Chicleros, or
chicle harvesters, were paid very little, and working conditions meant camping in the rainforest for the 4-month-long rainy season when the Sapodilla sap flowed.
Although Diego de Landa, the sixteenth-century bishop of the Yucatan who infamously burned the Maya codices, never admitted to chewing
chicle himself, he did praise the taste of sapodilla in his Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan, written about 1566.
Existen en presentaciones de 2 y 4 mg, tal como los
chicles, y presentan una efectividad similar (OR 2.05, IC 95% 1.62 - 2.59 [14].
Como ya he senalado, los tres newsgroups que analizamos son:
Chicle List (Chicano literature discussion list), Aztlan Net (Latino arts and letters of North America) y mexican.american (soc.culture.mexican.american).
Founded in 1899 as American
Chicle by Thomas Adams, Adams was acquired in 1962 by Warner-Lambert Co., which was then acquired by Pfizer.
He noticed Mexicans liked chewing
chicle, a rubbery substance from a Central American tree, and in 1869 boiled up some with flavourings and offered it to a store.
Gum in its modern form came into being when a US photographer, Thomas Adams, experimented with
chicle - sap from the sapodilla tree - which he knew native Indians chewed.