it tasted so good. It was the New, Improved Hawk Missile, of greedy, pork-barrel-proficiency peddlers Raytheon Corp. That damned systems mobile radar units were so dependent on (apparently) cheaply made electronics that they were constantly failing when taken to the field and bounced around two-tracks and farmers fields. I sure wish they still made it. Not only was it the best deal and best tasting, I loved the smell so much I would buy it and keep it in my room as a kid!! Can you bring it back ? Good bye Chum Gum. I am 50 years old and grew up in Dothan, Alabama (extreme southeast. use to buy it in a penny candy store in Jamestown NY, south of Buffalo. Fleer Please Bring It Back!! If a macaron and a rice krispies treat had a nougat filled and white chocolate enrobed baby with a colorful pink and purple white chocolate drizzle that would be pretty darn close! I felt like i was in the twilight zone or something. Theres never been a candy bar like the 10:30 before or since. This gum has an unbelievable legacy. 1. The gum is sold sporadically in the USA by the Gerrit J. My mother packed chocolates, like Lucile Ball, in the factory in Kendall Square Cambridge Mass. I remember when I would go to the Candybar Candy Store in Elmhurst, IL in the 70's to spend my $1 allowance on Chum Gum and cinnamon toothpicks. Also coated with powdered sugar. Fleer made Dubble Bubble into the 2000's but sold to Tootsie who now makes it. Anyone know the closest candy still being made? A group of us kids used to run across the interstate (Shhh! the police found me at the local creek eating the chum gum. I discovered them recently only to find out, you ran out of them. Does anyone remember how good the candy lipsticks were, the ones they make now are nothing like the ones we could getOh to be young and free again..miss those days. One kid at school asked me if I was rich since I always had a bag of candy. Wow! I'm 50 and from St. Louis. Best gum EVER!!!! I am missing one of my all-time favorite candies. I also came across Dem Bones, which are no longer in production, as an older Brachs item. When I was a young girl in the sixties and early seventies there was a hard candy (much like the jolly ranchers of today) called twists. Along with baseball card gum, also with the powdered sugar, it was the best gum ever. The neighborhood kids loved that gum. I so loved this gum.Best everon the market. I love Chum Gum!! Please, please, please bring back that awsome flavor! I'm 55, grew up in San Bernardino, California, and I went looking for Chum Gum because it had the best TEXTURE! Then you pop it, stick it back in your mouth and start another bubble. Thriftys in Lynwood, Ca. The following are links about Chum Gum you may find interesting. How am I going to keep him happy now? I have told sooo many people about it and they all think I'm crazy. We would drag our wagon all over town!!! I have searched also for Chum Gum, funny no one I know remembers it either. Chum Gum was the best gum in the world. I was wondering if anyone out there happens to remember Light Blue Sugar Coated gumballs. I blew my first bubble with a stick of Chum Gum. Id give my eyeteeth for just one more spin with Chum Gum. Top Rated Plus. I would betcha that no other beer in Europe or anywhere on planet tasted like that stuff. I used to buy it at either Anne's or Barney's corner candy stores that were on the corners of Herbert Spencer School in Chicago in the late '50's and early '60's. When she was old enough shed reach in my pocket and ask for one. Please try to get the recipe for the HOLLYWOOD Candy Bars ,as well as Butter-Nut Candy Bars POWER HOUSE Candy Bars Heard that company went out of business. I'm 59 and still remember the wonderful taste of Chum Gum. I did a yahoo search on chum gum thats how iI found this page. Fleer Company eventually turned their focus to toys and trading cards but their Dubble Bubble brand remained strong. 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. What a shame. The best gum ever for blowing bubbles. Chewed Chum Gum during the 60's. Chum Gum was the best gum. CHUM GUM HAD A TASTE ALL IT'S OWN.I GREW UP ON IT. I wish they still made it. !WhErE CaN I FiNd iT? PLEASE BRING THEM BACK! There was a small corner store three blocks in any direction from my house. I think I may be the only one who remembers these! Per "oldtimecandy.com, the company that made Chum Gum (they don't confirm who the manufacturer was) discontinued it. The candy they make now sucks. As The Saturday Evening Post lamented, however, the Chiclet disappeared in 2016, leaving, in its words, "only sad imitations of the brand" in