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the only food you're supposed to chew forever and never swallow.
means A soft, sticky substance — whether the chewy sweet you work in your mouth, the firm pink flesh that anchors your teeth, or the resinous sap that oozes from certain trees.
from From Old English 'goma,' meaning the inside of the mouth or palate — that's the gum your teeth sit in. The chewable, sticky 'gum' is a different thread: it traces through Old French 'gomme' back to Latin 'gummi,' which borrowed from Greek 'kommi,' itself thought to come from an Egyptian word for the resin that bled from trees. So two unrelated mouths of meaning ended up sharing one short word.
- ancient habit
- Neolithic teens chewed birch tar 5,000 years ago
- base material
- Most gum is basically flavored, chewable plastic
- sidewalk economy
- Second most common street litter after cigarettes
- chicle origin
- Original gum came from sap of sapodilla trees
- jaw workout
- Chewing burns about 11 calories per hour
chicle from yucatan peninsula — natural resin from sapodilla trees, harvested by chiclers in mexico since pre-columbian times
wrigley's spearmint — first mass-produced chewing gum, launched in chicago 1893 by william wrigley jr.
hubba bubba bubble gum — pink bubble gum created by dubble bubble in 1975, known for large bubbles