Who Invented Chewing Gum?

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Gum is everywhere. It could be in someone’s pocket, in a woman’s purse, underneath a classroom’s desk or lining the checkout lines at the local grocery store. Or it could be in a person’s mouth- teeth chomping away on a stick that rapidly loses its flavor. Gum is one of the most ubiquitous confectioneries in our culture, yet few know its origins. So who invented gum and how did it become popular?
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@surprisedchar2458 5 лет назад

I like the idea that the Aztecs chewed on tree blood. It’s far too perfect.

@ARIXANDRE 5 лет назад

I've always dreamed of one of those Willy Wonka gums that NEVER lose flavor.

@In_The_80s 3 года назад

Or the everlasting gobstoper!

@FemboyHasu 7 месяцев назад

mastika is supposedly forever gum

@mateoguzmansubiria1749 5 лет назад

In many Spanish speaking countries we do call chewing gum "chicle"

@EmiQ81385 4 года назад

a huevo! haha 😜

@jessekonrad4635 5 лет назад

Trident commercial before this video had to be the best targeted ad I’ve seen on RU-vid yet

@matteframe 5 лет назад

You still watch commercials?

@3nertia 4 года назад

What commercial? xD

@Cionaoith 4 года назад

RU-vid has ads?

@vservo1149 4 года назад

New to the internet. Welcome

@Kenxclout 5 лет назад

My teacher said, "Are you chewing gum?" I said, "Do I look like chewing gum to you?"

@highlandoutsider8148 5 лет назад

You consistently make me chuckle at terrible jokes, if there was ever a draft for The Comment Section All Stars you'd be one of ma 1st picks 👍 lol

@Zeldahol 5 лет назад

I worked in a pizza shop until 4 in the morning for a few years. The customers would say, "Can you call me a taxi?" I would reply with, "You're a taxi."

@RichieK2005 5 лет назад

I need to try this.

@user-xz1ur8us5p 5 лет назад

I want to like your comment but it's at 69 likes

@smittenwerbenjagermanjense1268 4 года назад

Instant detention

@darreljones8645 5 лет назад

The Cubs' connection with the Wrigley family remains strong, even after they sold the team. They still play their home games in Wrigley Field, the oldest major-league baseball stadium in the USA.

@darreljones8645 5 лет назад

@Ken Hudson No, I just think he's calling baseball stadiums "gay bars".

@highlandoutsider8148 5 лет назад

Top tip, if it loses its flavour, a lil pinch of sugar will bring it back, it's something to do with the flavour being tied to the sugar which disappears quick and addin more kicks it back in, learnt that on Richard and Judy years back lol

@maneoj46 3 года назад

Wished I knew that before tossing out all that fruit striped gum

@jobe2301 3 года назад

But ..... why lol Spit it out and chew a new piece 😂

@quasi-intellecual3790 2 года назад

@@jobe2301 What if you don’t have any gum left?

@juliestevens6931 5 лет назад

My grandfather used to grow oats for his dairy cows and my mom and her siblings would strip a ripe head of oats off the stalk and chew on that (during the depression there wasn't much money for things like gum).

@موسى_7 4 года назад

How is area you?

@juliestevens6931 4 года назад

@@موسى_7 If you are asking about my area and Hurricane Dorian, we are ok for now. I am farther north than its target area. For now.

@GaliadelaRosa 5 лет назад

In Guadalajara you can buy chicle based chewing gum shaped like a donkey as a gift

@killdozer3739 5 лет назад

When I was younger I would get wheat seeds from the fields and chew them they would turn too gum as well.

@zappawench6048 5 лет назад

Interesting!

@TheIdeasGuy 5 лет назад

kill dozer me too! I always loved the taste and texture of wheat seeds.

@ooooneeee 4 года назад

May be the gluten giving it that texture when chewed.

@jameswoffinden9215 4 года назад

Your comment makes me think about Matthew 12:1 “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them.” Does anyone know what raw wheat tastes like? Would it turn to gum?

