WHERE CAN I FIND CHUM GUM? IT IS LIKE THE BEST GUM EVER.BRINGS ME BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD,AND NOTHING BOTHERED ME.THOSE WERE THE DAYS

I agree,Chum is the best bubble gum I have ever tasted. It takes me back to a time when life was simple. Where can I find Chum bubble gum or do they still make it?

Perhaps we should find out who the company was that made chum gum and take it from there. Does anyone know?

For years I thought I had perhaps only "imagined" Chum Gum ( a stick for you, and one for a chum!), absolutely NO ONE I asked knew what I was talking about or remembered it! It's a relief to know it really did exist! I believe it has been permanently discontinued

Oh My God!!! I am 45 and I chewed that stuff in the 70's in Chicago where I was born. We bought it in the penny candy section. Along with hot dog weiner gum! But Chum gum is the best tasting gum in the world. No one has ever heard of it except the 5 of us now. I have been typing chum gum in seach engines now and again hoping it would spark a memory or a location where I may purchase it. WoW! :)

I also have searched for Chum Gum. When I was a child we lived outside of Chicago IL and that's where we would buy the gum. It had a smell all it's own and a powdery coating. Loved it.

WHERE IS CHUM GUM !!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with yo all! Chum Gum was the best. Its been around for years. I'm 58 and can remember getting it when I was little. I think I actually came across some it just 3-4 years ago here in Houston. But couldn't say for sure how. Fleer made it. I don't think you can get it anymore. But if you really want some, someone is selling five sticks on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/CHUM-GUM-5-PIECES-VINTAGE-BUBBLE-GUM-FLEER-CHUM-GUM_W0QQitemZ300198065907QQcategoryZ35645QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWINQ3aPOST0Q3aRECOQ3aBIDQQcmdZViewItem

why dont we all ask fleer to remake this wonderful GUM....

Can't belive it. Other people remember "Chum Gum" and the "Happy Hollisters" books. Chum Gum was great. They don't make em like they used to.

I also grew up in chicago with CHUM GUM.It too brings me back to a simpler time. If anyone finds where to get this, please let us all know.

I just googled chum gum to see what I could find. I agree it was the best tasting gum ever. I have talked about it all my life and people look at me like I'm crazy glad to see there are others out there that loved it too!!!!! I got it in a gas station in a little town in Ohio in the 60's and early 70's. Wish they would bring it back.

I have been looking for Chum Gum for years and I haven't had any luck. In my opinion it was the best gum out there. I'm happy that there are others out there that remember!

This is GREAT!!! I am also a chum gum lover. I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 70's and I remember walking to the corner store with my friends and buying this awesome gum. It is such a relief to know that there are others out there that know about this gum, because when I bring it up to people they don't know what I am talking about, it is great to know you guys are out there and fans of chum gum. I wish they would bring this gum back because it was truly great.

i keep looking for chum gum too!sadly its no longer made.i also grew up in chicago in the 70's and bought it every time i went to the candy store.i remember "borrowing a whole dollar out of my moms purse and getting a small brown bag full of candy.chum gum was always my favorite.

THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FELT THIS WAY ABOUT CHUM GUM.

In the 1950's/ 60' I used to buy Chum Gum in St. Louis - from a local confectionery (which is what we called small neighborhood stores). I also used to buy KitKats, BB Bats, 3-V Cola, licorice wound up like a small record, Turkish Taffy (with a stripe down the middle) and other glorious candy that is part of my St. Louis childhood memories.

NOT KitKats - Kits - those square wrapped taffys -in banana, chocolate, strawberry flavors - I think they came three to a package. Bargain!

I too remember Chum Gum and just like some of you when I mention it to people they look at me like I'm crazy. I am from the Fort Wayne, IN area and we used to go to a place called Bledsoe's Beach near Angola. That's where I bought most of my Chum Gum. Wish I could still get it!!

I grew up in Denver , Colorado and remember chum gum and ask ...people when the subject of gum comes up...NO ONE remembers it at all here . My sisters and I used to go to Johnnys market .. (kind of like a 7- 11)...and buy it 2 sticks for a penny ...I LOVE the taste of that gum ...as well as a gum that was Grape...Gum ...In a purple colored wrapper with yellow print on it ...I also remember Black jack ..Clove and Beemans ..Yummyyyyyy ! I wish they wouold make Chum gum again .. and bring back those Old memories ...

was chum gum green?

My recollection is that Chum Gum was manufactured by the Curtiss Candy Company, the same folks who made Baby Ruths and Butterfingers. When they got bought out long ago, Chum Gum went away... The big secret of Chum Gum's great flavor was that it was stick shaped bubble gum, and each stick was coated with powdered sugar. The flavor didn't last long, but it was unique!

I grew up in south Georgia and used to buy Chum Gum all the time. As someone said, the flavor didn't last long but the gum had so much elasticity and blew the best bubbles ever. I wish children today could have this wonderful "stuff".

Chum Gum!I've been searching forever.. I'm 38yrs.old and only found it in Woolworth stores in the Chicago area.I can still taste that juicy soft flavor in my BUDS.Hope a manufactor can bring our good old CHUM GUM back!!!!!!

I can remember going to the corner store that was across from my school.I would go there after school and buy this gum,those were best days of my life Tina,

Oh, if they would only bring Chum Gum back! Everyone I've ever mentioned it to has never heard of it. I grew up in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area and used to walk or ride my bike to the "Beer Depot" to get candy - and my favorite Chum Gum. Loved the flavor and the big bubbles! Wish they'd bring it back.

I grew up in FL, and I remember climbing up on the kitchen counter and standing on my tip toes to reach the shelf in the upper cabinet where my mother kept a box of Chum Gum! It is my all time favorite gum and I've been looking for it for years. No one I speak to about it seems to remember it. If anyone does bring it back, I hope they make it the way they used to and not w/ artificial sweetners... they way the did when they brought back 'Fizzies'.

Chum Gum was the best ever...I am 42 and from Chicago I also have been searching for years, just asked a retro candy store yesterday and said he can't locate either. Somebody bring it back...they have brought everything else back from beechies to violet why not chum gum?

I'm glad to see I still have my memory. I was beginning to think I dreamed it all up. I used to buy Chum Gum in a little town in north Georgia. NO ONE here has any idea about Chum Gum, I've talked about it for 20 years and everyone thinks I'm a liitle off. They just don't know how good it was. I remember getting my allowance and running down the street to the gas station and buying Chum Gum, then going home and hiding it under my bed so I would'nt have to share. It's great to hear all these stories. THANK YOU

just purchased 4 sticks from ebay!!Not planning to eat them just wanted to have those wonderful memories in my own hand. I'm so HAPPY just to see them in my curio cabinet! I wish they would bring back our good old CHUM-GUM

1980 was the last time I found Chum Gum. Woolworth's on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, GA. I was a college student making minimum wage at at summer job. I bought all they had in stock.

Not only did this have the most fabulous flavor, but it had such a wonderfully smooth texture - not all gritty and sugary like regular bubblegum. I miss it!!!!

I love this site. I found this particular page 'cause I was looking for references to gum that was made into little record albums. i think they were about 2x2 square. Cardboard like a real record. and the "record" was a piece of gum. The only one I remember was billy joel's Glass Houses lp. I had a collection of about 15 though. anyone else remember them?

I'm 55, grew up in San Bernardino, California, and I went looking for Chum Gum because it had the best TEXTURE! It was so unique to chew. Tasted great, too! My big sis and I would sneak down to the candy store after school and load up on penny candy. Chum Gum was my favorite. I don't even chew gum now. Nothing else compares! I really miss it!!!

Everyone said the same things I have thought for years about Chum Gum- I do miss it. Once in a while I will smell something that reminds me of it. I wish I could find it somewhere. My Co-Workers think I'm nuts. They have never heard of it.

where can i get this great gum...nothing compares. some one must have a stash somewhere!

I used to visit my grandparents house in Golden, IL in the early 60's. From the moment I arrived all I could think about was when I would be allowed to walk down to the corner gas station. They had a penny candy counter there and I ALWAYS bought Chum-Gum. Although the memories of those visits have faded with time, I will never forget my favorite, Chum-Gum!

I loved Chum Gum!! I can't believe I found all of you. I used to lick the white off and then put the gum in my mouth. Caroline above said she has never met anyone who remembers it. I am in the same boat. I grew up in SW Michigan in the 60s. I wish they still made it.

I grew up in Memphis, TN. I guess I am showing my age(61 on 9/19/1947.) I remember going to Ferrell's Rexall on High Point Terrace area. Chum Gum was packaged 3 pieces for a penny. I was sitting at my desk and decided to Google Chum Gum. We also ate Bonamo Taffy. French Chew is very similar.

JMK, I just posted something about Chum Gum on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. Afterwards, I thought I'd do an online search of CG. I also used to buy Chum Gum in a St. Louis confectionary (I also mentioned confectionaries in the P-D post). This particular confectionary was in north St. Louis near the Walnut Park neighborhood, just west of Interstate-70. A group of us kids used to run across the interstate (Shhh! Don't tell my mom!) to the park and ballfields east of there. That is, when we weren't playing stepball, riding bikes or trading baseball cards. But, yes, Chum Gum was great. I'm sure if I even smelled a stick I'd have involuntary visions of a bygone world populated by finned automobiles with sweeping lines and the calls of a street vendor yelling "Hot Tamales" -- as he pushed his cart down our street on a summer's evening -- ringing in my ears.

is tina from buffalo

Chum Gum was the best gum. Whenever I mention it to all of my friends it just brings back to good ole days. I would put the chewed chum gum on my headboard for the next day, it did lose its flavor but I could wake up and blow bubbles till I would get together with the friends go to Melchens candy store and purchse more. Does anyone remember how good the candy lipsticks were, the ones they make now are nothing like the ones we could get...Oh to be young and free again.....miss those days

I also remember Chum Gum. I've asked so many people if they ever heard of it and they think I'm nuts. I grew up in Chicago in the Lincoln Park area and bought it at a store called Nick's. It was 1961 and for .25 you could buy a 12oz bottle of pepsi, ice cold from the machine, a .10 bag of Jays Potato chips and 3 grape gum balls. Of course Chum gum was my favorite. It never lost it's flavor and the smell was heavenly. If I could just go back. It was a time when a guy would come with a truck and sell fruits and vegetables and my Mother would run out like all the other ladies and stock up for the week. If I could just close my eyes and go back . . .

