So today I am thinking about Chiclets. Yes – the old, little shelled pieces of gum. When was the last time you had one of those, right?
Well, I had one today in fact. I had a little two-pack of green chiclets, stuck in my jacket pocket from god-only-knows when. The two-pack said Bain Capital on the back of it – must have been from some event I can’t recall, literally years and years ago. And that was my thought. What is the shelf life of a chiclet?! I mean, this thing must have been in my jacket pocket for at least 5, maybe 10 years.
We all know shelf lives are kind of made-up things when it comes to non-perishable foods and stuff like medicine and I suppose gum. But how long is even too long for a chiclet? What bad could happen by chewing it? My feeling is the answers to these two questions are a bit frightening: decades and nothing. So in effect, we hard-coat gum and the thing can last for tens of years, maybe longer. That in and of itself is kind of scary to me.
But not so scary that I didn’t break open the two-pack and chew the darned thing. And it tasted and chewed just fine…
Monday:
SHVITZ* (SHVIHTS)
To sweat, sweating
After a big Thanksgiving meal, the next day it is nice to relax, take a steam bath and have a good shvitz.
* We’ve had this word before. But in honor of a rather funny recent misuse of shvitz by one of you out there, I thought I’d revisit the word today, as a refresher… 😉
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