Since when did Wrigley stop making normal gum with sugar?

[theoceansnerves]

or rather i should say, when did they begin putting nutrasweet in regular chewing gums? on a whim i decided i was going to buy some chewing gum at target today. being a strict vegetarian i habitually check labels. all of their normal gums (big red, juicy fruit, etc.) contain ace-k (another fake sugar), and most contain aspartame (nutrasweet!) pardon my french but what the hell is that all about? there's no indication anywhere on the label that they contain nutrasweet other than on the ingredients list. i don't buy things with aspartame in them so i can't even buy juicy fruit anymore!

[phaseolus]

1. dunno when, but I can guess why

Sugar's expensive, much more expensive than it should be, due to subsidies to U.S. sugar beet and sugar cane growers. As a result much candy manufacturing in the U.S. is either moving to Canada (I think M&Ms are made there now...??) or closing down (Chicago's Fannie Mae.) And other products that used to use 'real' sugar now use High Fructose Corn Syrup. So now, good old products don't taste as good as they used to (go to Mexico and buy a cane sugar sweetened Coca-Cola to see what I mean) and, some scientists believe, the HFCS encourages obesity much more than regular sugar.

[theoceansnerves]

2. yeah

i can get real coca-cola from mexican supermarkets here. they also produce a run of coke with real sugar around the jewish holidays (i don't remember which one, forgive my ignorance.) they use yellow bottlecaps instead of red so you can tell the difference.