Food of the Seventies, Chum Gum
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Yes, CHUM GUM two sticks wrapped individually in a royal blue wrapper. 2 for a penny. The best gum ever for blowing bubbles. White powdery coated soft bubble gum that blew bubbles the size of your whole face and ended up stuck there when they burst. Woke up many saturday mornings for catoon time with my hair stuck to my pillow with this great gum.
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WHERE CAN I FIND CHUM GUM? IT IS LIKE THE BEST GUM EVER.BRINGS ME BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD,AND NOTHING BOTHERED ME.THOSE WERE THE DAYS
I agree,Chum is the best bubble gum I have ever tasted. It takes me back to a time when life was simple. Where can I find Chum bubble gum or do they still make it?
Perhaps we should find out who the company was that made chum gum and take it from there. Does anyone know?
For years I thought I had perhaps only "imagined" Chum Gum ( a stick for you, and one for a chum!), absolutely NO ONE I asked knew what I was talking about or remembered it! It's a relief to know it really did exist! I believe it has been permanently discontinued
Oh My God!!! I am 45 and I chewed that stuff in the 70's in Chicago where I was born. We bought it in the penny candy section. Along with hot dog weiner gum! But Chum gum is the best tasting gum in the world. No one has ever heard of it except the 5 of us now. I have been typing chum gum in seach engines now and again hoping it would spark a memory or a location where I may purchase it.
WoW! :)
I also have searched for Chum Gum. When I was a child we lived outside of Chicago IL and that's where we would buy the gum. It had a smell all it's own and a powdery coating. Loved it.
WHERE IS CHUM GUM !!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with yo all! Chum Gum was the best. Its been around for years. I'm 58 and can remember getting it when I was little. I think I actually came across some it just 3-4 years ago here in Houston. But couldn't say for sure how. Fleer made it. I don't think you can get it anymore. But if you really want some, someone is selling five sticks on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/CHUM-GUM-5-PIECES-VINTAGE-BUBBLE-GUM-FLEER-CHUM-GUM_W0QQitemZ300198065907QQcategoryZ35645QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWINQ3aPOST0Q3aRECOQ3aBIDQQcmdZViewItem
why dont we all ask fleer to remake this wonderful GUM....
Can't belive it. Other people remember "Chum Gum" and the "Happy Hollisters" books. Chum Gum was great. They don't make em like they used to.
I also grew up in chicago with CHUM GUM.It too brings me back to a simpler time. If anyone finds where to get this, please let us all know.
I just googled chum gum to see what I could find. I agree it was the best tasting gum ever. 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!!!!! I got it in a gas station in a little town in Ohio in the 60's and early 70's. Wish they would bring it back.
I have been looking for Chum Gum for years and I haven't had any luck. In my opinion it was the best gum out there. I'm happy that there are others out there that remember!
This is GREAT!!! I am also a chum gum lover. 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. It is such a relief to know that there are others out there that know about this gum, because when I bring it up to people they don't know what I am talking about, it is great to know you guys are out there and fans of chum gum. I wish they would bring this gum back because it was truly great.
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.
THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FELT THIS WAY ABOUT CHUM GUM.
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 also used to buy KitKats, BB Bats, 3-V Cola, licorice wound up like a small record, Turkish Taffy (with a stripe down the middle) and other glorious candy that is part of my St. Louis childhood memories.
NOT KitKats - Kits - those square wrapped taffys -in banana, chocolate, strawberry flavors - I think they came three to a package. Bargain!
I too remember Chum Gum and just like some of you when I mention it to people they look at me like I'm crazy. I am from the Fort Wayne, IN area and we used to go to a place called Bledsoe's Beach near Angola. That's where I bought most of my Chum Gum. Wish I could still get it!!
