3rd November 2004, 2:09 PM
I just don't like gum. There's just no fun in eating something if you aren't allowed to swallow it, which I do anyway, because even if it takes 7 years to break down, it's not like your stomach doesn't have a method of disposing of things it can't break down, and not like it doesn't do that all the time to pretty much everything you eat anyway. I do enjoy the fruity flavor of some gum I've tried, but yeesh it's just so bland once you chew the flavor out and fruity snacks like starburst are just far more satisfying. At the very least, my sister doesn't store her old gum on the refrigerator shelf any more... Yeesh...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)