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Have You Every Argued Over Something Even Though You KNew You Were Wrong?
- Thread starter Zeke
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Allow me to educate you about the early history of chewing gum.
Though it's hard to imagine, chewing gum is one of the oldest candies in the world! For thousands of years, people of all cultures have enjoyed the many benefits of gum.
HISTORY
Many years ago, archaeologists made a surprising discovery! It seems prehistoric men and women chewed on lumps of tree resin for pure enjoyment, making them the first-ever gum chewers in recorded history. The study of man has also found that almost every culture chomped "gum." Ancient Greeks routinely gnawed on tree resin to clean their teeth and freshen their breath, and called their treat "mastiche." Indians chawed on the sap from trees. The Maya Indians of Central America gummed chicle. Early settlers bit into hardened tree sap and beeswax.
CHEWING GUM IS COMMERCIALIZED
In the early 1880s, two brothers, Henry and Frank Fleer, began experimenting with chicle, the sticky substance found inside a sapodilla tree. Henry Fleer covered the tasteless chicle with a sugary white coating and named his invention "Chiclets." Meanwhile, brother Frank put together a recipe for the world's first bubble gum, originally called "Blibber Blubber Bubble Gum." Though popular in their neighborhood, the Fleer's gum was never marketed or perfected and thus, never took off.
In 1848, the Curtis brothers were working on the same product in Maine. Using a Franklin stove and pure spruce tree resin, the brothers sold chewing gum for the first time in history, with an asking price of one penny for every two hunks. In 1850, after moderate success, the brothers left for Maine to work on their gum recipe. Adding paraffin and flavoring to their already popular concoction, the brothers opened the first major gum manufacturing plant, the Curtis Chewing Gum Factory.
As time went on, gums made from spruce became less popular, and were replaced with the Curtis brothers more chewable paraffin gums.
Around the same time, photographer Thomas Adams of New York tried his hand at the gum business, boiling down chicle in his home and selling small chunks of it to a local drug store. By 1871, he had so many orders to fill, he patented the popular gum giving machine (later named the gumball machine) just to keep up with business. Later that year, Adams patented another first of its kind: Flavored gum, after adding licorice flavoring to his recipe and naming his product, "Black Jack." Black Jack was not sold in chunks, but in stick form, and the public went wild!
Though it's hard to imagine, chewing gum is one of the oldest candies in the world! For thousands of years, people of all cultures have enjoyed the many benefits of gum.
HISTORY
Many years ago, archaeologists made a surprising discovery! It seems prehistoric men and women chewed on lumps of tree resin for pure enjoyment, making them the first-ever gum chewers in recorded history. The study of man has also found that almost every culture chomped "gum." Ancient Greeks routinely gnawed on tree resin to clean their teeth and freshen their breath, and called their treat "mastiche." Indians chawed on the sap from trees. The Maya Indians of Central America gummed chicle. Early settlers bit into hardened tree sap and beeswax.
CHEWING GUM IS COMMERCIALIZED
In the early 1880s, two brothers, Henry and Frank Fleer, began experimenting with chicle, the sticky substance found inside a sapodilla tree. Henry Fleer covered the tasteless chicle with a sugary white coating and named his invention "Chiclets." Meanwhile, brother Frank put together a recipe for the world's first bubble gum, originally called "Blibber Blubber Bubble Gum." Though popular in their neighborhood, the Fleer's gum was never marketed or perfected and thus, never took off.
In 1848, the Curtis brothers were working on the same product in Maine. Using a Franklin stove and pure spruce tree resin, the brothers sold chewing gum for the first time in history, with an asking price of one penny for every two hunks. In 1850, after moderate success, the brothers left for Maine to work on their gum recipe. Adding paraffin and flavoring to their already popular concoction, the brothers opened the first major gum manufacturing plant, the Curtis Chewing Gum Factory.
As time went on, gums made from spruce became less popular, and were replaced with the Curtis brothers more chewable paraffin gums.
Around the same time, photographer Thomas Adams of New York tried his hand at the gum business, boiling down chicle in his home and selling small chunks of it to a local drug store. By 1871, he had so many orders to fill, he patented the popular gum giving machine (later named the gumball machine) just to keep up with business. Later that year, Adams patented another first of its kind: Flavored gum, after adding licorice flavoring to his recipe and naming his product, "Black Jack." Black Jack was not sold in chunks, but in stick form, and the public went wild!