my grandma used to chew gum all the time... grandmas usually would have hard candy but mine had gum 24-7! i thought she chewed gum so much because it helped keep her fake teeth stay in her mouth...
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl
- I used to believe that if I chewed on one side of my mouth too much the other side would get jealous.Anon
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon