@Kross Deal, but only if meh will split them before they ship for us, so I don’t have to spend more on shipping then it would cost just to buy the second flavor. I bought the peppermint.
@Thumperchick hah, I actually realized it after I posted it and clicked on their name. That’s what they get! Also, @lichme didn’t explicitly state “meh.com”, they only wrote “meh”! So there
It’s “best if sold by” February 2018 for the spearmint and December 2017 for the peppermint, which means you’d have to chew more than one piece per day to avoid this cut-off.
When I was a kid, I bought things (baseball cards? I don’t remember exactly) that came with gum in it. The things in question were . . . not new. I think I was regularly eating gum older than I was. So even if this goes a little past the “best by” date, I doubt it’ll have any meaningful consequences.
@gominosensei my dad would occasionally let me eat the gum out of a pack of his old baseball cards when i was a kid. i still remember how hard it was to chew - it was more like crunching little planks than chewing gum - but it still had flavor! i’m not sure why i thought this was such a cool thing. novelty, i suppose…
@lichme basically. we get this weird flavored gum sent to us all the time. That crap needs to go, nobody wants apple-key-lime-pie or strawberry-chocolate-mousse gum.
@Madboy121 How is 4 x 40 for $10 (actually, $11.74 unless you want to play the subscribe and save game) an equivalent deal to 6 x 40 for $10, especially if you have both Prime and VMP?
@RedOak $10 per 160 pieces= 16 cents/piece. If you have prime but not vmp this is $15 per 240 pieces = 16 cents/piece. He said it’s the same price only if you have vmp but not prime. Your case (both) is equivalent to:
Meh. I have noticed, due to the dozens of packs of gum littering my home, that my capacity to buy gum in bulk cheaply surpasses my and everyone else I know desire to chew it.
No thanks. I hate anything ‘sugar free’… Not that I like sugar, more that I don’t like artificial sweeteners… First taste okay, second taste and from then on it’s funky like pepper… Yuck!
I have stores near me that sometimes sell these things at $2 a pop, and have almost all of the flavors at some point or another. It’s good gum, but only mint isn’t going to cut it for me.
As tempted as I am to purchase 240 of something, this is not big enough a discount from Walmart or Amazon to justify buying such bulk amounts of soon-expiring gum.
Also buyers should be aware that sugar-alcohol sweeteners like those in this gum do rapidly lose their flavor after the “best by” date.
Bought one of each. If i get more than 12 trick-or-treat’ers, we’re going to the scoopfuls of candy corn. Hope those little goblins are out early!
/giphy "The early bird gets the worm"
So it looks like, depending on how many you buy, the 40 packs are around $0.07-0.08 per piece on Amazon vs. this deal at $0.04 per piece. The discount for the approaching expiration date… (assumes both VMP and Prime).
@RedOak Eh, I live in a “low-volume” Halloween trick-or-treaters" neighborhood…I’ll be a star. Next year when I give out scoops of candy-corn…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@UncleVinny I worked at a chemical distribution company for a time in high school and college. One of the chemicals I transferred from 55 gallon drums to smaller containers was methyl salicylate (Wintergreen). That stuff was potent to the point of dangerous - had to pour it outside since the lab (and its ventilation) couldn’t handle 55 gallon drums.
could never understand how there can be more than one mint flavor.
quick googles:
Different species: Spearmint is Mentha spicata while peppermint is Mentha piperita. … Peppermint’s flavor is marked by the ingredient menthol, which is stronger and more pronounced. Both spearmint and peppermint have menthol in them but peppermint has a much higher menthol content (40% versus .05% in spearmint)
almost bought some, but figure it will be melty goo in this heat
Hell yeah! I love aspartame! 90+ side effects! I can’t wait! I maxed out all 3 items across each of my 9 accounts! I’m so excited! #phenylketonuric OMG I CAN’T WAIT!!!
Yes - xylitol-based gum DOES suddenly disintegrate like an unstable isotope that has reached its half-life. It turns into a sloppy wet mess. I used to keep packs of this stuff in my backpack for when I fly - it’s the only time I chew gum - and have found old packs of this stuff always start to return to their base elements.
That said - it’s probably good for at least 6 months past the expiration date. But don’t be surprised if you grab a container that’s been open for a few weeks to find that you have a bottle of watery goo.
Too bad no Cinnamon, Bubble Breeze, or Wintergreen. I might even take Raspberry or Grape over Spearmint. Peppermint is only just above Tropical and Lemon. Orange isn’t terrible. Watermelon is just no.
