Feature: Why Does my Teta’s Gum Taste so Good? [Community Presentation]
PRESENTER
Susu Habayeb
ORIGINAL CITY
DC
Original Date
December 10, 2017
DESCRIPTION
I idolize my Teta Widad so one of my favorite childhood memories was hanging out in my tetas room while she would be getting ready to go out. I would always watch her as she would sit at her vanity doing her makeup and putting on her jewelry. And one of the last things she would do was take out this packet of gum from her drawer and open the pack and give me one and take the other piece. I became obsessed with this gum, especially with the flavor of it and nostalgia it has behind it for me. As I got older I realized the taste of this gum was in a lot of different things that I would eat. And every time I would eat something with this flavoring I immediately would think what is this flavor, why is it in so many different things, and where does it come from?!
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