Juicy Fruit chewing gum and Good and Plenty candy were introduced in 1893. Wrigley’s Spearmint gum also came out later that year.
Aaaaaaah, Juicy Fruit. My favorite gum when I was a kid. I called it “yellow kind gum”. I haven’t had any of that for a long time. I didn’t know it had been around for that long though!
Beth
When I was five I was told that if you
swallow three pieces of gum, your stomach
sticks together. I had swallowed two.
I’ve never chewed gum again.
They were lying, Jim. You can go back to chewing gum now.
No they weren’t, Jim. Blackhawk is simply trying to trick you into a gastric glue job.
Choo-Choo Charlie was an engineer,
Choo-Choo Charlie was his name we hear,
He had an engine and he sure had fun,
He used Good and Plenty candy to make his train run.
Charlie says, “Love my Good and Plenty,”
Charlie says, “Really rings the bell,”
Charlie says, “Love my Good and Plenty,”
AND I CAN’T REMEMBER THE REST OF THE DAMN JINGLE!
Can someone help me out? This is from the old black and white cartoon television commercial that aired in the early to mid-1960’s (probably during Captain Kangaroo, which is the only show I remember watching back then).
what about paracetamol? must be over 100 years old too.
Here you go, jim_mc, halfway down this page …
http://commercials.wavethemes.net/foodot.html#cs
Not that I’ve listened to it, mind, I’d hate to have something like that stuck in my head the rest of the day.
I reckon so. Experiments began in the late 19th century, and it became widely available in tablet form in the mid 20th Century, I think.
Hi Beth,
When I read the opening line of your post,I thought for a second that you were quoting the ‘Big Chief’ in ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest’!
Great film!
“Don’t know any other candy that I love so well.”
Thank you, Cori. Now I can sleep.
I remember reading somewhere that Wrigley’s Gum started out as givaway Schwag. I think its even cited as one of the first examples of Schwag. HE was attempting to sell soap, and to draw peoples attention to his wares he would give them a stick of gum. People were like “yeah.. whatever.. just gimme some of that chewing gum”.
That is correct. According to the Wrigley homepage, Wrigley originally produced scouring soap, and as an incentive, he offered cans of baking powder with the soap. The baking powder, being more popular than the soap, he started selling just baking powder, and then began offering gum with the baking powder, and just as the baking powder took over from the soap, the gum became Wrigley’s only product. The first two he produced, before introducing Juicy Fruit, were Lotta and Vassar.
BTW, this is my 2003rd post, and the year is 2003.
I think Mr. Wrigley made the right decision in going with the gum. He ended up doing OK for himself. The Wrigley estate is located near where I live, right on Lake Geneva (Wisconsin). I think the Wrigleys still own the “big house” (which would sell for probably at least $4-5 million for what houses on the lake go for), but at one time they owned 3 or 4 other “small” houses and a boat house that’s bigger than my apartment, a couple thousand feet of shoreline, etc,etc,etc. They’ve sold off a lot of that stuff, but it’s still there, if you ever take a boat tour on Lake Geneva. Of course, then there’s that little ball field named after him and such…
Beth
OK, I’ll bite. :roll:
What’s paracetamol?
standard medication for fever and pain
Cool. Were you there when the Montreaux Hotel burned down?
Maybe I should clarify - I don’t live on Lake Geneva (I wish!) just near there. (Next town over). I can’t afford to live on the lake! I’ve lived in this area for about 16 years, don’t know about that hotel…I know there have been some around that have burnt down.
I HAVE stayed at the campground/conference center where the first Halloween movie (or was it the first Friday the 13th? I get those confused, I’m not a horror fan) was filmed, which is also on the lake. In fact, I spent a week at a music camp whistling with Larry Nugent there. That was fun.
Beth
Commonly known in the United States as acetaminophen.
Sorry Beth. That was a joke. The burning of the hotel in Montreux, Switzerland, on the banks of a different Lake Geneva, was made famous by Deep Purple in their song Smoke on the Water. I thought the reference was less obscure than I guess it really is.