But you had to always have a few of them together to get any sort of bubble going.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― pete s, Monday, 15 March 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ask For Janice (thatgirl), Monday, 15 March 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ask For Janice (thatgirl), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 March 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 15 March 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 March 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)
"Modern chewing gum is usually attributed to the infamous Mexican general - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna - of the Alamo fame.
While living in the U.S. in exile during 1869, he brought some chicle to an American inventor, Thomas Adams Sr. who wanted to experiment with it as a rubber substitute for carriage tires.
Chicle is a gummy substance extracted from the Sapota or sapodilla tree. Adams failed in his endeavor but also noted that his Mexican friend liked to chew the chicle. Later after a trip to a local drug store, he found out about a paraffin based product called WHITE MOUNTAIN GUM. All of this led him to believe that packaging the chicle instead of dumping a ton of it in the river made more economic sense.
The first gum was packaged in tissue paper, unflavored, and sold in boxes that pictured the City Hall of New York on the cover. It was called 'Adams New York No.1.' "
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 15 March 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)