A few of these were spilled in our driveway. I thought they were candy six sided dice because the dot pattern on a couple of them happened be very dice like. Also, if my daughter saw candy dice, she would most certainly have bought them (back then).
These days my adult daughter is living with a boyfriend that can cook very well. She has a much healthier diet now. So don’t bother having your buyers look for dice candy.
I watched her run a D&D (or similar) session. The only things I noticed that were different from what we did in 1981 were the roll up white board that she used for a map, and the players used their cell phones to look up monsters instead of the Monster Manual in the form of a book.
i actually always have a pack of the blue icebreakers in my car…but the mints. i don’t chew gum and maybe moreover i can’t stand the way my partner chews it so i don’t buy it lol.
@jerk_nugget I played in the band for a production of Chicago that just ended. One of the “Merry Murderesses” in Cell Block Tango killed her husband because of the way he popped his gum. Hopefully your partner’s gum chewing doesn’t annoy you quite that much.
@SSteve lol! no, it’s not quite to the point of murderous rage. although he hates going to any type of store so since i never buy it he pretty much never chews it as it’s just not available. (once he got his coworker to grab him a pack.) but if that ever changes maybe he’ll have to keep one eye open at night XD
I bought these at a drug store in NYC and then could not find them when I got back to SF…except at $3.50 a pack at the less than convenient store across from where I work. Imagine my wow this is my lucky day joy when it popped up today…and my alas that spearmint was sold out. Meh is like life. & I got the peppermint.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
6x 40-count packs of gum
Pictures
Options
Blue
Uh oh gotta chew them all now
Blue box
Green
Uh oh get to chewin’
Green box
Here the product is next to the product for scale
Ice cube
Warranty
Nope
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Oct 30 - Wednesday, Nov 1
Bubble bubble
@Stallion …, toil and trouble
What’s with all the candy? Halloween?
@eeterrific no maybe meh has secretly partnered with a dental group smile
Not even a 2-fer! I still bought a pack to take to work.
Edit: I’m an idiot and missed the pun in the title. Forgive me!
My jaws are sore just thinking about going through all that gum.
@norman8 this gum is pretty soft
@medz That’s what grampa said.
@norman8 ask Spicer for help, he has some free time now.
Need a half half option, because I like to be difficult
@lichme I’ll split the other pack with ya.
@Kross Deal, but only if meh will split them before they ship for us, so I don’t have to spend more on shipping then it would cost just to buy the second flavor. I bought the peppermint.
@lichme Deal! I got spearmint. @meh get on it!
@Kross so, fun fact - @meh tags one of our users/customers, not us. They created the username with us before we had meh.com.
@Thumperchick @dave Get on it!
@Thumperchick hah, I actually realized it after I posted it and clicked on their name. That’s what they get! Also, @lichme didn’t explicitly state “meh.com”, they only wrote “meh”! So there
@lichme @kross - you all will just have to meet up to share packs. Travel to exotic places, meet new and exciting people…
Did you get a shipment to the wearhouse that was supposed to go to Costco and just decide to try to sell it anyway?
Exp date please?
I buy these all the time for $1.50 When there is 6 months to go…
Says in specs, @somf69.
@somf69 December for blue and February for green
@somf69
@somf69
@Pantheist Hey, sold by 16 August, we’re meh!
@haydesigner who reads the specs??
Wow less that 6 months to go…not a good deal.
Who reads specs, @somf69? Well, people who want… specific information.
/giphy Sure, why not.
@haydesigner That’s the spearmint!
/giphy check yourself
Bubble Breeze please!! I’ll buy a couple
When I was a kid, I bought things (baseball cards? I don’t remember exactly) that came with gum in it. The things in question were . . . not new. I think I was regularly eating gum older than I was. So even if this goes a little past the “best by” date, I doubt it’ll have any meaningful consequences.
@gominosensei So you’re the person who bought the baseball cards for the gum. I’m guessing you’re not a very picky eater.
@norman8 I always bought the gum because it came with free baseball cards.
@gominosensei my dad would occasionally let me eat the gum out of a pack of his old baseball cards when i was a kid. i still remember how hard it was to chew - it was more like crunching little planks than chewing gum - but it still had flavor! i’m not sure why i thought this was such a cool thing. novelty, i suppose…
@gominosensei Bought these at a yard sale last year, want the gum?
Uhgh. No. Xylitol causes severe bowel distress in me, and at these quantities I’d never make it off the toilet.
@fuzzmanmatt you don’t have to chew it all once, promise.