Yeah man, I used to go to North Ward School on 4th Street and we'd go to Tussey's Drug Store. For .12 cents, I could buy a comic book, a fountain cherry or vanilla coke and a pack (2 sticks ) of chum gum. 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 wasn't tall enough to stand on the floor and play the machine. We could get into the old State Theater for 10 RC Cola bottle caps and watch the kiddie matinees, so all week long it was the "big hunt" at the gas stations to ask the employee's there to open the soda machines and let us have the bottle caps. Someone else said that thosewere the carefree days when we had no problems and life was easy. Why did we complicate things???

Wow! I thought I was the only one who remebered Chum gum, Razzles and Bubs Daddy gum in the yardstick packaging. I grew up in Buffalo New York, and my brother and I would always go to the corner store just for Chum gum. I've asked a co-worker who is from New York, did she remember chum gum and she looked at me like I lost my mind. 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. Where did those days go. Glad to know there are others who remember as well.

The refreshing chewing gum with the savory flavor of ground fish entrails. Oh cummon, like you werent thinkin it too.

Back in the 30s and 40s when I was a boy Chum gum was a terrible chew. The stick would break up in pieces with a couple of bites and took some time to combine into one piece. Flavors were raw imitations of pop (soda). A 5 stick pack was a penny. Clove, Black Jack and Juicy Fruit were expensive, penny a stick!

I'm 50 and from St. Louis. I too have wonderful memories of walking to the corner store for Chum Gum and Bub's Daddy in the yardstick pkg. And also does any one remember the sputnik gum - round blue gumball with sugar coating? Not as good as Chum Gum, but still good memories. Glad to see I'm not the only one that love it!

I love all of you, my wife thinks I'am nuts. But she never had the best gum in the whole world. I grew up in Turtle Creek, Pennslyvania. I got my chum gum at my friends grandmothers store, that had every peen candy that was ever made. Now that I'am 52 I long for the simple days of my chid hood hanging out with my friends and chewing th e best made gum ever Chum Gum. thanks to all of you. Somebody out there PLEASE MAKE CHUM GUM AGAIN...

Thanks for the memories. I am 53 and remember chum gum when I was in grade school. I would stop at the corner drug store and load up. It was pink and I loved that two came in the wrapper. It was so yummy. No one I know remembers it. I am glad everyone at this site remember it. I wish it would come back. There is a site to buy old time candy, but they didn't have it. It's oldtimecandy.com. They have a lot of the older candy that's hard to find. Miss my Chum Gum, though.

Yep I also grew up on chum gum and until recently haven't found anything close, but check out Ford Gum company and the gum called bologna and hotdog gum is as close as I've found.I got it in Santa Fe New Mexico at Walgreens

You can get it on e-Bay!!!!!!!!!!

I was just talking about this gum yesterday! It was the best gum ever. If I could find it I would purchase all they had in stock and share with everyone!

Im 55 and I still look for Chum gum everywhere. I have so many sweet memories of the penny candy counter where we could piss off the old lady that woryed there by tapping our quarters on the glass counter top. Wish we could still get Chum Gum its the best. And you all are right if you ask some one about it they think you are crazy.

Chum Gum is what you had to have in the summer of 1969 just as school let out. Bar none the greatest tasting gum ever. Anyone remember Violets?

Most assuredly...the best tasting gum ever...reminded me of Yank Bubble Gum.

Yesterday after my daughter's birthday dinner at Cracker Barrel, I happened upon that oh-so-delicious smell of Chum Gum in their store. That long-forgotten name popped right out of my cobwebbed memories. My mouth's still watering, but that item's for external use only, a small tin of Heath & Henry cuticle cream, which was on sale as discontinued. I grew up in Wilmington NC & remember buying CG @ 3 sticks for a penny. Liked Beemans Teaberry gum, too. Thanks for sharing your memories!

Wow....what a treat to find so many other Chum Gum fans. I am 63 (10/21/45) and have never forgotten my all time favorite chewing gum. I bought a pack of 5 sticks once a week and chewed one on each school day. Like another fan, I always licked the paper first and then chewed the gum. I truly wish a gum/candy maker would reproduce this wonderful, delightful gum - I would love to introduce my grandchildren to it. 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! Oh, I bought my Chum Gum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

OK.... The gum is made by Fleer and if you want the EXACT taste you remember, they are packing it inside of the Movie cards from the Spirit movie being released December 19th 2008.

Chum gum was the best!!! the flavor was unique. I really miss this nostalgic gum. I am 50 and remkember it oh so well, we had a penny candy store right on the corner of my street in South Buffalo

A couple of weeks ago, a vague memory of the 2-stick for-the-penny gum with the powdery stuff on it entered my 52 yr old brain. But I couldn't for the life of me remember its name. And it kept coming back into my head so I finally asked my best high school friend about it today and he came up with it immediately. The real reason I'm writing is to respond to Sharlene from 4/24 who seemed to be struggling with the name of her favorite grape gum. I knew them as "sour grapes" in clear individual packaging with maybe a yellow print on it. That was my favorite gum, with Chum Gum and Bazooka Joe a close second followed by mini-chiclets

I loved Chum Gum, we used to get recess and we were permitted to go to the little store called Brickers Penny Candy Store....Ah!!! the good ole days.... Fairchance, Pa

Twas my favorite as well. As a child in the mid fifties I discovered it at Glazners Market in Carrollton Texas (a Dallas suburb). At that time the package was royal blue. The inner wrappers white and the gum was pink. Two for a penny. Does anyone remember when Planters Peanuts (the 5 cent package) offered the enticement "You could find a nickle , dime or quarter in this package"? The gambler in me made me go for it but it never paid off. Then my dad told me a man probably empties his pocket change into a huge vat of peanuts. I quit buying them.

After reading all these stories on Chum Gum, I want some now!!! I am 53 and I am a bubble gum fanatic! pink and full of that distinguishing flavor and powder sugar. It would probably be 2 for a quarter these days. I lived in Stanton, Calif. We use to go to the corner store with a quarter and by a bag full of different candies to watch Astro Boy and Zolar. Yes, I remember those candy lipsticks, they were creamy, not like today's. We still have the red licorice...red vines. You bite off each end and use if as a straw. We have red vines, why not Chum Gum... Let's ask Mark Summers Host of Unwrapped on the Food network!!!!

Can still taste it in my mind's mouth! This was in the 60's in Augusta,GA and only at Carpenter's 50-50 Store. Passed it every day walking home from Forest Hills elementary school. The only place I ever found Chum Gum. Two sticks for a penny. Remember a blue wrapper And the powdery sugar covering each stick. Lick. Chew. And Blow. Have never chewed a better bubble gum since.

Sixty years old and still wishing that I had a piece of chum gum.

I remember buying Chum Gum in the middle 50's. You got 3 sticks for a penny. All other stick gum was 5 sticks for a nickel.

Chum Gum was the best gum ever! I grew up in the Boston area and we would buy this at the penny-candy store. It had a unique and delicious taste. It was silky smooth and it was the best gum for blowing huge bubbles. We used to have bubble-blowing contests and Chum Gum was the gum of choice for this. Too bad they don't make this anymore. This was good stuff.

Geez Louise, how I LOVED Chum Gum. I used to buy it in Burbank, Illinois, where I grew up. In my search for Bonomo Turkish Taffy, I was remembering Chum Gum and decided to Google it to try and find it. Per "oldtimecandy.com, the company that made Chum Gum (they don't confirm who the manufacturer was) discontinued it. That being said, you can find a lot of other great old candies and gum there, but look out for the price.

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! Here it came 3 pieces for a penny and whatever amount of money I had went for Chum Gum and Strawbery Kits...I sooo wish we coul get someone to research and start making this gum once more. Glad to hear there are others of you who remember with me.

Loved the gum also. Used to buy mine at the local 7 Eleven in the Philadelphia area.

I am 50 years old and grew up in Dothan, Alabama (extreme southeast. Nothing compares to the flavor of Chum Gum! Don't remember the price.

Wow! I thought people forgot the greatest gum ever! I chewed Chum Gum in the mid 60's. It was/is the best flavored gum to date. I was surfing the web hoping to find the gum somewhere. How sad the kids (and adults) will never know. I mentioned Chum Gum, and people thought I was crazy. Said they'd never heard of it. Good bye Chum Gum.

I'm 43 YeArS OlD...i hAvEn'T SeEn cHuM GuM/oR TaStEd iT SiNcE I WaS lIkE,sIx yEaR's oLd!!!WhErE CaN I FiNd iT?(StEvEn iN BoStOn)

I AGREE WITH EVERY ONE I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CHUM FOR MONTHS AND DECIDED TO CHECK OUT ALL OF THE GUMS SITE BUT HAVENT ANY LUCK. I WAS TELLING MY DAUGHTER ABOUT THIS GOOD OLD GUM. I LIVE IN WASHINGTON DC BROUGHT A PACK FROM A MARKET FEW YEARS AGO. WILL CHCECK IT OUT AGAIN.

Someone's got to get this gum produced again. I've searched for it everytime I see an All Candy store. 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. I am 63 and remember summer days walking a few blocks to the little mom and pop grocery store in my neighborhood in Tulsa with my friend or sisters to buy my Chum Gum. I have thought about that stuff off and on but, like most of you said, nobody else remembered it and I had almost convinced myself I had made it up. So glad to find so many others who hold it dear like I do. Wonder if it would still taste as good as it did then...

