Jon Siegel / ジョン米岡

Jon Siegel is an art director living in Tokyo, Japan.

Mar 14, 2009

Glico Squeeze Chewing Gum

Saw this while waiting in line to buy some icecream and couldn’t resist. This is a new chewing gum from Glico, “Squeeze”. There are three flavors in all, grape, lemon, and sumomo(peach). Seeing as grape and lemon are the most typical, boring flavors on earth, I went with the exotic sumomo. At first, it tastes like you’ve bitten into a piece of dry fruit, then the texture gives way to that typical gum texture and the flavor smoothes itself out. I found it rather satisfying, and being Japanese gum, it’s made from nice stuff rather than the materials used to make car tires like American gum. One pack is about 105 yen, about $1USD. I still think the pixel gum is the clear winner in the gum wars, I just hope it lasts. Japanese snack products are seasonal so if you acquire a taste for something nice, it will likely disappear next month.

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kerri 1 year ago 1 point
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That lil melody in your prev post and the reminder of you eatting gummy things of uncertain origin... well that made me miss you goofus!
I still just can't get past the texture, I don't get the appeal of sticking something slug-like in yer mouth that tastes like fruit. *shudder* I'll take rubber gum that loses flavor after 5 minutes anyday! hahahahaha.

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