Its been around for years. When I was a child we lived outside of Chicago IL and that's where we would buy the gum. Chiclets History Adams developed Chiclets over a century ago and it quickly became known as the candy coated gum. I did find a source at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg NY. I would always take it out of the sleeve so it would look like more in the little brown bag. I grew up in Minnesota in the 70's and remember Chum Gum so well. I'm 59 and still remember the wonderful taste of Chum Gum. I am 56 years old and have been searching for it for years. They were clear squares with bubble gum in the center each individually wrapped in clear cellophane. If I was real lucky and the big kids were not at Tussey's, I could talk Pop Tussey into getting out a couple of soda bottle cases and he'd let me play the pinball machine. I remember chum gum like it was yesterday. They also have a list of discontinued candy and sadly, Chum Gum is one of them. Let me know if anyone finds any or information on CHUM GUM. Besides tasting great, the price was great as well. $1.62. Your email address will not be published. I wish Tootsie Roll administrators could see the number of people searching for this gum. MY SIS AND I MISS IT. So glad I found this blog. The candy bars they make now are so small and do not taste as good. It was the best!Bring it back! You only gave Gatorade Gum 4 years before discontinuing it. I am 60 and like to think the best times are still here, just being alive and healthy. . At that time the package was royal blue. God I loved this gum, jusr was talking to my sister about it the other day! Chum Gum was the bestused to get it at the store on the corner of Irving and Damen where Lincoln intersects in Chicago. Somebody needs to produce this again. Circa 1953. I would walk down to the local store and buy all that I could get. It was so much fun going to Freedom Park to the playground then walk up to Wad's to get the Chum Gum and a real cherry Coke at the fountain. I googled chum gum hoping to find it on the market again, but instead I found a fan club that I can feel very comfortable being a member in! I hadnt actually thought about them for a long time and found one bag hanging up. Yes, I remember those candy lipsticks, they were creamy, not like today's. i grew up chewing chum gum and can like many other tell someone about it and they look at me like i am crazy. You dont make them anymore. So sad that it can no longer be found. I would buy it if I could find it. Does anyone know? I would like to see it on the market again also. Wish I could still get it. I found this particular page 'cause I was looking for references to gum that was made into little record albums. Pond Scum was one of our favorite products and one of the coolest novelties that we sold. My Chum Gum days go back to the early 60's in Junior High. //-->, Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures. Iremember this awesome gum I saved up my allowence and bought a whole box with they still made it no gum comes even close to the taste of gum. I lived in Cheverly, Maryland 64-74, we would collect soda bottles to cash in and buy candy at 7-11. Delicious! I grew up in Buffalo New York, and my brother and I would always go to the corner store just for Chum gum. So glad I finally found someone who remembers it! Ahhhhh, the good ol' days! Discovering that a favorite candy is being discontinued is akin to loosing someone close to you. Great tasting molasses and chocolate candies were included in candy corn mix now boring, only sugar,no DISTINCTIVE flavor. So wish the Marathon candy bar was still around, one of my faves!, Its still around. Where can I find Chum bubble gum or do they still make it? We would split the money we got( .10 to .15 cents) and then hit the penny candy. How am I going to keep him happy now? This particular confectionary was in north St. Louis near the Walnut Park neighborhood, just west of Interstate-70. Like everyone here I loved Chum Gum and thought I was the only one who remembered it. Please leave a review or any memories of this snack in the comments at the bottom of this page. It absolutely was the best bubble gum in the world. I love you, my fellow chums!!!! It seems like that happens everytime they sell something so good. Many stores had Chum Gum available well into the mid 1970s, years after manufacturing ended. I too have yearnd for Chum Gum. OH BOY I REMEMBER THIS GUM.IT WAS THE BEST EVER. Chum Gum was the best. What was the only . I am 45 and wish i had some right now. I remember Chum Gum, candy lipstick, wax lips and nails and bottles, Chiclets, Turkish Taffy, Fizzies. It was the best!!! I'd buy fifteen sticks for a nickel from the corner store outside Riley Elementary in Muncie, Indiana. It was coated with powdered sugar, and at two sticks for a penny could not be beat! Unfortunately, despite all these memories and many other people with reminiscent feelings just like these, Chum Gum is no longer on the market. So it's pricy but it's out there. People think I am making up the name. Impossible to find anywhere. Richardson Brands, however, owns and produces Beechies, the Chiclets-like candy-coated gum Beech-Nut made years ago. It had it's own taste-nothing like it. Orange County, CA in 1960's-early 70's. Two sticks for a penny. Perhaps we should find out who the company was that made chum gum and take it from there. 