Of course this is for club members only. We of advancing years. Remember Black Jack chewing gum? And Beemans and Clove? How about Necco wafers? Ribbon Candy? Have you seen a bar of ...

Stepping away from sugary, sweet, and synthetic flavors, we head back to an old original, Black Jack Chewing Gum. Thomas Adams, an American inventor, patented a machine for making chewing gum ...

Black Jack gum was among innumerable products for which Robinson would create advertisements throughout his career. A consummate storyteller, he pulls the viewer into this scene, which is set in a ...

Black Jack is back in season. And not a moment too soon for aficionados of the licorice-flavored brand that started America’s love affair with chewing gum. Relegated to the gum graveyard in the ...

“The idea was born in the 1860s, Adams received a patent in 1871, and by 1884 there was a mass-produced licorice-flavored Black Jack gum,” says Gene Carlucci, manager of school and family ...

Never did I expect chewing gum to hit the headlines. But there it was: “Black Jack gum available twice a year.” The story behind the headlines: Black Jack vanished from the nation’s candy ...

There's good news for those of us who can't get moving without one or two (maybe three) cups of java in the morning. The Harvard School of Public Health is out with new research showing that ...

Matt Lucas works at a desk that’s covered with origami paper cranes made out of Black Jack gum wrappers. There are probably over 150 of them, collecting under his computer monitor and spilling ...

he’d overcome the verbose-name affliction apparently common to chewing gum makers and began marketing “Black Jack” gum. In 1888, his “Tutti-Frutti” brand became the first chewing gum ...