Showof hands — anyone ever dump a whole packet of Chiclets in your mouth when you were a kid? Crunching those multicolored rectangular bits into a big rubbery wad was even better than eating Pixie ...

Chewing gum may be a $19 billion industry, but it's not a universally accepted practice. As Jennifer Mathews tells Liane Hansen, chewing gum is a crime in Singapore, and, in 15th-century Meso-America, ...

While a few major manufacturers in the United States were making millions on chewing gum, they were also having a major impact on the chicle extraction industry of Latin America. The majority of ...

Gum is one of those things we tend to take for granted. Whether we chew it or not, most of us deal with it on a daily basis. It's the stuff kids smack and pop in public, or the secret weapon against ...

From the Publisher: Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade ...

Obtaining the sap is an art. Those in charge of this task are known as “ chicleros ” and own an ancient knowledge to identify the trees to extract the latex. This task has not changed at all; it is ...

Chewing gum may be a $19 billion industry, but it's not a universally accepted practice. Author Jennifer Mathews examines the cultural history of... 'Chicle': A Chewy Story Of The Americas Chewing gum ...