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. it was the best texture and best tasting gum. I also loved Chum Gum and used to buy it in the early '70s. And who can forget that great flavor? Best years of our lives that I will never forget. Two for a penny and with a dime i would fill my mouth with 20 sticks and chew until I couldn't move my jaw any more. The BEST penny candy counter ever. I would cut coupons and take them to the local independent grocery store who would pay you face value that was printed on them, up to a dollar per day, then I'd go to the 5 & dime and buy a dollar worth of candy. Now does anyone remember Chik-O-Stix (sp??). The Chicago company was small. On sale, if you bought any ten Fleer penny gum products (Chum Gum included), the eleventh was free. The BEST candy bar on the planet! It's the only treat that really stands out in my memories of childhood, except maybe Sugar Daddy's. Of the many penny candies we bought, we also bought Chum Gum. I grew up in Jacksonville,Florida and to this day can remember the smell and taste of it. Beets. I remember 3 sticks for a penny. I remember the gum in pink too but blue was better!!! The world's most popular autocomplete game. Do they still make them? I quit buying them. Wacky WafersBonkers and Milkshake candy bars!! This man started yelling at me for casually asking if/when they would get a reorder of this product. ___ But I bother to write because at 19 in 1975 I was stationed in Deutschland in Bamberg, Bavaria in a Hawk Missile Unit. Thought I needed to quickly write you back, and indicate my suppositional error. I too remember chum gum, I am 61 years old and can still taste it in my mind. I too remember Chum Gum and think back to my younger days. I was beginning to think I dreamed it all up. Hi Noon candy bars were my favorite candy back in the mid fifties. Hi, I am in Florence SC, and would Ike to find some of these new Unicorn Candy Corn in fruit flavors. I also googled it and I found all of these postings. Why? 25 cents went a long way back in the 60's. I remember going to Ferrell's Rexall on High Point Terrace area. They were in a white pack that blue writing with individual pieces. This was in the late 50's. I remember the blue and white package, the delicious smell of the gum, the way it would melt in your mouth (and try hard not to swallow it-but often did), powdery coating. Since they make Dubble Bubble, why not make Chum Gum also? I was just telling someone that as a child in the earley 60's I would walk to a store in Garret Park, Maryland (2 miles away)to buy chum gum. I don't think it was a bubble gum, and the flavor didn't last all that long, but I bought it often when I was young. I am dying for a piece of CHUM GUM! By the way, there was a reference to taffy and I believe you were talking about B-O-N-O-M-O, Bonomo Turkish Taffy! in the 60's,, and it is the best damn gum ever! I am interested in mint juleps and Christmas hard mix. I can't believe I found others who remember Chum Gum - my absolute favorite back in the 50's and 60's. Peridex mouthwash may be useful in treating this. I agree with Dee, #8 from 1-14-15. Hi, I got married in 2005. The closest I have come to that taste is Great Value (Walmart, sad to say) Strawberry Banana yogurt. Used to visit that Topps store with my mother, as a kid. The area where we lived was not fully developed so there were orange groves, strawberry fields, a chicken farm and a dairy farm. I have been looking for Chum Gum for years and I haven't had any luck. Im 54yrs old, and still want ChumGumlol. Beemans is sporadically produced by Cadbury Adams as a nostalgia gum, along with the other historic gums Clove and Black Jack. I grew up by Maple Lake outside of Bridgeport, West Virginia in the 60's. Take a peak at https://www.candyfavorites.com/candy-flavor-memories. If there is anyone that reads this that knows the manufacturer's address or is it still being made please post a comment with the info! THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well I looked that name up, shortly after writing to you, Quickly discovered that Chicken Bones* are still in production (somewhere), and doesnt fit the lengthy description I gave for the product Im in search of, at all !! From the moment I arrived all I could think about was when I would be allowed to walk down to the corner gas station. Love Chum GUM! What's funny is that my dad, who had it as a kid, HATED it; even the smell of it bothered him. As to why we are not sure but we do address this in one of our web pages dealing with changing products. google_ad_type = "text_image"; 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. I remember going by Brookside, a Mom & Pop store, daily gong and coming from school. I discovered Chum Gum in a small bait & tackle store, of all places, when I went fishing with my dad. It was the best gum ever made. I sure wish they still made it. But it was wonderful bubblegum, and so much for the penny! THE GOOD OLD DAYS. It is described as having a very unique original bubblegum flavor with a smooth but powdery pink gum. Not the artificial stuff they call cinnamon now, but actual ground cinnamon. Fleer eventually shifted his interests to trading cards and eventually sold Dubble Bubble, as well as several other brands. I can smell it! it tasted so good. There has to be a recipe out there somewhere. For its part, Fleer did little to promote Chum Gum over the twenty or so years it was sold, focusing more on its flagship product, Dubble Bubble. