There's got to be a way to make a substitute with corn.

Soylent green is people. It's PEOPLE!!

Agrigum

What a "Sid Meier's Civilizaton"-ass name.

So will I be needing to go out and panic buy Diet Coke?

Fascinating.

Would be interesting if there were soda shortages and it resulted in improved health measurements in some noticeable way.

6: The article notes there are lower-quality gums available outside Sudan, so the soda-makers have a fallback.

RC-quality gum.

I liked RC

It was the Mr. Pipp of the cola world.

Did they stop making it? Why are you using the past tense?

I come to bury RC, not praise it.

TIL RC Cola was introduced 29 years after the company started making the Royal Crown line of drinks.

Ha, I just learned that too. I think I did already know that the founder started it because he was pissed off that his Coke supplier wouldn't give him a volume discount.

Anyway, RC is alive and well and owned by Keurig Dr Pepper these days.

Mr. Pibb went to grad school and got his doctorate so now he's Dr. Pepper.

You can now get Keurig cups, Dr. Pepper, lattes, bagels, and fashionable shoes from the same German conglomerate.

Conglomerate held together with gum arabic.

Do linguists have any theory to explain the inversion in "gum arabic"?

It probably came from India.

Or French word order?

Xanthan gum is named after the planet where it is found, so gum arabic is probably similar.

OED:

Etymology: Partly (i) < Anglo-Norman gumme arabic, goume arabike (13th cent. or earlier; compare Middle French, French gomme arabique , attested from the early 15th cent.; < goume , gumme gum n.2 + arabic , arabike , arabique Arabic adj.1), and partly (ii) < post-classical Latin gummi Arabicum (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources; < gummi gum n.2 + Arabicum , neuter of Arabicus Arabic adj.1; compare post-classical Latin gumma Arabica (1363 in Chauliac; 15th cent. in a British glossarial source)).

Under the entry "gum" it also gives a long list of other "various mucilaginous or resinous products" where the adjective comes after, some of which appear to be outdated synonyms for gum arabic, but including acacia, ammoniac, copal, elemi, guaiacum, lac, ladanum, olibanum, sandarac, tragacanth, accroides, benjamin, dammar, dragon, juniper, kino, and senegal.

Wikipedia says it's a direct translation from the Arabic name, which has the same order. It doesn't say anything about why the Europeans kept the order, though.

Gums arabic of attorneys general.

IIRC, after 9/11, they tried "gum freedom" but got sued by a group advocating for all restaurants to be required to have an entrée that didn't require chewing.

I was thinking it was crazy that it was traded as far away as the Anglo-Normans, but then I remembered they were Vikings so probably they were all the way up into that shit.

I've never met a Hispanic Norman in my life. I can't even recall a black one.

https://sjuhawks.com/sports/athletics/roster/norman-black/2331

Though I haven't met him.

"acacia, ammoniac, copal, elemi, guaiacum, lac, ladanum, olibanum, sandarac, tragacanth, accroides, benjamin, dammar, dragon, juniper, kino, and senegal"

Crom is having puppies next week so I just wanted to thank you for solving the naming problem.