On Tuesday, July 21, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, A.Ferszt wrote:
> I'm interested in the history of chewing gum (for arcane reasons of my
> own).
>
> While I know that various cultures have chewed various resins throughout
> the ages, how did the current product get started, and what made it so
> popular in the US? For so much of the world chewing gum seems to equate
> with Americans.
>
> Thanks
> AF

look at the podcast "American Innovations" for the whole story including General Santa Ana's part I n it..