@M0LHA 5 лет назад

I have exactly no idea how you (and team) are able to constantly produce interesting and unique videos, I can't think of another channel which goes to such lengths. Good work

@AmericasUntoldStories Год назад

America's Untold Stories

@poweroffriendship2.0 5 лет назад

*_HOW IT FEELS TO CHEW 5 GUMS..._*

@Soopmadeofbeans 3 года назад

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! New 5 gum Stimulate your senses

@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan 5 лет назад

Using gum to fund a revolution? Life is stranger than fiction.

@Melissa0774 5 лет назад

I just tried natural chicle gum last week. It's a lot softer and lighter than than the artificial stuff. You almost have to be careful not to accidentally swallow it because it's so soft. The flavor also last a lot longer and it doesn't get that gross stale taste that other gums get, once it loses its flavor.

@Kenxclout 5 лет назад

What is a scientist's favorite type of gum? ex-spearmint!

@6stringgunner511 5 лет назад

VERY funny. MY son loves your humor. Thanks 😊. Have a great weekend and be safe out there.

@zappawench6048 5 лет назад

Take your thumbs up, but go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done.

@highlandoutsider8148 5 лет назад

Lmao, again

@GintokiGod 5 лет назад

Congrats on 2 million subscribers! Been watching TIFO since 500k! Hope to see you gain another 2 million, you deserve it ❤️

@edward2364 2 года назад

Thank you so much I appreciate the kind words

@bryanpaulmyers03 5 лет назад

Love the content! Keep up the good work!

@charlesstebbins7207 4 года назад

The #1 flavor of bubble gum in America: Spearmint. The #1 flavor of dental floss in America: Bubble Gum. You figure it out.

@موسى_7 4 года назад

Only two likes including mine?

@StigDesign 5 лет назад

0:38 Yes Pine&Spruce was used by Nordic Contry`s both as gum but alsoe for Scar`s and Wound it has also been boiled and added sugar to make it more sweet(the yellow/light brown sirup sticky thing) :) i think it also has been used as sort of glue. Birch is more like tea also Pine& spruce needle was and still is good to boil and drink as tea lotts of C-Vitamines :D

@ashkitt7719 5 лет назад

StigDesign1 Send me some of your Nordic chewing gum

@mdmjeremiah 5 лет назад

You left me hanging with this video. I was waiting on you to give us a list of gum brands that still use chicle. Not even in the bonus facts. But don't worry, I won't chew you out for it. 😜

@xlipsyalicex 5 лет назад

Hi I wasn't sure how to contact you but I have a suggestion for a video Follow you on RU-vid ans watch many of your videos I really enjoy them I wondered if you can do a video on where the happy birthday song originates from? Thanks for the hard work you put into your videos really enjoyed this one and all the videos I watch from you thanks

@jeremycole1341 5 лет назад

alice-laura I second this

@ktkat1949 5 лет назад

In 1893 two Kentucky sisters invented the song and lyrics to be sung to one of the sisters' kindergarten class.

@itarry4 4 года назад

Go to their Web page at todayifoundout.com and hit the contact link there's an email for making suggestions etc. Fairly sure they've covered this a bit in a bonus fact or something but can't remember where, seen far too many videos. However it may well be on one of Simons other channels.

@AdityaGupta-iy9md 5 лет назад

Hey ,love your vids

@erniemiller1953 4 года назад

In the mid 1970s, Bubblicious and Bubble Yum were competitors. Someone spread the rumor that Bubblicious had spider webs in it. If you pulled a piece of Bubblicious apart, it looked like little web strands, but was sugar, like cotton candy. Bubblicious nearly stopped being made. They had to drop the price so far it made almost no money. Bubble Yum, however, raised prices. They kept raising prices so much that people stopped buying it. Then, gum makers started selling gum for fresh breath and the two competitors got left in the dust. The final move was that these two changed their recipes. They were smaller pieces and more rubbery. We who once blew 18" bubbles by eating a whole pack no longer got the joy since 5" was as big as the new recipes can do, no matter how many packs we shoved in our mouths.

