Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor...

Recently I read something pretty astounding....sales of gum have gone down in the last year.  Can you believe it?  Maybe that is the reason why our jars of large, beautiful and colorful gumballs are just sitting around on the shelves with very little attention.
That could also be the reason why hardly anyone asks us about gumball machines which years ago were the go-to gift for Father's Day. 
For years we have avoided carrying gum which you can regularly find in the grocery store, on the shelves at the drug store or at QuikTrip.  We prided ourselves on carrying unusual gum flavors.  We were especially excited when Black Jack, Beeman's and Clove gum were available to us.  By the way, those flavors are not made every year which is why people searching high and low can't seem to find them.
And now we find out that gum just isn't as popular as it was in the past.
Does that mean no more sitting behind someone who is chewing gum like a cow chews its cud?  Does that mean we will no longer be stepping on a wad of gum on the ground, stuck to the bottom of our shoe?  Or a parent won't find gum stuck in their kid's hair?
How about all the times our parents warned us not to swallow our gum because it would grow in our stomach or not to throw our gum out the car window in case a bird would eat it and explode?
Or how about the warning that chewing gum would give you cavities?  How many of us really liked chewing sugar free gum?
If gum was meant for something other than these things, I just don't know about it.....save one purpose.  People who want to stop smoking often found chewing gum a substitute for inhaling.
Personally, I never really got much pleasure out of chewing gum.  I think my favorite flavor was either Juicy Fruit or Spearmint.  Even so, I could only chew gum for a few minutes....the flavor was gone about 5 minutes into a stick of gum.  Well, I did like Dentyne but I always loved cinnamon.
Remember that little ditty....does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?  My gum lost its flavor right there in my mouth.

.Draft Beer Jelly Bellys

St. Patrick's Day is a beer holiday.
Every year at Sweet Tooth we are asked what we have for St. Patrick's Day and we have to answer that we really don't have a lot to offer.
That is until this year when we have added Shamrock and Leprechaun Hat cookies from Cookiedoodle.  Of course we have chocolate coins (gold foil covered) and we have green candy.  We have shamrock cellophane bags to put candy in for a nice St. Patrick's Day favor.
And guess what??  Jelly Belly has discovered a way to manufacture Jelly Bellys which taste like Draft Beer!
Beer!!!  At last we can say that we DO have beer for St. Patrick's Day.  It's perfectly legal...no alcohol was used in the production of those Draft Beer Jelly Bellys.
Those beer Jelly Bellys are on their way to our store as I write this email.
I really can't think of anything else to top Draft Beer Jelly Bellys.  Come see us on Friday or over the weekend.  We'll give you a taste and help you put together a pseudo-real St. Patrick's Day gift which won't require that you have a designated driver.
Tootaloo!!