This thread is all about [b]CHEWING GUM[/b].
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The origins of chewing gum is very fuzzy, but paleantologists believe that it was used as far back as 3000 BC. Originally, people chewed on tree sap or tree tar to freshen breath (which was useful since people didnt have dental hygiene back then) as well as releve stress.
[b]Summarized History of Gum[/b]
Modern chewing gum was invented in the 1860's when Mexico exported a material known as chicle. Chicle is a rubbery substance that can be molded many times and it wont lose elasticity. This trait gives gum its customary durability.
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[b] Making of Gum[/b]
The approximate manufacturing methods are fairly constant between brands. The gum base is melted at a temperature of about 115 °C (239 °F), until it has the viscosity of thick maple syrup, then filtered through a fine mesh screen. Then it is further refined by separating dissolved particles in a centrifuge, and further filtered. Clear base, still hot and melted, is then put into mixing vats. Other ingredients that may be added include: powdered sugar (the amount and grain size of which determines the brittleness of the resulting gum), corn syrup and/or glucose (which serve as humectants and coat the sugar particles to stabilize their suspension and keep the gum flexible), various softeners, food colourings, flavourings, preservatives and other additives.
The homogenized mixture is then poured onto cooling belts and cooled with cold air. Extrusion, optional rolling and cutting, and other mechanical shaping operations follow. The chunks of gum are then put aside to set for 24 to 48 hours.
Coated chewing gums then undergo other operations. The chunks are wrapped with optional undercoating for better binding with outer layers then are immersed into liquid sugar. The pellets are then coloured and coated with a suitable glazing agent, usually a wax. The coating/glazing/colour on gum is sometimes derived from animal-based sources such as resinous glaze derived from an insect or beeswax.
While gum was historically sweetened with cane sugar, xylitol, corn syrup or other natural sweeteners, a large number of brands now use artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose, or Acesulfame potassium. Non-coated varieties of gum are often covered in sweetened marble dust to prevent the wrapper from sticking to the product.
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[b]Military Use[/b]
Gum has been used by soldiers since World War I since it helped relieve stress and ease the mind during the sonstant fighting. Gum has been included in military grade Rations since the early 1900s.
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[b]Types of Gum[/b]
There are many types of gum such as gumballs, gum sticks, bubblegum, sugarfree gum, natural gum, shredded gum (Big league Chew), and even gum tape (Bubbletape). These are all marketed heavily in todays world and consumed heavily in all areas of the world.
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[b]Benefits[/b]
Results published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week show that sugar-free gum chewers can burn off a considerable amount of weight each year. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, hooked seven students up to a machine and measured the content of exhaled air, which allowed them to measure the amount of energy expended by each individual.
The first measurement was taken during a 30-minute rest period (without chewing gum) and the average energy expenditure was 58 kilocalories an hour.
Next, subjects were given sugar-free gum and instructed to chew 100 times per minute for a period of 12 minutes. The measurement after the chewing activity resulted in an elevation in the metabolic rate, which burned an average of 70 kilocalories an hour.
The results from this study indicate that chewing sugar-free gum at 100 chews per minute will raise the metabolic rate by approximately 20%, and someone chewing gum all-day can burn off an equivalent of 11 pounds of a year.
[b]I dont know about you guys, but when I chew bubblegum, I want to fuck something and cum wildly (like a horse). Same effect for you guys?[/b]
[i]Whats your favorite gum Facepunch?[/i]
Gum is tasty
Hubba bubba is crap, loses its taste in like 2 minutes.
I'm just boring and stick to wrigleys peppermint flavour gum.
gum is awesome, until you accidentally touch the underside of a school desk :(
Bazooka was the shit, but, i noticed that it is becoming much more difficult to acquire.
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[b]I dont know about you guys, but when I chew bubblegum, I want to fuck something and cum wildly (like a horse)[/b]
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:ohdear: I'm scared.
Duke Nukem likes gum, but he never has any...
Man, I haven't had Big League Chew in a while. I need to pick some up.
Strawberry/Citrus Trident Layers
[QUOTE=Micr0;21742352]Man, I haven't had Big League Chew in a while. I need to pick some up.[/QUOTE]
I was thinking exactly this.
That stuff was great.
5 gum is the best.
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I used to love this stuff.
love dat juicy fruit
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Every American should have at least one of these in their lifetime.
I like gum but chewing man's stuff doesn't sound too nice.
Gum always leaves a horrible aftertaste for me though.
This one time I was chewing gum, and for some reason it started dissolving. After ten seconds, it was a really gooey substance, and after thirty seconds, it became this horrible tasting liquid. The taste was comparable to chewing burnt rubber...
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;21742783]5 gum is the best.[/QUOTE]
The ad was missleading to say the least.
I like 5.
I want to try the watermelon flavor, but they don't sell it here in the states.
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I used to love this stuff.[/QUOTE]
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Anybody noticed that this tastes just like that?
[QUOTE=articpenguin;21742869][IMG]http://content.costco.com/Images/Content/Product/507383b.jpg[/IMG]
Anybody noticed that this tastes just like that?[/QUOTE]
Well Stride came out with a flavor just like it too, except it's a little different with aspartame...
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This stuff. I have some sitting on my desk as well. :3:
Singapore
I chew this stuff:
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[QUOTE=usaokay;21742907]Big League Chew and Bubbletape were the shit back in Elementary.[/QUOTE]
Hubba Bubba was the thing for us.
Spearmint is the best flavor, your opinions are all wrong.
Wrigley's Extra: Spearmint Sugar free Gum is what I chew.
I get 30 pack from Costco every 2 weeks.
I love stride, too bad they don't sell it on goddamn fucking Peru, what a surprise.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;21742969]Spearmint is the best flavor, your opinions are all wrong.[/QUOTE]
For non-bubble gum, I couldn't agree more.
[QUOTE=Binge le mag;21742904]Well Stride came out with a flavor just like it too, except it's a little different with aspartame...
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This stuff. I have some sitting on my desk as well. :3:[/QUOTE]
Such a fucking troll waiting to happen hahahah
Now I know what the '5' stands for; 5 minutes of flavor.
Bubblegum is so good. I dont know why but it makes me horny as shit.
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