I grew up in East Point Georgia All of us teens sat in the balcony of the East Point christian church We started passing the chum gum around. We got it at a store near the church it was called the e z buy store. best gum ever

I agree with so many of the comments that have been made by others...you ask people if they remember or have ever heard of this gum and they look at you like you are crazy. But I too remember this as the best gum ever...2 pieces wrapped together in the white, blue & red wrapper for only 1 penny. And yes, just like someone before me said, right next to the hot dog gum. I would buy it if I could find it. I grew up in Danville, California...small town, still relatively small, and the local 5 and dime store had it. 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. One kid at school asked me if I was rich since I always had a bag of candy. Remember the cinnamon toothpicks? And the square cinnamon suckers? Simple times!

i would really like for someone to bring back my favorite childhood gum. chum gum. i use to walk to my corner store and buy the individual sticks for a penny a piece. it was the best texture and best tasting gum.

Chum Gum was the best gum in the world. Use to buy it at Bailey's Confectionery on Bunker Hill Road in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Someone has to bring back Chum Gum!! It absolutely was the best bubble gum in the world. 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. If someone does bring it back, please don't wreck it like they have wrecked Bazooka, YUCK

I've been looking for it for years!! I bought it in St. Albans. West Virginia at alot of different places! Somebody needs to produce this again. Chum Gum ROCKS!!!!

i was born in chicago raised in sw michigan and Ive been looking for chum gum for a long time.. It was simply the best gum ever some one should bring this gum back

My Dads Nick Name Is Chum Because He Used To Chew That Gum When He Was Little...

I grew up in Hyattsville md in the 60's and Chum gum was the BEST !! Love the flavor,the color, its softness. We bought it at Shirley's in hyattsville,md. Bring it back !!!

I have a co-worker that loved this "Chum GUm"and she is always so thought ful to others. Well she spoke about this gum and how much she loved it so I just had to go on E-Bay and get a stick for her. Tears filled her eyes as she was just beside herself when we gave it to her. So it's pricy but it's out there. We paid $10.00 for a piece but it was well worth it to see her reactions!!!

Surely there's someone out there who could resurrect Chum Gum manufacture and distribution...why not? It is the best bubble gum ever made. Hmmm. Why did they stop manufacture? How rude!

Chewed Chum Gum during the 60's. I'm 59 now and smoke cigars. But I'd rather chew Chum Gum. I bought it at many places in Harford County, Maryland.

I used to buy Chum Gum at Mill Creek Country Store in Mill Creek, Georgia, near Dalton- in the mid 70s. I agree- Best Gum Ever! Make it again, Fleer!

I was a child of the 60s & 70s. 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? Fleer?...Are you listening ?

MY HUSBAND AND I USE TO BUY CHUM GUM IN THE SIXTIES IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA THIS WAS THE BEST GUM I'VE EVER TASTED. WE ARE NOW RETIRED AND I CROSSED THE WHOLE U.S. IN TRAVEL I TRIED TO FIND THIS GUM IT IS SO SAD THE COMPANY STOPPED MAKING IT. I CAN STILL TASTE IT!

I'm so happy it wasn't all a dream. They were real memories. Awesome memories of summertime in the 60's and 70's riding my bike to Aloha Drug Store for Chum Gum! :)

I also have looked for Chum gum for years. I always look at Cracker Barrel hoping it found its way back. It was the very best bubble gum, and it smelled so good in my purse. People used to say Who has Chum Gum? I can smell it!

OH BOY I REMEMBER THIS GUM.IT WAS THE BEST EVER. CHUM GUM HAD A TASTE ALL IT'S OWN.I GREW UP ON IT. I WISH THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK.I HAVE NEVER TASTED ANOTHER GUM THAT EVEN COMES CLOSE TO THAT GREAT TASTE.

WE'D GO TO CHELMERS IN UTICA,MN A LITTLE STORE JUST TO BUY CHUM GUM!! I'D BUY ALL HE HAD. BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER,MY GRANDCHILDREN WOULD LOVE IT!!!BRING IT BACK FOR THEM TO TRY!!!!:)

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. Loved it, but you have to admit the taste only lasted about a minute if you were lucky, but it was so good!!

Finally! I have wracked my brain so many times trying to come up with this name. I can almost conjure up the taste if I try really hard. I wish it would make a comeback.

Thank you for letting my co-workers know I didn't make this up. I have been craving Chum Gum for 50 years. 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. Even my old class mates didn't remember it.

I grew up in the 50's and use to sit on the river bank and blow away, while watching the St. Lawrence Seaway being built. Our old homestead is under H2/0 so sad. But progress is progress. Please Bring MY CHUM GUM back.

The one thing that amazes me as i read all the comments, and they are great memories, is how widespread the distribution of Chum Gum was back then. At 55 i still remember going to Connie's by Wilson Junior High School in Philly to get my supply of this delicious gum and other great candies. As so many people mentioned, bring back the good old days. The funny thing about that is that one day, if we are still here, we will talk about these days as the "good old days". My Chum Gum days go back to the early 60's in Junior High. Somebody mentioned going to the gas station to get the guy to open the machine and give them the bottle caps (back when they had cork) to play one of several games different companies had to win prizes. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was fun reading everybody's memories about Chum Gum and simpler, better times.

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. This group of people said that they never heard of it so I told them to goggle it and maybe it would show up. I also googled it and I found all of these postings.

I grew up in Greeley Colo. I had chum gum all the time. We were just talking at break and out of 6 of us only 2 remember chum gum.

I am 51 and have been craving this gum, chum gum the best ever made, 2 sticks for a penny and nothing else compares. I would today pay a dollar or two just to taste it again. So many memories..Kids today have awesome technology but they didn't have chum gum, or even klick clacks... please Kleer bring this gum back to us !

CHUM GUM RULES

i was 3 yrs old and i remember stealing candy from the 7-11 and some of it was chum gum..... the clerk call the police, not becuase i was stealing but becuase i was at the store alone. the police found me at the local creek eating the chum gum. they took me home in the police car and my mom was pissed!!!!!!

I am so glad I found this website. I have been telling my kids about Chum Gum and how I wish I could find it for them to experience. I keep looking but have had no luck. Fleer should bring it back. It was a great gum!!

I'm 56 and Chum Gum was my favorite down here in Louisiana. Didn't it start out with 3 or 4 sticks to a pack, then it was reduced to 2? Anyway, I have also been looking for it for years with no luck...Chum gum was the best!

I remember going by Brookside, a Mom & Pop store, daily gong and coming from school. They had the most fantastic penny candy counter, and I would buy Chum Gum, three sticks to the pack, later reduced to two stick per pack. But it was wonderful bubblegum, and so much for the penny! This was in the late 50's. I would give anything to have a "chew" once again!

I'm 51 in Cincinnati and I can't believe so many people remember Chum Gum. Every time I ask somebody if they remember Chum Gum they look at me like I'm crazy.

Glad to know I am not the only fan. Have told my children how good it was and was hoping to find out where to get some.BEST gum ever.

I was just thinking about Chum Gum. I was talking with a co-worker who, of course, had never heard of it. People think I am making up the name. I grew up in MA and there was a corner variety right by my elementary school that used to sell Chum Gum. I am know 47 and haven't seen Chum Gum in at least 30 years. Fleer needs to start making it again

I did a yahoo search on chum gum thats how iI found this page. I am 47 also im from RI and I would love to see Chum Gum back on the shelves. I truly miss it!!!

I would encourage everyone to email the company to try and bring this gum back. I've looked for it for years! I loved the stuff!!

Since you haven't heard from anyone from Iowa yet, I just had to write. I also grew up in the 60's. My childhood friend and I have been reminiscing about Chum Gum for 40 years now--truly the BEST gum EVER! It's so comforting to know there are others who feel the same way. Do you think we could start a fan club????

i grew up in grand forks,n.d. in the 60's,, and it is the best damn gum ever!!someone bring it back.wouldn't it be nice to reminisce the good old days??

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I did not know what the two piece penny gum was called. I also could not find anyone who seem to remember it. I still remember the red two stick gum. Its great taste is why I've never forgotten it.

I grew up in Dothan, Al. and I loved the flavor of Chum Gum. I'm amazed at how many people actually know about it. I used to buy it at Allen's Grocery. They had all kinds of penny candy, and Chum Gum was my favorite. Please, please, please bring back that awsome flavor!

I remember chum gum it was so soft and pink and had a delicious taste unlike no other, i would ride my bike to the little store at the LAKE OF THE WOODS, BREMEN,INDIANA... it was so worth the spanking I would get if I got caught by my Mother.Those were the good ol'e days...

I'm 53, I remember walking to the corner store at the age of 5 all by myself to buy the best gum ever!!!!!!! I did find a source at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg NY. A selling Black jack and Beemans said he has a source that sellsChum Gum by the case. I have been serching forever. I will post the link here when he sends it.

Chum Gum Alum. Early and mid-sixties in Fargo, N.D. Hot summer days buying baseball cards but throwing away their gum because it wasn't as good as Chum Gum. Sunflower seeds, banana popsickles and Chum Gum. Gourmet childhood food.

Chum gum lovers - You can make it yourself - no need to wait for someone to do it for you. Google - How to make gum? Now all we need is the ingredients.

how to make bubble gum http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/30/Make-Your-Own-Bubble-Gum74922.shtml

Is Chum Gum even made any longer? The BBE, Best Bubble Ever....

look on ebay just type Chum Gum and you will see someone is selling 1 stick for $7 plus $2.5 for S/H. I too like Chum Gum but not that much.

I'm 65. When I was 7or8 chum gum was 3 sticks for a penny. My brother and I would return bottles for Grandma to the store. We each got a nickle to spend from the return money. Most of the time it was all chum gum for me. It is the best ever!!

Oh my goodness! I love Chum Gum!! For the longest time, I couldn't remember what it was called and then by chance I was looking for some unique halloween candy and found the name!! It brings back so many great memories. I wish they still made it--I would certainly buy it all the time. I also loved the little hotdog gum--that was very tasty too. :-)

I grew up in Alabama, I'm 49, Chum Gum is the best gum ever made. I also thought no one else knew about it, I hope it comes back. By the way Mack, if we're all losers what are you doing wasting your time reading our comments?

