Want some gum?

Taking sides: Hubba Bubba or Bubble Yum?

I don't have any Hubba Bubba. but I would KILL for some.

Yuck yuck yuck, I cannot think of anything uglier than someone's face while chewing gum. Well, I probably could if I thought hard enough but it's certainly up there.

I agree - it's the one thing that drives me absolutely batty. What is up with these adults who chew gum a) at the office and b) on public transportation. Save it for the gym where I can't hear you. I've got a co-worker who knows he's annoying people but still insists on chewing a whole pack at a time.

Wrigleys Extra is kind of an essential for post cigarette breath freshening.

I disagree, Ronan, I would rather snog someone who reeked of fags than someone who had just been deforming themselves by chewing gum. Of course I smoke myself so that could affect my decision but all the same. Gum is so unsexy.

It's one of the few life-lessions my mum tried to instil that has actually worked. Gum = horrible. I'm with Emma here. Admittedly I'd be better off if I'd listened to Mum's life-lessons about budgeting and eating healthy.

I was addicted to chewing gum when I was a kid, but have never really chewed it as an adult due to a sensitive jaw. A good thing, if the answers here are any indication.

Of course theres always triple x also if you're looking for chalky and not chewy.

And I mean garlic breath or something needs mints. end of story. red bull dry breath is disgusting also, in fact any sort of dry mouth after drinking alcohol is horrible. And finally I need not fear of burping mid snog (if I am so lucky as to be midsnog) if I have had mints. actually though that might be one of those things I'm scared of that never actually happens. like the whole "sharp duvet" thing if any of you remember.

only one time to chew gum, and that's when you need to work off that drug-induced tension to stop you biting your tongue/cheeks. Anyone got any water?

So admit it, who are or were the Violet Beauregardes among us? Heavy period of addiction -- 8 to 10 years old.

Alan a true raver would be chewing his glow in the dark whistle.

>CRUNCH<

My mum would never let us chew gum as children. Her excuse was 'you might swallow it' which I think is a rubbish excuse, clearly her real reason was the same as mine i.e. it is an ugly habit. Or perhaps it was snobbery in the 'no Grange Hill' vein.

I also detest the chewing of gum. It would appear to be a pre- requisite in our gang. I do have a friend however took it up when she gave up smoking and was swallowing about a pack of gum a day - cos she forgot. I told her this would kill her, so she asked her GP. He laffed.

advice: do not go clubbing on ver druckqs when you are in the middle of a course of root canal treatment. trust me on this one.

Pete, we do not have a gang, we have a CREW, do try to remember.

if any of you remember

Your naive hope touches me.

My Mum just said it was an ugly habit AND that it would kill you. There was definitely a streak of no-grange-hillery involved but she was right. Incidentally what an evil book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is: Charlie is a horrid deferential weed.

Shit I got a filling this morning and I'm off out tonight. Oh well.

Also I've never understood the connection between chewing gum and giving up smoking, ah yes I want a smoke, give me some gum. WTF?

Also gum makes you hungry and cigarettes do the opposite. In my brief forays into giving up I have eaten chocolate and drank coke and stuff to stop myself smoking.

Having said that I still support Gums breath healing properties.

Ronan I think if you are trying to give up smoking you need special nicotine-infused gum, do you see?

Incidentally what an evil book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is: Charlie is a horrid deferential weed.

So what do you think of the movie, then?

No I know that but there is no link between chewing and smoking. I've never tried nicotine gum but I imagine the reason it doesn't work is the fact you don't put it between your fingers and smoke it.

give me SOME credit for gods sake.

My sister, who had v. long hair as a little girl, once tried the Violet B. trick of putting her gum behind her ear to save it for later. Naturally it got stuck in her hair and our mum had to cut her flowing locks off. As snarky big bruv I naturally found this the funniest thing evah.

people who chew gum on public transport are in the same catagory as those who breathe through their mouths.

The fillum version is OK.

