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Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:26 am
by Imon
Hello, yesterday my co-worker and friend came back from our companys US location in Morganton/NC and Henderson/ NC, which he visited for one week, with a case of my absolute chewnig gum favorites. :D
The american gums are great !

[b]No.1 : Orbits Bubblemint
No.2 : Dentyne Arctic chill[/b]

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Like everything also chewing gum is a matter of taste but for me those two types can`t be beaten by any other types and it tasted many different types.
Those two hold there flavoring for a very long time and they are so tasty :!:

All the other chew friends :
Which are your favorite of the gums ?


regards
Imon

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:43 am
by kman
Imon, your buddy was only a couple of hours away from me - he could have stopped by and picked up some MREs for you! :-)

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:47 am
by housil
Kman, if we drive "a couple of hours" we are devently in a other country for sure - maybe on a different continent.

You are still in the same state. Wow... :shock:

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:51 am
by kman
Even worse than that - this past summer, we went to one of the North Carolina beaches for the first time. We drove 7 hours and never left the state. It was weird even for me...I'm used to going through three or four states in that much time.

Oh course, we're talking US highway speeds of 70 MPH or so...not those crazy German autobahn speeds of 120 MPH. :-)

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:01 am
by housil
A 120 MPH :shock:
Only that slow if the traffic jams... :wink:

I love our no-speed-limit-Autobahns.
Keeps us bussy :twisted:

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:29 pm
by dirtbag
California is over 1000 miles top to bottom, probably 18 hours or so to drive it ! :shock:

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:54 pm
by Imon
kman wrote:Imon, your buddy was only a couple of hours away from me - he could have stopped by and picked up some MREs for you! :-)
kman,thank you for your offer but I have enough MRE over here in Germany.
There are other things which are more difficult to get over here than MRE :wink:

But I`m lucky that my colleague is often there or in other US states and also that he have a big case :wink:

as you and housil wrote about the distance I had also one experience some years ago at the border of Arizona and Utah. We have been at the Zion Nat. park lodge and had the idea for a side trip to the Monument Valley.
we just had a cheap map and it looked like the distance is about one or one and a half hour then we drove for hours...
The distances in the states are realy amazing no comparsion with Germany or even europe.

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:05 pm
by housil
Imon wrote: The distances in the states are realy amazing no comparsion with Germany or even europe.
Amazing?! They are huuuuuuuuugh... :shock:
Everything is bigger in the States, even an egg box contains 12 egg´s, not 10 like ours :wink:

I was asking a police officer at Miami for the way.
He asked me "Do you know Fire Deparment HQ?"
"Yes I know where that is"
"The store you are lokking for is next to it"

Next to it.

We went a couple of times around that HQ building, couldn´t find that stores.

HQ is at 42nd Street, the shop was at 125th - real "next" to it... :shock: American sizes

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:16 pm
by Stef
housil wrote: Everything is bigger in the States, even an egg box contains 12 egg´s, not 10 like ours :wink:
Hey, speak for yourself, ther're 12 eggs in a French egg box 8)
You're right about the distance, now I understand why my local colleagues were laughing when I said "I'm going to walk to the supermarket" :oops:

Re: Chewing gum

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:31 pm
by Imon
housil wrote:
Imon wrote: The distances in the states are realy amazing no comparsion with Germany or even europe.
Amazing?! They are huuuuuuuuugh... :shock:
Everything is bigger in the States, even an egg box contains 12 egg´s, not 10 like ours :wink:

American sizes
:D yes you are right...the american sizes....everything is larger,bigger...ah... one moment...

the favorite bavarian Brezels and the beer (mugs),even if you can find them, have not our big size :wink: