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Peanut butter gets gum off shoes?

Posted by: 3AW Radio | 11 March, 2010 - 11:55 AM

ABOVE: With 3AW callers alerting Neil Mitchell of their disgust over the amount of chewing gum on Victorian streets, Jane Holmes tried a listener suggested method to get some well-chewed gum off her shoes.

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Hate to take peanut butter from your toast. I just came from the beach with a mix of gum and sand on the bottom of my crocs. Being the lazy person that I am I put them in a bucket of water. Plain ol' water from my garden hose. Then I goggled the question and got this site. When I retrieved my crocs to give this a try, wala, no gum. So give them a soak. keep the peanut butter for you lunch.

Mike Sunday 18 July, 2010 - 9:36 AM
I would rate that test 30 out of 100. Reason being, the gum should have been left on the shoe for at least a couple of hours & the shoe walked on also, to truely see if the peanutbutter could remove the gum :)
Cheers

David Wednesday 17 March, 2010 - 10:09 PM
Chewing gum makes a perfectly good footpath look unclean and rundown. There is an Australian owned QLD based company who has a GRV (Gum Removal Vehicle) that can remove Gum fom our streets as well as a whole host of other grime. The web site is http://www.gumremovalvehichle.com.au

Elissa Wednesday 17 March, 2010 - 9:46 PM
Peanut butter does help get gum unstuck!!!! Unfortuanatly when I was in junior high one of my classmates put chewed gum right on the top of my head. Peanut Butter was used to help get it out of my hair. Thank God I would have had to cut off alot of hair...

Candice Monday 15 March, 2010 - 1:17 PM