its wake. Tasted great, too! I can still remember the incomparable taste of that gum. I tried Jr Caramels but they are not the same they are too soft and gooey and Milk Duds are too hard LOL, can we get the marathon bars back? I was and still would be my favorite. I also grew up in chicago with CHUM GUM.It too brings me back to a simpler time. I wish it would come back. Yum! I grew up in Dothan, Al. $1.62. My sister and I were just talking about chum gum, it brought back our childhood and things were so good..miss this gum.. Youd get two sticks, for a penny mind you, and the flavor literally lasted through an entire day of baseball, hula hoops and other fun kid stuff. I wish I could find it somewhere! I have wanted some Wacky Wafers for quite some time now. Thank you for your time. Would love to see this come back on the market! I wish they still made it. I,m 67 and can still taste it. Along with Banana Splits, they were true classics! I feel like my sanity has been restored! I remember chum gum from the fifties, Allens grocery,in Ault Colorado, was my source. I have been serching forever. Oh, and I'm also from the great windy city of Chicago! Pond Scum was one of our favorite products and one of the coolest novelties that we sold. Packaging is similar to the "original" as is the formula. Somebody needs to produce this again. I grew up in Maryland and used to buy Chum Gum at the little general store that sold penny candy and gas. I still remember the red two stick gum. Bought it from woolworths in the penny candy section. The good news is that memories remain. Im 55 and I still look for Chum gum everywhere. The one thing that amazes me as i read all the comments, and they are great memories, is how widespread the distribution of Chum Gum was back then. I used certs to help me quit smoking, I always carried a roll of speartment in my shirt pocket. Well I looked that name up, shortly after writing to you, Quickly discovered that Chicken Bones* are still in production (somewhere), and doesnt fit the lengthy description I gave for the product Im in search of, at all !! My favourite candy its my trademark when nurses see me they ask for a cert please bring back. I asked some of my friends do they remember the gum and they tell me they have never heard of it. Gourmet childhood food. I was under 10 years old at the time (I am 50 now) and I fell in love with it! Chum Gum, Razzles and Dubble Bubble mentioned. It was made by Fleer. It absolutely was the best bubble gum in the world. So I brought these Brachs Red Twist and shared them with my wife. Bought it at the corner market. WoW! Are they still around anywhere? Takes me back to my childhood every time ( I am 57). That was August 7, 1987. I discovered Chum Gum in a small bait & tackle store, of all places, when I went fishing with my dad. For 5 cents I could get a candy bar and 2 packages of Chum Gum. Bought Chum Gum at Rapid Mart in phoenix, az in the 50's and 60's. WILL CHCECK IT OUT AGAIN. Like as in yesterday! We got to keep the change and bought--Chum Gum. I am from Lockport, IL and I, too, couldn't make anyone believe that I remembered Chum Gum! Sad. Great memories. Oh my gosh, I have dreamed of Chum Gum for years. My Chum Gum memory is from the sixties. Im 54yrs old, and still want ChumGumlol. Browse our massive selection to find classics or a new favorite! Chum Gum was the best! 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. It's no secret that bubble gum often doesn't really deliver. Much like Chum Gum, it was pink, powdery, and soft. Fifty cents would get me a whole bag. How I wish.someone would bring it back before Iam gone. This gum is remembered as being one of the best bubble-blowing gums ever. But I'd rather chew Chum Gum. 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! But the original wafers, there is no comparison to them. Chiclets - Tiny Bubble Gum We have a new gum called Mini Mini Chicles that is very similar. Esters used in synthetic bubblegum flavoring may include methyl salicylate, ethyl butyrate, benzyl acetate, amyl acetate or cinnamic aldehyde. 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. And you all are right if you ask some one about it they think you are crazy. Everyone said the same things I have thought for years about Chum Gum- I do miss it. I recall the sugar coated blue gum! Also check out the other =Food of the 70s?> pages. God I loved this gum, jusr was talking to my sister about it the other day! I am 53 and I am a bubble gum fanatic! 