do they still make chum gum

But I'd rather chew Chum Gum. The Chicago company was small. Chewed it in Dallas in the late '50s and in Odessa through most of the '60s. I too remember Chum Gum and think back to my younger days. Wish they'd bring it back. I loved the blue gum all, the grape and the sour apple. I grew up in Memphis, TN. So glad I finally found someone who remembers it! Tootsie Roll bought Fleer 12 years ago, and today makes Dubble Bubble, another old Fleer product. Was a cheap bubble gum in a stick. If we ever discuss back on the market the company would be very successful. I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 70's and I remember walking to the corner store with my friends and buying this awesome gum. God I miss this gum. I LOVED Chum Gum!! I have looked and looked and looked again. I love this site. Wintergreen Certs have been my favorite for decades. It very well could have set the stage for that soft, pink bubble gum we all know and love. I am 60 and like to think the best times are still here, just being alive and healthy. Greatest gum ever! Wish I could offer a better answer and havent seen this product in many years. Wow! OMG! I would encourage everyone to email the company to try and bring this gum back. I also remember Chum Gum. Snack History maintains its neutrality. I'm 52 and it was my daily habit after school in East Los Angeles back in the 60's. It is my all time favorite gum and I've been looking for it for years. I'm happy that there are others out there that remember! I wish they would bring back our good old CHUM-GUM. I also grew up in chicago with CHUM GUM.It too brings me back to a simpler time. What a shame. You could get bagfuls of all types of candy (remember the candy necklaces??) I grew up in MA and there was a corner variety right by my elementary school that used to sell Chum Gum. And the fact chewing gum in class then became a detention, because of the amount of gum showing up everywhere. Beech-Nut Gum You can't find it officially anymore, unless you want to pay $37.49 for a decades-old pack on eBay. Then I'd spit it out in Mrs. McCaffery's bushes next door, so I wouldn't get a different kind of chewing from Mom as I walked through the front door. Yes, I remember those candy lipsticks, they were creamy, not like today's. When I was 7or8 chum gum was 3 sticks for a penny. Somebody bring it backthey have brought everything else back from beechies to violet why not chum gum? We have a novelty candy store in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Candy-coated gum from Frank H. Fleer & Co. (and later the American Chicle Company), called Chiclets, can be found in advertisements from The Saturday Evening Post going back to 1906. I can't believe I found this site. This gum has an unbelievable legacy. Impossible to find anywhere. Anyone out there who remembers this product, or where it might be still available? I too loved Chum Gum and have searched to no avail,but find Big League Chew very close if not the same. OMG just remembered we don't have any woods all the developer's got rid of them. I'm 54 and over the years have looked for Chum Gum. I would walk down to the local store and buy all that I could get. I remember the two to a wrapper scheme, which is why I thought one should share it with a friend. Mint Juleps and Banana Splits were both made by NECCO who, sadly, went out of business. Why did we complicate things??? I am looking for those childhood Raspberry Dollars !!! That was my favorite gum, with Chum Gum and Bazooka Joe a close second followed by mini-chiclets, I loved Chum Gum, we used to get recess and we were permitted to go to the little store called Brickers Penny Candy Store.Ah!!! The candy bars they make now are so small and do not taste as good. I grew up in Chicago in the 1950's and chum gum was and still is the BEST tasting gum I've ever tried. I quit buying them. Surely there's someone out there who could resurrect Chum Gum manufacture and distributionwhy not? I was a child of the 60s & 70s. I am 58 years old and I live in New Orleans. I wish I could find it somewhere! . It would probably be 2 for a quarter these days. No one I know has heard of it! They also have a list of discontinued candy and sadly, Chum Gum is one of them. Wish it was still made. Can not get it. CHUM GUM WAS THE BEST GUM IN THE WORLD TO ME,I WAS BORN IN CHICAGO AROUND 47TH STREET,I USE TO SNEAK INTO THE REGAL HIDE UNDER THE CURTAIN AND WATCH THE GREATS PERFORM,WHEN THE SHOW WAS OVER I WOULD GO TO THE CORNER STORE AND GET MY CHUM GUM,BOX OF FRIUT COCKTAILS AND MINT JULIPS,I NEVER KNEW PEOPLE HAD BAD BREATH WHEN THEY WERE CHEWING CHUM GUM,SO SOMEONE PLEASE BRING IT BACK, THE ORIGINAL FLAVOR NO SHORT CUTS PLEASE.THE KIDS TODAY MISSED OUT ON THE GOOD STUFF. Chiclets History Adams developed Chiclets over a century ago and it quickly became known as the candy coated gum. Maybe the makers of Chum Gum put a special ingredient to make us want it, kind of like cigarettes or something! I used certs to help me quit smoking, I always carried a roll of speartment in my shirt pocket. Of course Chum gum was my favorite. I wish they wouold make Chum gum again .. and bring back those Old memories My recollection is that Chum Gum was manufactured by the Curtiss Candy Company, the same folks who made Baby Ruths and Butterfingers. I see racks in some stores that are bribing back old time candies, but never Chum Gum. Nothing compares to the flavor of Chum Gum! or Best Offer. High. A selling Black jack and Beemans said he has a source that sellsChum Gum by the case. I found an old