do they still make chum gum

I keep looking but have had no luck. Theres never been a candy bar like the 10:30 before or since. I have been trying for YEARS to find some. And who remembers Adams Sour gum - at one time I think they had pineapple flavor. Phase please please fruit as I have ate for 25 year ! Great memories. They were clear squares with bubble gum in the center each individually wrapped in clear cellophane. As to whether they sold the formula for Mint Juleps remains to be seen. Frank Fleer and member of his family owned the business clear until 1989, more than 100 years after they began. That was my go to at the local market and I always saved the green apple for last! 52chum. My last research showed that the Wrigleys division of Mars owns the recipe but is not producing it unfortunately. I'm 54 and haven't seen that gum since about 1970. What a releif to hear from y'all. Well. And like many of you here no one that I know remembers it. Im 67 yers old and would purchase a case of Chum Gum if we could find it. 2 for a penny. I don't remember zebra stripe gum.. he would share it with me all the time. it was a hot cinnamon flavored gum, I think it was made by the same company. I put all of it in my mouth at once and chew it as I walked home. It seems everything that it ever really good is discontinued. I have ordered them by the pound, so I could get enough to last him a year at a time. I bought it in the 60s in New Lebanon, Ohio. I love it! History says that Chum Gum was produced from 1950 to exactly 1971. I'm so HAPPY just to see them in my curio cabinet! You can still find Dubble Bubble on the market today but you dont find Chum Gum. My brother and I would collect pop bottles in the 50s and early 60s. I thought people forgot the greatest gum ever! Wintergreen Certs have been my favorite for decades. I would put the chewed chum gum on my headboard for the next day, it did lose its flavor but I could wake up and blow bubbles till I would get together with the friends go to Melchens candy store and purchse more. Please bring them back. I don't think you can get it anymore. LOVE ME SOME CHUM GUM-FOREVER. It is so funny to hear other people having the same experience or feeling about when they ask other people if they remembered it. Was a cheap bubble gum in a stick. Thanks go them, I loved Hollyywood candy bars My mom would buy me a When the Milky Way Midnights came out they were similar but not quite the same. I WAS TELLING MY DAUGHTER ABOUT THIS GOOD OLD GUM. im 57 and i well remember the taste and texture of the world's greatest gum. I would also get Kits in banana, chocolate and strawberry. You only gave Gatorade Gum 4 years before discontinuing it. Its called the Curly wurly. In addition to that, we also love the Brachs cinnamon tree nougats for the same reason. I want more. One of his first bubble gum creations was Blibber Blubber, which came out in 1906. Do they still make them? I remember it was 3 sticks for a penny, then one day it was 2 sticks for a penny and boy was I TICKED OFF! Sadly, they have been discontinued as they were part of the NECCO line that disappeared when the company went bankrupt. AT THE CORNER STORE WE WOULD BUY IT IN THE 60S. Back when we could ride our bikes off the street to the Quik Market when we were 10 and get 2 sticks of Chum Gum for 2 cents. Sometimes the flavor is decent, but you can't blow a bubble if your life depended on it. Miss my Chum Gum, though. I so loved this gum.Best everon the market. This, along with stiff competition, meant a slow demise (and desire) for Chum Gum as the 1960s passed, quietly disappearing by the end of 1971. Someone has to bring back Chum Gum!! Yes, yes, yes! Have you ever heard of these. when we were young,my sisters and i would walk 2 miles to a country store in West Virginia to get this gum and nickle candy bars, peanuts and a 10 cent bottle of soda pop that you could return the bottle and get a nickle back.there was also another gum they sold that was two sticks for a penny,it to was pretty good, the name of it was devil gum, it was cinnamon flavored and it come in a red pack, I think the same company made it also made chum gum. I wish they still made it. I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 70's and I remember walking to the corner store with my friends and buying this awesome gum. Packaging is similar to the "original" as is the formula. Certs and my first granddaughter. Wazoo bars where can I get them? It was like nothing else Ive ever tasted and was delicious! Miss it now and wish someone could come up with that same great flavor!!! Treasure Island stores distinctly had wavy rooftops or front facades. Helen's Party Shop on the corner of St. Louis Ave & Hillman St carried it. in the 70s, Food of the Seventies, Chum Gum Greatest gum ever! Why? Maybe the makers of Chum Gum put a special ingredient to make us want it, kind of like cigarettes or something! I am missing one of my all-time favorite candies. I loved this gum. 