Big Red chewing gum now has aspartame!?

[elfs]

The last gum that Omaha could safely chew has now gone the way of evil. This afternoon, while shopping for supplies, Omaha went looking for chewing gum and we discovered that Big Red, the last of the Wrigley's chewing gums that was all-sugar, now has a message: "May contain aspartame or acesulfame."

Well, crap. So much for that.

How mind-boggling is it that Mexico, once derided as the place where cheap, often low-quality food comes from, is now regarded as the place from which to get better chewing gum and soda products? (Mexico doesn't allow corn sweeteners or aspartame in their food products; Mexi-Coke is regarded as a superior product to the Coca-Cola sold in most groceries.)

Comments

[danceswithlife]

Many of these gums don't seem to have artificial sweeteners:

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Food-Candy/Gum/D/30002/P/1:100:1020:100790

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but other than around Halloween, those are somewhat hard to find around here. I've looked. I suppose I could mail order them, but gum is really something that we impulse-buy.