It was a marvelous combination of whimsy and cuteness and sold really well. We used to turn in soda bottles so we could buy it. I remember the blue and white package, the delicious smell of the gum, the way it would melt in your mouth (and try hard not to swallow it-but often did), powdery coating. Yes, CHUM GUM two sticks wrapped individually in a royal blue wrapper. The same Beech-Nut company famous for its natural baby foods used to make minty chewing gum for adults, as per CNN. IT. They were so delicious! I've asked so many people if they ever heard of it and they think I'm nuts. Do they still make Beechnut gum? I remember when my mom wear her blue relaxed lee jeans and her candies high heels sandals an awesome look. What a great ideawhy don't we [all] start a revolution and surely some company out there will duplicate the stuff and make us all happy. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK! I did find a source at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg NY. Hi, years ago, there was a candy by Brachs called chocolate nut goodies. I was under 10 years old at the time (I am 50 now) and I fell in love with it! Have you ever heard of these. The gum itself was Hot Pink in color and had the most unique flavor. Who made Chum Gum? I was lacking money as a child so I only got to enjoy these products a handful of times. They would love it. I think it would be a big hit (with potty-based humour at an all-time high with kids). For the longest time, I couldn't remember what it was called and then by chance I was looking for some unique halloween candy and found the name!! I used to buy Chum Gum in St. Mary's, Pa at Johnson's Market, next to the Market Basket grocery store. Bubble Gum Eggs from Arcor, Individually wrapped. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Snack History participates in the Amazon Associate and WalMart Partner Network programs and receives earnings from qualifying purchases. That pink color set the stage and bubble gums continue to follow that grand design. There is NOTHING on the market like it , what a hit they would be !! WE ARE NOW RETIRED AND I CROSSED THE WHOLE U.S. Get up in My tree house and eat it all. It came in a white package with blue lettering and was a pretty pink color. http://cgi.ebay.com/CHUM-GUM-5-PIECES-VINTAGE-BUBBLE-GUM-FLEER-CHUM-GUM_W0QQitemZ300198065907QQcategoryZ35645QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWINQ3aPOST0Q3aRECOQ3aBIDQQcmdZViewItem. Im 55 and I still look for Chum gum everywhere. I would like to see it on the market again also. OMG!! Just reading all these wonderful comment remind me of not only how great chum gum was, but how life was simple and easy. Great memories. I chewed Chum Gum in the mid 60's. I grew up in Minnesota in the 70's and remember Chum Gum so well. So delicious, they even featured a role in the Harry Potter feasts at Hogwarts. Although chewing gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, it generally isn't harmful if swallowed. It had it's own taste-nothing like it. History says that Chum Gum was produced from 1950 to exactly 1971. that and Milk Duds (the old ones without that crappy shiny finish) I used to as a kid get them at the little green store in Appleton Wi.i went to that store foe 10 yrs and didnt know it by its real name,but it was little and green, I GRE UP IN CHICAGO WITH CHUM GUM AND THOSE HOT DOG GUMS AND WONDERFUL BLOMMERS CHOCOLATE. I have craved this gum for yearsand it finally hit me! I am glad everyone at this site remember it. Never could find any. Beets have 2.8 grams of protein per cup or .5 grams per ounce. ), absolutely NO ONE I asked knew what I was talking about or remembered it! You could smell it if it was in someone's pocket, that's how alluring the scent of it was! Don't tell my mom!) In fact, they have expanded the product range from just Bazooka Original. I'm 65. I used to earn my Chum Gum reward, however. When I was a child the candy bars were large and worth the money. It absolutely was the best bubble gum in the world. Does anyone besides me remember these candies? Is this a temporary thing?. Some one needs to make it again. I used to buy Chum Gum at Mill Creek Country Store in Mill Creek, Georgia, near Dalton- in the mid 70s. Hopefully, someone will purchase the rights to these iconic treats. Everyone I've ever mentioned it to has never heard of it. I wish Tootsie Roll administrators could see the number of people searching for this gum. An aphrodisiac?? Brand New. I hope they get so many comments of people wanting them around again and they make the decision to sell them again. Please somebody make it again before I leave this world! I well remember Chum Gum. I had chum gum all the time. West Virginia at alot of different places! Only cough drop I like, only cough drop I will use. Oh so delicious. I emailed you guys back when I did my initial research and never heard. At her 2nd birthday party I gave her a present with no name on it, but I had a certs setting on top, she looked at it and came up to me and said thanks for the present. Stay United Chum Gum Lovers! I grew up in Indio, Ca and remember buying Chum gum in the 60's. Bubble Yum Rockin' Raspberry flavor. Chum Gum was a favorite of mine and my siblings! Are clorets still available? It's oldtimecandy.com. Elementary school. I would betcha that no other beer in Europe or anywhere on planet tasted like that stuff. When I was a kid, my favorite candy bars were Milkshake candy bars and Marathon bars. I lived on Herbert a mile away from school the flavor was delicious and lasting. They were a brown and white striped hard minty candy on the outside with a softer, chewier finish. There is a site to buy old time candy, but they didn't have it. Bring nack our childhood memories. Armilda. I have talked about it all my life and people look at me like I'm crazy glad to see there are others out there that loved it too!!!!! Could be the case If so, then it would just be nice to know what is was called way back when. 