People have been chewing things like gum for hundreds of years. Way before you were born, American Indians chewed on tree sap!

A man named Walter Diemer worked for a chewing gum company. He liked this gum very much. He tried to blow bubbles with it. The gum was too sticky and hard. He worked on the chewing gum recipe for a long time. One day, he figured out how to make bubble gum.

Diemer mixed his ingredients together in a different way. He colored it pink. That was the only color that he had. He sold his first 100 pieces for 1 cent each. Now, people chew about 300 pieces of gum every year!