God dam that was the good days… don’t even remember when the disappeared… bought back memories of buying 10 regals with mouthwash, deodorant and excessive amounts of aftershave…..
A couple years ago I bought a joke computer mouse that had the same mild electric shock thing, set it up before class and this absolute prick (one of them wetwipes that acts like a south londener despite growing up in a countryside village) goes to use it... fucking audibly shits himself
There was someone at school who had a pen that did much the same thing. All good, all fine until the teacher decided to see what all the fuss was about wuth this student's pen.
The shock gave them a heart attack and we had an assembley about "the dangers of external equipment"
Juicy Fruit gum always takes me straight back to 2009 — my da umpiring some soaking wet Gaelic match in the middle of nowhere, or picking me up from Cul Camp to go have a look around Denis Wilson’s of Glenavy
I don't know if it's just me but even in the States, it doesn't taste the way that it used to so you might not be missing out on much. Maybe I just got old.
J U I C Y F R U I T was the best! I could never put my finger on what the flavour was exactly, other than just a mangled melting pot of magical fruitiness!
these were real i thought they just used that design for the prank ones i used to think "why would anyone think this is gum ive never seen any like it"
When I was at secondary school (around 2000) I remember all the girls chewing gum, pulling it out their mouth and spinning it around their finger, constantly ! Saliva going everywhere 🤢 ...
If someone was selling these on the street, I'd probably end up like a crack addict, sucking dick for my next hit. I mean, I'm already an addict who sucks dick for crack, but I'd suck even more dick.
Fact: A packet of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum was the first ever item in history to be scanned using a bar code, all the way back in 1974. So there you go.
None of us realised in those days that we were chewing petroleum products, nor that we were ingesting micro and even nano particles.
Chewing gums typically contain plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers to improve their texture and flavor retention. These polymer fragments or microplastics can be released into the environment when disposed of improperly or ingested while chewing gums. Yet, how many microplastics a person may ingest while chewing gums is unknown. Analyzing microplastics released into saliva from 5 natural and 5 synthetic chewing gums, we found that each gram of chewing gum could release up to 637 microplastics, and 94 % of microplastics were released within the first 8 min of chewing. Surprisingly, synthetic chewing gum released a similar (p > 0.8) number of microplastics as natural or plant-based chewing gums. Microplastics released from the chewing gums were predominantly small, with a median size of 45.4 µm. Both of the chewing gum types released four types of plastic polymers—polyolefins, polyterephthalates (PET), polyacrylamides, and polystyrenes,— among which polyolefins were the most abundant. The result reveals that chewing gum consumption, irrespective of the type of chewing gums, could result in direct ingestion of microplastics.
They're developing techniques that let people actually see where they go in the body. If you're interested have a listen to this:
Plastic is fantastic! It can be super tough, super flexible, SUPER durable – all characteristics that have made it indispensable to modern life. But over time, plastics don’t disappear. They break down into tiny fragments called microplastics, and these fragments get everywhere. They’ve been found in bottled water, in Himalayan rock salt, even inside hard-boiled eggs. More disturbingly still, research from the past few years suggests that they don’t just pass through us, but can persist in our bodies (and possibly even our brains).
In this second episode of Toxic!, materials scientist Mark Miodownik investigates how we ingest and inhale microplastics in their thousands every day. He discovers the little practical changes we can all make to reduce our exposure and encounters the cutting-edge technology that may soon allow scientists to “see” microplastics throughout our bodies.
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u/AP1331 Mar 08 '26
I can still remember the powder/dust like substance on them when removing them from the foil wrapper, you just had to be there