I grew up in Denver , Colorado and remember chum gum and ask ...people when the subject of gum comes up...NO ONE remembers it at all here . My sisters and I used to go to Johnnys market .. (kind of like a 7- 11)...and buy it 2 sticks for a penny ...I LOVE the taste of that gum ...as well as a gum that was Grape...Gum ...In a purple colored wrapper with yellow print on it ...I also remember Black jack ..Clove and Beemans ..Yummyyyyyy ! I wish they wouold make Chum gum again .. and bring back those Old memories ...
was chum gum green?
My recollection is that Chum Gum was manufactured by the Curtiss Candy Company, the same folks who made Baby Ruths and Butterfingers. When they got bought out long ago, Chum Gum went away... The big secret of Chum Gum's great flavor was that it was stick shaped bubble gum, and each stick was coated with powdered sugar. The flavor didn't last long, but it was unique!
I grew up in south Georgia and used to buy Chum Gum all the time. As someone said, the flavor didn't last long but the gum had so much elasticity and blew the best bubbles ever. I wish children today could have this wonderful "stuff".
Chum Gum!I've been searching forever.. I'm 38yrs.old and only found it in Woolworth stores in the Chicago area.I can still taste that juicy soft flavor in my BUDS.Hope a manufactor can bring our good old CHUM GUM back!!!!!!
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,
Oh, if they would only bring Chum Gum back! Everyone I've ever mentioned it to has never heard of it. 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. Loved the flavor and the big bubbles! Wish they'd bring it back.
I grew up in FL, and I remember climbing up on the kitchen counter and standing on my tip toes to reach the shelf in the upper cabinet where my mother kept a box of Chum Gum! It is my all time favorite gum and I've been looking for it for years. No one I speak to about it seems to remember it. If anyone does bring it back, I hope they make it the way they used to and not w/ artificial sweetners... they way the did when they brought back 'Fizzies'.
Chum Gum was the best ever...I am 42 and from Chicago I also have been searching for years, just asked a retro candy store yesterday and said he can't locate either. Somebody bring it back...they have brought everything else back from beechies to violet why not chum gum?
I'm glad to see I still have my memory. I was beginning to think I dreamed it all up. I used to buy Chum Gum in a little town in north Georgia. NO ONE here has any idea about Chum Gum, I've talked about it for 20 years and everyone thinks I'm a liitle off. They just don't know how good it was. I remember getting my allowance and running down the street to the gas station and buying Chum Gum, then going home and hiding it under my bed so I would'nt have to share. It's great to hear all these stories. THANK YOU
just purchased 4 sticks from ebay!!Not planning to eat them just wanted to have those wonderful memories in my own hand. I'm so HAPPY just to see them in my curio cabinet! I wish they would bring back our good old CHUM-GUM
1980 was the last time I found Chum Gum. Woolworth's on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, GA. I was a college student making minimum wage at at summer job. I bought all they had in stock.
Not only did this have the most fabulous flavor, but it had such a wonderfully smooth texture - not all gritty and sugary like regular bubblegum. I miss it!!!!
I love this site. I found this particular page 'cause I was looking for references to gum that was made into little record albums. i think they were about 2x2 square. Cardboard like a real record. and the "record" was a piece of gum. The only one I remember was billy joel's Glass Houses lp. I had a collection of about 15 though. anyone else remember them?
I'm 55, grew up in San Bernardino, California, and I went looking for Chum Gum because it had the best TEXTURE! It was so unique to chew. Tasted great, too! My big sis and I would sneak down to the candy store after school and load up on penny candy. Chum Gum was my favorite. I don't even chew gum now. Nothing else compares! I really miss it!!!
Everyone said the same things I have thought for years about Chum Gum- I do miss it. Once in a while I will smell something that reminds me of it. I wish I could find it somewhere. My Co-Workers think I'm nuts. They have never heard of it.
where can i get this great gum...nothing compares. some one must have a stash somewhere!
I used to visit my grandparents house in Golden, IL in the early 60's. From the moment I arrived all I could think about was when I would be allowed to walk down to the corner gas station. They had a penny candy counter there and I ALWAYS bought Chum-Gum. Although the memories of those visits have faded with time, I will never forget my favorite, Chum-Gum!
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