Monday, April 18, 2011

Taking It In Stride

I'm a gum person. I like gum. I'm fairly certain I'm addicted to the artificial sweetener that is in sugar-free gum. 
It all started in junior high when I was addicted to Ice Breakers Gum. I could not get enough of that stuff. Like half a pack a day...I had a problem. Then Ice Breakers went all weird and started making the gum in cubes and messed with the texture and so I was upset and had to quit Ice Breakers. To get over that, I started chewing Trident Original flavor gum. Because it just had a clean taste and I liked the feel of the gum from first chomp until it was chewed down and free from flavor. I was happy in my simple world. Until I was given, Orbit Sweet Mint. It was like chewing an after-dinner pillow mint. (Butter mint? What are those called?) My mouth was obsessed with Sweet Mint. I was a sweet mint fiend.
And then today "Jenn" at work introduced me to Stride Spark Kinetic Mint gum. The flavor is like Ice Breakers and Sweet Mint had a baby and it has the smoothness of Trident Original. I don't know if I'm ever going to NOT be chewing this gum. It's sort of like my mouth just died and went to heaven. 

2 comments:

M Shepherd said...

Is there any gum that won't kill my mouth? Heaven sounds lovely, but I'm not sure I want to be there just yet.

Tosht said...

That is my new favorite gum too!! Katie introduced me to it and Lisa got it for me once, and it has vitamins and last a long while... Gotta love it!!