Clark's Teaberry is a brand of
chewing gum
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. The
D. L. Clark Company of
Pittsburgh
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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. Clark's Teaberry Gum is a trademarked brand owned and registered by a family operated confectionary company Iconic Candy, LLC of New Jersey that specializes in the return of “authentic retro” candy, snack and chewing gum brands and products.
The gum dates to 1900 but the popularity of Teaberry peaked in the 1960s. It was additionally popularized when Pelican Films produced a series of commercials using music from
Herb Alpert
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and the
Tijuana Brass
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. Clark liked "The Mexican Shuffle" from the ''
South of the Border'' album, and commissioned Alpert to rerecord it as "The Teaberry Shuffle".
This traditional gum has a wintergreen like flavor that is unique to teaberry gum. Its distinct flavor has been exclusive to Clark’s Teaberry Gum for over 100 years.
The gum is a stick gum pink in color, individually wrapped in foil with a paper sleeve in a pink Clark’s logo paper.
See also
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Teaberry ice cream
Teaberry ice cream is an ice cream flavor made with the eastern teaberry fruit. A regional flavor of the US state of Pennsylvania, it has a taste similar to wintergreen and is often pink in color.
History
The teaberry flavor comes from that of a ...
References
External links
* 1960
Teaberry Gum commercialon YouTube, complete with an English
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undertaking the Teaberry Shuffle
Chewing gum
Companies based in Buffalo, New York
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Food and drink introduced in 1900