@fuzzmanmatt
/image poopsplosion animated gif
@medz I am both amazed and horrified that image has a response for that.
/giphy poopsplosion
What is it with the popularity of that term?
@ruouttaurmind have you any kids? We use it for a diaper blowout.
@dickie541 I always referred to a diaper blowout as “a good time to act like I’m sound asleep”.
This can’t even be worth shipping /giphy loser
@aronwp the shot, the giph… Oh, sooooo close.
The /giphy Hall of Shame
@haydesigner giphy is the starring attraction of the /giphy Hall of Shame!
Wow this gum apparently contains every type of non-sugar sweetener that exists.
I bet this gum will make a great laxative!
I look forward to the results of your comprehensive study, @awk
/giphy my doctor says I have to take a laxative
@awk It’s missing stevia, saccharin and sodium cyclamate though
@haydesigner
/giphy oh hell no
@PhotoJim Sodium cyclamate sounds delicious and fun, only rates a “2” for health hazard!
@awk Sounds more effective than prunes.
I’m mildly allergic, but Jen loves it.
/image inane-doleful-key
/giphy inane-doleful-key
I wanna buy this. I don’t chew gum, and I have to get two crowns next month.
I probably should stay away from here for 24 hours.
240 Tuesday?
My jaw is going to hurt if I finish this by December.
@2many2no TWSS
/image minty-competitive-writer
Ah, the Highland Games. We Scots do some crazy events.
@medz I’ve always thought Competitive Balancing-Bells-On-Horizontal-Poles-While-Wearing-Kilts should be an Olympic sport.
/buy --spearmint
@therealjrn Sorry, this deal contains 2 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. Try ordering from the checkout page.
PSA from my veterinarian wife: Xylitol is toxic to dogs and cats.
http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?A=2859
@SSteve Thanks, I did not know that!
@SSteve someone should buy it and write a whole manifesto about meh trying to kill their dog and people will respond with sarcastic comments.
And I can sit and watch it unfold like theater.
@SSteve I figured someone beat me to it. Added to the bottom of the thread a bit ago as well.
/buy --flavor peppermint
@lichme It worked! Your order number is: cylindrical-weathered-earth
/image cylindrical weathered earth
@lichme YAY!
/giphy punitive-restorative-news
/image punitive-restorative-news
welp, in for two shipments. one for the office, on for the home.
/giphy older-permissive-brandy
/giphy hungry-apathetic-psychic
@Alderuen
@lichme basically. we get this weird flavored gum sent to us all the time. That crap needs to go, nobody wants apple-key-lime-pie or strawberry-chocolate-mousse gum.
/giphy sad-blonde-ox
@Thumperchick, I rather liked the cat launching one instead
@haydesigner that one made me sad.
@Thumperchick You know that had to hurt! Bruised head in cart, combined boob/bellyflopping and her ego. Just can’t stop laughing at it though.
@WTFsunshine A store shopping cart, used (stolen) outside of store premises … I call that karma.
http://www.vorelco.com/services/loss-prevention
Also, I look forward to all the other 240-for-Tuesdays that Meh will now have every week for at least the rest of the year
/giphy 240-for-tuesday
@haydesigner Knowing meh, they’d make a typo and end up selling 420-for-Tuesday.
/giphy 420-for-Tuesday
@narfcake 420 Speaker docks! 420 knives! Yay!
Great. Now Meh will try to sell us rolling papers.
@haydesigner Why not? Woot sold dime bags, pot, weed, MJ …
/image woot dime bag
/image woot bag of pot
/image woot bag of weed
/image woot bag of MJ
Those were great, @narfcake!
/BUY --COLOR SPEARMINT
@therealjrn Sorry, this deal contains 2 unique items and I’m not sure which one you want. Try ordering from the checkout page.
@therealjrn --flavor
This gum contains Xylitol, which is toxic to dogs. So keep it away from them. Otherwise, hey, cheap gum!!!
WHERE IS THE LEMON AND GRAPE???
/buy --flavor spearmint
@therealjrn It worked! Your order number is: comfortable-sporty-weather
/image comfortable sporty weather
@mediocrebot thanks!
/giphy cheesy
Within a quarter ($0.25) what I buy this for single-unit, retail, at the local DeMoula’s.
FYI: Amazon sells four 40-count packs for right around $10.
@Madboy121 How is 4 x 40 for $10 (actually, $11.74 unless you want to play the subscribe and save game) an equivalent deal to 6 x 40 for $10, especially if you have both Prime and VMP?