@ZENMASTERME1 5 лет назад

“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum” Nada A.k.a. Roddy Piper. They Live 🍿 🎥

@jezeski2011 5 лет назад

Mis-quoted - It should be “I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum.” You were very close though and I give you credit for both knowing an obscure reference to an awesome, lesser-known film and not being afraid to share it. Kudos friend. Have an awesome day.

5 лет назад

@@jezeski2011 Let's not not also forget the quote was reused for Duke Nukem.

@jezeski2011 5 лет назад

@ That I wouldn't know, never seen it.

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee 5 лет назад

@@jezeski2011 Duke Nukem is an old game series, similar to DOOM. (I think it was originally a clone). But unlike DOOM it didn't get a critically acclaimed HD addtion in the series. The latest Duke Nukem game, called Duke Nukem Forever (2010), had been in development hell for over ten years- and the final product was a cheap, crude, overly low brow game with a stereotypical 90s protagonist that obviously didn't fit today's pop culture. Since the game was such a dated failure I don't think they're doing anything new with the series.

@jezeski2011 5 лет назад

@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee That explains why I didn't know about it; I was never that big into video games. Thanks for the info, though.

@TheBarracuda 5 лет назад

Zebra stripe gum! Amazing flavor for 30 seconds!

@NineteenHand 4 года назад

30 seconds? Did you put the whole pack in your mouth to get it to last that long?

@inisipisTV 5 лет назад

"Veeeery Wrigley!"

@dknwx 5 лет назад

Thanks, on spot as always :p

@luzcaicedo3580 3 года назад

I find it's really fascinated thank you cuz I used to eat Chiclets when I lived in Colombia..

@luissantiago5163 5 лет назад

Neato. Nice to learn something new

@zappawench6048 5 лет назад

How about a Biographics on Karen Carpenter? Pretty please? Some people might be unaware that she was a very talented drummer, and that she recorded a solo album which her family forbade her to release (it was slightly risque and her family didn't want to spoil her wholesome image).

@joebeard4498 5 лет назад

No one wants to hear their daughter banging

@Pokemanic33 4 года назад

That gum you like is going to come back in style.

@Ninatic 5 лет назад

Finland still going hard at the gum traditions, foreign fake sugary gum still amazes me. Has to be xylitol.

@socialus5689 5 лет назад

Answering questions i didn't even know i wanted answered

@ehrldawg 4 года назад

A question ive always wondered,especially since ive heard many versions.

@thirstfast1025 5 лет назад

I know when I see something oozing out of a tree I try chewing it...

@ERosesDad 5 лет назад

Hey Simon, would you do an episode on caduceus and rod of asclepius in the role of becoming symbols of medicine? Like why did the caduceus become more prevalent as a symbol of medicine if its arguably not correct?

@rockclimbing3844 4 года назад

Holy hell. Good video

@christelheadington1136 5 лет назад

Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?

@موسى_7 4 года назад

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? The book I mean?

@christelheadington1136 4 года назад

@@موسى_7 -No a song, from the 60's ."Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor On the Bedpost Overnight" by Lonnie Donnagan (I think that's how it's spelled.)

@christelheadington1136 4 года назад

@@موسى_7 -It's Donegan, I looked it up it's on You Tube. {"1961 Billboord" is the version that was popular in the US. ) It's silly & funny.

@SaraMakesArt 5 лет назад

I used to love chewing gum as a kid, but I can't remember the last time I had it. I had one of those gumball bowls at one time that I would take from freely. They were really tasty and I always enjoyed that first bite.

@PsychoStreak 4 года назад

Starts off with a picture of Fruit Stripe Gum. Stabbing me with nostalgia.

@ericprzybyl9227 5 лет назад

The best thing to come out of Maine

@sheranlanger247 4 года назад

From the thumbnail, I thought the answer was going to be: Spike Milligan 😂😂

@MaxTrash01 5 лет назад

You should start using the I icon to link the videos you mention.

