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a sphere engineered to outlive your jaw and your patience for change.
means A round piece of chewing gum, usually brightly colored and sold from a coin-operated machine that dispenses one at a time.
from A straightforward compound of "gum" and "ball." "Gum" traces back through Old French "gomme" to Latin "gummi" and ultimately a Greek word for the resin oozed by trees — the original chewable sap. "Ball" is Germanic, related to a family of words for round things. The chewing gum itself began as tree resin and chicle (latex from the sapodilla tree); rolling it into spheres for vending machines is a comparatively modern American invention, and the cheerful round form gave us the name.
- machine math
- penny machines once sold candy that cost less to make
- flavor lie
- most bright colors share one identical fruit taste
- giant claim
- world's largest gumball weighed over 175 pounds
- chew physics
- flavor dies long before the gum does
- swallow myth
- it does not linger seven years inside you
gumball machine — coin-operated spherical candy dispenser, invented 1897, still in arcades worldwide