Fragrance 3
Strawberry chewing gum
In the 1860s, Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna (the one who attacked the Alamo), chewed a natural gum called "chicle". Santa Anna, on a trip to the United States, met Thomas Adams and showed him his product. Adams initially tried to create rubber for making tires, but when it didn't work, he turned it into chewing gum. And the first flavored chewing gum we owe to John Colgan, a pharmacist from Louisville, Kentucky who also in the 1860s, mixed sugar with a powder obtained from the extract of a tree creating small sticks of flavored chewing gum, which called "Taffy tolu".
Fragrance 3
Strawberry chewing gum
In the 1860s, Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna (the one who attacked The
Alamo) chewed a natural gum called “chewing gum”. During a trip of Santa Anna to the United
States, he met Thomas Adams and showed him his product. At first, Adams tried to create
rubber to make tires but when that didn’t work, he turned to chewing gum. We owe the first
flavoured chewing gum to John Colgan, a pharmacist from Louisville, Kentucky who in the
1860s made small flavoured chewing gum sticks by mixing sugar with a powder from a tree
extract and called it “Taffy Tolu”.
