Trident Layers

When I was a kid my favourite kind of gum was Hubba Bubba. I think the watermelon was usually my flavour of choice. I loved how fruity it was and the size of the bubbles I could blow. (Unfortunately my grandmother did NOT appreciate the bubbles, but I still blew them anyway.) The one downside to Hubba Bubba was how quickly the gum lost its flavour, but that could be remedied by either throwing out the piece and replacing it with a new one, or just adding another piece along with the first one. In addition to Hubba Bubba, I also liked Dubble Bubble, which my grandpa bought in large bulk buckets and handed out to his grandkids or any other kids he and my grandma babysat. That gum was fun because, along with having the traditional bubble gum taste and being able to make gigantic pink bubbles that stuck to your face when they popped, each piece had a comic included. My siblings and I used to collect the comics and we always planned to send them in when we got the required number for a prize, but of course we never kept track of where we hid our collections so that never worked out. Later on I decided that despite Hubba Bubba's great flavour and bubble-blowing opportunities it just wasn't worth the cost of having to keep trading out pieces of gum for new pieces when they lost their flavour. My new favourite became Juicy Fruit, which had the same fruity taste, but flavour that lasted longer. And while I couldn't blow bubbles that were quite as big as with Hubba Bubba, Juicy Fruit was good for making small bubbles that could be snapped with quite a resounding noise. (My grandma still wasn't impressed.)

More recently my sister introduced me to Trident White. I like both the peppermint and the spearmint types, but last night in the check-out at Bi-Lo I spotted a new kind of Trident, Layers. This gum looked so intriguing that I just had to buy a pack and try it out. My verdict is that it's awesome. It's got all the qualities a person would ever want in a piece of gum: great fruity LONG-LASTING flavour, gum-snapping ability and, the best part, awesome design. Yes, this gum even looks cool! Think of an ice cream sandwich and then imagine the cookie parts on the top and bottom a light pink with the ice cream area a darker magenta. At least that's the colours of the flavour I bought, WildStrawberry+TangyCitrus. There was also another kind on the shelf, GreenApple+GoldenPineapple that I want to try sometime in the future. Anyway, my advice is to try out this new line of Trident gum.


*In the writing of this blog post I came across Gum Alert, a blog totally devoted to finding and reviewing different types of gum. Check it out for some extra-curricular reading when you've got a chance. Please note that I don't agree with their reviews of either flavour of Trident Layers.