What happened to my chewing gum?

Centriloquism!

This happened to me when I used to chew gum on my commute home to help keep awake. It typically happened in summer after the gum package had been left in a very hot car. Was your gum chewing incident during hot weather or was the gum exposed to heat prior to chewing?

It happened in Vegas, so probably. It was so long ago.

Haha, that happened to me with grape gum before and a few other flavors, mostly grape. I think it was Bubblicious. It was Florida, very hot as always. I chewed it for a while and it was just super goopy instead of chewy. I figured it was the heat. But it did taste weird.

I think it was a combination of the heat and the gum formula – bubble gum tends to be stretchier anyway, add heat and I figure it just breaks down.

jajajajajaj thats so weird

@asmonet: the taste was so bad that I really don’t like anything grape anymore. Not even Grape Ape. :)

Well, grape is like that anyway. ;o)

When they make gum they use a gum base which they melt to mix it with the other flavor ingredients. I think when the gum heats up again (ie. if left in a car) it changes the chemical properties and the gum base never returns to its hardened state, and remains in the syrupy (I think I just made that word up)state? I could totally be wrong but this is what I always thought happened.

Yeah, Big Red always gets kinda crunchy when you leave it in the car over a full summer.

This happens whenever I fall asleep while chewing gum.
Figured the stuff in your saliva that breaks down food
is starting to break down the gum base, right?

Ewww, when I fall asleep while chewing gum it usually winds up in my hair.