No sheep mentioned here:Companies carefully guard their recipes for making chewing gum, but all chewing gum has the same basic ingredients. However, specific ingredients, give the gum delicious taste, are kept as secret. The basic ingredients are: gum base, softeners, sweeteners and flavorings. The ingredient that makes your gum ‘chewable’ is gum base. Gum base is the main ingredient in modern chewing gum.Originally, chewing gum was made from the latex sap (chicle) of the sapodilla tree or other tree saps. For many years, gum base was made from chicle which was the chief ingredient in chewing gum. Today many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle. In the middle 1900s, chemists learned to make synthetic rubber, which became a substitute for most natural rubber in chewing gums. Most gums are made from a synthetic rubber, or a mixture of artificial and natural bases.Softeners are added to retain moisture. The most popular softeners are glycerin or vegetable oil based. Those ingredients are used to help prevent the gum from becoming hard or to stark.Sweeteners are added to gum to give it that sweet flavor. Those ingredients are usually sugar, corn syrup and even beet juice. Sugar is probably the healthiest off all sweeteners. There are many synthetic sweeteners, but the most used are xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol and aspartame are also used.
The temperance fools of that era blamed the soda water for making drinks like Scotch and Soda become faster intoxicants. So, an ice cream parlour introduced the dish without the soda water and served it on Sundays to get around the dry Sunday laws. And then they got pissed for having it called a Sunday Soda. And thus the sundae was born.
Modern chewing gum came from Mexico via Santa Anna and was made from chicle. Today’s gums are made primarily from synthetic rubbers and petroleum distillates…
According to this site, all Trident gums (except Trident Splash) are animal-free.
https://veganism.livejournal.com/1032596.html
BTW: My favorite gum is Trident Mint Bliss. I really like the flavor. Plus, it is not advertised as a bubble gum and is much softer to chew than any bubble gum I have tried, but you can blow bubbles with it.
The Pro from Dover over 5 years ago
Honey! Have you expired?
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
wow… all three tidbits are related to food
DonPoole over 5 years ago
Sorry, it may have lanolin in it, but chewing gum is not made of lanolin.
therese_callahan2002 over 5 years ago
Is it any wonder I spat out my first and last chewing gum stick when I was little?
Gent over 5 years ago
Honey never expires? Then why have they got expiry dates on em packaged “pure honey” sold by brands?
Gent over 5 years ago
Ew! I may never chew a gum again!
boniface22 over 5 years ago
No sheep mentioned here:Companies carefully guard their recipes for making chewing gum, but all chewing gum has the same basic ingredients. However, specific ingredients, give the gum delicious taste, are kept as secret. The basic ingredients are: gum base, softeners, sweeteners and flavorings. The ingredient that makes your gum ‘chewable’ is gum base. Gum base is the main ingredient in modern chewing gum.Originally, chewing gum was made from the latex sap (chicle) of the sapodilla tree or other tree saps. For many years, gum base was made from chicle which was the chief ingredient in chewing gum. Today many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle. In the middle 1900s, chemists learned to make synthetic rubber, which became a substitute for most natural rubber in chewing gums. Most gums are made from a synthetic rubber, or a mixture of artificial and natural bases.Softeners are added to retain moisture. The most popular softeners are glycerin or vegetable oil based. Those ingredients are used to help prevent the gum from becoming hard or to stark.Sweeteners are added to gum to give it that sweet flavor. Those ingredients are usually sugar, corn syrup and even beet juice. Sugar is probably the healthiest off all sweeteners. There are many synthetic sweeteners, but the most used are xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol and aspartame are also used.
James Wolfenstein over 5 years ago
Yummy Mummy! :D
Radish... over 5 years ago
Chocolate sundae honey flavored mummy chews might be a Halloween treat.
pearlsbs over 5 years ago
Probably more than you want to know about lanolin here.
https://www.merinousa.com/about-lanolin
Teto85 Premium Member over 5 years ago
The temperance fools of that era blamed the soda water for making drinks like Scotch and Soda become faster intoxicants. So, an ice cream parlour introduced the dish without the soda water and served it on Sundays to get around the dry Sunday laws. And then they got pissed for having it called a Sunday Soda. And thus the sundae was born.
Gerard:D over 5 years ago
“Extra Gum” does not have lanolin.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71hbd6DUjQL.SX522.jpg
comixbomix over 5 years ago
So…why weren’t they called “Ice Cream Somedays” the rest of the week?
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
Urban Myth Day at The Ok Corral. Come one, come all.
jvn over 5 years ago
Honey Mummies? I prefer teriyaki flavored.
djlactin over 5 years ago
As I recall, the law was against ice cream CONES.
yangeldf over 5 years ago
Lanolin, so the name of the sheep girl from US Acres actually was based on something, so do sheep have a body part called “Bo” on them somewhere?
craigwestlake over 5 years ago
Modern chewing gum came from Mexico via Santa Anna and was made from chicle. Today’s gums are made primarily from synthetic rubbers and petroleum distillates…
pearlsbs over 5 years ago
According to this site, all Trident gums (except Trident Splash) are animal-free.
https://veganism.livejournal.com/1032596.html
BTW: My favorite gum is Trident Mint Bliss. I really like the flavor. Plus, it is not advertised as a bubble gum and is much softer to chew than any bubble gum I have tried, but you can blow bubbles with it.
WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago
Well, that explains why the last time I had mutton it was so chewy…
gopher gofer over 5 years ago
so, if you put honey in gum you can have an eternal chew…?