So glad I finally found someone who remembers it! Please leave a review or any memories of this snack in the comments below. That long-forgotten name popped right out of my cobwebbed memories. Surely there's someone out there who could resurrect Chum Gum manufacture and distributionwhy not? Chum gum ruled. Nothing else compares! It is the best ever!! THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could find it somewhere. There are a few random ones available on ebay, but thats it. I should be able to find them today. Then again, the aroma of a bag of coffee beans reminds me of a skunk. I think it came in clear plastic candy wrapper. I buy them for my mother, they are exactly the same is the marathon, even the same braided shape. Glad to know I am not the only fan. The Chicago company was small. By the way, there was a reference to taffy and I believe you were talking about B-O-N-O-M-O, Bonomo Turkish Taffy! Their familiar logo is on the picture in this link. Once in a while I will smell something that reminds me of it. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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 GrapeGum In a purple colored wrapper with yellow print on it I also remember Black jack ..Clove and Beemans ..Yummyyyyyy ! This brings back sweet memories to me. Not the artificial stuff they call cinnamon now, but actual ground cinnamon. Wrapper has a devil's head printed and "Red Hot Chewing or Bubble Gum" printed on wrapper. 1980 was the last time I found Chum Gum. i used to buy it in houston, texas in the mid-sixties. Why did they stop manufacture? 2. You made my day :-). i grew up chewing chum gum and can like many other tell someone about it and they look at me like i am crazy. Wacky Wafers are no longer? I remember Chum gum and got some in the mid 70s in Folsom at an old town general store,on a family vacation. I also have looked for Chum gum for years. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF AND WHERE IT IS AVAILABLE NOW??? Brand New. This is GREAT!!! 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!!!!! It has brought a big smile to my face reading all these comments S8C. Bubble Gum & Chewing Gum | Old Time Candy Bubble Gum Enjoy the best bubble gum and chewing gum varieties from when you were a kid. 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'. Hi, I am in Florence SC, and would Ike to find some of these new Unicorn Candy Corn in fruit flavors. There are still wrappers that you can find online though, if the nostalgia is something that appeals to you. 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. Along with baseball card gum, also with the powdered sugar, it was the best gum ever. Phase please please fruit as I have ate for 25 year ! It was the very best bubble gum, and it smelled so good in my purse. For years I have been on the lookout for two types of candies from Brachs. Heres a link to a section of our blog that deals with exactly that https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/is-it-really-goodbye-necco-may-close-its-doors/, Wacky Wafers! In the interim, why not share your memories of a favorite NECCO product. I am very sorry that you have chosen to discontinue them. The gum is made by Fleer and if you want the EXACT taste you remember, they are packing it inside of the Movie cards from the Spirit movie being released December 19th 2008. Best gum ever! Wish I could offer a better answer and havent seen this product in many years. Also got a lot of teachers upset. I miss those candy crackers. Hardly the case. jas. We got to keep the change and bought--Chum Gum. Anyone have any ideas of anything that would? Christmas Candy Coal - Gummy Coal. What I wouldn't give for one stick! Bill and the station, like the great taste of Chum Gum, are but Precious Memories now. I am from Lockport, IL and I, too, couldn't make anyone believe that I remembered Chum Gum! Whenever I mention it to all of my friends it just brings back to good ole days. I wish someone could find more info., bring it back. While looking over newspaper microfilm in Kenosha, Wis., came across an ad by Topps Discount Store from October, 1970 (Halloween candy featured). I would walk down to the local store and buy all that I could get. Bet I could have a large market for it. This was an awesome flavored gum ! Are they still around anywhere? Bring back. I'm a baby boomer!N. Also check out the other =Food of the 70s?> pages. Ive reminisced about Chum Gum since 1958. One I believe was called Lollydrops. in order to get me int othe chair, he would coax me with either an Altoid or a Cert Spearmint. Wish the company would bring it back!!! 