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2:55pm July 27, 2014

So my favorite overall flavor of gum…

…has to be Cinnamon Roll (in Wrigley’s Dessert Delights series), followed closely by Lemon Bar (in the same series).  Combining them is also really good.  Problem is that that series has texture problems (it often comes out rubbery and hard to chew), and rapidly loses its flavor.  But I love the way both of those flavors have an element of bread to them, unlike just about any other gum flavor anywhere.  Anne bought me those ones and they’re wonderful despite the texture issues.  And even when it loses its flavor, it usually retains just enough of a faint “bread” flavor to make it worthwhile to keep chewing it, as long as my jaw doesn’t get too sore.

But my favorite regular sorts of gum is cinnamon combined with mint.  (But I don’t like the Orbit “Cinnamint” flavor.  I mean, I’ll chew it, but it’s not something I would deliberately buy.  Especially with the texture Orbit has.)  

Usually for the cinnamon/mint I use some combination of Trident (both mint and cinnamon), Five (mint), and sometimes Dentyne (cinnamon usually, sometimes also mint).  I like the light but chewy texture of Dentyne and Trident (and the flavors are good), and the flavor of Five RPM especially, plus adding Five lets me regulate the level of chewiness better.

In other words I’m getting gum down to an art form.