@RedOak $10 per 160 pieces= 16 cents/piece. If you have prime but not vmp this is $15 per 240 pieces = 16 cents/piece. He said it’s the same price only if you have vmp but not prime. Your case (both) is equivalent to:
@Pantheist
it’s $10 worth of gum you guys, don’t overthink it
@Pantheist Not to quibble, but isn’t the cost per piece in your example 6 cents per piece, not 16 cents?
@RedOak Ah yeah, you’re right. Still, point works.
You had me at Xylitol & then lost me at aspartame. Hate aspartame-- vile stuff.
If they’re going to have a substitute sweetener, why do they need so many different ones? One would do fine.
@WaltC Yup, because we all need ulcer medication pushed through by Donald Rumsfeld! Woohoo, brain cancer for everyone!
Aspartame sucks.
/buy --flavor peppermint
@therealjrn It worked! Your order number is: offhand-shocked-moose
/image offhand shocked moose
@mediocrebot I’m just as shocked as you are, mediocrebot.
Meh. I have noticed, due to the dozens of packs of gum littering my home, that my capacity to buy gum in bulk cheaply surpasses my and everyone else I know desire to chew it.
No thanks. I hate anything ‘sugar free’… Not that I like sugar, more that I don’t like artificial sweeteners… First taste okay, second taste and from then on it’s funky like pepper… Yuck!
I have stores near me that sometimes sell these things at $2 a pop, and have almost all of the flavors at some point or another. It’s good gum, but only mint isn’t going to cut it for me.
PS: the blue ones are better than the green ones.
As tempted as I am to purchase 240 of something, this is not big enough a discount from Walmart or Amazon to justify buying such bulk amounts of soon-expiring gum.
Also buyers should be aware that sugar-alcohol sweeteners like those in this gum do rapidly lose their flavor after the “best by” date.
TIL it’s not spear-a-mint
Bought one of each. If i get more than 12 trick-or-treat’ers, we’re going to the scoopfuls of candy corn. Hope those little goblins are out early!
/giphy "The early bird gets the worm"
So it looks like, depending on how many you buy, the 40 packs are around $0.07-0.08 per piece on Amazon vs. this deal at $0.04 per piece. The discount for the approaching expiration date… (assumes both VMP and Prime).
@RedOak Yeah? So this is good right?
@therealjrn if you can chew it all before it turns to tile grout.
@RedOak Eh, I live in a “low-volume” Halloween trick-or-treaters" neighborhood…I’ll be a star. Next year when I give out scoops of candy-corn…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Is Wintergreen not a real flavor?!
Ohhhh, they said “wintermint” is a fake flavor. Ok. Turns out Wintergreen is real:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen
@UncleVinny I worked at a chemical distribution company for a time in high school and college. One of the chemicals I transferred from 55 gallon drums to smaller containers was methyl salicylate (Wintergreen). That stuff was potent to the point of dangerous - had to pour it outside since the lab (and its ventilation) couldn’t handle 55 gallon drums.
@RedOak Yowza! While pouring, was there a helluva minty freshness afoot?
@UncleVinny Minty aroma, yes, in droves. But also dizziness if you got too close to the evaporating stuff.
could never understand how there can be more than one mint flavor.
quick googles:
Different species: Spearmint is Mentha spicata while peppermint is Mentha piperita. … Peppermint’s flavor is marked by the ingredient menthol, which is stronger and more pronounced. Both spearmint and peppermint have menthol in them but peppermint has a much higher menthol content (40% versus .05% in spearmint)
almost bought some, but figure it will be melty goo in this heat
@dave I can get you some.
Gum chewing is only slightly less disgusting/irritating than tobacco chewing. Unfortunately my spouse likes chewing gum so…
Terry Franconas favorite:
https://www.amazon.com/Dubble-Bubble-Assorted-Flavors-Count/dp/B004CHASWC
Too bad these are bad for your teeth. I’d do it, if they were trident…
I prefer Eclipse, which is cheaper on Amazon. ( ¢3.3 a piece vs the ¢4.2 per piece for these “cubes”) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083GJLEO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_4VOKzbQVVMQC5
What no discussion of xylitol and flatulance? Mehers are slipping into seriousness.
@soxnabox just now you let that one out.
Hell yeah! I love aspartame! 90+ side effects! I can’t wait! I maxed out all 3 items across each of my 9 accounts! I’m so excited! #phenylketonuric OMG I CAN’T WAIT!!!
This is my favorite gum, but $2.50 per pack is what I pay at Market Basket.
