Clark's Teaberry is a brand of

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. The D. L. Clark Company of

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's north side purchased the patent for it from Charles Burke, who experimented with various flavors of chewing gum in the basement of 533 McClintock Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Teaberry is currently manufactured in Morocco by the Gerrit J. Verburg Co. The gum dates to 1900 but the popularity of Teaberry peaked in the 1960s. It was additionally popularized when Pelican Films (292 Madison Avenue, New York, New York) produced a series of commercials using music from

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and the

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. Clark liked "The Mexican Shuffle" from the '' South of the Border'' album, and commissioned Herb to rerecord it as "The Teaberry Shuffle". The gum's mintlike flavor recalls that of ''

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,'' the eastern teaberry, from which it derives its name. The gum is pink in color, individually wrapped in white paper, and wrapped again in a pink teaberry-printed paper.

References

External links

* 1960
Teaberry Gum commercial
on YouTube, complete with an English

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