Dec 02, 2013 Black Jack chewing gum in Homeland (2013, Showtime, screen capture) Black Jack is a brand of American chewing gum with a rich history. It’s an aniseed-flavored chewing gum made by Cadbury Adams. Black Jack was made by Thomas Adams back in 19 th century when Adams experimented with rubber and created chewing gum. In 1884 he began adding.
Beemans gum (originally Beeman's Gum, see image at right) is a chewing gum invented by Ohio physician Dr. Edward E. Beeman in the late 19th century.
History[edit]
Edwin Eugene Beeman originally marketed the gum, which is made of pepsin powder and chicle, as an aid to digestion. It became a part of the American Chicle Company in 1898, and continued on after the purchase of American Chicle by Warner-Lambert in 1962. Production ceased in 1978 due to lagging sales. In 1985, as part of a nostalgia campaign, it was brought back to the market along with Clove and Black Jack chewing gums.
The original wrapper had a pig logo, but was later replaced with a logo featuring the Beeman's name in scroll and a picture of Dr. Beeman. The current wrapper design has a white and red background with white and black lettering. Beemans is sporadically produced by Cadbury Adams as a nostalgia gum, along with the other historic gums Clove and Black Jack. Since then, because of regular demand, all three brands have been introduced with huge popularity. In 2015 the company announced it would no longer produce any of these popular gums. The gum is sold sporadically in the USA by the Gerrit J. Verdburg Co.[1][2]
The gum is prominently featured in major movies The Right Stuff, Hot Shots!, The Rocketeer (in which the gum serves a key plot element), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, used in the latter for character Mutt Williams (Shia Labeouf) in Indy home scene. Most recently the gum features on the inventor's workbench of young Frank Walker in Disney's Tomorrowland, as Frank is working on his homemade rocket jet-pack.
While it has been considered the 'lucky' gum of pilots, Beemans in fact became popular with aviators due to the antacid qualities of pepsin, useful due to the agitation of stomach acid in flight. This, combined with the ear-pressure equalizing characteristics of chewing any type of gum, made Beemans a common sight in cockpits. The sporadic availability has led some aviators to buy it by the carton whenever possible.[citation needed]
Beemans Chewing Gum no longer contains any pepsin.[citation needed]
Advertisements[edit]
Beeman's Pepsin Gum - Advertisement - 1897 |
References[edit]
- ^Conte, Erin Del (2019-01-22). 'Retro Gum Brands'. Convenience Store Decisions. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
- ^'Vintage Gum Nutrtition Facts'. gerritjverburg.com. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
Black Jack Chewing Gum History
- 'Cadbury Adams USA'. Archived from the original on 2006-06-10. Retrieved 2016-03-22.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- 'Beemans Chewing Gum'. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2010-04-19.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)