I wish baseball card packs still came with gum

[GrayGhost]

1981 Fleer and Donruss gum is still edible today..haha. Once, bout 1988 or so, a guy was at a card show I promoted, set up, and had found some boxes of 62 and 63 topps baseball in an old store. He opened a pack as an "attraction" at the show. After pulling a PRISTINE Brock rookie, I attempted to chew a corner of the hideous "blackish" gum. Tasted like dirt and burned toast rolled into one.

Ah, the days.......

[Doug]

For some reason I figured I wasn't the only person on here that had actually tried to chew a piece of 20+ year old gum...

[Robextend]

I did the same last year with a pack of 1987 Topps that I had bought to relive my youth.

Agreeing with Doug, the gum kind of disintegrated in my mouth and tasted absolutely brutal.

[Beatles Guy]

That Heritage gum is horrid. I don't think they use the same stuff as the 80's packs, but then my taste buds could have changed

[Doug]

I thought that Heritage gum tasted awful compared to the stuff from the mid '80s. Of course compared to what the mid '80s gum tastes like today I think I'd go with the Heritage kind now.

[Jayjones82]

I cracked open a couple of '78 Topps packs the other day and "chewed" the gum...wasn't that bad (for the 1.8 seconds it lasted before dissolving)