@TonyToneFixMyPhone 4 года назад

Hey, why sometimes is the light on in the background and sometimes not? And where did the human skull go?

@XMooseManX 5 лет назад

First line is “Jenkum is everywhere”??!! DONT DO JENKUM PEOPLE!

@XMooseManX 5 лет назад

Garrett McGinnis rail some Cherokee chicks on the trail of beers

@BenjaminBroekhuizen 5 лет назад

"Gum is everywhere" ... Except where it's illegal to sell, such as in Singapore (with the exception of nicotine gum).

@itarry4 4 года назад

But don't drop it on the floor as the fines etc are well high. Seems to work though as apparently Singapore is extremely clean.

@00goop43 5 лет назад

"I came here to kick gum and chew ass, and I'm all out of ass." -Dick Kickem

@rikksashquat5579 5 лет назад

when Santa Ana was exiled to New Jersey he shared the leaves with his neighbor and they marketed the first commercial gum Black Jack

@XMooseManX 5 лет назад

Please do a video on the time a hippo escaped from lion country safari in irvine (near Disneyland) California and led the police on a 5 day stand off in laguna canyon.

@colinp2238 4 года назад

My dad used to call chewing gum elephant snot to dissuade us from chewing it, and in my case it worked.

@موسى_7 4 года назад

My cousin showed me a picture of a big fat red guy to stop me eating doritos with her sisters when I was five. Let's say I still hate doritos, cheese, ketchup, condiments, junk food, and spicy food to this day...

@pikeman80 Год назад

As a kid i loved Spruce Gum. Pull a hunk of it off the tree in the morning and eight hours later it hadn't lost any of its flavour. Got really tough over time, though.

@randomguy-hc7pv 5 лет назад

Can you do a video on some black inventors

@giannisc.5254 5 лет назад

Why does their skin colour matter ? An inventor should be celebrated regardless of origin or race.

@jj8998 2 года назад

I'm eating gum as I watch this. Makes it more satisfying for sum reason.

@bungeechord1 5 лет назад

But will it stick to the bottom of a desk? Chew on that!

@amalzuhair4495 5 лет назад

Can you do a video about snuff films and whether they exist or not?

@ARKINHK 5 лет назад

I live between Hong Kong and Singapore and immediately thought: Nope. Not in SG where Chewing Gum (disgusting BTW) is not available.

@tciesla 5 лет назад

Try having been educated in a Catholic School in the 59's thru the 60's where gum chewing was considered abhorrent, to this day I don't chew gum! LOL

@tomservo5007 4 года назад

you chew gum in public ?

@tciesla 4 года назад

@@tomservo5007 Never, not even in private!

@nobbie01 4 года назад

As a child I lived in a town near a chicle plantation. The factory was close to town too and we even toured it in elementary school. The smell at the factory is REALLY terrible haha Also near an area that had a few sugarcane plantations. The factory also smelled bad, but not as bad as the chicle factory :P

@codyjones8719 4 года назад

LOL Fruit Stripe, is that still even a thing?

@lawlrd6655 5 лет назад

Well now i have to know what the juice in juicy fruit is lol Edit: You mentioned it, then proceeded to link different videos

@kai223noa6 4 года назад

So that's where we got Chiclets from.

@rjperkins365 5 лет назад

Sounds like Frued was around during Aztec

@adventureguy4119 3 года назад

Grandmas favorite gift to give me a Diet Coke and or some gum

@lazymonkey2586 5 лет назад

www.wikiwand.com/en/Pistacia_lentiscus I would say "gum tree" would be how it started, but for sure there may be alternatives.

@KneeDeepInTheDead81 5 лет назад

Whistley boi!

@kknives36 5 лет назад

Biographics on Santa Anna when?

@useitwice 5 лет назад

Ooh, Chicklets..! Got it now :)

@r.jclark4641 3 года назад

Chewing on gum while watching this lol

@woody2066 5 лет назад

All the times Santa Anna was president could be their own video tbh. If what my teachers have told me is true that guy was a mess

@barrywerdell2614 5 лет назад

When I was young there was a brand of gum called Chicklets.

