Gumminess

The state of pavements, shoe soles and the undersides of school desks look set to improve dramatically in Spain following a government decision to take some of the gumminess out of chewing gum. ❋ Giles Tremlett (2010)

Lower-rated ice creams are less creamy and less flavorful, with flaws such as an artificial taste or gumminess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'Industrial food titan and noted purveyor of swell toxins for most of humanity, ConAgra has introduced a new iPhone app, aimed at re-introducing the joy that is Parkay margarine -- AKA whipped monoglycerides and soy lecithin and artificial flavoring and sundry nasty gumminess you should never really put into your body -- to the easily duped masses who love them some retro TV commercial wackiness at the expense of, you know, actual health. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Industrial food titan and noted purveyor of swell toxins for most of humanity, ConAgra has introduced a new iPhone app, aimed at re-introducing the joy that is Parkay margarine -- AKA whipped monoglycerides and soy lecithin and artificial flavoring and sundry nasty gumminess you should never really put into your body -- to the easily duped masses who love them some retro TV commercial wackiness at the expense of, you know, actual health. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If there was any gumminess to it, Romney would have flung it. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

I totally understand what you mean by “gumminess”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was chewy with lightly crisped edges and a crackly top and an density that had not confused itself with gumminess, as too many rich brownies do. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cooking the potatoes with their skins on protects the starch granules, reducing the gumminess. ❋ Bryanna Clark Grogan (2008)

And the use of buttermilk vs. regular milk just makes the wetness/gumminess more of a problem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Swedish Fish actually originated in you guessed it Sweden, but due to their sweetness, gumminess, and lack of bones, they are commonly bred in gummy-fish farms all over the world. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I can stand them when the skin is taken off but the whole gumminess, no flavor thing is what gets me. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It just wouldn't blend together at all, so I poured the entire thing through a fine-meshed strainer and pushed all of the kabocha gumminess through the sieve. ❋ Tokyoastrogirl (2006)

In total the company has created 95 products, from waffle mix to its own version of ketchup, in the past few years; it still hasn't conquered some, such as pasta, which has gumminess problems. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All the dirt in corners and dust bunnies under the beds, all the sand in crevices and dampness on surfaces, all the gumminess that had been a part of the Moyles home for many, many years, was clearly, oddly, gone. ❋ Meg Wolitzer (1999)

This gluten, however, carries with it one disadvantage -- its stickiness, or gumminess. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Again, plain boiled tapioca and sago (in water) are as nearly tasteless as anything can be; they merely yield a feeling of gumminess; but milk, in which they are oftenest cooked, gives them a relish (in the sense here restricted), and sugar, eggs, cinnamon, or nutmeg are usually added by way of flavouring. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)