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. Has not been made in many years. In the 1950's/ 60' I used to buy Chum Gum in St. Louis - from a local confectionery (which is what we called small neighborhood stores). I've never forgotten how wonderful the taste was. However, by that time, the company had already discontinued Chum Gum as it simply couldnt keep up in a market where the advertisement was primarily focused elsewhere. I take it out sometimes and think back .In the 50s it was 3sticks for .01. Chum Gum was the best gum in the world. I loved it. Running to the corner store just south of Chicago in Midlothian Il. Oh why cant they bring back Chum Gum like they have brought back so many other old time candies?! And whatever happened to Welches Fudge bars? I loved them. The wintergreen flavor is mellow, not too much like some sort of analgesic balm or Pepto Bismol. It never lost it's flavor and the smell was heavenly. In business from 1930 to 1971. If anyone finds where to get this, please let us all know. In fact, I realized that I have had chicken bones candy; and while it does include coconut, there is also a peanut butter inclusion. My big sis and I would sneak down to the candy store after school and load up on penny candy. We used to get Marathon bars up at the store at the Dells Camp Resort just outside of Wisconsin Dells. Chew one and give one to a Chum. 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. Chum gum was the best!!! I remember chum gum like it was yesterday. =), im now 55 and need Chum Gum badly!!!! Since you haven't heard from anyone from Iowa yet, I just had to write. A few years later I did more extensive research and found out that someone in another country like Switzerland or France or Somewhere over there purchased the recipe for Brachs Red Twist and is just sitting on it. I so loved this gum.Best everon the market. I can remember going to the corner store that was across from my school.I would go there after school and buy this gum,those were best days of my life Tina. Of the many penny candies we bought, we also bought Chum Gum. How am I going to keep him happy now? I would encourage everyone to email the company to try and bring this gum back. I've looked for it for years! Today, it's the Kenosha Job Center. Good times :). No comments | | | 0 No comments. We got our Chum Gum at Bill Meadow's Gulf gas station in Colbert, GA. I loved Chum Gum :-). Somebody needs to produce this again. Im looking for cinnamon certs. old and remember the great flavor the gum had, I can still taste it today, I also bought a gum called devil gum, does anyone remember that gum? It's great to hear all these stories. i keep looking for chum gum too!sadly its no longer made.i also grew up in chicago in the 70's and bought it every time i went to the candy store.i remember "borrowing a whole dollar out of my moms purse and getting a small brown bag full of candy.chum gum was always my favorite. This, along with stiff competition, meant a slow demise (and desire) for Chum Gum as the 1960s passed, quietly disappearing by the end of 1971. This group of people said that they never heard of it so I told them to goggle it and maybe it would show up. Now I would pay 2 sticks for a buck if I could find it. As a German might say, that was really gte BIER!!! they can bring back Beemans and Black jack, why not Chum Gum??? We both wshed we could find it you think the owner of Fleer products would read this site! near my home close to Marquette Michigan when I was four or so. Chum Gum.what a sweet memory. WoW! But there are a lot of other choices on that website that will bring back memories, at today's prices. A 5 stick pack was a penny. Re: Chum Gum. i grew up chewing chum gum and can like many other tell someone about it and they look at me like i am crazy. It is the FIRST online candy store backed by the OLDEST wholesale candy company in the nation! Bubble Gum & Chewing Gum | Old Time Candy Bubble Gum Enjoy the best bubble gum and chewing gum varieties from when you were a kid. Wow those were the days! Free returns. Wazoo bars where can I get them? They were the best frozen and fresh. Lets take it back to some of the memories of candy from years past. Thank you! I'm so happy it wasn't all a dream. Youve shared lots of very special memories that will always be cherished. In the 1960's, if I found a penny or two, I would run to the Dog Gone Grocery Store on South Merritt Island, FL., Then I'd eat both pieces before all my sisters found out. Surely there's someone out there who could resurrect Chum Gum manufacture and distributionwhy not? One other candy I have not seen mentioned here was a MILK SHAKE CANDY BAR. I think there were 3 pieces for a penny. 