@fgmart Only $2.08 per pack if you buy two, $1.94 per pack if you buy three, or $1.66 per pack if you’re a VMP!
Would you say this meh deal ‘blew’ up last night ?
@AttyVette eh.
Yum yum, ICE CUBBS!
When are the cases of nearly expired creamed corn coming?
/buy --flavor spearmint
@patti It worked! Your order number is: nonsensical-mystical-scorpion
/image nonsensical mystical scorpion
/buy --flavor spearmint
@zachdecker Wow, these are selling fast and we’re busy processing other orders. Try again in a little bit.
@mediocrebot --flavour?
/buy --flavor spearmint
@zachdecker It worked! Your order number is: puzzling-stinky-mitten
/image puzzling stinky mitten
/buy --flavor spearmint
@AccusingEwe It worked! Your order number is: plump-pervasive-sponge
/image plump pervasive sponge
Dadgummit!!! Can’t decide if I want to chew this much gum.
@JawjaBill This much gum would definitely put the “Jaw” in Jawja.
Yes - xylitol-based gum DOES suddenly disintegrate like an unstable isotope that has reached its half-life. It turns into a sloppy wet mess. I used to keep packs of this stuff in my backpack for when I fly - it’s the only time I chew gum - and have found old packs of this stuff always start to return to their base elements.
That said - it’s probably good for at least 6 months past the expiration date. But don’t be surprised if you grab a container that’s been open for a few weeks to find that you have a bottle of watery goo.
Too bad no Cinnamon, Bubble Breeze, or Wintergreen. I might even take Raspberry or Grape over Spearmint. Peppermint is only just above Tropical and Lemon. Orange isn’t terrible. Watermelon is just no.
Things Violet Beauregarde would say. Probably.
Also, this isn’t getting nearly enough love. Well done, graphics person.
The local surplus outlet always has gum way cheaper. A very solid meh on this one.
/giphy rejection
Good news, everyone! This isn’t the gum with sorbitol, so chewing a ton of it shouldn’t have any untoward effects on your lower GI tract.
@fancycwabs You may want to be careful with your chewing- sugar alcohols all can be bad if you are sensitive (xylitol and mannitol too).
/image artistic-dazzle-mockingbird
I’m going to build a little igloo with these.
/giphy agonizing-indigo-mountain
@Kenbo NO NO NO NO GIPHY!!!
Trying again:
/giphy agonizing-indigo-mountain
@Kenbo You have to be kidding me. Dare I try a third time?
/giphy agonizing-indigo-mountain
@Kenbo Yay for Community outtake!
A few of these were spilled in our driveway. I thought they were candy six sided dice because the dot pattern on a couple of them happened be very dice like. Also, if my daughter saw candy dice, she would most certainly have bought them (back then).
These days my adult daughter is living with a boyfriend that can cook very well. She has a much healthier diet now. So don’t bother having your buyers look for dice candy.
I watched her run a D&D (or similar) session. The only things I noticed that were different from what we did in 1981 were the roll up white board that she used for a map, and the players used their cell phones to look up monsters instead of the Monster Manual in the form of a book.
Geez, more stuff like this and I’ll think Meh is really this:
@Aliferdoo wrote in to remind us that xylitol is toxic to dogs. So don’t let your dog eat this gum!
i actually always have a pack of the blue icebreakers in my car…but the mints. i don’t chew gum and maybe moreover i can’t stand the way my partner chews it so i don’t buy it lol.
@jerk_nugget I played in the band for a production of Chicago that just ended. One of the “Merry Murderesses” in Cell Block Tango killed her husband because of the way he popped his gum. Hopefully your partner’s gum chewing doesn’t annoy you quite that much.
@SSteve lol! no, it’s not quite to the point of murderous rage. although he hates going to any type of store so since i never buy it he pretty much never chews it as it’s just not available. (once he got his coworker to grab him a pack.) but if that ever changes maybe he’ll have to keep one eye open at night XD
I bought these at a drug store in NYC and then could not find them when I got back to SF…except at $3.50 a pack at the less than convenient store across from where I work. Imagine my wow this is my lucky day joy when it popped up today…and my alas that spearmint was sold out. Meh is like life. & I got the peppermint.
@heartfeltsf Spearmint is way better than peppermint. I was sad when they discontinued spearmint Lifesavers. They were my favorite.
/giphy synonymous-baffled-downtown
Let’s do this again, please!
@ThatNateGuy I still have 3.5 packs left!
@medz Yeah, still got a lot left, but I want to get more!