Oh wow I loved that gum! It was from around 1971-74 that I remember it the most. I lived in Southern California and used to buy it all of the time. I found a couple of pictures of it (online) and will try to post them.

Ice Cream Gum was awesome!!! I can still remember exactly how it tastes and I don't even have to close my eyes to do it. Oh how I wish they'd make this again!!!!

Oh, I can taste and smell it right now! I would have been between around 4 years old in 1975 when a nice lady would bring vanilla ice cream gum to me at church. I would sit with her and chew on that gum - oh, what a great memory! I wish they would make it again, too!!!

I lived in Phoenix Arizona from 1973-1977 and Smitty's grocery store carried Ice Cream gum at the check-out line, I was 4 1/2-8 1/2 years old,I remember begging my mom to buy it for me. I absolutely loved it, I ask friends now and again, if they remember the gum; when we start reminencing about the 70's. Great memories, of simple times and less choices.

OH MY GOD!!! I loved this as a kid, and I have been trying to find at the very least a reference to it somewhere. This is the only thing I've ever seen aside from one person on a message board who knew it. I'll be e-mailing this link to her. Thank you! I was beginning to think I'd lived in some alternate universe! 8~D

I grew up in the Phoenix area as well.I found these posts doing a google search for this gum. I was in the checkout line at Walmart and purchased a chocolate mint flavor of Trident, hoping it would remind me of the Ice Cream gum from my childhood. Anyone know the proper name of this gum and who made it?

OMG!!! How that takes me further down memory lane. I'm so excited that some people "out there" remember this gum. My experience is the Vanilla ice cream gum with the clown on the pack. It was a white packaging with baby blue accenting. I used to go to Genovese drug store with my mom and it was sitting by the check out lane. I LOVE the memory. I am sooo, sooo excited to have others take me down memory lane. This was in the 70's, no doubt! That was my favorite, favorite era in life. I can see the ice cream gum. Does anyone know who made it or find a picture?

I remember this gum so clearly. I was about 7 or 8. My favorite was the strawberry flavor. I would love to have my kids sample the gum. Man I miss those times...thanks for taking me back!!!!!

Hey, is this subject for women only??? As kids, my brother lived for the chocolate, my sister for the strawberry, and I had to have my own flavor. I really did like the vanilla. This stuff is what childhood memories are made of. I'd pay ten bucks for a pack of it today.

For some reason This gum just popped into my head tonight. I forgot about it and tonight it just came up. I looked it up and found ur page. Thank you for posting a photo.Like everyone has said it was around in the 70s. I lived in Seaford New York at the time and loved this gum. You could smell the flavor without even unwrapping it. It was great. Wish they had it today.

I remember this stuff as well. I really miss being a kid in the 70's!

This gum rocked!! And it was a nice addition to the gum wrapper chains that I used to make--it kind of broke up the Juicy Fruit, Teaberry, etc wrappers.

I enjoyed all three favors. I grew up in Indiana and would buy it from the A&P.

I grew up in Southern Illinois and my dad owned an old time pharmacy that sold the gum. I was just telling someone about it and decided to look it up. No one I know remembers it so it was great to find your site.

Does anyone know who made the ice cream gum. Vanilla was my favorite treat when we would go to Carl's Drugs store in Amsterdam NY!

This gum was the best! I grew up in the Boston area and the corner store sold it. My favorite was the Vanilla, then Strawberry and my best friend liked the chocolate...think it was around 1972---I want the 70's back!

Unreal...someone told me that this gum NEVER existed. I knew I wasn't imagining it. WIsh I remember who it was so I could send them this link!!!!!!!!!!! Miss the old days and all the good things like ice cream gum :)

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE that GUM!!!!!!!!! Vanilla was my favorite!!!!!!!! Bought it at the corner drug store when i was a kid!!!!!!! Those were the days!!!!!! Love to go back in time!!!!!!!! By any chance does ANYBODY remember BLOOPERS candy? They were round and tasted like sweetarts!!! from the 70s? Everybody thinks i'm NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember going to the dime store and looking for the gum with the smiling clown. I believe the flavor lasted for about 12 seconds.

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You people are warped. This was the most disgusting thing I ever had as a kid. This made Necco wafers seem good.

