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| Chewing gum - Good or bad considering where used gum often ends up? WHat's the starngest flaver you've chewed? What flavor and how spicy would you prefer? Just a quick response to this prompt. (I didn't answer it before because I imagined 'where it goes' and got sort of peculiar and hastily read the next prompt!) Random chewings. Here in India, we know the correct pronunciation is 'chewing gum', but somehow everyone says 'ching gum' when talking about it. Twenty years ago, my friend and I had collaborated on writing a play. It was a comedy-mystery and the main clue was the scent of mint ching gum,which the detective smelled through his magnifying glass to Pink Panther music. (The mystery wasn't technically solved because the victim was only pretending to be dead.) The spiciest flavour? Onion garlic. It was a trick gum, disguised to look like the Wriggley's mint that was popular in the day (when I was about eight years old) (I'm 55 now). My Dad read about it in a comic book and ordered it for me. My Dad was too kind to trick me with it, he warned me in advance. However, I did trick my uncle. (Yes, my uncle and I are still on speaking terms. He's a sporting guy and was actually proud to be the one I'd picked to trick.) Worst memory of chewing gum? Getting it stuck in my hair while watching a concert in school. Bleh. Benefits of chewing gum? My friend has an odd gap in her back tooth and food bits get stuck in and can't be flossed or brushed out. She uses chewing gum. She chews hard and the gum sticks to the stuck food and gets it out. This was recommended to her by a dentist. Similarly, when I had a jaw-ache once, the doctor recommended chewing hard on gum for an hour or so, to get my jaws moving properly again. Previous Generation My Dad was 12 when India gained independence from the British. Chewing gum wasn't really known in India when he was a kid. Sometimes, British soldiers on the street gave my Dad and his brother bubble-gum, and this was a treat for them. They tried to ask for it in shops and couldn't get it. Words: 380 - incl prompt |
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