Per "oldtimecandy.com, the company that made Chum Gum (they don't confirm who the manufacturer was) discontinued it. Time-warping back to October, 1971, found another newspaper ad mentioning Chum Gum, Dubble Bubble and Razzles as suggestions to give trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Xanthan and Guar Gum Are in Everything: Are They Bad for You? Im 67 yers old and would purchase a case of Chum Gum if we could find it. :Don't dig that kinda crooning', chum :Don't dig that kinda croonin', chum 053 blood clot. That one is still on the market today. 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. only 2 sticks to a pack. Certs and my first granddaughter. Remember how much of the penny candy and gum was unwrapped. A friend and I in Silver Spring, MD would take my 25 cents allowance (in 1952) and buy about 50 sticks of Chum-Gum and chew all sticks at once to see who could blow the biggest bubbles. The refreshing chewing gum with the savory flavor of ground fish entrails. It is my all time favorite gum and I've been looking for it for years. It is the best ever!! $169.99. Somewhere there is the recipe in someone chest. I grew up in Chicago in the Lincoln Park area and bought it at a store called Nick's. Now does anyone remember Chik-O-Stix (sp??). I am the bubblegum queen and I used to tell my dates they had to bring me a bag of bubblegum when they came to pick me up for a date. Glad to see I'm not the only one that love it! While its no longer here, you can reminisce with Dubble Bubble and appreciate the time it was here and successful. We used to get it in a little ice cream store called Shorty Simms in Abingdon, Il. I'm amazed at how many people actually know about it. The crocadile did the commercial. For the most part, these came in either 2 sticks or 5 sticks to a pack. AFTER SCHOOL WE ALWAYS STOP AT THIS STORE TO BUY CHUM GUM. The Best Ever. I can't believe I found all of you. I would stop at the corner drug store and load up. Sure would like to but some it was the BEST. It is owned by Mondelz International. I do remember them and, sadly, they havent been around for many years. Yep I also grew up on chum gum and until recently haven't found anything close, but check out Ford Gum company and the gum called bologna and hotdog gum is as close as I've found.I got it in Santa Fe New Mexico at Walgreens. Also missing the cherry hump bars. I enjoyed them when I was a kid from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Chiclets Fruit Gum. It very well could have set the stage for that soft, pink bubble gum we all know and love. )..wont buy Brachs candy corn this Halloween. I know in some cases companies take over other companies and maybe the new companys equipment is not geared towards making a candy. Please bring it back. My experience was in the 50's and 60's, though. I live in Iowa where I would buy it at the neighborhood grocery store. My company was stationed 60 klicks from our battalion headquarters in Schweinfurt. Youve shared lots of very special memories that will always be cherished. i would rush home to see if i had gotten some cuz it was my fav flavor gum ever! Early and mid-sixties in Fargo, N.D. Now the world has sugarless gum, organic gum, all-natural gum, and bubble gum and chewing gum in a full spectrum of flavors and colors. Then again, the aroma of a bag of coffee beans reminds me of a skunk. If I was real lucky and the big kids were not at Tussey's, I could talk Pop Tussey into getting out a couple of soda bottle cases and he'd let me play the pinball machine. and I loved the flavor of Chum Gum. 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. A case of Wacky Wafers given to his TA got him home for our wedding. I brought it up at work and NO ONE knew what I was talking about!! Might have been associated with the discontinued candy section. Wow! Well she spoke about this gum and how much she loved it so I just had to go on E-Bay and get a stick for her. Fleer should bring it back. Good bye Chum Gum. It was a marvelous combination of whimsy and cuteness and sold really well. I loved chum gum, it was the best gum when I was a kid. This was in the 60's in Augusta,GA and only at Carpenter's 50-50 Store. empty. He was yelling that No! We got to keep the change and bought--Chum Gum. Directions. We all stopped at the corner store on the way home from school each day and buy them.YUMMMMMM !! As to why, we are not sure. google_ad_format = "120x600_as"; 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. I am interested in mint juleps and Christmas hard mix. anyone else remember them? Asked people for YEARS if they remembered Chum Gum, my favorite bubblegum of all time and no one knew what I was talking about. I chewed it everyday as a kid. Since our company was founded in 1927, many of your favorite sweets have come and gone through our doors and we have provided a list of them here. Ounce for ounce the best tasting bubble gum on the planet!!! Sure wish they would make this gum again!The Best Gum Ever! I would buy it if I could find it. It was THE BEST!! 1. Has not been made in many years. WOW!!! And we didn't worry about having sugar-free gum back then! I remember going by Brookside, a Mom & Pop store, daily gong and coming from school. Fleer Please Bring It Back!! I,m 67 and can still taste it. Decade 1980s 1920s 