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 chewed Chum Gum in the mid 60's. All of these candies, and so much more, can be found on CandyFavorites.com too! Lick. Their familiar logo is on the picture in this link. Yum. WHAT HAPPENED TO CHUM GUM? I also remember Chum Gum. This was the best gum ever. Bought it at the corner market. The entire beetroot is edible including the leaves which contain loads of vitamin A, calcium, iron and potassium. Chum Gum was a Fleer exclusive, there were no past or present copycats out there. I got my chum gum at my friends grandmothers store, that had every peen candy that was ever made. !!! I wish they still made it--I would certainly buy it all the time. Wonderful flavor and texture . Along with many others I too would interested being contacted if it is available again. Your email address will not be published. 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. Chum gum has a flavor I will never for get and as most of you have said it bring back the good old days when being a child was care free and good times. in order to get me int othe chair, he would coax me with either an Altoid or a Cert Spearmint. If our proceeds were an odd number, we would buy a one cent Chum Gum with the odd penny because it had two pieces of gum and we could split the penny. How does Google autocomplete this search? Who made itm anyway, Fleer? I used to buy it at Allen's Grocery. BRING BACK DEM BONES. We would split the money we got( .10 to .15 cents) and then hit the penny candy. I think it would be a big hit (with potty-based humour at an all-time high with kids). Chum Gum was owned and produced by Fleer Company from 1950 to 1971. Sunflower seeds, banana popsickles and Chum Gum. Why oh why did they stop making it! I was just talking about this gum yesterday! Drop gum mixture on top of sugar and knead together. Unfortunately, they stopped producing it in 1971 so it hasnt been available for a lot of years now. As kids we loved it. :-). I remember absolutely loving the flavor of this gum. Decade 1980s 1920s 1970s pre 1920 1940s 1960s 1990s 1930s 1950s Flavor Fruit Flavors Peppermint Blue Raspberry Cotton Candy Licorice Spearmint Watermelon Not as good as Chum Gum, but still good memories. Fleer was based in Philadelphia at the time. Where did those days go. I discovered Chum Gum in a small bait & tackle store, of all places, when I went fishing with my dad. You bite off each end and use if as a straw. I would today pay a dollar or two just to taste it again. I believe it has been permanently discontinued, Oh My God!!! I was beginning to wonder if I was not remembering correctly. Esters used in synthetic bubblegum flavoring may include methyl salicylate, ethyl butyrate, benzyl acetate, amyl acetate or cinnamic aldehyde. 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 did find a source at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg NY. Beets have 2.8 grams of protein per cup or .5 grams per ounce. 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. And yes, just like someone before me said, right next to the hot dog gum. Bubblicious Cherry Cola flavor. Today, Bubbaloo is sold in more than 25 countries and in three different continents across the world. Please Bring MY CHUM GUM back. Now I would pay 2 sticks for a buck if I could find it. So many of you remember Chum Gum. IT. I thought I was getting ripped off. I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa in the 1950's. With the popularity of dark chocolate I would think that the Hollywood Candy Bar would have a huge following now Cant some company get the recipe and please bring it back. They were so delicious! I remember the lunch counter inside, plus an arcade style shooting game in back (ten shots for a dime). When I was a child the candy bars were large and worth the money. Submit a link to more information about Chum Gum. I use to