Diemer became a senior vice president at the Fleer Company and was also put on the board of directors. He stayed with the company for the rest of his career, retiring in , but remaining on the board for a few more years. As for the Fleer Corporation, the Philadelphia factory was closed in , and the family put the company on the market.
In Concord Confections purchased the candy division of the company. Concord picked up production of most of the original products and added a bubble gum ball that sold well. In the Tootsie Roll company bought Concord. Dubble Bubble continues to be manufactured—two of the three plants are now in Canada. To read about the first chewing gum, click here. And to read about other sweets, read the stories of jelly beans and candy corn.
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In , Concord Confections purchased Fleer and along with it the classic icon of American pop culture, the famous "Crown and Oval" Dubble Bubble logo. And in August of , Tootsie Roll acquired Concord Confections to expand its presence in the bubble gum category. Today, the company, through Tootsie continues to grow and expand its reach globally. Dubble Bubble gumballs continue to be a popular favorite among young and old alike. Many people frequently misspell the trademark name as "Double" rather than "Dubble" when searching for gumballs online.
Organic latex, a milky white fluid produced by a variety of seed plants, is best known as the principle component of rubber. Used as a snack, gum has no nutritive value, and, when people have finished chewing, they generally throw it away rather than swallow it. Throughout history, people in many regions have selected naturally chewy and aromatic substances as breath fresheners or thirst quenchers. The Greeks used mastic tree resin; the Italians, frankincense; the West Indians, aromatic twigs; the Arabs, beeswax.
Tree resins appear to have been the most popular, and spruce sap had been a favored chewing substance for centuries in North America before New England colonists adopted it for their own enjoyment. Although spruce gum was available to anyone willing to go out into the woods and extract it from a tree, John Curtis and his son, John Bacon Curtis, thought they could package and market it.
In the mids, they experimented with the first manufacture of chewing gum sticks. First they boiled the spruce gum and skimmed off impurities such as bark before adding sugar and other fillers. Then they rolled it, let it cool, and cut it into sticks which they dipped in cornstarch, wrapped in paper, and placed in small wooden boxes. The Curtis company thrived, and business grew still further when the younger Curtis developed a machine to mass produce gum and founded the first chewing gum factory.
The Curtis's manufacturing process is roughly the same one used to produce chewing gum today. Despite the Curtis's success, very few other spruce gum factories were established during the nineteenth century. However, in William F. Semple took out the first patent on chewing gum. His formula was the earliest attempt to create latex-based gum, yet he never manufactured or marketed it.
However, chewing gum as we know it today was first manufactured that year by Thomas Adams. Adams could find no way of treating the chicle to render it useable, but he thought it would make an excellent chewing gum that could easily replace paraffin, the tasteless wax that dominated the chewing gum market at the time.
To give his gum the proper size and consistency, Adams put the chicle in hot water until it was the consistency of putty. He then flavored it with sassafras and licorice, kneaded it, and shaped it into little balls. In Adams was the first to patent a gum-making machine. The machine kneaded the gum and ran it out in long, thin strips that could be cut off by druggists, who were the most common direct seller of chewing gum in the early days.
Adams' venture proved successful, and his American Chicle Company and its gum are still around today. The most successful chewing gum company ever is that established by William Wrigley, Jr. Although the company, run by the founder's son and grandson after his death in , developed a wide array of flavored gums, it dropped many of these to concentrate on its biggest sellers: "Juicy Fruit," "Doublemint," and "Wrigley's Spearmint.
Like earlier Wrigley products, all have proven popular. The secrets behind the success of Wrigley gums—the company has never made anything else—are strong flavor and prominent advertising. As William Wrigley, Jr. This step of the process lasts a few hours, as the gum is flattened and pressed.
Large chunks are cut off from the larger piece and are flattened to exactly. Once this thickness is achieved, the gum is prepared for cutting. Throughout this entire process, the gum is being dusted with powdered sugar so it is easier to cut.
A machine cuts every piece of gum down to the same size: 1. The gum is then set out to "season" at a room temperature, which means that it concentrates flavor within the individual sticks of gum. Once the gum has finished seasoning, the individual sticks are wrapped in aluminium foil or wax paper, and placed in their proper packaging and shipped off to stores across the nation.
For those of you wondering how is bubblegum made, most people don't like the fact that it is made from latex sap or a combination of chemicals.
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