I love you, my fellow chums!!!! I grew up by Maple Lake outside of Bridgeport, West Virginia in the 60's. I loved Chum Gum :-). It is so funny to hear other people having the same experience or feeling about when they ask other people if they remembered it. My siblings don't even remember it! Still, I often find myself describing the fragrant pink gum in the beautiful blue wrapper, 2 sticks, one for you and one for a chum, hoping someone could remember. No one did, until I found you here. You made my day :-)

WOW!!! I am not the only one who remembers Chum Gum. It was the best bubble gum ever made. Some one needs to make it again. Please?

people also thought i was crazy whenever i would ask if anyone remembered this wonderful product. it was the bubblegum of choice in my neighborhood (the harbor section of conneaut, ohio) in the 60's although i have to confess, i seldom if ever shared the second piece with any of my friends.

Brothers and I used to go to the store for our grandfather to buy him a pack of Camels and some Browns Mule chewing tobacco. We got to keep the change and bought--Chum Gum. Adams has brought back Clove, Beemans and Black Jack. CVS is carrying it. Everybody write to Fleer and get them to bring back Chum Gum.

I grew up in Minnesota in the 70's and remember Chum Gum so well. Loved the smell, loved the taste. So glad I am not the only one whose friends look at me like I'm crazy when I mention it! Love Chum GUM!

Wow! I'm sooo happy to see that others remember Chum Gum, There was a small corner store in North Buffalo called "Heevey's" and they carried the best penny candy around!! What I wouldn't give for one stick!

I am 58 and living in North Carolina grew up in New England, I been telling my friends down here about chum gum the best where can i buy this gum so I can show them and go back you a great gum

CHUM GUM WAS THE BEST GUM IN THE WORLD TO ME,I WAS BORN IN CHICAGO AROUND 47TH STREET,I USE TO SNEAK INTO THE REGAL HIDE UNDER THE CURTAIN AND WATCH THE GREATS PERFORM,WHEN THE SHOW WAS OVER I WOULD GO TO THE CORNER STORE AND GET MY CHUM GUM,BOX OF FRIUT COCKTAILS AND MINT JULIPS,I NEVER KNEW PEOPLE HAD BAD BREATH WHEN THEY WERE CHEWING CHUM GUM,SO SOMEONE PLEASE BRING IT BACK, THE ORIGINAL FLAVOR NO SHORT CUTS PLEASE.THE KIDS TODAY MISSED OUT ON THE GOOD STUFF.

I also loved Chum Gum and used to buy it in the early '70s. My boyfriend's parents owned a small grocery store and I swear I dated him for the gum! Really wished they would make it again. It had it's own taste-nothing like it.

In the early to mid 1960's we would visit our cousins in Cinti OH & there was a Mom & Pop corner grocery that sold penny candy. Chum Gum was my favorite. You could get bagfuls of all types of candy (remember the candy necklaces??) for .25 oh the good old days!!

Greatest gum ever! It used to come in different colors as well, not only pink but blue and green and I swear once I remember yellow. I used to get in in Columbus, OH at the Tremont 5&10. Wish it was still made.

Used to buy Chum Gum at Werner's corner store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the 60's. Delicious! Wish they'd make it, along with Seven Up candy bars today.

I have craved this gum for years...and it finally hit me! google it and see if you can find it! I could not believe the comments! PLESE BRING THIS GUM BACK

I also have lusted for that special flavor for many years. "Wrigleys" might have come close. I bought a pack of "Orbit" "bubblemint" and it brought me back to Jr. High.(I'm 57 now) Let me know what you think. Am I way off base?

I"m 70 & don't recognize Chum Gun, but I do fondly remember Yank Bubble Gum - sure wish I could find some for old times sake.

No one I talk to remembers Chum gum, I loved it. It seems everything that it ever really good is discontinued. What a shame.

WOW!!! finding this site is almost as great as finding a store that still sells chum gum(i wish i could). im 57 and i well remember the taste and texture of the world's greatest gum. another favorite of mine is the ATOMIC FIRE BALLS. sure miss that gum tho.

I'm 54 and over the years have looked for Chum Gum. It's the only treat that really stands out in my memories of childhood, except maybe Sugar Daddy's. 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. I would sure like a piece right now.

I'm 57 and loved Chum Gum, Dots, Wax tubes filled with syrup, Black Cows, baseball cards, candy cigarettes, paper straws filled with Kool-Aid type power and many more great candies. What a great time to be a kid!

I remember chum gum from the fifties, Allens grocery,in Ault Colorado, was my source. Yum

I am 47 yrs. old, and I remember buying Chum Gum from my Uncle's country store in Partlow, Va. There has never been or will ever be a better tasting gum. WHAT HAPPENED TO CHUM GUM? I WANT SOME.

Besides tasting great, the price was great as well. Made lots of spending cash buying Chum Gum by the case, while in Jr. High, and selling individually 4 for a nickle. Also got a lot of teachers upset. And the fact chewing gum in class then became a detention, because of the amount of gum showing up everywhere. Good times :)

I use to have it in my car and it made my car smell so good. My brother use to comment about it. I loved the gum and wish whoever made it would bring it back. It was the best.

loved it in the 50's. have looked for it for years. delicious flavors especially banana. no one else seems to know what im talking about, so i'm glad I found this page. I felt like i was in the twilight zone or something.

I am 65 years old and I can still taste and smell Chum Gum. I bought it in Alabama in the 50's and oh how I wish they would make it again!!!

I grew up in Indio, Ca and remember buying Chum gum in the 60's. The flavor was indescribable, my favorite gum. No one that I know remembers this gum..can't figure that out!

i grew up chewing chum gum and can like many other tell someone about it and they look at me like i am crazy. I got to get it every weekend at the skating rink in Cleveland they charged 2 sticks for a 5cents. wish i could find a stick today.

I'm 66. I remember 3 sticks for a penny. I'd buy fifteen sticks for a nickel from the corner store outside Riley Elementary in Muncie, Indiana. I put all of it in my mouth at once and chew it as I walked home. Then I'd spit it out in Mrs. McCaffery's bushes next door, so I wouldn't get a different kind of chewing from Mom as I walked through the front door. Circa 1953.

I too remember Chum Gum and think back to my younger days. Running to the corner store just south of Chicago in Midlothian Il. I am 45 and wish i had some right now.

I am from Lockport, IL and I, too, couldn't make anyone believe that I remembered Chum Gum! I loved it as a kid. I can't believe I found this site. I feel like my sanity has been restored! So many of you remember Chum Gum. It was the best!!!

Grew up in what is now called Roscoe Village and had to pass Gus's Sweet Shop every day to and from school. I remember Chum Gum, candy lipstick, wax lips and nails and bottles, Chiclets, Turkish Taffy, Fizzies. Most of them you can find in oldtimecandy.com which is referenced on this page. They also have a list of discontinued candy and sadly, Chum Gum is one of them. But there are a lot of other choices on that website that will bring back memories, at today's prices.

I love Chum Gum. I remember sitting with my grandfather and he always had a pack of it. he would share it with me all the time. it tasted so good. NOBODY remembers that gum except my grandmother who would buy it for my grandfather. I sure wish they still made it.

Asked people for YEARS if they remembered Chum Gum, my favorite bubblegum of all time and no one knew what I was talking about. I am the bubblegum queen and I used to tell my dates they had to bring me a bag of bubblegum when they came to pick me up for a date. Had to be Chum-Gum. it had that cold feeling when you first started chewing it. So glad I finally found someone who remembers it!

Oh yes, good Lord, I thought I had lost my mind or was having hallucinations and here there's a whole club of people with the Chum Gum jones, just like me! I wonder what it would take for the bubble gum world powers to crank out some more of that wonderful tasting stuff? Who made itm anyway, Fleer? I'd pay a dollar a stick if it was available. Listen to all of us old gumheads, carrying on! I love it! I want my Chum Gum! Waaaaah!

This was an awesome flavored gum ! I remember the taste and smell so well. Just the smell through the wrapper would make my mouth water. Man, how I'd love to see it back on the market.

OMG I cant believe all the others looking for chum gum, I agree the best ever. I used to get it at only one grocery store in Las Vegas, NM. Please bring it back. I stay on the look out at Cracker Barrel, but nothing yet.

I can't believe I found others who remember Chum Gum - my absolute favorite back in the 50's and 60's. The smell, the taste - best ever. Yes, 2 sticks wrapped together. 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! I remember the commercial well.

I am a 60's kid from Indiana.I am happy to find others who recall Chum Gum. It was the best!Bring it back!

I grew up in Washington, DC and would buy this most delicious gum at the corner stores on my way home from school in the late 60s and early 70s. 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. Yum!

I grew up in Chicago in the 1950's and chum gum was and still is the BEST tasting gum I've ever tried. I remember it was 3 sticks for a penny, then one day it was 2 sticks for a penny and boy was I TICKED OFF! I thought I was getting ripped off. Now I would pay 2 sticks for a buck if I could find it.

I used to buy it at either Anne's or Barney's corner candy stores that were on the corners of Herbert Spencer School in Chicago in the late '50's and early '60's. It was the BEST gum ever.

BEST GUM EVER MADE. AFTER SCHOOL WE ALWAYS STOP AT THIS STORE TO BUY CHUM GUM. WHERE CAN I BUY IT.

I am 62 years old and would buy chum gum in a drug store in Argo, Illinois. I still miss that gum and would pay alot of money to have more. I am so glad so many other people remember that gum.

I am 58 years old and I live in New Orleans. I remember Chum Gum from way back in my elementary school days. I remember absolutely loving the flavor of this gum. There were 3 sticks in the pack,an open ended pack, not a sealed pack like other gums. I've often ask people if they remember Chum Gum and no one knows what I'm talking about. I was beginning to wonder if I was not remembering correctly. What a releif to hear from y'all. :-)

We got our Chum Gum at Bill Meadow's Gulf gas station in Colbert, GA. But not on Wednesdays because Bill closed at noon that day. Bill and the station, like the great taste of Chum Gum, are but Precious Memories now.

WE HAD CHUM GUM IN SC, TOO. AT THE CORNER STORE WE WOULD BUY IT IN THE 60S. BEST GUM EVER. MY SIS AND I MISS IT.