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! By the way Mack, if we're all losers what are you doing wasting your time reading our comments? We used to get it in the 60's at an old country looking store in NE Washington D.C. 2 sticks for a penny. As someone said, the flavor didn't last long but the gum had so much elasticity and blew the best bubbles ever. Might be a big hit again. Thank you! Its called the Curly wurly. The following are links about Chum Gum you may find interesting. I just went to my 45 year class reunion in Mobile, AL and they had a center piece on each table with retro candy like the cigaretts, wax coke bottles, windmill cookies but no Chum Gum. Many people were still able to find the gum for up to 20 years after it had been discontinued. Oh so delicious. ), absolutely NO ONE I asked knew what I was talking about or remembered it! . All of these candies, and so much more, can be found on CandyFavorites.com too! I remember going on our summer vacation every year to a cabin in Crosby, MN and the office had a little candy section and we would load up on Chum Gum. And you all are right if you ask some one about it they think you are crazy. i can still taste that gum, which had a flavor all it's own, sweet, peppery that still reaches me through the ages With THIS many people on a thread reminiscing about a childhood confection, think how many others are out there? No Luck, UMMM I LOVED CHUM GUM I WISH THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK, HEY DO ANY OF YOU REMEMBER "BIG MOUTH" THEY USED TO COME IN A SQUARE FLAVORS WERE GRAPE APPLE AND REGULAR?IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE TO BUY ANY OF THESE LET ME KNOW:), DO YOU KNOW WHEN FLEER STARTED MAKING CHUM GUM IT WAS 1ST MADE BUY CURTIS CANDY CHICAGO A. Ahhhhh, Chum Gum, I loved that stuff and can still taste it in my mind. in order to get me int othe chair, he would coax me with either an Altoid or a Cert Spearmint. Sure wish they would make this gum again!The Best Gum Ever! Also missing the cherry hump bars. Why did they have to stop making something so good? This bait works best to catch smaller channel cats and eating-size catfish because there is not enough blood to attract larger fish. I enjoyed reading folk's fond memories of this gumhopefully the recipe will be revived and on the shelves again! It was the same candy as their maple nut goodies, only with chocolate on the outside instead of maple. I truly wish a gum/candy maker would reproduce this wonderful, delightful gum - I would love to introduce my grandchildren to it. I am 53 and remember chum gum when I was in grade school. I also remember the outer wrapper being dark blue, with two fat sticks of perfectly flavored pink gum wrapped separately in white paper. Clove, Black Jack and Juicy Fruit were expensive, penny a stick! First time I ever bought Chum Gum was 1959 at Szegedi's Candy Store near Birmingham Terrace. I grew up in Baltimore city in a neighborhood where there was a little store on most corners. Frank Fleer was very young when he decided to start creating bubble gum. So many of you remember Chum Gum. Now then there was this Gasthaus, or pub midway to Schweinfurt* that had their own brew that tasted so good we always tried to stop and buy a case or a few of. I have used Certs Peppermint breath mints since 1965. we will never get or have those in again or something to that effect. Thanks for letting me share. Fleer Please Bring It Back!! Name one other bubble gum besides Chum Gum that holds it shape when you took it out of your mouth (by twisting the end). Also coated with powdered sugar. Five sticks in a cardboard box for five cents. So im just thankfull that i got to taste chum gum and i will never forget the taste. Chocolate Babies; Chocolite; Chum Gum; Clark Bars - discontinued when NECCO went out of business in 2018, but they are now available in a new format called Clark Cups. I believe it has been permanently discontinued, Oh My God!!! I stay on the look out at Cracker Barrel, but nothing yet. There has never been or will ever be a better tasting gum. BEST GUM EVER MADE. As kids we loved it. Today, it's the Kenosha Job Center. Loved the smell, loved the taste. It brings back so many great memories. I grew up in Kansas city, Kansas and bought Chum Gum at Newits market in the penny candy section. I grew up in MA and there was a corner variety right by my elementary school that used to sell Chum Gum. I always look at Cracker Barrel hoping it found its way back. It