1970s pre 1920 1940s 1960s 1990s 1930s 1950s Flavor Fruit Flavors Peppermint Blue Raspberry Cotton Candy Licorice Spearmint Watermelon The pure flavor of juicy fruit is gone. In fact, as explained by Chewing Gum Facts, Thomas Adams, creator of the brand Chiclets, is considered one of the founders of the chewing gum industry. I cant believe they stopped making CERTS Breath Mints. There are a few random ones available on ebay, but thats it. I can still almost taste it. Frank Fleer was very young when he decided to start creating bubble gum. i used to buy it in houston, texas in the mid-sixties. I grew up in Danville, Californiasmall town, still relatively small, and the local 5 and dime store had it. I don't understand how many gum companies there are and no one makes it. google it and see if you can find it! Two for a penny and with a dime i would fill my mouth with 20 sticks and chew until I couldn't move my jaw any more. From 1963, a newspaper ad for the Racine, Wis., Neisner Bros. variety store (5c to $1.00). I felt like i was in the twilight zone or something. Trying to find a company that still sells Maplenut Goodies. Chum Gum was the best gum. I'm glad to see I still have my memory. Nothing has ever compared to Chum. I also googled it and I found all of these postings. Also coated with powdered sugar. Best wishes to all Chum Gum lovers! I am so glad I found this website. Pam: The original maker of Chum Gum was Fleer. and what a great smell, and the best bubbles. Impossible to find anywhere. Brock's (not Brach's) candy puffs (very soft, melt in your mouth candy balls) Bonkers Fruit Chews. I'd get a small vanilla or cherry coke for 7 cents (the best also) from the fountain and boxes of jujubes. Iremember this awesome gum I saved up my allowence and bought a whole box with they still made it no gum comes even close to the taste of gum. Chum Gum was my very favorite gum. I thought I was getting ripped off. All other stick gum was 5 sticks for a nickel. 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. The taste was phenomenol,sure wish they would make it again, it was the best. What a great time to be a kid! I remember the gum in pink too but blue was better!!! CandyFavorites sells the Long Coconut Boys, Squirrel Nut Zippers and I think the original Mary Jane Candy. I think there were 3 pieces for a penny. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK! It didnt go over well and needed quite a lot of improvements so this one never actually was marketed. (The Good Old Days) As a child I was very frugal with my money. If anyone finds it. chum gum. I too have wonderful memories of walking to the corner store for Chum Gum and Bub's Daddy in the yardstick pkg. Vintage Wrigley Chewing Gum Pack Full New Extra Bubble Gum 20 Packs 5 Piece. Do they sell Freshen Up gum? - Sage-Answer They company had Wacky Wafer candy bags with little bunnies, eggs, and Easter basket shaped Wafers. I appreciate Cracker Barrel for selling Clove & Teaberry but they are missing the best gum of all time, i can't believe i miss a GUM so much! It was a sad ending to a fruitful history for the company. Three sticks for 0.1 cent. In the 1920s Sorry to see them go. A whole generation needs to experience this taste treat. I got it in a gas station in a little town in Ohio in the 60's and early 70's. IN TRAVEL I TRIED TO FIND THIS GUM IT IS SO SAD THE COMPANY STOPPED MAKING IT. My grandparents owned a small hamburger joint & they sold MILKSHAKE candy bars. Can you still buy chum gum? - Sage-Advices It was the best gum ever made. I am a 60's kid from Indiana.I am happy to find others who recall Chum Gum. _390- My sister and I were just talking about chum gum, it brought back our childhood and things were so good..miss this gum.. Do they still make Freshen Up gum? - AnswersAll Please bring back the Milkshake candy bars again. google_ad_channel = "9301152533"; It was the best gum ever. Answer From Elizabeth Rajan, M.D. I'd put some baseball cards in my spokesthen I'd "motor on over" to get my fix. I grew up in Washington, DC and would buy this most delicious gum at the corner stores on my way home from school in the late 60s and early 70s. the police found me at the local creek eating the chum gum. They are not spell checked or reviewed for accuracy. Someone needs to get Fleer to either release the formula to a small batch candy maker or do some batches themselves! Wish I could get the recipe and have it made again. From the moment I arrived all I could think about was when I would be allowed to walk down to the corner gas station. White powdery coated soft bubble gum that blew bubbles the size of your whole face and ended up stuck there when they burst. But not on Wednesdays because Bill closed at noon that day. As a child in the mid fifties I discovered it at Glazners Market in Carrollton Texas (a Dallas suburb). My brother and I would collect pop bottles in the 50s and early 60s. The neighborhood kids loved that gum. Best Wishes, Albert Baroody. I grew up on a street in the LA area in the 60s and 70s. I am 60 and like to think the best times are still here, just being alive and healthy. Chewed it daily growing up in Youngstown, OH during the 60's. What's funny is that my dad, who had it as a kid, HATED it; even the smell of it bothered him. I still can get Bottle Caps, Laffy Taffy, Now N Laters, Sprees, Nerds and Sweet Tarts. no one else seems to know what im talking about, so i'm glad I found this page. I wonder what it would take for the bubble gum world powers to crank out some more of that wonderful tasting stuff? Where can I get some aspergum? - Drugs.com 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. Me and my sister would collect empty soda bottles becaus you got a penny a piece return on them. Wintergreen Certs have been my favorite for decades. . Chiclets were originally made with chicle, a natural gum found in several tropical American trees. Bought it from woolworths in the penny candy section. 