I AM 61 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NEVER HEARD OF CHUM GUM! I REALLY FEEL LIKE I HAVE MISSED OUT!!I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT TASTES LIKE BUT I STILL REMEMBER THE TASTE OF THE GRAPE GUM THEY USED TO MAKE. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT BUT IT CAME IN THE SAME SHAPE PACKAGING AS BEEMAN'S OR BLACKJACK. IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, I WOULD APPRECIATE THE INFO.

I can't believe I found you all! I love Chum Gum, too! I remember when I would go to the Candybar Candy Store in Elmhurst, IL in the 70's to spend my $1 allowance on Chum Gum and cinnamon toothpicks. Wow... those were the days!

I remember chum gum like it was yesterday. You're all right. It did have a distinctive flavor and appearance.I'm from Chicago and I still look for it when I go into an old time candy store just hoping I can get a few cases of this gum that I have been bragging about for decades.

I, too, am from Chicago, loved Chum Gum, and have friends who mostly have never heard of it. Sounds like a common experience for many here. For some reason, whenever I eat Double Bubble gum, I remember Chum Gum. Were the two flavors similar?

This is great that I am not the only one who remembers this gum it was the best ever!! I am from Texas and I used to buy it from a little Mom and Pop Grocery store that was across the street from my house!

I cannot believe there are more chum gum lovers out there. I have told sooo many people about it and they all think I'm crazy. They have never heard of it. We used to get it in a little ice cream store called Shorty Simms in Abingdon, Il. It was the best gum ever made. I wish they would make it again. I am 56 and have grandkids. They would love it.

Chum Gum....what a sweet memory. I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa in the 1950's. There was a small corner store three blocks in any direction from my house. (The Good Old Days) As a child I was very frugal with my money. For 5 cents I could get a candy bar and 2 packages of Chum Gum. (3 stick package) Can anybody remember the names of the 3 cent candy bars? Bill

I bought Chum Gum back in the sixties too. I would find it at Mary Long's grocery which was next to my grandma's and grandpa's house in Helmsburg, Indiana. If you got yours there get in touch w/ me torileec at zoom town dot com. The wrapper was royal blue then, with blue gum, individually wrapped in white paper. Yum, the smell and powdery coating, the texture and great bubbles. Flavor lasted and lasted. I remember the gum in pink too but blue was better!!!

I too have yearnd for Chum Gum. I can still almost taste it. I grew up in Wisconsin and we bought it all the time in the penny candy section of our neighborhood meat market. I have never tasted a gum that compared. Why oh why did they stop making it!

I well remember Chum Gum. If we found an empty soda bottle, we would redeem it at Wright's market in Dansville, Ny for the 2 cents and buy some Chum Gum. Oh, the flavor of that gum. I sure wish they still made it.

I fell in love with Chum Gum since 6th grade in '62.I agree with everyone's comments, but besides the great flavor, Chum Gum produced the best bubbles! When they broke -- you could easily take the gum off your face, and chew it again for another bubble. I chewed a 20-pack of Leaf Confectionery bubble gum (sour apple, sour grape, lemon etc) as a bet from my friends. Couldn't blow two bubbles. Name one other bubble gum besides Chum Gum that holds it shape when you took it out of your mouth (by twisting the end). Then you pop it, stick it back in your mouth and start another bubble. This Lane Tech grad (1970) enjoyed this gum for years - and wish some company would re-make it.

there is a man on ebay that sell chum gum for $7.00 a stick..

i used to save my money from my grass cuttin when i was a kid and head in town to Rehoboth and go to Snyders candy store and get my marvel comic books and a brown paper bag full of chum gum...then i was set to go into battle alongside Captain America and soar the outter most regions of the universe with the Silver Surfer...bring Chum Gum back....PLLLLLeeeaaassssee....?

First time I ever bought Chum Gum was 1959 at Szegedi's Candy Store near Birmingham Terrace. The flavor lasted ALL DAY. I still remember the royal blue wrapper with a kid's silhouette on it blowing a big bubble...and the gum itself was the pinkest of pink...and you got TWO sticks for a penny. Wow! And who can forget that great flavor? I used to earn my Chum Gum reward, however. I'd put some baseball cards in my spokes...then I'd "motor on over" to get my fix. There was nothing like the late 50's to early 60's. Life back then was beautiful. Unlike the howling mess we call the 21st Century. Stay United Chum Gum Lovers!

Chum Gum was the best. I grew up in Memphis and I use to love to go to visit my cousins so I could go to the corner store and buy Chum Gum. Why did they have to stop making something so good?

Oh my gosh, I just read Kimberly sherwood post,and I thought I just ordered CHUM GUM to the tune on $7 a pack. Tell me I didn't just pay $16.75 for two pieces of GUM>>>>

I grew up in Kansas City and had Chum Gum in the 60's. We used to buy two types of gum: Chum Gum and Devil Gum - I think it was made by the same company and was HOT cinnamon flavor.

no one around here remembers it either! I grew up in Oak Ridge Tn (just outside knoxville) and i never found it at any local stores more than a couple of times. about the only way i ever got it was on Halloween. i would rush home to see if i had gotten some cuz it was my fav flavor gum ever!

My buddies and I in the 50s would take bottles back to Frenchies corner store watertown ny and buy the gum and then sit on the curb and blow bubbles

i remember getting chum gum when i got a hair cut back in the 50 s--i contacted fleer and they quit making it

Going off in washington dc I got my chum gum from the corner store next to saint theresa's school in anacostia washington dc. there is nothing in the world like chum gum. flavor and texture was completely amazing. If we ever discuss back on the market the company would be very successful. What day would probably charge a dollar for 2 pieces? LOL And I would be crazy enough to pay a dollar for 2 pieces I really liked it!

I can not believe all of these comments, I wish I could find this gum it smells and tastes so good. I recently purchased some hair products and I kid you not it smelled just like Chum gum. It is Bio Silk Fruit Cocktail reconstructing shampoo. Go check it out and comment back on here I would love to know what you thought, but its not for drinking lol

I'm using my nickname as a kid because Chum Gum takes me back to my childhood! It was sooooooo good!! And we didn't worry about having sugar-free gum back then! And who remembers Adams Sour gum - at one time I think they had pineapple flavor. And since someone mentioned shampoo - anybody remember the old egg wash shampoos?? Oh, to smell those again!

Looking for Chum Gum for a friend of mine who will be celebrating a special BD in August and wants to find it. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF AND WHERE IT IS AVAILABLE NOW???

I'm 53 and used to get Chum Gum at a place called the Huddle in Utica NY, along with a comic book. Thor was my favorite. I agree, chum gum was the best. I'll bet if you could find a stick, chew it, you would turn into an eight year old, like a twlight zone episode.

Ounce for ounce the best tasting bubble gum on the planet!!! 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!

I was a kid in Winston-Salem NC and now I'm 54 and I can vividly remember the taste of Chum Gum. I too mentioned how good it was to some friends recently, and they had no idea what I was talking about. Fleer Please Bring It Back!!

I'm 62 and still remember this was the best gum I could buy. Tasty and unique, I'm 10 years old just thinking about it.

I'm 59 and still remember the wonderful taste of Chum Gum. My dad owned a little country store with a big glass case full of penny candy on the bottom shelf and candy bars on the top. This brings back sweet memories to me.

God I loved this gum, jusr was talking to my sister about it the other day! We both wshed we could find it... you think the owner of Fleer products would read this site!

i loved this gum. and no one i know remembers this gum. use to buy it in a penny candy store in Jamestown NY, south of Buffalo. always had that powder coating on it. and what a great smell, and the best bubbles. only 2 sticks to a pack. they can bring back Beemans and Black jack, why not Chum Gum???

This was the best gum ever - a piece for yourself and a piece for your Chum. It had the best aroma, flavor and texture of any gum ever. Sure wish Fleer would produce this again.

Fleer made the Chum Gum and it is now discontinued. Has not been made in many years. Sad. A great taste and a great bubble. No one makes it today and no plans are to bring it back.

I'm 52 and it was my daily habit after school in East Los Angeles back in the 60's. I keep searching for alternatives, but they all fall short.

My grandmother owned a pizza store that sold penny candy. Chum Gum was my very favorite gum. I too have been trying to find it without success. It would be great if one of the candy companies could duplicate that great flavor.

I remember ChumGum...it had a sweet and unique flavor. I also grew up in Chicago. I wish they still made it I been searching for this gum. Im 54yrs old, and still want ChumGum...lol

Yes, yes, yes! A friend and I in Silver Spring, MD would take my 25 cents allowance (in 1952) and buy about 50 sticks of Chum-Gum and chew all sticks at once to see who could blow the biggest bubbles. I've never forgotten how wonderful the taste was. Please somebody make it again before I leave this world!

The Best Ever. I have looked for it for years. We would put two pieces in at one time. Thriftys in Lynwood, Ca.

I grew up in Kansas city, Kansas and bought Chum Gum at Newits market in the penny candy section. Always left with a bag of Chum gum for the cents . I would love to have it back on the shelves. Great memories.

I too loved Chum Gum and have searched to no avail,but find Big League Chew very close if not the same. Very soft with a white powdery coating. It brings back memories for me!

I am so glad that I am not the only one that loved this gum. We saved our paper route money and walked down to the fruit stand that had a section of all penny candy; waxed lips, squirrel nuts, maryjanes and the all time favorite Chum gum. Best years of our lives that I will never forget. Somebody get the recipe and start making it again !

Just reading all these wonderful comment remind me of not only how great chum gum was, but how life was simple and easy. THE GOOD OLD DAYS

What a great idea...why don't we [all] start a revolution and surely some company out there will duplicate the stuff and make us all happy. Don't think were the only ones out here moaning about the want for more of it! God how I miss that smell and flavor, I swear, if I close my eyes I'm chewing on it now! When my Mom passed away, my sister and I were recalling the days when we were kids and unbelievable, but we spoke about the Chum Gum and how we'd fight over that dang stuff! You could smell it if it was in someone's pocket, that's how alluring the scent of it was! It was hypnotic, you had to get some no matter what, that and a box of Indian Head Pumpkin seeds and you were good to go! Maybe the makers of Chum Gum put a special ingredient to make us want it, kind of like cigarettes or something! An aphrodisiac?? Oh, and I'm also from the great windy city of Chicago!