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. In addition to that, we also love the Brachs cinnamon tree nougats for the same reason. Others make so much chum they need big barrels. I'm guessing it went under during World War 2 (sugar rationing), and Fleer simply tagged the stick bubble gum as such, legally. The only place I ever found Chum Gum. I just googled chum gum to see what I could find. One of my grandaughters has taken on the nickname of chiclet. The big size was our favorite too but the manufacturer reduced the size a few years ago. some one must have a stash somewhere! I would give anything to have a "chew" once again! This was good stuff. They were relish!!! Bought it from woolworths in the penny candy section. We still have the red licoricered vines. And who can forget that great flavor? I'm using my nickname as a kid because Chum Gum takes me back to my childhood! I really miss the best gum ever made, Sugar Free Bubble Yum Bubble Gum Peppermint. One thing we did find to be interesting was the fact that people were still finding Chum Gum for sale almost 20 years after it was officially discontinued. Many people were still able to find the gum for up to 20 years after it had been discontinued. Wrigley recently secured a patent for a biodegradable gum. So nice that I am not imagining how good Chum Gum was and would order a box of it right now if I could find it. Fifty cents would get me a whole bag. How I wish.someone would bring it back before Iam gone. How do we find the manufacturer and talk them into making it again. Wow.what a treat to find so many other Chum Gum fans. It was hypnotic, you had to get some no matter what, that and a box of Indian Head Pumpkin seeds and you were good to go! Walked to the drug store and got 2 pieces for a penny and had the best flavor out there. Almost everyone is sold out of these products and any that would remain would be expired. Maybe it's a blood clot. I have since ceased chewing gum because of TMJ, but would risk biting the inside of my mouth again and again for some Chum Gum. Chum Gum was owned and produced by Fleer Company from 1950 to 1971. :). The longer that plaque and tartar remain on your teeth, the more they irritate the gingiva, the part of your gum around the base of your teeth, causing inflammation. so much different than that plastic crap they call bubble gum now, With flavor that lasts for five minutes if you are lucky. Chum Gum ROCKS!!!! However, being his 'baby', he bought it for me that first time I saw it. They were so delicious! Why did we complicate things??? Lets take it back to some of the memories of candy from years past. Thank you for letting my co-workers know I didn't make this up. Fleer where are you, we need this back in our lives. I am 50 and remkember it oh so well, we had a penny candy store right on the corner of my street in South Buffalo, A couple of weeks ago, a vague memory of the 2-stick for-the-penny gum with the powdery stuff on it entered my 52 yr old brain. I was engaged and my fianc was in the Air Force. I had a collection of about 15 though. Two for a penny. It's oldtimecandy.com. It wasnt sold in a stick like Chum Gum, though. I bought it at many places in Harford County, Maryland. I was and still would be my favorite. I can't believe I found all of you. The funny thing about that is that one day, if we are still here, we will talk about these days as the "good old days". I'm 65. Somewhere there is the recipe in someone chest. 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. I loved Chum Gum :-). Beech-Nut Gum You can't find it officially anymore, unless you want to pay $37.49 for a decades-old pack on eBay. Might have been associated with the discontinued candy section. How am I going to keep him happy now? I also grew up in the 60's. I got to this page searching for Milkshake Bars. That was the "Good Ole Days". I grew up in MA and there was a corner variety right by my elementary school that used to sell Chum Gum. Have you ever heard of these. Peppermint chews. Listen to all of us old gumheads, carrying on! They no longer make them. Where can I find Chum bubble gum or do they still make it? Neisner was a New York based chain of variety stores, and the Racine store was downtown at 424 Main St. We used to buy two types of gum: Chum Gum and Devil Gum - I think it was made by the same company and was HOT cinnamon flavor. I have used Certs Peppermint breath mints since 1965. I too remember Chum Gum and think back to my younger days. I am from lakewood California and always bought it from the liquor store accross the street from our hoiuse.I have looked for it in everystore i go into no one had it or knows what it is so sad. God! I used to get it at only one grocery store in Las Vegas, NM. And I swear as God is my witness that my first reaction was OMG, this stuff tastes just like CHUM GUM!!! They are no where near the quality of texture and taste that were the Brachs Red Twist. Do u have them ? My big sis and I would sneak down to the candy store after school and load up on penny candy. Early and mid-sixties in Fargo, N.D. old, and I remember buying Chum Gum from my Uncle's country store in Partlow, Va. Caroline above said she has never met anyone who remembers it. (Sigh), I grew up in upstate NY and LOVED Chum GUm. Fleer originally developed a bubble gum formulation called Blibber-Blubber in 1906. Fleer made the Chum Gum and it is now discontinued. I discovered them recently only to find out, you ran out of them. They lost sight of a historical favorite and it eventually was no longer popular or desired on the market.
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