@darganx 5 лет назад

They're still going, many flavours.

@MelB868 5 лет назад

I think chicklits still exists

@jeantemple2781 2 года назад

Chewing on tree bark might have been Willow bark where you get salicin, or Salicylic acid the basis for Aspirin

@thagodwecreate5179 2 года назад

and fun fact: Bayer synthesized Aspirin and Heroin at around the same time (?1898?) and found Heroin to have greater analgesic properties (and the faux-dopamine rich euphoria associated with it made the user feel heroic, hence the name) so they pushed it as a non-addictive painkiller for decades while Aspirin mostly sat on the shelf. That was until it was proven to cause rampant addiction and Aspirin finally got it's time to shine. Almost 100 years later the pharm companies did the same exact thing with oxycodone. The more you know.

@aseequlkhan2832 4 года назад

Try to sell it in Singapore!!

@erbjosh Год назад

It’s funny when I pressed on this video I was chewing gum!

@LadyWhinesalot 5 лет назад

"cheek clay" 😁 (closed captions)

@LadyWhinesalot 5 лет назад

@Ken Hudson watch the closed captions

@kevin7rxxx346 4 года назад

Adams Chicle! Appropriate that now it is the most popular gum in Mexico and Latin America or Ameriker as Simon says 🤭

@billd.iniowa2263 3 года назад

Ah, A subject you can really get your teeth into.

@slipperywhenwet4306 5 лет назад

I did

@cory7328 4 года назад

Let’s chew on this for a while.

@nimblehealer199 5 лет назад

Bubblegum is not sold in any Disney Park.

@kirbymarchbarcena 5 лет назад

This video seems chewy at best.

@flakeyboy509torres5 5 лет назад

Interesting

@Itshazelrose 3 месяца назад

So before grindr they chewed gum

@FTCSD 5 лет назад

That's really interesting about prostitutes chewing gum. That carried all the way into the 21st century. Always see it when people try and depict someone slutty or seductive

@conmanreloaded4249 5 лет назад

Personal thing but I absolutely hate the sound of obnoxious open mouth gum chewing and snapping gum so I can’t wait to see who made that possible.

@jk-76 5 лет назад

Prostitutes.lol It makes me actually angry when someone breaks the silence with that level of narcissism.

@EmiQ81385 4 года назад

what i hate is how gum commercials always makes it seem like chewing gum is some magical and wonderful feeling. anyways, hubba bubba was my favorite gum as a kid. Especially loved the crazy flavors they had. Like cherry cola, that was my absolute favorite. Now I prefer any minty or peppermint flavored. i do not like fruity flavored gum.

@kingjames4886 5 лет назад

alfred gumme.

@sirsavagethe21st56 5 лет назад

Got it to 1k likes

@margaretmathis4775 5 лет назад

Now wondering if this where Chicklets gum got its name......?

@ericprzybyl9227 5 лет назад

The only thing to come from Maine

@zacharymorin5696 4 года назад

Eric Przybyl What about earmuffs and toothpicks?

@ComparativeReasoning 5 лет назад

@Today I Found Out What mic are you using? I really need a small mic.

@sarreqteryx 5 лет назад

chick-el, not chick-lay

@steveshoemaker6347 5 лет назад

My last wife said she liked chewing.......Huuuuu......Gum.?

@Jwood20025 4 года назад

Who here during Quarantine?

@thagodwecreate5179 2 года назад

I chew psilocybin 🍄

@shawnd1966 4 года назад

Spitting gum out on concrete is disgusting. My kids brand new school already had no less than 3 spots on day one 🤮

@bronwynecg 5 лет назад

Ahhhhhhhh brings back childhood memories of stuffing entire packs of Big Red into the mouth 😂😂😂 #cinnamonchallengehipster

@mangot589 5 лет назад

I hate gum. I hate watching/listening to people chewing it, like cud, and then they’re kind enough to throw it on the ground, or stick it anywhere they want. It’s completely gross.