What do chicle gum and mexico have to do with eachother?

Question

What do chicle gum and mexico have to do with eachother?

Answer 1

nothing other than the fact the chicle is spanish for gum... the type of gum you are thinking of (I think) is chicklets.

Answer 2

Lots of little kids sell them on the beaches

Answer 3

Chicle comes from nahuatl(aztec language) and was used by the natives in south eastern mexico , most of them had very clean teeths thanks for that.

After ex president Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana run in exiled in the 1860's to the United States he took a considerable amount of Chicle with him. Being him a mexican from the east he had the habit of chewing gum, When he met Thomas Adams, the american saw an oportunity of making that resine into hard rubber as a subtitute for Caucho, Adams went into business with Santa Ana but Chicle fail in experimental attempts...But he saw Santa Ana´s habit of chewing the stuff and he tried adding sugar to it, and then the Idea of making that resine into a candy appeared.. and thats when Chiclet´s Adams started.

Answer 4

Natural chicle comes from a Mexican tree.

It is call Chicle Tree.