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. I bought it in St. Albans. Remember the gum in those cards? Walked to the drug store and got 2 pieces for a penny and had the best flavor out there. From the moment I arrived all I could think about was when I would be allowed to walk down to the corner gas station. There has to be a recipe out there somewhere. I keep searching for alternatives, but they all fall short. I also came across Dem Bones, which are no longer in production, as an older Brachs item. I wish they still made it. Penney's disbanded the chain after 15 years to maintain focus on its high-end merchandise. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF AND WHERE IT IS AVAILABLE NOW??? Oh, to smell those again! Bubble gum flavor. Whenever I mention it to all of my friends it just brings back to good ole days. Guar gum and other types of gums are types of "gluten replacers," says Frontiers in Nutrition helping to retain the qualities of bread and similar products while eliminating gluten from the ingredients. click here to shop the thousands of candies, Beccas Brilliant Candy Blogs, Round 2: Begin, https://www.candyfavorites.com/candy-flavor-memories, https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/is-it-really-goodbye-necco-may-close-its-doors/. I see you are out of both. I would so love to have chum gum back1. Chum Gum was my favorite. Use to buy it at Bailey's Confectionery on Bunker Hill Road in Ashtabula, Ohio. I miss the brown jelly bean Brachs used to make. I thought people forgot the greatest gum ever! I'm 59 and still remember the wonderful taste of Chum Gum. Frozen Milkshake bars. I still remember the red two stick gum. They don't make em like they used to. I retired as a pastor. Wrigley recently secured a patent for a biodegradable gum. Anyway, I have also been looking for it for years with no luckChum gum was the best! I don't even chew gum now. Best ever gum. I have thought about that stuff off and on but, like most of you said, nobody else remembered it and I had almost convinced myself I had made it up. pink and full of that distinguishing flavor and powder sugar. I loved chum gum, it was the best gum when I was a kid. . I do remember a beechnut gum that was striped. They didn't have any, but, it was a good time anyway. I enjoyed reading folk's fond memories of this gumhopefully the recipe will be revived and on the shelves again! I want my Chum Gum! You can make some handy chum blocks doing this. Caroline above said she has never met anyone who remembers it. 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!!! But couldn't say for sure how. Tasty and unique, I'm 10 years old just thinking about it. The taste was phenomenol,sure wish they would make it again, it was the best. I always look at Cracker Barrel hoping it found its way back. I am 78 years old and would buy a box today if I could find it. We got it at a store near the church it was called the e z buy store. Peridex mouthwash may be useful in treating this. Thank you! Fifty cents would get me a whole bag. How I wish.someone would bring it back before Iam gone. Back in the 30s and 40s when I was a boy Chum gum was a terrible chew. I fell in love with Chum Gum since 6th grade in '62.I agree with everyone's comments, but besides the great flavor, Chum Gum produced the best bubbles! I loved eating them with my popcorn at the theater Nothing seems to come close to these. I remember going on our summer vacation every year to a cabin in Crosby, MN and the office had a little candy section and we would load up on Chum Gum. (*The town may have been Steinbach, Ebelsbach which rang a bell for me. I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa in the 1950's. Life back then was beautiful. I love Chum Gum!! As a Marine and later Army Officer I travelled the world but always keeping an eye out. Clorets - discontinued in 2016; Conversation Hearts made by NECCO; Cow Tales - Caramel . I found a number 45078 but cant find the candy. Take a peak at https://www.candyfavorites.com/candy-flavor-memories. Wacky Wafers are no longer? Others make so much chum they need big barrels. I was engaged and my fianc was in the Air Force. I WAS TELLING MY DAUGHTER ABOUT THIS GOOD OLD GUM. I also thought no one else knew about it, I hope it comes back. I'd get a small vanilla or cherry coke for 7 cents (the best also) from the fountain and boxes of jujubes. I knew them as "sour grapes" in clear individual packaging with maybe a yellow print on it. OMG if a kid had that gum now maybe they would have the energy to get off their butt and go play in the woods!!! I remember when I was a little girl I went to St. Kevin's School and every day at lunch time we would to to the conner store and buy penny candy. Three sticks for 0.1 cent. It is described as having a very unique original bubblegum flavor with a smooth but powdery pink gum. It was the very best bubble gum, and it smelled so good in my purse. Chum Gum had its fans (myself included), but other chewing gums made by Wrigley, Adams