go to the candy store and with 25 cents I could buy a bag of penny candy and be so happy. Sure would like to but some it was the BEST. Wow those were the days! Loved the smell, loved the taste. It would be like giving them a taste of the 60's. However, by that time, the company had already discontinued Chum Gum as it simply couldnt keep up in a market where the advertisement was primarily focused elsewhere. But there are a lot of other choices on that website that will bring back memories, at today's prices. Oh my gosh, I have dreamed of Chum Gum for years. Set aside two tablespoons of powered sugar to sprinkle over finished gum. Best ever gum. I was a college student making minimum wage at at summer job. I can almost taste it. Hi, I got married in 2005. I've asked so many people if they ever heard of it and they think I'm nuts. I have wracked my brain so many times trying to come up with this name. I'm 66. google_color_text = "000000"; anyway, just wanted to share. Throwback: 20 Old School Candies That Don't Exist Anymore - TheRecipe In one . God how I miss that smell and flavor, I swear, if I close my eyes I'm chewing on it now! How do we find the manufacturer and talk them into making it again. I remember going by Brookside, a Mom & Pop store, daily gong and coming from school. I bought all they had in stock. FF, sloppy joes were 15 cents. I wish children today could have this wonderful "stuff". it had that cold feeling when you first started chewing it. I'm 57 and loved Chum Gum, Dots, Wax tubes filled with syrup, Black Cows, baseball cards, candy cigarettes, paper straws filled with Kool-Aid type power and many more great candies. My best friend and neighbor, Brian, and I, after sharing some moneymaking enterprise, would split the proceeds and go to the corner store (Woodlawn Foods in Seattle) and buy penny candy. I do remember it and it was quite cute. That was my favorite gum, with Chum Gum and Bazooka Joe a close second followed by mini-chiclets, I loved Chum Gum, we used to get recess and we were permitted to go to the little store called Brickers Penny Candy Store.Ah!!! But I remember it was blue. Couldn't blow two bubbles. Wish they'd bring it back. 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!!!!! I was a kid in Winston-Salem NC and now I'm 54 and I can vividly remember the taste of Chum Gum. i grew up in grand forks,n.d. Frank Fleer was very young when he decided to start creating bubble gum. BEST GUM EVER MADE. I see you are out of both. You could smell it if it was in someone's pocket, that's how alluring the scent of it was! So im just thankfull that i got to taste chum gum and i will never forget the taste. I WANT MY WINTERGREEN CERTS BACK. I am a 60's kid from Indiana.I am happy to find others who recall Chum Gum. My grandchildren get in my car and the first thing they say is Certs. Professor Dumbledore loved the muggle sweets! Does anyone remember Chum Gum? - Answerbag No one did, until I found you here. Fleer made Dubble Bubble into the 2000's but sold to Tootsie who now makes it. OK Soda (History, Marketing & Commercials), Yorkie Bar (History, Flavors & Commercials), Click here for a full A-Z list of Snacks and Candy, VINTAGE CANDY CO. 1970s RETRO CANDY GIFT BOX - 70s Nostalgia Candies - Flashback SEVENTIES Fun Gag Gift Basket - PERFECT '70s Candies For Adults, College Students, Men or Women, Kids, Teens. Chewed it in Dallas in the late '50s and in Odessa through most of the '60s. Woolworth's on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, GA. WOW!!! The 70's were the best of time. An aphrodisiac?? And where are Neccos??? Fleer owned the market on bubble gum sports trading cards at the time. I truly wish a gum/candy maker would reproduce this wonderful, delightful gum - I would love to introduce my grandchildren to it. THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FELT THIS WAY ABOUT CHUM GUM. The BBE, Best Bubble Ever. look on ebay just type Chum Gum and you will see someone is selling 1 stick for $7 plus $2.5 for S/H. !WhErE CaN I FiNd iT? I'm 53 and used to get Chum Gum at a place called the Huddle in Utica NY, along with a comic book. My Chum Gum memory is from the sixties. As a German might say, that was really gte BIER!!! Still, I often find myself describing the fragrant pink gum in the beautiful blue wrapper, 2 sticks, one for you and one for a chum, hoping someone could remember. Neisner was a New York based chain of variety stores, and the Racine store was downtown at 424 Main St. Interesting comments on Chum GumThanks for the history Rob Lambert. I remember the commercial well. 