I remember I always wanted this gum despite the clown. My father worked for Warner Lambert which owned Adams at the time, so he was ok buying it for his excited 4 year old whinning daughter. It' was 1971 and I first saw it in a grocery store in Camden Mo in the Ozarks. Vanilla was my first flavor but Strawberry became my favorite. I can still remember the smell and taste of this gum. It was a sad day when they stopped making this. I tried to explain this to several people and they thought I made it up. You can find pictures in a book called Kiddie Foods. This book was my only saving grace to others that I didn't make up this great gum. Bring it back and let us enjoy a simple time.

I am so happy I was able to search the net and find that this gum really did exist. Every person I have mentioned this gum to looked at me as if I was crazy. I remember a small convience store a few blocks from my house that sold all sorts of candy and this gum. Chocolate and vanilla were my 2 favorites :) I wish they would make this gum again!!!!

Nobody I know, (even my mom who used to buy it for me) remembers it. I wonder which company made it. It was wonderful! Even the chocolate flavored gum was great! I remember the scent, and taste of this gum even today. I remember it had a clowns face on the package. I keep wanting to try it again. I also liked "the pop shoppe" stores (if anyone remembers that place). I don't really recall ice cream gum surviving into the 80s. I WANT IT BACK! Whick company made it?!

The chocolate....mmmmm. I wore my stride rite clow sneakers with the removable fuzzy clown nose on the laces while chewing this gum.

I totally remember this gum. I can still taste the chocolate, which was my favorite although a little odd tasting! I wish there was some company out there that still made this! How disappointing.

I have thought about this gum so much that I typed it in and this website came up. What a wonderful memory! I used to get this gum when I lived in East Tennessee. The gum and East Tn. are such wonderful childhood memories!

The three material things I remember most about summer 1973: the vanilla flavor of this gum, Wacky Packages, and my yellow five-speed stick-shift Sting Ray bike. I think some other company tried their hand at "ice cream gum" some years later, but it was far inferior.

A friend of mine was just saying that they should make chocolate gum, which got me reminiscing about the chocolate ice cream gum. I thought I remembered other flavors, but I always got the chocolate. I remember getting this as a kid in the early or mid 70s (I was born in 1969) at the Osco in Rockford, IL.

I really like the '70s Black Jack gum packaging in the picture.

I went to the Five Below store with my kids and saw that the now make Fruit Stripes in sugarless form now. When I saw that and many other old favorites, I looked for my vanilla clown gum but none to be found. I still reminisce about that gum with my husband who also used to chew it although I remember eating a lot of pieces at once because the flavor didn't last long. I also liked the other flavors, but vanilla was my favorite!

I am so glad I found this site because I have told people for decades now that when I was a kid in the 70's I had chocolate gum and it had a picture of a clown on the wrapper. Well, NO ONE believed me or thought I was nuts. LOL!! No one remembered and here as dodo I find it!!! So I wasn't dreaming it! and I knew it... Thanks for this site and the memory of the chocolate gum I had as a kid!! :)

Im sure do remember a store in san antonio texas by the name of piggly wiggly, and my dad would take me there all the time to buy the strawberry, vanilla and chocolate ice cream gum. Oh, how this takes me down memory lane. It was in the 70's I must have been between 6-9 yrs old. This gum was so good, sure do wish they would have continued to make it.

I've never met anyone who has heard of this gum! I used to get it at a small grocery store in town when I was about 6. I still think about it! I'm so glad there are others who have heard of it!

I thought I was the only one in the world who remembered this gum!!! Awesome! I can still remember how it tasted. My kids says it sounds disgusting. Man, the 70s were great. lol

Good to see all the ice cream gum fans here. Thought I was the only one that remembered or cared! As a little girl in the 70's I would ride my bike to the little store down the street and get Ice Cream Gum! Loved it. Have always wondered why it went away so quickly and why it isn't available now!

I'm from northern IN and remember this gum from the early 70's, too. Obviously, I've tried to google a case of this stuff or I never would've found this thread. Like most here, if I can picture it, I can taste it. There are kits available to make your own chewing gum. I might attempt vanilla.