and Beech Nut proved bigger sellers. Cause it taste good and it freshen up your breath. For .12 cents, I could buy a comic book, a fountain cherry or vanilla coke and a pack (2 sticks ) of chum gum. Sounds like a common experience for many here. So freaking sad. My dad owned a little country store with a big glass case full of penny candy on the bottom shelf and candy bars on the top. and what a great smell, and the best bubbles. I thought I was the only one who remebered Chum gum, Razzles and Bubs Daddy gum in the yardstick packaging. Theres never been a candy bar like the 10:30 before or since. A great taste and a great bubble. Really wished they would make it again. Wonka stretchy and tangy laffy taffy. AAhh.the good old days, when gum actually had sugar in it. Does anyone remember how good the candy lipsticks were, the ones they make now are nothing like the ones we could getOh to be young and free again..miss those days. wish i could find a stick today. A whole generation needs to experience this taste treat. Now all we need is the ingredients. Somebody mentioned going to the gas station to get the guy to open the machine and give them the bottle caps (back when they had cork) to play one of several games different companies had to win prizes. We used to get it in the 60's at an old country looking store in NE Washington D.C. 2 sticks for a penny. Once in a while I will smell something that reminds me of it. We got to keep the change and bought--Chum Gum. My kid, grandkids & great-grandbaby will miss one of the greatest flavors of life without it. It was/is the best flavored gum to date. it had that cold feeling when you first started chewing it. Don't think were the only ones out here moaning about the want for more of it! In the first, or second paragraph, I said that what I was looking for (and believe that may be discontinued- whatever its name was) may have at one time been called chicken bones. Oh, and I'm also from the great windy city of Chicago! Hi Noon candy bars were my favorite candy back in the mid fifties. MY HUSBAND AND I USE TO BUY CHUM GUM IN THE SIXTIES IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA THIS WAS THE BEST GUM I'VE EVER TASTED. It wasnt sold in a stick like Chum Gum, though. I was looking for the Marathon Bar. In 2005, Fleer Company ended up declaring bankruptcy and they never bounced back as some companies do. Would love to find some BIZ!! "Our new obsession." - TIME Are squirrel nut still produced? Wish we could still get Chum Gum its the best. i used to buy it in houston, texas in the mid-sixties. I can not believe all of these comments, I wish I could find this gum it smells and tastes so good. I have wanted some Wacky Wafers for quite some time now. White powdery coated soft bubble gum that blew bubbles the size of your whole face and ended up stuck there when they burst. loved it in the 50's. 1 cup equals. Wish someone would bring it back. Fleer should bring it back. It was a time when a guy would come with a truck and sell fruits and vegetables and my Mother would run out like all the other ladies and stock up for the week. One stick was blue and one stick was pink. Chum Gum was great. Today, Bubbaloo is sold in more than 25 countries and in three different continents across the world. The reason I am writing you is because for the past 16 years Ive been eating Twizzlers or Red Vines and they are awful. They have never heard of it. Its tragic!!! I'm guessing it went under during World War 2 (sugar rationing), and Fleer simply tagged the stick bubble gum as such, legally. Please , I have cancer and I really need my certs !!!! Every time we went I got him a case of something and mailed it to him. Thank you! I was a kid in Winston-Salem NC and now I'm 54 and I can vividly remember the taste of Chum Gum. Drumler@yahoo.com. Dubble Bubble is still available in some areas. I have been looking for Chum Gum for years and I haven't had any luck. Loved Chum Gum, lived on High School Road Indianapolis 1964-1969,most people I asked about it have never heard of it, good to know I wasn't dreaming..it was the best..those were the days. Thanks for sharing your memories! I am 62 years old and would buy chum gum in a drug store in Argo, Illinois. . I am 69 and I also loved Chum gum. A selling Black jack and Beemans said he has a source that sellsChum Gum by the case. And Sqeeze pops only lasted three years. sure miss that gum tho. No one I know has heard of it! Bring back the Wonka Scrunch bar! If I'm not mistaken there was three pieces in a sleeve. My boyfriend thinks I am crazy and has no idea what I am talking about. there is nothing in the world like chum gum. It was popular for the entirety of the gum because it was soft and easy to chew but also because it had good flavor. It was my favorite. I grew up in Buffalo New York, and my brother and I would always go to the corner store just for Chum gum. Any chance they will reintroduce Certs? However, we know a lot about bubble gum as a whole. I rember how my mouth started watering for that flavor from the Gods.I bought all they had,never to see or taste it again :.(. It was coated with powdered sugar, and at two sticks for a penny could not be beat!
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