![\"user-pic\"](\"/css/images/default.gif\")
But does it lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight??
But does it lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight??
Or behind the ear when you're eating dinner?
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-1236-100x100.png\")
Ooh. They should do \"how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie-roll center of a tootsie-pop\"
Ah-1, Ah-2-hoo, Threeee!
Everyone knows Dubble Bubble has the longest lasting flavor-- not!
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-6319-100x100.png\")
i'm having a weird time transposing Stride with \"Trident,\" \"Stride Rite,\" and \"Strident\" in my mind.
I used to be happy with the long time stride lasted, going strong with flavor from 6:00 A.M. 'til lunch, but now they have altered the gum so that it lasts drastically less time than before, pretty much 2 hours instead of four.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-53178-100x100.png\")
I would also have to agree on the to-to-three hour flavor length. I was handed a sample of Stride gum by a vendor right before they came out at grocery stores, and dear god that gum lasted long, but nowadays, it's a little less impressive. Also people chew at different frequencies and rates. This HAS to have a big change between users on how long the flavor lasts.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-61213-100x100.png\")
It doesn't last long at all. About the same as a stick of Orbit gum, but I think the grams/stick might be different. Still their commercials are misleading.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-81626-100x100.png\")
It must just be me then. Stride looses it's flavor for me in less than five minutes. Same as every other gum I've ever chewed. So I tend to buy the super-cheap Dubble Bubble and pound that when I have to have gum. Which is rarely.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-151698-100x100.png\")
Personally, I couldn't care less if there's a misleading commercial about chewing gum... mostly because it's insignificant. If I'm being lied to in a commercial about a vehicle's safety, that's a different story.
Now, if only they could figure out how to make Fruit Stripe's flavor last longer than five minutes I'd be chewing that every day.
Anyhow, I kinda dig Stride. It does hold its flavor longer than most others do for me, except Orbit. Plus, Orbit has Sweet Mint. For now, the point goes to Orbit.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-53106-100x100.png\")
I do know what flavor has the *shortest* lasting flavor: Zebra Stripe gum. It tastes amazing though...for 13 seconds. Do they still make it?
Or is it Fruit Stripe? Erk.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-21970-100x100.png\")
@faust1200: Oh yeah. When I was a kid, I'd go through a pack of Fruit Stripe gum in a weekend afternoon. Each piece lasted about 2 minutes before I'd give up. But the flavors were so good that I forgave it and would go straight to another piece. /nostalgia
Stride is the only gum I chew now. I love it. I think it really does last longer.
For me a piece of Stride gum lasts about 5 hours before it finally loses it's flavor. I don't really chew it much, just kinda leave it there to chew on once a minute or so. It tends to last longer the less you chew.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-121198-100x100.png\")
Double Bubble is like chewing a rubber ball with a huge burst of nasty sweetness at first. I actually chew pretty much any kind of gum I have on hand though but if I chew the cheap stuff then I keep having to spit it out and replace it every 15 minutes. I work retail sales and gum is my friend all day long, before this job I abhorred gum chewing and have undergone TMJ treatment for numerous years so couldn't chew it back then if I had wanted to. Now though I am obsessive about making sure I always have good gum on me at all times.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-70159-100x100.png\")
I prefer Winerfresh gum. That gum always seems to last forever for me. And it was tastey
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-94638-100x100.png\")
stride fruit flavor is really good. it reall doesnt last any longer than any other regular gum, but its good. so i buy it.
In what universe is gum considered food?
That aside, I really miss Mint-a-Burst. I could chew that stuff for hours.
@TINKYXIII Be careful about chewing too much sugar free gum. Most use sorbitol as the sugar substitute and too much of that will give you some lovely side effects.
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-37325-100x100.png\")
@Chris Walters: Holy crap, flashback! I loooved that gum as a kid, but you're right, it lasted about 15 seconds for me. But I kept buying it for the colorful packaging & flavor. Heh, I was a kid, colorful things just seemed right. And I prefer Orbitz to Stride. Orbitz seems to have better flavors.
![\"user-pic\"](\"/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-214825-100x100.png\")
Fruit Stripe has by far the longest lasting flavor, 4 seconds.
BlackBlack gum from japan is really good. The mintiness lasts for a while, and the oolong tea extract works wonders due to the natural caffeine.
Swear to god, the wrapper says, \"HI-TEC CHEWING!\"
![\"user-pic\"](\"http://consumerist.com/assets_c/userpics/userpic-131723-100x100.png\")
I recognize the actor in that photo as Jason Bateman's friend on the Hogan Family. I also recognize that gum pulls out my fillings, so I don't chew it.