I would start a campaign to stop loud gum-chewing on public transport, but it's just so petty. It does bring out the homicidal maniac in me - I wish it didn't, but it does. Chicago is just full of these cud-chewing schlubs. Yuck.

since as punXoR yoof, gum was somewhere on the list of things no sane revolutaionry would be tricked into the habit of (along wiv sweets, sex, drux, smoking, love, children, pubZoR, career-mindedness, home-making etc etc), i was immune to it until abt a year ago when in the course of research I discovered it was INVENTED BY THE AZTECS!! Since when I associate it with vast lost mines full of treasure, human sacrifice and gods from space, and occasionally indulge when abt to meet ppl who might encounter my furred and noxious outbreathings

Gum is even MORE disgusting than UNVARNISHED TOES, don't you agree, Emma?

Sometimes I chew gum in public; sometimes I don't. I have a tendency to make cow-like noises (mmm, cud) whilst savoring my gum.

Be glad you didn't know me as a kid - I used to pop 5 or 6 pieces of Fruit Stripe gum in my mouth. I was a sadist. That gum is TERRIBLE - I think back on it now, and I've no idea how the taste of ink became so attractive to me. Then again, I used to also chew the gum from old packs of Topps Baseball Cards. And now my mouth is riddled with fillings - hmm.

MUST DISAGREE. I RELY ON GUM. ITS SACRED AND GOOD. YOU SHOULD ALL ACCPET ITS GOODNESS. ESPECIALLY EMMA.

I am maniacally shoveling Big League Chew into my mouth as I type this.

Jim Bouton thanks you.

gum is nice! i think about gum a lot. rainy only eats one piece, I eat four.

A face chewing gum can be unattractive. A face sucking on a cigarette is always abhorrent.

eat = swallow, maryann: surely you do not swallow yr gum? the aztecs stuck theirs on the underneath of their step pyramids

They still sell Big League Chew? What about Jerky Stuff? Bubble Tape?

I only accept Manny's gum offers because I want to share and do the same things as her, but I don't like her kind of gum (Hubba Bubba grape) at all. It makes me feel carsick and like I will die of rubber sugar poisoning.

i used to live by pretty much the same punk rock rules as mark s. but i didnt even KNOW that gum was proscribed! oops!

you know what looks mega ultra hep i always thought? chewin gum when playing drums on stage. i do that whenever i remember to "score" some "stuff" before we go on, but i'm not a habitual gum user so i don't usually have it on my person.

If anybody wants to send me a pack or two of Hubba Bubba I will pay you handsomely for it.

Mark C, I wish all girls were like you.

when i was young i put chewing gum in my sister's highly esteemed long straight hair, motivated by envy (my hair was curly), and it had to be cut out.

chewing gum was one of the few things my dad strongly disliked us doing (the other i can remember was scuffing our shoes when walking) and he banned it from the house but we still had it secretly.
i liked the bags of gum called GOLDRUSH. yum yum is that still around anywhere?
i like gum to be as bubblegum flavoured (or pink flavoured - but not strawberry - to think of it another way), and I like the hard stuff. Hubba Bubba is too soft and rubbery for me but i end up buying it the most 'cause it's the most widely available bubblegum flavoured gum.
i like blowing the bubbles and the snapping sound they make.
my dad says it's bad for you because it makes yr stomach prepare for digestion but nothing arrives.

i love this song

CHEWING GUM by the Carter Family

Mama sent me to the spring, she told me not to stay
I fell in love with a pretty little girl, and could not get away

Chawin' chewing gum, chewing chawin' gum
Chawin' chewing gum, chewing chawin' gum

First she give me peaches, next she give me pears
Next she give me fifty cents, kissed me on the stairs

Mommy don't 'low me to whistle, poppy don't 'low me to sing

They don't 'low me to marry, I'll marry just the same

I wouldn't have a lawyer, I'll tell you the reason why
Every time he opens his mouth he tells a great big lie

I wouldn't have a doctor, I'll tell you the reason why
He rides all over the country and makes the people die

I wouldn't have a farmer, I'll tell you the reason why
Because he has so plenty to eat, 'specially pumpkin pie

I took my girl to church last night. How do you reckon she done?
She walked right up in the preacher's face and chewed her chewing gum