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. After all, it came from the same brand and had a lot of the same qualities as well. I retired as a pastor. Best ever - oh, to go back again! A 5 stick pack was a penny. I chewed a 20-pack of Leaf Confectionery bubble gum (sour apple, sour grape, lemon etc) as a bet from my friends. I am glad everyone at this site remember it. Some gum connoisseurs might know that Fruit Stripe gum used to be made by Beech-Nut. They still sell it in Tn, Al, and Ga at walmart and most grocery store and gas stations. The Fleer Factory closed many years agoTo bad for us Chum Gum fans, My wife bought me on sale after easter. If enough of us asked, perhaps it could happen. LOL!!! West Virginia at alot of different places! $19.99. The assets were liquidated for creditor repayment and even the Fleer name was auctioned off with several other holdings. Too bad they don't make this anymore. It makes my mouth water to think of it!! Omg. If we found an empty soda bottle, we would redeem it at Wright's market in Dansville, Ny for the 2 cents and buy some Chum Gum. that is what me go to this link is it tasted so much like it. I can\t believe they discontinued these candy bars. AND SO DO MY GRANDCHILDREN. Thought I needed to quickly write you back, and indicate my suppositional error. I grew up in Memphis, TN. Drumler@yahoo.com. 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. But she never had the best gum in the whole world. I was engaged and my fianc was in the Air Force. And what Im in search of does not have that. ??? Can't believe so many people remembered that great tasting gum. Do you know if they still make them, and if so, how I could get some? A selling Black jack and Beemans said he has a source that sellsChum Gum by the case. Walters Variety Store in Riverside, CA. Any chance they will reintroduce Certs? If I'm not mistaken there was three pieces in a sleeve. Beets have 2.8 grams of protein per cup or .5 grams per ounce. Hi, I am looking for Chiclets. Really the last Gas station in Bloomington, IN on South Walnut before you get to Highway 37/69. I bought a tiny metal tin pie and it came with a teenie metal spoon. I remember 3 sticks for a penny. Hi, I got married in 2005. In one . Heidi: Your only hope may be to contact Tootsie Roll, which bought out Fleer, and only sells the ex-Fleer product of today: Double Bubble. I remember the two to a wrapper scheme, which is why I thought one should share it with a friend. Hi Noon candy bars were my favorite candy back in the mid fifties. 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. The pie itself was pink, I think. That being said, it was made by the same company that created Dubble Bubble, Bazooka, and several other similar gums. I've asked a co-worker who is from New York, did she remember chum gum and she looked at me like I lost my mind. Altoids more than most. Here's one for you how about Chum Gums little brother "RED DEVIL GUM" as I recall it was sweet and spicy. Looked at the ingredients and they now have mixed in synthetic sweeteners and other crap. Bazooka Bubble Gum is still being made! No one has ever heard of it except the 5 of us now. A group of us kids used to run across the interstate (Shhh! PLESE BRING THIS GUM BACK. I'm 53, I remember walking to the corner store at the age of 5 all by myself to buy the best gum ever!!!!!!! Along with hot dog weiner gum! I also bought it when I was a teenager in the 60's and have looked for it through the years but never could find it! 11. Packaging is similar to the "original" as is the formula. Great memories. The big size was our favorite too but the manufacturer reduced the size a few years ago. No one I know remembers it. Wouldn't it be great if they started making it again. The good news is that memories remain. We got Chum Gum from the guy in the ice cream truck. The gum is rather simple and mild. I've searched for it everytime I see an All Candy store. If anyone finds where to get this, please let us all know. I used certs to help me quit smoking, I always carried a roll of speartment in my shirt pocket. I thought people forgot the greatest gum ever! They were in a white pack that blue writing with individual pieces. I still remember the anticipation as I opened the wrapper, the powder, the amazing smell and taste. You can make some handy chum blocks doing this. Dubble Bubble is still available in some areas. The BEST candy bar on the planet! Please somebody make it again before I leave this world! Sunflower seeds, banana popsickles and Chum Gum. A hard candy that becomes soft like taffy upon chewing. Discontinued Candy Therapy Blog Wow! We have red vines, why not Chum Gum Let's ask Mark