thumb|Sample package right|thumb|upright|1912 advertisement Chiclets is an American brand of candy-coated chewing gum owned by Perfetti Van Melle. The brand was introduced in 1900 by the American Chicle Company, a company founded by Thomas Adams.
thumb|Sample package right|thumb|upright|1912 advertisement Chiclets is an American brand of candy-coated chewing gum owned by Perfetti Van Melle. The brand was introduced in 1900 by the American Chicle Company, a company founded by Thomas Adams.
==History== The Chiclets name derives from the Mexican Spanish word "chicle," from the Aztec Nahuatl word "chictli/tzictli", meaning "sticky stuff" and referring to a pre-Columbian chewing gum found throughout Mesoamerica. This pre-Columbian chewing gum was tapped as a sap from various trees.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).