I'm glad to see so many comments about Chum Gum, I started chewing it in the 50's. If I'm not mistaken there was three pieces in a sleeve. Three sticks for 0.1 cent. There was usualy three flavors in one sleeve, sometimes there would be two of the same flavor. You could buy 0.5 cents worth and have 15 pieces. LOL!!! I would always take it out of the sleeve so it would look like more in the little brown bag. I grew up in West Tenn. and the Priccipal would let us walk to the store while we were waiting for the high school bus to come pick us up, (at the elementry school). A Principal would be hung out to dry if he let children walk to the store while at school. That was the "Good Ole Days".

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 have enjoyed reading all the stories. I was just discussing old time candy with a co-worker, he never heard of Chum gum, so I was going to Google it so I could prove I was not makiing it up and found this link of wonderful stories. I know if they ever started making it again, I would sure buy it!

I am a bubble gum freak and Chum Gum was my absolute favorite. In fact, when I started dating, I would make my date (whoever it was) bring me a bag of Chum Gum bubble gum when he picked me up. Ahhhhh, the good ol' days!

I'm from Weymouth Massachusetts and really miss the chum gum. My sister and I talked about it often. We couldn't but it at Chalks store we had to go a little further down the street to Hans Variety to get it. We really miss it.

Ithought I was the only person that miss this gum I lived in Palo Alto,California and use to buy it at the corner store Garden Supermarket, Boy that was the best bubble gum ever. Wish some bright kid could come up with formala for it!Q

For years I have inquired about this gum not remembering the name and I finally found out! Our family owned a mom and pop grocery store in Depauw, IN and Chum Gum was my favorite treat! Loved it!!!1

This gum has an unbelievable legacy. I grew up on a street in the LA area in the 60s and 70s. I'm still friends with some of the people that grew up with me. Whenever we talk about the good old days, this Chum Gum always comes up in the conversation. Back when we could ride our bikes off the street to the Quik Market when we were 10 and get 2 sticks of Chum Gum for 2 cents. Oh, to go back in time...

I am 69 and I also loved Chum gum. I got it at a small restaurant across from the High School. I think there were 3 pieces for a penny. I would also get Kits in banana, chocolate and strawberry. FF, sloppy joes were 15 cents. Always had a stash of candy and gum to go back to the school. I bought grape and Black Jack gum and Sen Sens. Sure miss the 50's and the way things were.

I too remember chum gum, I am 61 years old and can still taste it in my mind. when we were young,my sisters and i would walk 2 miles to a country store in West Virginia to get this gum and nickle candy bars, peanuts and a 10 cent bottle of soda pop that you could return the bottle and get a nickle back.there was also another gum they sold that was two sticks for a penny,it to was pretty good, the name of it was devil gum, it was cinnamon flavored and it come in a red pack, I think the same company made it also made chum gum.

I am from Huntley outside of Chicago. In the 50's and into the 60's Chum Gum did come 3 pieces for a penny. It was my favorite from the penny candy at Farley's Grocery store. It makes my mouth water to think of it!!

I grew up in Irving Texas, suburb of Dallas and I still remember the smell of this amazing gum. I miss the gum, or maybe everything about being a child in that time. Life was simple and sweet.

Chum gum was always 2 sticks to a pack & it goes back to at least the mid 50s. I think if I could buy it now I might be tempted to mortgage my house & spend it all on Chum Gum. My kid, grandkids & great-grandbaby will miss one of the greatest flavors of life without it. I have been trying for YEARS to find some. I appreciate Cracker Barrel for selling Clove & Teaberry but they are missing the best gum of all time

i can't believe i miss a GUM so much! chum gum was the BEST! like others on here, no one i've ever talked to about it remembers it. i used to buy it in houston, texas in the mid-sixties

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 am from lakewood California and always bought it from the liquor store accross the street from our hoiuse....I have looked for it in everystore i go into no one had it or knows what it is so sad....

God! CHUM GUM was the best! Used to lick the powder off each piece before I chewed it for hours! I used to buy it in my home town of Pine Ridge SD!

Chum Gum, best gum ever! I remember leaving Calverton Junior High in Baltimore, MD Whitmore & Riggs Ave with my left over pennies and purchased my gum from the corner store located Mosher Street, to walk home with chewing and blowing bubbles. I lived on Herbert a mile away from school the flavor was delicious and lasting. Yes those were the days! I would so love to have chum gum back1

Orange County, CA in 1960's-early 70's. We got Chum Gum from the guy in the ice cream truck. Ate both pieces myself, amazing bubbles. I'm 53 years old and every time I chew bubble gum (rarely), I remember the great flavor of the first few chews of Chum Gum. No comparison today. Miss it.

I'm glad to see other people actually remember this gum....It WAS the best tasting around...seemed to get it "trick or treating" and YES it was the BEST flavor ever. Wish the company would bring it back!!!

Loved Chum Gum. You could never eat just one stick.It had and awesome flavor. Wish I could still get it.

Detroit, MI during the 60's at a place called Clem's Candy Store on Fenkell Avenue. Old Clem would ask for "one thin dime" when you bought ten cents worth. I'm 54 and haven't seen that gum since about 1970. The neighborhood kids loved that gum.

I loved chum gum as a kid in D.C. I would bring it to school in the sixties I am 57 now and that gum was damn good! It was made by Fleer.

I used to buy chum gum 2 sticks for a penny and would save up a nickel in pennies to get more at a time, I lived in the hills of West Virginia and walked to the old gas station/grocery store on Saturday afternoon after westerns and cartoons were over on tv. I am 61 yrs. old and remember the great flavor the gum had, I can still taste it today, I also bought a gum called devil gum, does anyone remember that gum? it also came 2 sticks in a pack for a penny, it was in a red outer paper wrapper with 2 red sticks of gum in plain white paper sleeves. it was a hot cinnamon flavored gum, I think it was made by the same company.

Like everyone here I loved Chum Gum and thought I was the only one who remembered it. None of my peers heard of it so I thought I was crazy. I live in Iowa where I would buy it at the neighborhood grocery store. It was the BEST gum ever!! Wouldn't it be great if they started making it again.

I loved this gum! I was going to Lake Jr high school back in the day and I always bought it everyday after school. Oh how I wish they would bring it back! I'm from Denver Colo,and they sold it in a little food store down the street from my high school.

I am so happy I found this page. I ask everyone my age if they remembered this gum and no one does. It was my favorite. Live in Indy, would walk past a neighborhood store on way to school bus stop, I always got some Chum Gum before getting on bus.

I am dying for a piece of CHUM GUM! We used to turn in soda bottles so we could buy it. Best gum ever!

Thought I was crazy trying to figure out the name of this gum. I'm 57 yrs old and remember this well. The taste was phenomenol,sure wish they would make it again, it was the best.

I have looked and looked and looked again. I have been all over the world looking for Chum gum. I chewed it everyday as a kid. My boyfriend thinks I am crazy and has no idea what I am talking about. IF someone finds it my e-mail whiteki@realtracs.com that is how serious I am at 57 years old. OMG if a kid had that gum now maybe they would have the energy to get off their butt and go play in the woods!!! OMG just remembered we don't have any woods all the developer's got rid of them. Maybe that is why we don't have chum gum the base is made from tree's OMG.

OMG!! This was the best gum ever. My girlfriend and I used to have bubble blowing contests with it. I can still remember the smell and taste of it.

OMG how I miss Chum Gun, the best gum ever made. I would buy it at Bruce's store across from my high school, everyone who went to GWHS chewed it. Nothing has ever compared to Chum. I am 54 and still crave it after all these years. Wish they would bring it back, along when life was simple and carefree. (Sigh)

Bad typo, meant GUM not gun

I grew up in upstate NY and LOVED Chum GUm. It came in a white package with blue lettering and was a pretty pink color. Hands down, it was the best tasting gum ever. I have since ceased chewing gum because of TMJ, but would risk biting the inside of my mouth again and again for some Chum Gum. =)

im now 55 and need Chum Gum badly!!!! 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

I LOVED Chum Gum!! I loved the flavor and it smelled so good! Sometimes I can still smell it. I've NEVER run across anything similar to that in all my years. It really was one of the best gums around. 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.

It was THE BEST!! Walked to the drug store and got 2 pieces for a penny and had the best flavor out there. Miss it now and wish someone could come up with that same great flavor!!!

I remember when my mom wear her blue relaxed lee jeans and her candies high heels sandals an awesome look. One day at the laundry mat I stuck my chum gum on her seat and watched her sat down in the huge wad of chum gum. Time to stand up and her butt went up for a few inches and stopped and she tried again and now four times later she realized her butt in stuck to her seat and hear I'M STUCK and she looks at me and said Joey mommy stuck can you help mommy stand up from her seat so I helped her and she had chum gum all over her butt. 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 remember when I was a little girl I went to St. Kevin's School and every day at lunch time we would to to the conner store and buy penny candy. Chum gum was my favorite. I thought I was the only one that had this gum and for a while I began to think it was all in my head. I asked some of my friends do they remember the gum and they tell me they have never heard of it. We have got to find this gum, It had the best flavor I have ever had in a gum. Chum gum has a flavor I will never for get and as most of you have said it bring back the good old days when being a child was care free and good times. I would love to be able to let my children and grandchild taste this gum. It would be like giving them a taste of the 60's. Now those were the days.

Chum Gum was the best...used to get it at the store on the corner of Irving and Damen where Lincoln intersects in Chicago. Fleer where are you, we need this back in our lives.

Oh my gosh, I have dreamed of Chum Gum for years. I also bought it when I was a teenager in the 60's and have looked for it through the years but never could find it! I too wish that who ever made it would bring it back!

I have searched also for Chum Gum, funny no one I know remembers it either. My brother would buy it by the case and hide it. I used to find it and steal him WONDERFUL Chum Gum!!! I sure wish some company would find the original recipe and make more!!! It was the bested ever!!

