This seems like a case of “I don’t see it, so others don’t either”
Been thinking on this lately and I get OP. People used to chew gun in the 80’s and 90’s, a lot. Now it would be weird to see someone doing so.
Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones
I smoked one of my buddies out on DMT and when he came back to reality I said “that’s how it feels to chew 5 gum” and it was pretty funny.
I hope i’ll never get as far as missing a commercial
Right?
Its really interesting how wirgleys fucked up the marketing on that one even though they had something great out of the gate
The (very old) Jucyfruit jingle will always and forever be burned into my memory.
Juicy fruit is gonna move ya
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.
Doesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?
Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
Paging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
Well your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
You’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.
Not only is the plastic gross, but the artificial sweeteners are nasty.
Some of us don’t taste sweetness, we taste the chemical.
Gum stopped being fun.Sweet gum is gross, minty gum is nice though
Actually I think you stopped being fun
You’re only saying that because you’re mad I won’t do that kinky stuff with you.
I chew gum
I can’t see you. The theory checks out.
I chew gum, too, I just do it in private where no one can see, like any other decent human being.
Not me, I’m a fucking degenerate.
Don’t sell yourself short, you sound like a fartist
I chew gum every day.
So do I, for the Xylitol to keep my teeth healthy.
Hard to find decent gum now as many switched to Sorbitol as it’s cheaper but not as good for teeth.
Personally, I really like the gum from Pür.
I feel like the consumption of gum has shifted from just chewing it to being a more glorified mint/on the go way to brush your teeth.
Why is all made with fake sugar now. That shit hurts my stomach
Sugar alcohol isn’t digested by bacteria on your teeth, preventing cavity growth from it, but it’s a laxative
Damn that’s why they do this?? TiL thanks buddy
You can still buy the stuff with sugar. Just buy the ones for kids.
They’re probably vaping instead.
I got offered some gum on the a plane ride the other day and it really made me to stop and think how I went from doing that every time to not doing it for years.
I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.
I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.
I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I’m at my desk or not near a bin.
I bet you could crack open a jawbreaker with one bite with those jaw muscles.
That’s interesting though, have you noticed any changes from that amount of gum?
No, but it’s only been a couple of months.
Plus I’m single right now, if you catch my drift.
I went to school with a girl who chewed gum everyday, she ended up in hospital with a stomach ulcer.
When you chew, your brain sends signals to your stomach to produce acid to break down the food that is incoming, but if you don’t actually consume food, the acid will just continually build until there’s a problem.
Basically just saying be careful, though I’m not sure if there is any warning signs you can watch for.
You don’t know what I see and don’t see. How dare you.
I see it occasionally. I wonder if it dropped in popularity when cigarettes did. And everyone has their heads up their phones. So they are less observant of what’s going on around them, and maybe there’s less demand for walking-around-diversions like gum.
So this is far from scientific, but I was at a shopping center I used to go to a lot as a kid recently and I noticed that the sidewalks were free of gum. As a kid I remember it always being covered in discharged gum, i used to talk about it with my mom, the sidewalk was practically polka-dotted back then.
Of course there’s a lot of possible explanations besides people just not chewing gum anymore. Could be that people have gotten better about disposing of gum properly, newer gum formulations could be easier to clean up, or we’ve gotten better at it how we clean it, or there’s the fact that teenagers used to just kind of hang around outside of stores and don’t/can’t really do that so much anymore so there’s less people loitering around and spitting their gum out.
It’s me. I’m singlehandedly keeping the gum industry alive.