wrapper while deep cleaning a while back in my store . I am looking for a candy from my youth called Pond Scum. Please somebody make it again before I leave this world! Woolworth's on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, GA. Loved the flavor and the big bubbles! I have been craving Chum Gum for 50 years. When I was a child we lived outside of Chicago IL and that's where we would buy the gum. The other candy I have looked for were watermelon flavored, oval shaped, were light pink in color, and came in a clear wrapper with a white checkered pattern at the edges. This was in the late 50's. I love you, my fellow chums!!!! . The gum is rather simple and mild. Anyway, I have also been looking for it for years with no luckChum gum was the best! I bought it in Alabama in the 50's and oh how I wish they would make it again!!! You can make some handy chum blocks doing this. I can still almost taste it. I am 65 years old and I can still taste and smell Chum Gum. Takes me back to my childhood every time ( I am 57). I think they were called Kentucky Mints, and I believe they were made by Brachs. Chum Gum (History, Marketing & Pictures) - Snack History I'm 53, I remember walking to the corner store at the age of 5 all by myself to buy the best gum ever!!!!!!! I bought it in the 60s in New Lebanon, Ohio. Also miss marathon bars.nothing today comes close! The Sunday Milwaukee (WI) Journal had a supplemental ad section for Treasure Island, a discount chain store operating as a lower-budget retailer under the JC Penney umbrella. My buddies and I in the 50s would take bottles back to Frenchies corner store watertown ny and buy the gum and then sit on the curb and blow bubbles, i remember getting chum gum when i got a hair cut back in the 50 s--i contacted fleer and they quit making it. that is what me go to this link is it tasted so much like it. I no longer have that special moment with them. I miss it!!!! google_color_bg = "E7F0EB"; Since you haven't heard from anyone from Iowa yet, I just had to write. Glad to see I'm not the only one that love it! As so many people mentioned, bring back the good old days. Sadly, these were discontinued many . I grew up in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area and used to walk or ride my bike to the "Beer Depot" to get candy - and my favorite Chum Gum. This is because it's a type of soluble fiber, which can slow the absorption of sugar and lead to a reduction in blood sugar levels ( 7 ). In addition to that, we also love the Brachs cinnamon tree nougats for the same reason. Somewhere there is the recipe in someone chest. You bite off each end and use if as a straw. I have looked high and low but no luck of finding any. It had the best aroma, flavor and texture of any gum ever. Almost everyone is sold out of these products and any that would remain would be expired. BRING BACK DEM BONES. I would find it at Mary Long's grocery which was next to my grandma's and grandpa's house in Helmsburg, Indiana. Chum Gum was great. They just don't know how good it was. It was always part of my 10 cent bag of candy. I grew up in Wisconsin and we bought it all the time in the penny candy section of our neighborhood meat market. Yes, 2 sticks wrapped together. We still have the red licoricered vines. Tasty and unique, I'm 10 years old just thinking about it. Two sticks for a penny. Sad. History says that Chum Gum was produced from 1950 to exactly 1971. One other candy I have not seen mentioned here was a MILK SHAKE CANDY BAR. I also used to buy Chum Gum in a St. Louis confectionary (I also mentioned confectionaries in the P-D post). I have so many sweet memories of the penny candy counter where we could piss off the old lady that woryed there by tapping our quarters on the glass counter top. Grew up in the western burbs of chicago.we used to go to the corner store every weekday morning.we would buy two things a new rawlings baseball and all the chum gum we could.In addition to the best taste we would all put 4 or 5 pcs in our mouth,and then spit in our mitts and rub it in.you never dropped a ball,it was like glue.After baseball we would go back to the corner store for ice cold Kayo.Boy are those the greatest memories. Chiclets Fruit Gum. The world's most popular autocomplete game. Sometimes I can still smell it. I enjoyed reading folk's fond memories of this gumhopefully the recipe will be revived and on the shelves again! Tootsie Roll dropped the Fleer name from all former products, such as Dubble Bubble, after the buyout. In 2005, Fleer Company ended up declaring bankruptcy and they never bounced back as some companies do. I'm still friends with some of the people that grew up with me. google_ad_width = 120; This was an awesome flavored gum ! : . it was a hot cinnamon flavored gum, I think it was made by the same company. Fleer - Wikipedia One for you. I grew up in the 50's and use to sit on the river bank and blow away, while watching the St. Lawrence Seaway being built. Do you know where I could find them or do you have the ability to obtain them if they still exist somewhere? How sad the kids (and adults) will never know. Throwback: 20 Old School Candies That Don't Exist Anymore - TheRecipe It has brought a big smile to my face reading all these comments S8C. the good ole days. Fairchance, Pa. Twas my favorite as well. A Brief History of Chewing Gum - Candy Favorites I bought it in St. Albans. I miss those candy crackers. have looked for it for years. 1. It was my favorite. This group of people said that they never heard of it so I told them to goggle it and maybe it would show up.