Good stuff! I remember this gum well. 8 Sticks for a dime. Such a deal! I submitted a couple of pics I dug up on the web. Enjoy.

Wow! I am so happy to have found pictures and stories about the "good old" days of the 70's. I no longer chew gum as an adult but I was reminiscing about my childhood and telling my young children how I loved this chewing gum that came in chocolate, vanilla and strawberry with clowns on the package. This was sold at a dept. store in the 70's in California. Perhaps, it was Sears. Anyway, thank you for the information. Great times!!

I was thinking about ice cream gum from the seventies and I found this page. I think what jogged my memory was the yummy smell of some strawberry lotion I bought recently. The scent reminded me of the gum and then I remembered the chocolate and vanilla flavors. Good memories.

I remember as a kid, being in bed sick on my birthday and my dad asking if he could bring me anything from the store. I asked for some ice cream gum. He brought me chocolate and strawberry. I remember the chocolate tasted weird but I really liked the strawberry. The 70's were the best!

I was just talking about this today at work .. wish they still made it! Of course I felt OLD when NO ONE had a clue what I was talking about!

I remember buying this gum as a child at this little grocery store. I miss the great ice cream flavors. They should make this product again.

Wow! I remember this stuff too! I liked the vanilla and strawberry the best. I've mentioned this over the years to others and they always thought I was crazy. I can still close my eyes and remember the smell and taste of it, perhaps someday it will exist again.

I just saw that Wrigley's Extra has a mint chip ice cream gum and some other dessert flavor. Will pick them up this week.

I don't remember ice cream gum being sticks... they were GUM BALLS ! Like SNOW BALLS with some kind of texture on them! Anyone recall that? MMmmmm vanilla ice cream gum!

I was just telling my daughter and my girlfriend about a vanilla-ice cream chewing gum I had as a toddler and the chocolate flavor, when I decided to google it and I found you guys, I thought I was imagining that it ever existed because no one I told the story to remembered it, until I found you guys and gals, nice to no i haven't completely lost my mind

I'm so glad I found proof that this gum existed because no one ever believes me when I tell that about it.

I WAS DRIVING DOW THE ROAD THINKING OF THIS GUM AND REMEMBER BUYING IT AT JACK'S SUPERMARKET, BOSWELL, PA...I LOVED THIS GUM, MY MOM THOUGHT I WAS NUTS FOR REMEMBERING IT, WISH THEY STILL MADE IT!! AWESOME STUFF!!! CHOC MY FAVORITE :)

Alexandria, Va., early 1970's, Burgundy Villiage High's Dairy Store, Chocolate and Vanilla over and over and over. Vanilla my favorite but you had to snatch a few when they had them cause it was popular. Our elementary school had an Ice Cream Gum / Cinamon Toothpic dealer. He'd could hook you up, but it was gonna cost you. And his lips were always broken out (from too many toothpics hanging right there).

I loved this gum! My grandfather was in the candy business and brought us a case of this stuff when it first came out in the very early 70's. The gum came in sticks, packaged in white, pink, and brown with a blue and red clown smiley face on the vanilla package. The wrappers were plain paper without foil. The vanilla flavor was my favorite, very sweet and delicious. The strawberry came in second, but the chocolate had kind of an odd taste, like they could never get it quite right. I believe it was the first of the three flavors to disappear.

WOW!!! I would love going to the store with my dad just so I might get a chance of getting a pack of this gum. Chocolate was my favorite.I wasnt able to blow bubbles but having chocolate gum was FUN!!!

i talk about this gum all the time & people think i'm crazy because nobody else remembers it. it was out in the early to mid 70's. the reason i'll never forget it is because it was the gum that i learned to blow a "bubble" with. it tasted so good, the flavor lasted pretty long. wish they'd bring it back! :)4G

I totally remember this gum!!! It was the best thing when I was growing up in the 70's. We used to walk to the E-Z convenience store and I couldn't wait to get the chocolate and strawberry. I think someone else above mentioned that it was made by Adams. I would pay big bucks to get some of that gum right now!!!!

