![]() ![]() ![]() It might be hard to imagine these days, but the world of kid-centric candies and sweets used to be very small and generally unexciting. So, how did a stick of chewing gum find its place in pop culture amid so much progress and chaos? That’s a good question. Meanwhile in France, the Eiffel Tower was nearing completion, and a similarly large French gift, the Statue of Liberty, was steaming its way toward Manhattan Island. Hyde both in Scotland and the Western United States. While Mark Twain was finishing up The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn somewhere in Connecticut, Robert Louis Stevenson was dreaming up Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. ![]() Of course, the whole Western World was moving and changing right alongside the young American nation. At the time, the United States was in the middle of a continuous explosion of growth and change, as nearly all of the”Wild West” had been settled and increasingly more railroad lines were stretching toward California and the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to the industrious Thomas Adams and the then-exiled Mexican President Santa Anna, Black Jack was introduced as America’s first flavored chewing gum in 1884. ![]()
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