must have been true cinnamon. :). Always had a stash of candy and gum to go back to the school. The tough chicken skin stays well on the hook. Brock's (not Brach's) candy puffs (very soft, melt in your mouth candy balls) Bonkers Fruit Chews. Geez Louise, how I LOVED Chum Gum. We had Chum gum in Silver Spring, Maryland. A great taste and a great bubble. I can not believe all of these comments, I wish I could find this gum it smells and tastes so good. Love the flavor,the color, its softness. that and Milk Duds (the old ones without that crappy shiny finish) I used to as a kid get them at the little green store in Appleton Wi.i went to that store foe 10 yrs and didnt know it by its real name,but it was little and green, I GRE UP IN CHICAGO WITH CHUM GUM AND THOSE HOT DOG GUMS AND WONDERFUL BLOMMERS CHOCOLATE. =), im now 55 and need Chum Gum badly!!!! Others make so much chum they need big barrels. There is a site to buy old time candy, but they didn't have it. My siblings don't even remember it! 2 for a penny. After that, I was on my own when it came to buying it. It was actually the middle of my work day as a door to door salesman and I was stopping to get gas. I remember when my mom wear her blue relaxed lee jeans and her candies high heels sandals an awesome look. I blew my first bubble with a stick of Chum Gum. Wish we could still get Chum Gum its the best. I have been all over the world looking for Chum gum. Yeah man, I used to go to North Ward School on 4th Street and we'd go to Tussey's Drug Store. 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. Hey, I am 61 and grew up in Oak Cliff (Dallas) Texas and we used to buy Chum Gum at Crawford grocery store which was a little neighborhood store that would resemble a 7-Eleven today and it was owned and run by Ms. Crawford, a really sweet lady. I grew up in Chicago in the 1950's and chum gum was and still is the BEST tasting gum I've ever tried. The flavor didn't last long, but it was unique! Im from Boston and Any time I ask people if they remember chum gum people think Im making it up! Is Chum Gum even made any longer? Elementary school. I take it out sometimes and think back .In the 50s it was 3sticks for .01. WOW!!! IF someone finds it my e-mail whiteki@realtracs.com that is how serious I am at 57 years old. Interesting comments on Chum GumThanks for the history Rob Lambert. It was silky smooth and it was the best gum for blowing huge bubbles. I used to buy Chum Gum in a little town in north Georgia. I am in the same boat. I wish it would come back. Although the memories of those visits have faded with time, I will never forget my favorite, Chum-Gum! Let's start a petition to bring back our beloved Chum Gum. I have craved this gum for yearsand it finally hit me! I wish they still made it I been searching for this gum. Also miss marathon bars.nothing today comes close! They would kill the market and make a lot of us so happy. But couldn't say for sure how. I wasn't tall enough to stand on the floor and play the machine. I have looked for it for years. http://cgi.ebay.com/CHUM-GUM-5-PIECES-VINTAGE-BUBBLE-GUM-FLEER-CHUM-GUM_W0QQitemZ300198065907QQcategoryZ35645QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWINQ3aPOST0Q3aRECOQ3aBIDQQcmdZViewItem. Sponsored. Sixty years old and still wishing that I had a piece of chum gum. The last time I bought them was around 2018. I grew up in Denver , Colorado and remember chum gum and ask people when the subject of gum comes upNO ONE remembers it at all here . I am 61 years old and grew up in Britton, Oklahoma, a tiny bedroom community 20 min N of Oklahoma City.Chum Gum was a favorite for me - I can till conjure the aroma and flavor of this wonderful gum! I know in some cases companies take over other companies and maybe the new companys equipment is not geared towards making a candy. Altoids more than most. I have looked high and low but no luck of finding any. They were so delicious! I believe many of the candy requests are sold there, my girlfriend enjoys Necco wafers, which they stock in many flavors. I am a 60's kid from Indiana.I am happy to find others who recall Chum Gum. I rember how my mouth started watering for that flavor from the Gods.I bought all they had,never to see or taste it again :.(. Oh, I bought my Chum Gum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. google_ad_width = 120; I am looking for a candy from my youth called Pond Scum. They would make a fortune. When they broke -- you could easily take the gum off your face, and chew it again for another bubble. My dad took us to this candy factory in Detroit, MI once or twice a month. I'll bet if you could find a stick, chew it, you would turn into an eight year old, like a twlight zone episode. $169.99. My grandmother owned a pizza store that sold penny candy. Peppermint chews. But not on Wednesdays because Bill closed at noon that day. It would be like giving them a taste of the 60's. In my search for Bonomo Turkish Taffy, I was remembering Chum Gum and decided to Google it to try and find it. Wish they'd bring it back. "Wrigleys" might have come close. Heres a link to a section of our blog that deals