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. Miss it cant find it..Yumm, yumm. Just did a google search and now I am blown away to see the number of people here who still remember this great chewing gum! We had Chum gum in Silver Spring, Maryland. My sisters and brother don't remember it but I sure do! Chew one and give one to a Chum. I grew up in Danville, Californiasmall town, still relatively small, and the local 5 and dime store had it. theres a spot in me from my childhood that i wont taste or relive again. google_ad_client = "pub-1475700848612418"; Fleer was acquired by Marvel Group in the early 1990's. I don't understand how many gum companies there are and no one makes it. Chum gum was my very favorite. I have asked a lot of people in that era and they never heard of it. Many people were still able to find the gum for up to 20 years after it had been discontinued. Bubble Gum Eggs from Arcor, Individually wrapped. I'm happy that there are others out there that remember! It was coated with powdered sugar, and at two sticks for a penny could not be beat! Like another fan, I always licked the paper first and then chewed the gum. Hopefully, someone will purchase the rights to these iconic treats. In fact, Bazooka Candy Brands, a division of The Topps Company, Inc., still produces Bazooka Gum to this day. Chum Gum, Razzles and Dubble Bubble mentioned. So we googled it and there are people who remember the good old days of candy, gum, and pop and growing up without a care in the world. Hmmm. I'm 56 and Chum Gum was my favorite down here in Louisiana. I live in South Dakota and LOVED Chum Gum :) Bought it at Woolworth's here. People used to say Who has Chum Gum? As to why we are not sure but we do address this in one of our web pages dealing with changing products. If I could just close my eyes and go back . I found a number 45078 but cant find the candy. Had to be Chum-Gum. Don't remember the price. During this time, Fleer was near the end of producing Chum Gum due to lower demand. For years I have been on the lookout for two types of candies from Brachs. I can smell it! The last time I remember even seeing the name on anything was about 12 years ago for Easter. (The Good Old Days) As a child I was very frugal with my money. I am 61 yrs. It was the bested ever!! Beetroot is high in sugar but is considered one of the most nutritious veggies used in salads and soups. So freaking sad. Please, please, please bring back that awsome flavor! =), im now 55 and need Chum Gum badly!!!! I loved Chum Gum! I loved the stuff!! I am interested in mint juleps and Christmas hard mix. Geez Louise, how I LOVED Chum Gum. I have craved this gum for yearsand it finally hit me! The brand stopped producing Pure Rush energy drinks, South Beach Sunset, 14 Karot but continued . Since Chum Gum was only around for a limited time, and that was mostly before the days of internet, its a bit challenging to find a lot of history for the brand. A hard candy that becomes soft like taffy upon chewing. Much like Chum Gum, it was pink, powdery, and soft. But, yes, Chum Gum was great. I can still taste it, but cant describe the flavor, except excellent! It's the only treat that really stands out in my memories of childhood, except maybe Sugar Daddy's. Other people remember "Chum Gum" and the "Happy Hollisters" books. 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. Chum Gum was the bestused to get it at the store on the corner of Irving and Damen where Lincoln intersects in Chicago. Fleer where are you, we need this back in our lives. Did anyone know the name of these candies? In my opinion it was the best gum out there. I remember buying Chum Gum in the middle 50's. He instead focused solely on Dubble Bubble, much to his success. There was little demand for Chum Gum after it was dropped. I bought grape and Black Jack gum and Sen Sens. You could never eat just one stick.It had and awesome flavor. 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! it tasted so good. I know that not many people remember the 10:30 bar, but those of us who do remember miss it still. I feel like my sanity has been restored! like others on here, no one i've ever talked to about it remembers it. I love Chum Gum!! CHUM GUM HAD A TASTE ALL IT'S OWN.I GREW UP ON IT.