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captkirk42
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:39 AM | |
MY experience with 10+ year old gum was usually that it was rock hard and in pieces to begin with (along the lines of PartagasX's '89 Bowman.) Usually tasted like something worse than chalk.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:15 PM | |
Good news, gents. I can report that I lived through the night. I have survived!
To answer the questions, the gum had no smell, and after the initial crunch, it pretty much turned to powder, like I imagine eating chalk would be. I've never eaten chalk. The powder dissolved and I was quickly left with nothing. There was no "Gum" qualities to this stick. Couldn't be chewed, and I will definitly not be challenging Kurt Bevacqua for his bubble-blowing championship. The taste was something maybe like eating an actually baseball card would be (I've never done that either). The good news is that I uploaded a scan of the wrapper since we didn't have one, and I am working on scanning the cards. I thought it was weird that we had scans for all of the insert stickers but none of the cards. The bad news is that in a pack of ten cards, I got three doubles within the pack. So I only have seven cards for the set.
Thank you all for your concern. Maybe I will do this again in another ten years. I've eaten old gum from packs before, but never a piece old enough to run for president.
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Finestkind
Posts: 591
Joined: Nov 2013
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 2:10 PM | |
I have a few packs of 1977 Topps Mexican football. You can have the gum i
If you want to try that. :)
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armac
Posts: 331
Joined: Oct 2014
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:06 PM | |
Do you have any Topps Mexican Browns cards to trade?
Finestkind wrote: I have a few packs of 1977 Topps Mexican football. You can have the gum i
If you want to try that. :)
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spazmatastic
Posts: 5,905
Joined: Dec 2014
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:42 PM | |
That last sentence is great! :-D I'm glad you survived it too. The gum really wasn't that bad when they made it 30 years ago!
I've chewed the gum from packs in the 1980's, but that was when they were still (somewhat) new. As a kid, they weren't bad but didn't last long before they started to dissolve into nothing and you'd spit them out quickly when that started to happen (or just shove more pieces in your mouth). :-D
I also chewed the gum from packs from somewhere around 2004 or 2006 (again, at the time they were released). I can't really remember which year or set. Those pieces of gum were actually in a cellophane pack inside the card pack. The gum was practically flavor-less and I might have had the same experience then if I just chewed up one of the cards from the pack. Obviously, Topps went with nostalgia there to try and re-create the feeling of opening packs from our youth, but without ruining the cards. What it really did was ruin the memories of good gum!
switzr1 wrote: Good news, gents. I can report that I lived through the night. I have survived!
To answer the questions, the gum had no smell, and after the initial crunch, it pretty much turned to powder, like I imagine eating chalk would be. I've never eaten chalk. The powder dissolved and I was quickly left with nothing. There was no "Gum" qualities to this stick. Couldn't be chewed, and I will definitly not be challenging Kurt Bevacqua for his bubble-blowing championship. The taste was something maybe like eating an actually baseball card would be (I've never done that either). The good news is that I uploaded a scan of the wrapper since we didn't have one, and I am working on scanning the cards. I thought it was weird that we had scans for all of the insert stickers but none of the cards. The bad news is that in a pack of ten cards, I got three doubles within the pack. So I only have seven cards for the set.
Thank you all for your concern. Maybe I will do this again in another ten years. I've eaten old gum from packs before, but never a piece old enough to run for president.
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toptigersfan
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Joined: Aug 2014
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Thursday, March 24, 2016 7:32 AM | |
Today must be a slow news day if we are talking about gum. I remember it from the 60's. Wasn't too badiexcept it reaaly made you thirsty after chewing it.
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Lea DeFoote
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Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:28 AM | |
Day? ... This conversation has been going on for the better part of a week!
toptigersfan wrote: Today must be a slow news day if we are talking about gum. I remember it from the 60's. Wasn't too badiexcept it reaaly made you thirsty after chewing it.
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Finestkind
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Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:16 PM | |
No.. sorry I don't.
armac wrote: Do you have any Topps Mexican Browns cards to trade?
Finestkind wrote: I have a few packs of 1977 Topps Mexican football. You can have the gum i
If you want to try that. :)
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Kaline6
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Thursday, March 24, 2016 1:52 PM | |
After reading all this, I want to find a pack with a whole stick of gum in it, and add the gum to my card collection.
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joejoe14
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Joined: Feb 2018
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Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:13 AM | |
Newbie here.....so I inherated all these cards and I'm wondering if I oppen these 1991 Topps and some Fleer here's Bo gum packs. I have a hockey one, but no idea the date.
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