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What Is the World Record for Longest Gum Chewing?
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, there currently is no official record for the longest gum chewing. They do have several other records listed, including “Longest Gum Wrapper Chain”, “Most People Simultaneously Blowing Bubbles,” and even the “Largest Bubble Blown from the Nose.” The internet lists several people who have attempted to set records for chewing gum. However, there is yet to be any substantiated claims for this event.
Longest Gum Wrapper Chain
The world record for the longest gum wrapper chain is held by Gary Duschl from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Garry began making his gum wrapper chain on March 11, 1965. The recording was performed on Rally 11, 2016. Having spent 51 years making the chain, Gary’s gum wrapper chain measured 27,259 meters. This equates to 1,463 meters, or 4.8 feet each day during this time. Gary held this record since 1995.
Gary’s gum wrapper chain contained 2,142,856 wrappers which held a value of $150,000 worth of gum. Each of the wrappers was from Wrigley chewing gum, which included Juicy Fruit, Doublemint, Spearmint, Big Red and W
Experience: I’ve made the longest chain of chewing-gum wrappers in the world
I don’t know what to put it down to, but I’ve always been a collector, a completist, a statistician – and maybe a little competitive.
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As a schoolboy in Canada, I was fascinated by the Guinness Book of Records and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!. I would memorise the records and amaze my friends by quoting them.
Little did I know then that in 1994 I would break a world record and feature in the book I adored as a young boy, all thanks to my childhood hobby – making paper chains out of chewing-gum wrappers.
I learned how to do it in 1965, aged 14, after seeing the older kids in the playground folding their gum wrappers into neat, long chains. I took to it pretty quickly, and entered a competition to see who could make the longest in the class. I won that, and then I made the longest one in the school.
Suddenly, all the kids in my neighbourhood were saving their gum wrappers for me to add to my chain. They even captioned my 1967 yearbook photo: “Got any gum wrappers?”
I never
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Why Did People Start Chewing Gum?
Some foods are so weird that we have to wonder who first tried eating them. Chewing gum is one of them. Gum is naturally made in trees: it’s the “resin” or sap that oozes up and down the inside of the trunk. About 9,000 years ago humans started chewing the gum from birch trees. Remember, it didn’t taste like mint or pink bubble gum — it probably tasted more like dirt. Today we make 374 TRILLION sticks of gum every year, because it tastes a lot better now!
Wee ones: The record for longest time chewing gum is 8 hours! What numbers would you say to count them off?
Little kids: If you walk 2 steps, then chew 2 times, then walk 4 steps, then chew 4 times, then take 6 steps…what do you probably do next? Bonus: If you try 10 times to blow a bubble with your gum and you succeed every time except the last, how many bubbles did you blow?
Big kids: The largest bubble-gum bubble ever blown was 23 inches wide. If your head is 7 inches wide, how much wider than your head was that bubble? Bonus: They say Americans chew an average of 300 sticks of gum per person in a year. If you chewed at that rate, how many