Summers Host of Unwrapped on the Food network!!!! it had that cold feeling when you first started chewing it. I would so love to have chum gum back1. Then you pop it, stick it back in your mouth and start another bubble. The Marathon candy bar IS still available, it is now called the Curly Wurly, is made by Cadbury and is available on the internet, comes to you from England. You're all right. Fleer?Are you listening ? (The Comrades reeeealy didnt like us for tearing up there countryside. One other candy I have not seen mentioned here was a MILK SHAKE CANDY BAR. They did make stick bubble gum in the early 1970s. Very spicy. It was popular for the entirety of the gum because it was soft and easy to chew but also because it had good flavor. i grew up chewing chum gum and can like many other tell someone about it and they look at me like i am crazy. Google Feud - Answers - do they still make White powdery coated soft bubble gum that blew bubbles the size of your whole face and ended up stuck there when they burst. I am 61 years old and grew up in Britton, Oklahoma, a tiny bedroom community 20 min N of Oklahoma City.Chum Gum was a favorite for me - I can till conjure the aroma and flavor of this wonderful gum! Woke up many saturday mornings for catoon time with my hair stuck to my pillow with this great gum. Glad to hear there are others of you who remember with me. I'm almost 60 and sure wish I could chew a piece. I'm a pharmacy tech and one of the children's antibiotics smells JUST LIKE CHUM GUM when the water is added! The idea was to create a tasty gum that would blow really great bubbles. It had a smell all it's own and a powdery coating. Ask away and we will do our best to answer or find someone who can.We try to vet our answers to get you the most acurate answers. !BRING IT BACK FOR THEM TO TRY!!!!:). Does anyone remember Chum Gum? - Answerbag I WANT SOME. It's no secret that bubble gum often doesn't really deliver. Chum Gum was a Fleer exclusive, there were no past or present copycats out there. Hey, I am 61 and grew up in Oak Cliff (Dallas) Texas and we used to buy Chum Gum at Crawford grocery store which was a little neighborhood store that would resemble a 7-Eleven today and it was owned and run by Ms. Crawford, a really sweet lady. My Chum Gum memory is from the sixties. Anybody remember the Zebra Stripe Gum. God I miss this gum. The Fleer name is now owned by a company known as Upper Deck, who had previously made a huge offer to the company and had been declined. We used to smash the frozen ones and eat the little frozen bite size pieces. Please bring them back. Chum Gum Wrapper | Sweet memories, Nostalgic candy, Gum - Pinterest I quit buying them. I used to buy it in my home town of Pine Ridge SD! I grew up in Neptune beach Fl. In the 1940s I used to buy penny candy. A Principal would be hung out to dry if he let children walk to the store while at school. It would be like giving them a taste of the 60's. Have you ever heard of these. Bargain! Chum Gum - made in the 1960s/70s. they took me home in the police car and my mom was pissed!!!!!! Whatever Happened To Chiclets? - Mashed.com im 57 and i well remember the taste and texture of the world's greatest gum. i can still taste that gum, which had a flavor all it's own, sweet, peppery that still reaches me through the ages With THIS many people on a thread reminiscing about a childhood confection, think how many others are out there? It was my favorite bubble gum and apparently still is 50 years later! Chum Gum came out as early as the 1950s from what we can tell and was available until sometime in the 90s. 2 for a penny. I guess I am showing my age(61 on 9/19/1947.) 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 am so happy I found this page. I really miss it!!! In 1928, a Fleer employee named Walter Diemer finally devised a successful formula for the first commercial bubble gum, dubbed Dubble Bubble. Is there anywhere that still have some? I have wanted some Wacky Wafers for quite some time now. Even my old class mates didn't remember it. google_color_text = "000000"; She did that and explained that they had been discontinued. In my opinion it was the best gum out there. I keep searching for alternatives, but they all fall short. ___ But anyway, from our semi-permanent tactical missile site we Glorified Grunts would often have to drive a lil ole Jeep or a Deucen-a-Half truck the 60 ks to headquarters for some part or circuit board for repairs. the good ole days. Fairchance, Pa. Twas my favorite as well. Id give my eyeteeth for just one more spin with Chum Gum. Make it again, Fleer! Sometimes the flavor is decent, but you can't blow a bubble if your life depended on it. I loved it. Blood clot, blood clot. The bubbles were incredible. I can not believe all of these comments, I wish I could find this gum it smells and tastes so good. Though Tendermint is no longer produced, Teaberry is still available. Best ever gum. Chum Gum was the best everI 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. Tears filled her eyes as she was just beside herself when we gave it to her. Description Yes, CHUM GUM two sticks wrapped individually in a royal blue wrapper. I used to buy it at Allen's Grocery. People think I am making up the name. This was the best gum ever - a piece for yourself and a piece for your Chum.