Food for Thought! History of Chewing gum, Do you chew gum?

Food for Thought! Do you chew gum? For centuries Native Americans chewed spruce tree resin, to ease hunger pains.

On arriving in the New World the colonists were soon copying them.1848State of Maine Spruce Gum, invented by John B Curtis, was the first chewing gum to be sold commercially in America. However,it was not a success as its taste was too harsh and it's texture too tough.1850John B Curtis started selling flavored parafin gums, which were more popular than spruce gums.1871The Mexican president, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna,who led the sacking of the Alamo fortress in San Antonio, was exiled in Staten Island, New York. He asked secretary Thomas Adams to find a substitute for rubber. Adams experimented with chicle and while he found it unsuitable as rubber, is was superior to all existing chewing gums and he started manufacturing it.1872A dentist, William Semple, added sugar to chewing gum.1880John Colgan, a druggist from Louisville Kentucky, added licorice..SEE DB Asked by WoolyBadBooger 28 months ago Similar questions: Food Thought story Chewing gum chew Society > story.

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1 flavor to chicle, thus introducing flavored chewing gum.1888The first machine was introduced selling the Thomas Adams' Tutti-Frutti brand of chewing gum on an elevated platform in a New York subway station.

Flavor to chicle, thus introducing flavored chewing gum.1888The first machine was introduced selling the Thomas Adams' Tutti-Frutti brand of chewing gum on an elevated platform in a New York subway station.

2 I have been chewing gum since I was a teenager, over 40 years.

I have been chewing gum since I was a teenager, over 40 years.

3 I love Ice breaker these days, thats as long as my teeth allow it...;) .

I love Ice breaker these days, thats as long as my teeth allow it...;).

4 I like Orbit, and I know what you mean about your teeth. If I can't chew it, I will learn to 'gum' it! .

I like Orbit, and I know what you mean about your teeth. If I can't chew it, I will learn to 'gum' it!

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Food for Thought! A daily dose of history, Where did food Originate?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.