  • Wrigley's DoubleMint
  • BubbleYum (Cotton Candy, Original, Jolly Rancher Blue Raspberry, + Waterlmelon)
  • Chiclets
  • Bubbilicous (Orange, Watermelon, Grape, Raspberry, + Coca Cola)
  • Bazooka Bubble Gum
  • Hubba Bubba (Hot Cocoa)
  • Dubble Bubble
  • Orbit (WinterMint, Original, Sweet Mint)
  • Skittles Bubble Gum
  • Bubble Tape
  • Blow-pops (Watermelon, Strawberry, Blue Raspberry)
  • Gum Ball Machines
  • Trident Peppermint (NOT original)
  • Wrigley's Spearmint
  • Mentos Pure Gum Spearmint
  • Ice Breakers Ice Cubes
  • Nicorette
  • Snacks of the Week:

    • Jami: Strawberries in your salad!
    • Fallon: Nutella Popsicles
    • Listener Snack of Week featuring Finley: Watermelon
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