with exactly that https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/is-it-really-goodbye-necco-may-close-its-doors/, Wacky Wafers! It very well could have set the stage for that soft, pink bubble gum we all know and love. Chum Gum is one that many of you might remember. Pam: The original maker of Chum Gum was Fleer. You're welcome, Dave, and thanks for reading! It was the best. I hope they get so many comments of people wanting them around again and they make the decision to sell them again. Going off in washington dc I got my chum gum from the corner store next to saint theresa's school in anacostia washington dc. I was surfing the web hoping to find the gum somewhere. and I loved the flavor of Chum Gum. I grew up in Kansas City and had Chum Gum in the 60's. click here to shop the thousands of candies, Beccas Brilliant Candy Blogs, Round 2: Begin, https://www.candyfavorites.com/candy-flavor-memories, https://www.candyfavorites.com/blog/is-it-really-goodbye-necco-may-close-its-doors/. I was beginning to wonder if I was not remembering correctly. The closest I have come to this flavor is Wrigleys Extra classic bubble flavor. I've NEVER run across anything similar to that in all my years. And since someone mentioned shampoo - anybody remember the old egg wash shampoos?? Fleer was stingy in budgeting for advertising, limited mainly to comic books and little TV play. King size bottles were worth 5 cents!!!! I was under 10 years old at the time (I am 50 now) and I fell in love with it! I'm 56 and Chum Gum was my favorite down here in Louisiana. Does anyone besides me remember these candies? I'm 54 and over the years have looked for Chum Gum. JMK, I just posted something about Chum Gum on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. . It is the best bubble gum ever made. Chum Gum Alum. Just the smell through the wrapper would make my mouth water. I used to earn my Chum Gum reward, however. I bought Chum Gum back in the sixties too. sure miss that gum tho. I grew up on a street in the LA area in the 60s and 70s. It didnt go over well and needed quite a lot of improvements so this one never actually was marketed. We used to smash the frozen ones and eat the little frozen bite size pieces. I guess I am showing my age(61 on 9/19/1947.) Afterwards, I thought I'd do an online search of CG. Wish someone would make it again. . Finally! Oh how I wish they would bring it back! Had to be Chum-Gum. I WISH THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK.I HAVE NEVER TASTED ANOTHER GUM THAT EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THAT GREAT TASTE. We got Chum Gum from the guy in the ice cream truck. Does anyone remember how good the candy lipsticks were, the ones they make now are nothing like the ones we could getOh to be young and free again..miss those days. I havent had them yet. I am from Huntley outside of Chicago. Bubble Beeper Bubble Gum. I grew up in Turtle Creek, Pennslyvania. I am 45 and I chewed that stuff in the 70's in Chicago where I was born. Yum, the smell and powdery coating, the texture and great bubbles. My mom went to put the clothe in thee dryer and came back and sat down in the chum gum again and got stuck again also so funny. I was looking for the Marathon Bar. I was just thinking about Chum Gum. The refreshing chewing gum with the savory flavor of ground fish entrails. I also thought no one else knew about it, I hope it comes back. They had a penny candy counter there and I ALWAYS bought Chum-Gum. I keep searching for alternatives, but they all fall short. It was the best. My experience was in the 50's and 60's, though. I'm 57 and I just remember pink Chum. One of his first bubble gum creations was Blibber Blubber, which came out in 1906. Nothing else compares! So, no luck there either What I am in search of is probably something that is no longer in production, anywhere, by anybody. Fleer introduced the recipe to the world as Dubble Bubble (and yes, we carry that, too). Grew up in what is now called Roscoe Village and had to pass Gus's Sweet Shop every day to and from school. AT THE CORNER STORE WE WOULD BUY IT IN THE 60S. Did anyone know the name of these candies? I'm so HAPPY just to see them in my curio cabinet! google_ad_client = "pub-1475700848612418"; This company sold a stick, spearmint-flavored chewing gumnamed Chum Gum! Best taste I will never forget. It was sooooooo good!! that is what me go to this link is it tasted so much like it. Unfortunately, not, Susie. Top Rated Plus. I truly miss the Caramel Chocolate covered Pom Poms of so long ago. empty. Best gum ever! I would love to have it back on the shelves. Bill. So sad. google_color_link = "A74403"; And only A PENNY! PLEASE!!! Omg. Bought Chum Gum at Rapid Mart in phoenix, az in the 50's and 60's. I think they were called Kentucky Mints, and I believe they were made by Brachs. Where did those days go. always had that powder coating on it. Good times :). I used to buy it in my home town of Pine Ridge SD! In the 1960's, if I found a penny or two, I would run to the Dog Gone Grocery Store on South Merritt Island, FL., Then I'd eat both pieces before all my sisters found out.