Chum Gum was made by Fleer. Their familiar logo is on the picture in this link. Fleer was acquired by Marvel Group in the early 1990's. Fleer owned the market on bubble gum sports trading cards at the time. Remember the gum in those cards? Also coated with powdered sugar. Chum Gum was my favorite. One stick was blue and one stick was pink. Chew one and give one to a Chum. My experience was in the 50's and 60's, though. Fleer made Dubble Bubble into the 2000's but sold to Tootsie who now makes it. I would love to see Chum Gum come back no matter what today's price would be!

I brought it up at work and NO ONE knew what I was talking about!! It was always part of my 10 cent bag of candy. Now does anyone remember Chik-O-Stix (sp??)

You would think with all the baby boomers in the world who remember this gum (including me) someone would bring it back. They would make a fortune. Best gum ever!!!!!

I loved Chum Gum! I wish I could find it somewhere! The absolute best bubblegum ever! Yes... I'm a baby boomer!N😃

I'm a pharmacy tech and one of the children's antibiotics smells JUST LIKE CHUM GUM when the water is added! Takes me back to my childhood every time ( I am 57). No one I know has heard of it! My sisters and brother don't remember it but I sure do! Best gum EVER!!!!

My sister and I were just talking about chum gum, it brought back our childhood and things were so good..miss this gum..

I use to do anything to earn money so I could walk to a little store three blocks to buy chum gum. This gum came in.a blue and green or pink and green or yellow and green. Best taste I will never forget. Fifty cents would get me a whole bag.... How I wish.someone would bring it back before Iam gone. Meh..

Im 60 and that was my favorite Gum.The original pack was blue with white writing.I remember that they did package it with the white wrapper. Sure wish they would make this gum again!The Best Gum Ever!

I remember well the days of my youth going to the Index Five and Dime Store over my grade school lunch hour and purchasing Chum Gum it was the bomb. Here's one for you how about Chum Gums little brother "RED DEVIL GUM" as I recall it was sweet and spicy

Wish I could get the recipe and have it made again. Bet I could have a large market for it.

Omg....nothing compares....I am 50 and remember Chum Gum was the best ever....I remember sneaking into my mother's purse and taking it....Brings back lots of fond memories. They really should bring it back!!!!

I'm 70, lived in Fisher Illinois and chewed it in 4th grade in 1954 and beyond. I want more.

We had Chum Gum in Dallas Texas in the 60's. I loved it. I wish they still made it.

I live in South Dakota and LOVED Chum Gum :) Bought it at Woolworth's here. Anyone remember sputnik gum? Another OLD favorite....

Chum Gum was a favorite of my whole family. My mom would walk with us to the neighborhood candy store and we would purchase it along with turtles, bazooka joe bubble gum, Wish they would get the recipe and reintroduce it!

Who made Chum Gum? There has to be a recipe out there somewhere. I grew up in Berwyn, IL and my sister and I lived on Chum Gum! We also used Dippity Doo on our hair and Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific! Those were the good ole days!

Chum Gum was made by Fleer, also makers of Dubble Bubble, from around 1950 until 1971. Fleer was based in Philadelphia at the time. Chum Gum had its fans (myself included), but other chewing gums made by Wrigley, Adams and Beech Nut proved bigger sellers.

Adding to my previous comments: Anyone wanting Chum Gum to reappear should contact the Tootsie Roll Company (tootsieroll.com), which purchased the Fleer company in 2004. 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. Fleer was stingy in budgeting for advertising, limited mainly to comic books and little TV play. This, along with stiff competition, meant a slow demise (and desire) for Chum Gum as the 1960s passed, quietly disappearing by the end of 1971.

Interesting comments on Chum Gum...Thanks for the history Rob Lambert. I found this gum's wrapper today, when cleaning a home here in Seattle. I enjoyed reading folk's fond memories of this gum...hopefully the recipe will be revived and on the shelves again!

Chewed it in Dallas in the late '50s and in Odessa through most of the '60s. It was coated with powdered sugar, and at two sticks for a penny could not be beat! Best ever - oh, to go back again! Best wishes to all Chum Gum lovers!

I loved chum him it was really best gum in my childhood every time is go to cracker barrel and see them about the chum gum but they seem to be clueless I wish we all can find the candy company to see for they can find the original ingredient to ale ch gum and put it back on the market nothing taste the same anymore not even kits and maryjane

I was in a small south eastern colo. town in 1978 and saw that dark blue wrapper. 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 :.(

Is there any other bubble gum that even comes close to chum gum?

Unfortunately, not, Susie. Chum Gum was a Fleer exclusive, there were no past or present copycats out there. 33 years had passed from when Fleer discontinued it (1971) to when Tootsie Roll bought out Fleer (2004). There was little demand for Chum Gum after it was dropped. Tootsie Roll dropped the Fleer name from all former products, such as Dubble Bubble, after the buyout. Tootsie Roll has displayed no interest in reviving Chum Gum.

Sad!

We had Chum gum in Silver Spring, Maryland. I learned about it from my brother in the late 60's. I think we bought it at the local 7-11. I remember especially liking the flavor which was unique, and different from other gums.

I grew up in El Dorado, Arkansas and remember chewing Chum Gum! I would walk down to the local store and buy all that I could get. I sure wish they still had it today (I'm 60 now)

Used to get Chum Gum at a utopia for kids candy store called appropriately 'Paradise' in Groton CT. used to put used gum in the fridge so I could start over again in the morning.:)

I grew up in Batavia, NY (60's-70's) and there was a corner candy store on Ross St. where we would return bottles for the deposit and buy Chum Gum, the tastiest gum ever. I miss it and have looked in throwback candy stores but it simply doesn't exist anymore...

I grew up in Santa Ana, CA in the early 1960's. The area where we lived was not fully developed so there were orange groves, strawberry fields, a chicken farm and a dairy farm. There was a small corner market (Rosita & 5th) that sold many of the "treats" I fondly remember like Scooter Pies, licorice by the foot, pixie sticks, Kits and my all time favorite Chum Gum. I still remember the anticipation as I opened the wrapper, the powder, the amazing smell and taste. I would sit in front of the store chewing away and blowing bubbles while I listened to some top hit song play on their parking lot speaker.Love Me Do by the Beatles comes to mind. Wow! what great memories. Thanks for letting me share.

chum gum was the best gum that i ever chewed.And its so sad that its gone for good. I was in my teens the best time of my life. So im just thankfull that i got to taste chum gum and i will never forget the taste. The 70's were the best of time.

Wow, I live outside of Pittsburgh Pa and loved Chum Gum. Never could find any. Can't believe so many people remembered that great tasting gum. Wish it would be back in the market. Best ever gum.

Thank you Rob Lambert for the info. I talk about Chum Gum atleast once a month. Not sure why I have such loyalty to this particular confection but like other bloggers, it had a distinct taste and smooth texture. It was my favorite bubble gum and apparently still is 50 years later! Best wishes to all Chum Gum fans.

Here's a wild one! There actually was a Chum Gum before Fleer's stick bubble gum! I found, on Ebay (sorry, folks, no Fleer Chum Gum for sale), an old advertisement page, from a Chicago newspaper, for a candy/novelty company from 1938. This company sold a stick, spearmint-flavored chewing gum...named Chum Gum! Five sticks in a cardboard box for five cents. This preceded Fleer's product by 13 years. History does not state if Fleer "borrowed" the name, or any legal problems because of it. The Chicago company was small. I'm guessing it went under during World War 2 (sugar rationing), and Fleer simply tagged the stick bubble gum as such, legally. The old ad piece may still be available...believe it was around $15.

I discovered Chum Gum in a small bait & tackle store, of all places, when I went fishing with my dad. I was under 10 years old at the time (I am 50 now) and I fell in love with it! I only had it a handful of times after that, as I rarely found anywhere after that. What's funny is that my dad, who had it as a kid, HATED it; even the smell of it bothered him. However, being his 'baby', he bought it for me that first time I saw it. After that, I was on my own when it came to buying it. If enough of us write to them, perhaps Fleer will bring it back. It can't hurt to try! Does anyone remember Adams brand fruit flavored gums...green apple, grape, cherry, and so on? It came in sticks (5 per pack, if I remember correctly ) and the pack color corresponded with the flavor. 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.

Heidi: Your only hope may be to contact Tootsie Roll, which bought out Fleer, and only sells the ex-Fleer product of today: Double Bubble. Adams flavored gums were plain chewing gum with a burst of sour power. They did make stick bubble gum in the early 1970s.

Let's start a petition to bring back our beloved Chum Gum. If enough of us asked, perhaps it could happen. LOVE ME SOME CHUM GUM-FOREVER. I bought it in the 60s in New Lebanon, Ohio. The best GUM ever made.

The Fleer Factory closed many years ago...To bad for us Chum Gum fans, My wife bought me on sale after easter. Bubble Gum Eggs from Arcor, Individually wrapped. Tastes a lot like it. Long lasting flavor and makes great bubbles. Popped it hours. that is what me go to this link is it tasted so much like it

Grew up in the western burbs of chicago.we used to go to the corner store every weekday morning.we would buy two things a new rawlings baseball and all the chum gum we could.In addition to the best taste we would all put 4 or 5 pcs in our mouth,and then spit in our mitts and rub it in.you never dropped a ball,it was like glue.After baseball we would go back to the corner store for ice cold Kayo.Boy are those the greatest memories.

I loved chum gum, it was the best gum when I was a kid. Bought it from woolworths in the penny candy section. Me and my sister would collect empty soda bottles becaus you got a penny a piece return on them. We would split the money we got( .10 to .15 cents) and then hit the penny candy. Chum gum, lip sticks,bonomo taffy ect..... Great days, they truly were better days I don't care what anyone says.

Walters Variety Store in Riverside, CA. The BEST penny candy counter ever. Chum Gum was a favorite of mine and my siblings! It was the best! We also bought these little rolls of candy called BIZ. Does anyone remember them? I since have moved east and am always searching for "California Candy"! Would love to find some BIZ!!

My fellow chum gum lovers, I too always get strange looks when I speak of this gum. Rauls corner store on the west side of Chicago was my supplier! The closest I have come to this flavor is Wrigleys Extra classic bubble flavor. Try it...You will not be disappointed;)

I was wondering if anyone out there happens to remember Light Blue Sugar Coated gumballs. I think I may be the only one who remembers these! They were relish!!!

