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• Gum was found thousand year ago
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• What they chew was resin a spruce tree and was called chicle
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• First gum was called bilbber –blubber, never was sold, and kept sticking to skin.
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• A New Yorker named Thomas Adams began to experiment with chicle and he thought he could combine it with rubber. His experiment was a disaster. Another of his thought were if people couldn’t drive maybe they could chew it.
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• Later in the late 1800 the business was a big hit. IT was said it would help dental hygiene.
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• Around the 1900 the Chiclets were born, it was chicle gum with small piece of candy coated on it.