GUM STICK TRICK

 

Have you ever noticed that if you find something you like or is practical that they stop making it? I sure have. I suspect yet another conspiracy this time by manufacturers. Take for example Stouffer’s Noodles Romanoff. Those little boxes of pure hedonistic delight are no longer available! “If it’s good they’ll stop making it”, I always say and this is yet another example to add credence to my bold statement. Perhaps others have noticed this bit of conspiratorial phenomenon too.  I could site hundreds of examples at this point, but I will constrain myself to the thesis at hand, namely Black Jack Gum. In my opinion this is the best clewing gum flavor in the world! When we were kids this great gum was sold for 5 cents a pack everywhere along with it’s sisters Beeman’s and Teaberry. I was never really fond of Teaberry, but Beeman’s was good. The only problem with Beeman’s was that like cheap bubblegum, it would tend to dissolve and break up in your mouth. At that point I would swallow it and then tempt fate of it “gumming up my insides” as my mother used to warn.  In a further quirk of temptation, Black Jack, Beeman’s and Teaberry gum is only sold in October the last several years. I picked up a bunch at the local gas station yesterday and am sating my yearning taste buds with the heavenly taste of it this very moment!  It cost 50 cents a pack now, but money is no object when it comes to this sating sinfully delicious delight! I suspect the Adams Company knows that Black Jack Gum addicted Baby Boomers would pay any price for a pack of this precious delight!  Every October I look forward to buying a bunch of it to sooth my life-long addiction!  Black and Turquoise have always been my favorite color combinations and even presently they are my official Stable Colors. I suspect that this comes from Black Jack Gum too since it is the same color combination of its wrappers and pack! It’s getting harder every year to wait for it too. In the other eleven months I keep fighting the temptation to plan a caper to highjack a semi load of it as it makes its way from the Black Jack Ware House where ever it is. I can see the Headlines now, “A BLACK JACK HIGH JACK”!!!! I noticed that it’s made in Canada. Maybe the Adams Gum Company deliberately planned this by making it out of the country to avoid crazed Black Jack Gum addicted Baby Boomers from sticking up stores and high jacking delivery trucks every October. Hmmmm, if any of you Baby Boomers want to get together with me next October… Nahhhh, on second thought never mind. They don’t mark their trucks anyway. At least I’ve never seen a black and turquoise semi with “Black Jack Gum” painted on its sides in any October, have you? They wouldn’t dare do that! I’m sure they run plain unobtrusive trucks with no indication anywhere of what they’re really hauling! It’s as though the manufacturers are taunting us Black Jack Gum lovers with a strange twist of fate! When we were kids, our Uncle Ned got us addicted to Black Jack Gum. The problem is that he would only ever give us ½ a stick of it!!!! Even now, I feel just a little guilty chewing a whole stick! But, hey, I certainly do enjoy it even at 10 cents a chew! Hey, you know what… I’m going to check the Internet to see if I can maybe order Black Jack Gum from some other source anytime of the year!!! Hmmmm, it’s worth a try, what have I got to loose? I’ll keep you all posted on my progress!!!!