I totally remember this gum...Vanilla was my favorite although i liked the other 2 flavors as well...It didnt last long so you would go through the whole pack in a few minutes..I always think of the gum with the clown on the wrapper i can still taste it in my mind..I wish they would make it again...The 70's were the best time to be a kid :)

I am so glad so many others were influenced the way I was. Chewed it in Boise, ID in the mid 70's. All I remembered from this gum was the 3 flavors, it was sticks, the clown and the wonderful smell and taste of the Vanilla. Would love to see a picture of the wrapper.

You absolutely NAILED It!!! Clown with baloons on the label .... Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry .... I thought I eas the only one who's fond of this! lol This website ROCKS!!

I am so happy to finally find other people who remember this gum like I do. South Orange, NJ (1971-1974) and I chewed this gum like nobody's business. Over Thanksgiving 1972 we drove from NJ to Bryce Mountain in the Shenandoah Mountains (Va) and I chewed the same piece of gum the whole way there......until it turned to paper and fell apart in my mouth......how I loved this gum. I miss my childhood and the 1970's!!!!

I totally remember this gum. We used to buy it at the Super-X drug store in Peoria, Illinois. Wish they still made it!

Wow! I was a little little kid when i remember chewing this gum.I only remembered the chocolate kind.I couldnt remember the ice cream part only the clown!So it wasnt in my head & no one around me remembered it til now.Thanks for this website!

OMG I seriously cannot believe how many people have been searching for this too? THE MEMORIES....I loved the chocolate and vanilla it was always more expensive for one of the flavors and cannot remember which one- I would take my allowance of $1 in 1973 and pay 10-15 cents for a pack....where can we find this?

I was a teenager when they came with that gum. I wish somebody would make it again too.

I started thinking I dreamed it! Now, I know Im not that crazy. I grew up in Maryland, and every one I mentioned it to(people I grew up with)did not remember it. I did google it a few years back,nothing. But now, here it is! Now if I could find some and get my fix,Well,That would make life in America a little better than it already is! Thanks!!!

I didn't think anyone but me remembered this gum! Where did it go?!? I used to love that gum as a kid.

My favorite memory of growing up in Garden Grove, CA was shopping with my mom at Lucky's and her buying me a pack of this gum. I wish I could go back in time.

Like many others here people would act like i was crazy when asking if they knew were i could find the chocolate chewing gum. It got to the point that i thought i had imagined it. I remember my dad bringing in the chocolate and strawberry flavors and once a pack of vanilla that he bought at a hardware store in east tn. Man i miss those days

My dad worked for the company that made these gums so my brothers and I had an unlimited supply. I happened on this website tonight because we were having a discussion about these gums. If anyone would like to remember what the chocolate gum tasted like just get a bottle of shock top shockolate wheat beer. We were having a bottle of this (not very good) beer. The only thing we could think about while drinking it is wow! This taste exactly like that gum we had as kids!! I mean it tastes exactly the same!! Strange I know!

It tastes better than the gum they have out their now. They need to produce some more for a limited time. I bought my gum at Ben Franklin store at Picket Shopping Center in Fairfax City, Virginia in the mid seventies!

I also thought I was nuts, nobody that I have talked to about this gum remembers it, not even my brothers. I wish I had some right now.

Acquired first tooth cavity thanks to this gum especially the Vanilla flavour. Well worth it though! Also, can't find Frosty Treat anywhere on this site. It was ice cream sold in individual cups with a pretty ice skater girl on it..seems like blue lettering. Used to get them at the drive-in theatre in the summer..1978 and Grease!

I loved this stuff as a kid. You could get it at Woolworths. Can it be found anywhere?! My brother doesn't remember it, but a least my husband does!

Yes, I remember this gum, especially the clown on the packaging. I saw it at a drugstore in the Marina District, probably on Chestnut Street, one of my earliest candy memories. back then there was a yogurt commercial that used the Ohio Express' 'Yummy Yummy Yummy as an ad jingle/ Also the name 7-Up was spelled with rows of dots on the bottle or can.

This has popped into my head from time to time, and it was AMAZING...the smell and the taste...YUM! I also loved Fruit Stripe gum. I want some ice cream gum now, and to go back in time when it existed! :(

My comment is for the Adams wildberry sour gum ... Every Saturday morning My Mom would send me to the store around the corner from where we lived in Richmond va.Absolutely wished it as still sold somewhere ... all flavors were good... 70's good times