Miss Chum Gum Bought at the candy store by Gregory School in Chicago in the mid fifties. Found it in other stores in Chicago and suburbs Til the 70s Best gum all my friends chewed it and all remembered it and miss it

I recall the sugar coated blue gum! Remember how much of the penny candy and gum was unwrapped. I loved the blue gum all, the grape and the sour apple. But Chum Gum was the best. I'm 57 and I just remember pink Chum. Not blue. Did they change it or is my memory bad?

Loved the blue sugar coated gum balls!

I have thought of Chum gum several times and just now decided to google is.. So nice that I am not imagining how good Chum Gum was... and would order a box of it right now if I could find it. Grew up in ND... best gum ever... !!!

God I miss this gum. Used to be able to get it at ONE and only one ice cream place in Virginia. Best gum ever! Someone needs to get Fleer to either release the formula to a small batch candy maker or do some batches themselves!

Best gum ever! Chewed it daily growing up in Youngstown, OH during the 60's. Helen's Party Shop on the corner of St. Louis Ave & Hillman St carried it.

My Chum Gum memory is from the sixties. My best friend and neighbor, Brian, and I, after sharing some moneymaking enterprise, would split the proceeds and go to the corner store (Woodlawn Foods in Seattle) and buy penny candy. If our proceeds were an odd number, we would buy a one cent Chum Gum with the odd penny because it had two pieces of gum and we could split the penny.

My brother and I lived in Riggs Park, Washington DC in the 1950s, and remember buying Chum Gum on a mobile grocery bus. It was the best gum ever...powdered sugar coating the green, yellow or raspberry-colored gum. Wish I had some right now!

I loved the Chum Gum and the name! 1 stick for me and one to share with a "chum" Chum gum

I used to buy Chum Gum in St. Mary's, Pa at Johnson's Market, next to the Market Basket grocery store. The closest I have come to that taste is Great Value (Walmart, sad to say) Strawberry Banana yogurt. Then again, the aroma of a bag of coffee beans reminds me of a skunk. Oh, well.

Loved Chum Gum, lived on High School Road Indianapolis 1964-1969,most people I asked about it have never heard of it, good to know I wasn't dreaming..it was the best..those were the days.

I loved this gum. I have looked high and low but no luck of finding any. I use to go to the candy store and with 25 cents I could buy a bag of penny candy and be so happy. I don't understand how many gum companies there are and no one makes it. They would kill the market and make a lot of us so happy. They would make lots of money. Somewhere there is the recipe in someone chest. If anyone finds it. Please announce it to the world so we all can get some. So glad I found this blog.

Well. it appears that there is still a HUGE interest in Chum Gum. I am 58 and I recall it very well when I was in grade school. Just did a google search and now I am blown away to see the number of people here who still remember this great chewing gum!

Ahh good to see so many that remember this one of a kind gum. CHUM GUM ---YUM!!! I can almost taste it. Bought it at the corner market. 25 cents went a long way back in the 60's. loaded up a bag of penny candy like red licorice, hot dog gums, candy lipstick and best of all chum gum !! No gum compares to the taste or texture. Juicy Fruit was my other favorite, bought some the other day and NOPE, the flavor was a miss. Looked at the ingredients and they now have mixed in synthetic sweeteners and other crap. The pure flavor of juicy fruit is gone. I see racks in some stores that are bribing back old time candies, but never Chum Gum. Let us all write Tootsie Pop and request its return. A whole generation needs to experience this taste treat. Share across the isle in a diverse world and bring us together with CHUM GUM!

Sure would like to but some it was the BEST

There has never been before or after that is better that Chum Gum. I grew up in Jacksonville,Florida and to this day can remember the smell and taste of it. I blew my first bubble with a stick of Chum Gum. I'm almost 60 and sure wish I could chew a piece.

I grew up in Neptune beach Fl. I used to ride my bike about s mile to Campbells Drug store on the corner of Atlantic blvd and ocean blvd. It was the best. Chum gum was my very favorite. Never been anything close to how good it was. I'd get a small vanilla or cherry coke for 7 cents (the best also) from the fountain and boxes of jujubes. Omg. Then head home. Get up in My tree house and eat it all. Chum gum ruled. Wish I could buy some now. Miss it. How do we find the manufacturer and talk them into making it again. Yum yum chum gum!!!

Pam: The original maker of Chum Gum was Fleer. Production of it ended by 1972, though stores had bought bulk, continuing to sell it for years after. Tootsie Roll bought Fleer 12 years ago, and today makes Dubble Bubble, another old Fleer product. Your only hope may be to contact Tootsie Roll. Since they make Dubble Bubble, why not make Chum Gum also?

I found an old wrapper while deep cleaning a while back in my store . I take it out sometimes and think back .In the 50s it was 3sticks for .01. Then went to 2for .01 . I would like to see it on the market again also. I,m 67 and can still taste it. Maybe one day!

I grew up in Maryland and used to buy Chum Gum at the little general store that sold penny candy and gas. Chum Gum was the best flavor ever for bubble gum! Wish someone would make it again. I am 56 years old and have been searching for it for years

Chum Gum... THE BEST EVER... Has anyone ever reached out to Tootsie Roll and asked about remaking it?

Bought Chum Gum at Rapid Mart in phoenix, az in the 50's and 60's. was 3 sticks for a penny at first, went to 2 sticks, then 1 stick, and finally disappeared altogether. Along with baseball card gum, also with the powdered sugar, it was the best gum ever.

I so loved this gum.Best everon the market. I wish someone could find more info., bring it back.

OMG! Bought Chum Gum everyday at Turpacks store in Endicot, N.Y. across the street from G.W.J. Elementary school. 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 bubbles were incredible. So sad that it can no longer be found.

I am 78 years old and would buy a box today if I could find it. Let me know if anyone finds any or information on CHUM GUM. Thanks rlinard@aol.com

I’m from Boston and Any time I ask people if they remember chum gum people think I’m making it up! Not only was it the best deal and best tasting, I loved the smell so much I would buy it and keep it in my room as a kid!! Would love to see this come back on the market!

I lived in Cheverly, Maryland ‘64-‘74, we would collect soda bottles to cash in and buy candy at 7-11. Of the many penny candies we bought, we also bought Chum Gum.

I grew up in Baltimore city in a neighborhood where there was a little store on most corners. I only remember one of them selling Chum gum and that was on Millington Lane, right next to St Benedict’s school. I can still remember the incomparable taste of that gum. Yum! And like many of you here no one that I know remembers it. It has brought a big smile to my face reading all these comments 😘S8C

While looking over newspaper microfilm in Kenosha, Wis., came across an ad by Topps Discount Store from October, 1970 (Halloween candy featured). Ad mentions that all favorite Fleer bubble gum products (as a buying suggestion) were available. Chum Gum, Razzles and Dubble Bubble mentioned. Years of searching, this was the only printed Chum Gum reference I could find. Used to visit that Topps store with my mother, as a kid. The store (8500 Sheridan Rd.) first opened in 1969, closing in 1974 (corporate bankruptcy). Building served as a mall, with theater, in the 1980s. Today, it's the Kenosha Job Center.

Rob Lambert, thanks for all the info you have shared about this product. I’m 67 yers old and would purchase a case of Chum Gum if we could find it. I wish Tootsie Roll administrators could see the number of people searching for this gum. Along with many others I too would interested being contacted if it is available again. Drumler@yahoo.com

You're welcome, Dave, and thanks for reading!

I never googled chum gum and just did. I have asked a lot of people in that era and they never heard of it. So glad so many people loved it as I did, brings back childhood memories.

I live in San Fernando Valley, Calif. I remember Chum gum and got some in the mid 70s in Folsom at an old town general store,on a family vacation. In the mid 80s, my sister and I were driving near Folsom and we made a special trip to that general store just to see if they had any Chum Gum. They didn't have any, but, it was a good time anyway. One other candy I have not seen mentioned here was a MILK SHAKE CANDY BAR. Used to get that from the Helms Bakery Truck that used drive thru the neighborhood in the mornings. When White Front was around. When a specially marked charmspop wrapper could get you a free one. I see a few people say these were the best times of their life. I am 60 and like to think the best times are still here, just being alive and healthy.

Oh why can’t they bring back Chum Gum like they have brought back so many other old time candies?! Chum Gum was the best!

Time-warping back to October, 1971, found another newspaper ad mentioning Chum Gum, Dubble Bubble and Razzles as suggestions to give trick-or-treaters on Halloween. The Sunday Milwaukee (WI) Journal had a supplemental ad section for Treasure Island, a discount chain store operating as a lower-budget retailer under the JC Penney umbrella. Treasure Island lasted from 1962 to 1977. The Milwaukee stores sold nearly everything you'd want, including hunting rifles and ammo. During this time, Fleer was near the end of producing Chum Gum due to lower demand. Stores thought buying it (wholesale) in bulk would generate bigger profits. Hardly the case. Many stores had Chum Gum available well into the mid 1970s, years after manufacturing ended. The boxes were sealed, preserving freshness and flavor, so consumers hardly complained. Treasure Island stores distinctly had wavy rooftops or front facades. Penney's disbanded the chain after 15 years to maintain focus on its high-end merchandise.

From 1970, Fleer began selling Chum Devil Gum. Wrapper has a devil's head printed and "Red Hot Chewing or Bubble Gum" printed on wrapper. Very spicy. After the flavor wore off, the sting would last for hours on your tongue. Unfortunately, this didn't save Chum Gum from oblivion shortly after.

From 1963, a newspaper ad for the Racine, Wis., Neisner Bros. variety store (5c to $1.00). On sale, if you bought any ten Fleer penny gum products (Chum Gum included), the eleventh was free. Neisner was a New York based chain of variety stores, and the Racine store was downtown at 424 Main St. In business from 1930 to 1971. I remember the lunch counter inside, plus an arcade style shooting game in back (ten shots for a dime). Declining profits, and the threat of steeper property taxes, prompted Neisner to close in December, 1971. A furniture store replaced it in 1972.