My first memory of chewing gum. My mum offered me a stick of chewing gum when I was very young. She didn't have time to explain what it was before attending to something else in the kitchen. I scrutinized the stick of gum curiously, popped it into my mouth and promptly chewed and swallowed it. At this point in time, my mum turned to me and asked me to spit out the gum. I was puzzled and replied clearly "What gum?". My mum freaked out (she could imagine the wad of gum sticking to the insides of my intestines or something) and she never bought chewing gum again that I could recall. And of course it got banned here too later on.

I don't know why I have a sudden craving for it now.