(Not sure if this should be in GQ or IMHO.)
I’m 37, and it seemed like everyone was chewing gum when I was a kid. But I can’t recall seeing a single person in the last 10 years chew gum. So is the gum-chewing thing a bygone era, for the most part?
My wife, aged 40-mmmmpphhh years, chews gum daily. I chew gum at most annually. Also, they still sell a whole boatload of the stuff, so there must be a few out there besides my better half.
Constantly, obessively. You should have seen my last night when I realized that I was completely out! :eek:
Plenty of people where I work offer me gum out of their own packs. And someone has to be buying all of the gum that’s available for sale at the counter of every drugstore, not to mention in the supermarket checkout line.
I believe there was even a thread not too long ago in which people discussed the merits of their favorite flavors.
Some people must still be chewing gum, judging by how often I seem to step on discarded gum that some filthy pig hasn’t bothered throwing into a rubbish bin.
Here you go:
Are you a hermit, non-observant or need new glasses?
Does Ohio have a law prhibiting the import or sale of chewing gum?
*Something/someone *must be chewing/eating a ot of it. I see a large variety of all brands/flavors in the stores. Even I indulge on ocassion.
Wrigley is spending a lot of money on TV to advertise it, and they are expanding their production facilities in the US.
Ah-Hah! None of the above.
You’ve been putting us on! :rolleyes:
I switched from Eclipse to Orbit to show my support for that hot, phony-perky blond chick in the commercials.
Who says sex doesn’t sell?
I usually have sugar-free peppermint and spearmint gum in my purse, and chew it. I fear the Bad Breath at work.
I wish there were some nifty alternative flavours, though. I don’t mind peach or tropical, but I’d like something… new. That’s not a hideous sugary bubblegum.
But I also occasionally buy a bucket of Dubble Bubble at Costco and chew that until my jaw hurts and my mouth is raw from sugar burn. It’s a compulsion. As soon as the flavour weakens, toss out the old and a new piece in. Mm… Love that stuff.
I do NOT spit my gum on the sidewalk. Nor into my garbage can at work, without wrapping it in a small sticky note first.
Orbits Sugar-Free Whitening in Spearmint. My dentist reccomends chewing sugarless gum, and it’s good for when I eat spicy foods, and can’t brush my teeth right away.
I don’t spit my gum out on the sidewalk-I just swallow it. Why not?
I’ve seen a whole lot less chewing of bubblegum than I used to. Has it gone out of fashion, or am I just hanging with an older crowd now that I’m older myself?
And now that you mention it, I don’t remember seeing many gum commercials lately. (Whatever happened to the Doublemint twins?)
But sugarless gum is alive and well and a not-too-bad substitute for brushing your teeth when that’d be inconvenient.
Me too. People are so stupid about that. “You swallow your gum!? Your stomach won’t be able to digest it, and you’ll die!” :rolleyes: Uh-huh. So, why have I swallowed almost every piece of gum I’ve ever chewed and turned out fine?
As to the OP, yeah people still chew gum. More of it is the tooth-whitening, breath-freshening gum, and not “bubble” gum, but that’s probably just because they would have chewed “bubble” gum anyway, but since they can chew and whiten their teeth at the same time…!
I chew Trident bubble gum every day. It became my replacement for smoking. As soon as I’m done eating a meal or snack, I pop three pieces in my mouth and chew until the flavor is gone.
Every once in a while, I’ll blow a huge bubble somewhere at work or in public, and I’ll see a look of delighted surprise on someone’s face.
I see gum chewers wherever I go, but very few bubble blowers.
Do they ever. Just the other day I learned that a distorted wad of pink bubblegum will be on the sole of one of my Birkenstocks, for the rest of its life.
Perhaps the simplest casual demonstration that gum chewing is alive-and-well is to scan the shelves in front of the cash registers of your local neighborhood drugstore. Honest, they’re not dedicating that prime turf to a non-seller. Also this scan will give you an idea what sorts of gum are popular in your neighborhood and roughly in what proportion.
:dubious: Maybe you are dead, and just don’t realize it. :eek:
Seriously, I’ve been using gum regularly since I quit smoking; sugarless spearmint, whatever brand I can get a lot of at a reasonable price. I’ll occasionally do the cinnamon, too, but the peppermint gives me a headache (kind of like the one you get from eating something that’s too cold, too quick, you know, “brain freeze”), and the “fruity” flavored ones are yucky sweet.
When it comes time to discard, it’s always into a receptacle of some kind.
To answer your answer question bluntly: Yes, people still chew gum. (Now, to answer your “blunt” question: all you have to do is roll the paper and… 
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I prefer spearmint gum than others, but I’m more of a Tic Tac person to be honest.
Yes, people still chew gum.
And roughly half of them smack their lips, chew with their mouths open and make me want to whoop them upside the head.
I chew gum daily. A local product here named “Xylitol”.
I chew gum just to get a fresh mouth - breath mints are boring!!
I still do sometimes, but rarely in public.