Chewing gum is something we love and have memories of it.This candy has been around for thousands of years, and on average we chew away about 300 grams per person per year. In America came chewing gum factories, including the brand Wrigley. This factory exists already 80 years. About 80 years ago Wrigley advertised their chewing gum, which made the Netherlands familiar with it. I remember I used to buy the Wrigley's packs at the supermarket. The chewing gum that came in strips. You rolled it in on your tongue. You had the white packet, Wrigley's Spearmint, the green packet Wrigly's Doublemint and my favourite packet, which was yellow, Wrigly's Juicy Fruit. Wrigley also had PK chewing gum, which I bought as well. Those were the orange packets with the rectangular blocks. In my opinion, the taste quickly went away. I preferred the other variants.

Every now and then I still buy the Wrigley's Juicy Fruit. That reminds me of my childhood. In my childhood, l also bought gum balls from one of those gum ball machines on the wall or there was a gum ball hidden in your ice cream. They were those cone-shaped ice-cream cups and at the bottom was the gum ball. You ate the ice cream as quickly as possible, because you wanted the gum ball as quickly as possible. The disadvantage was that it was rock hard when you chewed it and it lost its flavour very quickly. You also had tubes of chewing gum, pink in colour, or those little boxes with all kinds of small coloured squares of mini chewing gum. Or Donald Duck chewing gum with a comic strip on the inside as a surprise.

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We know two types of chewing gum.