Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, March 13, 2013 on GoComics.com

Night-Gaunt49 said, 2 months ago

Hard pink gum with a light dusting on it. Your jaw muscles had a workout then.

margueritem said, 2 months ago

Baseball card gum that was brittle, and cracked into small pieces.

kittenpah said, 2 months ago

Must be getting old. Now I just like Wrigley’s.

artybee said, 2 months ago

I used to buy baseball card packs wholesale, a whole display box at a time. I ended up with around 150 pieces of that dusty, increasingly hard gum. Chewed myself sick and tossed the rest. Bought my first pack in Spring 1961. It had a Roger Maris in it. How fortuitous!

ratlum said, 2 months ago

Do they still have magazine quizzes ?I do remember how good gum tasted,made with real sugar.

jackhs106 said, 2 months ago

I seldom chew gum. But when I do, it goes from bad to worse, quickly.

LX013 said, 2 months ago

I bet, they knew nothing!! Magazines saved us from dark ignorance!

Kali39 said, 2 months ago

Does your chewing gun lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
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(actually, that idea is kind of sickening, really…)

SUSAN NEWMAN said, 2 months ago

From ages 9-12, I had braces on my teeth, and I was forbidden to chew gum.
Funny how tempting things can be when you’re not allowed to have them.

orinoco womble said, 2 months ago

In my school you couldn’t have gum in class until 6th grade. We all looked forward to the day, and chewed gum like mad at home. I’d offer Mom a piece and she’d shudder, “No, thanks.” I couldn’t understand it. I do now. For some reason, the idea of chewing gum just grosses me out these days.

Alan Rees said, 2 months ago

@SUSAN NEWMAN

I had braces from about 16 to 18 yo, and, likewise, was forbidden to chew gum. By the time the two years was over, I had lost the taste for gum and have seldom chewed it since. (BTW, I’m now over 60.)