This seems like a case of “I don’t see it, so others don’t either”
Been thinking on this lately and I get OP. People used to chew gun in the 80’s and 90’s, a lot. Now it would be weird to see someone doing so.
It was weird to see people chew guns then too its an accident waiting to happen.
I think most people who chew gun know what they’re aiming for. But yeah, it can go wrong.
I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.
I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.
I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I’m at my desk or not near a bin.
I bet you could crack open a jawbreaker with one bite with those jaw muscles.
That’s interesting though, have you noticed any changes from that amount of gum?
No, but it’s only been a couple of months.
Plus I’m single right now, if you catch my drift.
I went to school with a girl who chewed gum everyday, she ended up in hospital with a stomach ulcer.
When you chew, your brain sends signals to your stomach to produce acid to break down the food that is incoming, but if you don’t actually consume food, the acid will just continually build until there’s a problem.
Basically just saying be careful, though I’m not sure if there is any warning signs you can watch for.
Nice
Do you want to see me chewing gum? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I can never see that face the same again ever since I was in a 9 month relationship with a girl whose snapchat name was the lenny face and eventually I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.
I forgot her name, was too embarrassed to ask her to remind me (because it had been like four months), so I spent the next ~5 months of my life with a psychoromantic connection to that fucking emoticon.
That’s hilarious. What a time to be alive
Are you a living episode of Seinfeld? This sounds like a scenario George Costanza would get himself into.
My whole life I thought I was Costanza… turns out… I’m Kramer.
Nightcall by Kavinsky (Bineural Remix) plays
Did you ever figure out her name? I hope it was Linda.
Caitlin, actually
Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones
I smoked one of my buddies out on DMT and when he came back to reality I said “that’s how it feels to chew 5 gum” and it was pretty funny.
The (very old) Jucyfruit jingle will always and forever be burned into my memory.
Juicy fruit is gonna move ya
I hope i’ll never get as far as missing a commercial
Right?
Its really interesting how wirgleys fucked up the marketing on that one even though they had something great out of the gate
If I see a balding, shorter guy with a buzz cut and a tan line on his face from his wrap around sunglasses, I expect him to be chewing gum.
I have a coworker who does. Into her mic during meetings. I hate her way more than I otherwise would because of that
I chew gum every day.
same
So do I, for the Xylitol to keep my teeth healthy.
Hard to find decent gum now as many switched to Sorbitol as it’s cheaper but not as good for teeth.
Personally, I really like the gum from Pür.
People chewed gum to fix their breath after smoking tobacco, and I don’t see people doing that anymore either.
The ads never said that gum was for smokers, but it’s for smokers.
Oh no, they absolutely did say that.
I distinctly remember commercials that said, “you can’t smoke at work, so you need such and such gum”.
That’s for a different reason, but it was tied to smoking at least.
I was never down with gum to start. Chewing something until its flavorless and then spitting it out is just a strict downgrade from snacking.
The pro is no calories. The problem is if I’m not chewing gum I’ll chew my lip, or eat or drink something
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.
I see it pretty much all the time. You probably live somewhere where people are more likely to do stuff other than chewing gum, or, in the worst case scenario, somewhere where it’s literally illegal (ie Singapore).
I feel like the consumption of gum has shifted from just chewing it to being a more glorified mint/on the go way to brush your teeth.
Gum always gives me a headache. Though I think I have mild TMJ.
It makes me angry for some reason. Like, maybe there’s this primitive thing in me that says, “SWALLOW YOUR FOOD, APE!” but it’s not for swallowing. I know that, my brain don’t, so it say, “GET ANGRY, APE!”
Doesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
Well your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.
You’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?
Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
Paging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?
I would have agreed with you re: reduction in gum chewers. But it looks like most forecasting documents and historical trends demonstrate growth in consumption. Granted I’ve only had a quick lookm https://www.databridgemarketresearch.com/reports/global-chewing-gum-market