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. was 3 sticks for a penny at first, went to 2 sticks, then 1 stick, and finally disappeared altogether. But Chum gum is the best tasting gum in the world. Along with hot dog weiner gum! Hard to imagine that a candy company didnt bring them back Hmmm. Several years ago a similar item was made by Starburst in candy corn flavors, much like yours appear to be. Remember a blue wrapper And the powdery sugar covering each stick. anyone else remember them? Finally! They had the most fantastic penny candy counter, and I would buy Chum Gum, three sticks to the pack, later reduced to two stick per pack. I can still remember the smell and taste of it. MY HUSBAND AND I USE TO BUY CHUM GUM IN THE SIXTIES IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA THIS WAS THE BEST GUM I'VE EVER TASTED. Someone else said that thosewere the carefree days when we had no problems and life was easy. The same Beech-Nut company famous for its natural baby foods used to make minty chewing gum for adults, as per CNN. Bargain! I miss you, Chum Gum. I absolutely loved those Life Savers swirled lollipops from probably the 90s, they were so amazing and I would love to see them return! Get up in My tree house and eat it all. Greatest gum ever! google_color_url = "1F2B9E"; I would cut coupons and take them to the local independent grocery store who would pay you face value that was printed on them, up to a dollar per day, then I'd go to the 5 & dime and buy a dollar worth of candy. A case of Wacky Wafers given to his TA got him home for our wedding. Along with many others I too would interested being contacted if it is available again. As a child in the mid fifties I discovered it at Glazners Market in Carrollton Texas (a Dallas suburb). I just discovered a new productBlowpop Minis.disk shaped fruit flavored candy(same flavors as original Blowpops) with gum in the center. Mr. Canning called his new gum Dentyne which is a combination of the words "dental" and "hygiene." Dentyne Gum Memories That pink color set the stage and bubble gums continue to follow that grand design. [better source needed] A natural bubble gum flavoring can be produced by . It must have been true cinnamon. I was sitting at my desk and decided to Google Chum Gum. It was the best! Please make them again. it was the best texture and best tasting gum. It brings back so many great memories. Afterwards, I thought I'd do an online search of CG. They were a white mint with a green jelly center. I have used them for more than 30 years. I am 78 years old and would buy a box today if I could find it. I'm 53, I remember walking to the corner store at the age of 5 all by myself to buy the best gum ever!!!!!!! When they broke -- you could easily take the gum off your face, and chew it again for another bubble. I well remember Chum Gum. Do they still make Beechnut gum? My company was stationed 60 klicks from our battalion headquarters in Schweinfurt. So many different types of gum came out in those years that it was challenging to compete against them. My brother and I would collect pop bottles in the 50s and early 60s. Miss Chum Gum Bought at the candy store by Gregory School in Chicago in the mid fifties. Loved it, but you have to admit the taste only lasted about a minute if you were lucky, but it was so good!! click here to shop the thousands of candies, Beccas Brilliant Candy Blogs, Round 2: Begin, https://www.candyfavorites.com/candy-flavor-memories, https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/is-it-really-goodbye-necco-may-close-its-doors/. 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. Chum Gum was made by Fleer, also makers of Dubble Bubble, from around 1950 until 1971. I am 45 and wish i had some right now. Used to buy Chum Gum at Werner's corner store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the 60's. I'm from Weymouth Massachusetts and really miss the chum gum. I wish they still made it I been searching for this gum. I have ordered them by the pound, so I could get enough to last him a year at a time. I am looking for those childhood Raspberry Dollars !!! Chum Gum was my favorite. Almost cried because they dont make Branchs dem bones anymore. 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. I too have been trying to find it without success. Now does anyone remember Chik-O-Stix (sp??). Fleer made the Chum Gum and it is now discontinued. As kids we loved it. For some people, gluten triggers an immunological response that causes damage to the small intestine. and the "record" was a piece of 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). There was little demand for Chum Gum after it was dropped. 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'.