– Jack Black “The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I’m going to pretend like I don’t want my son to hear the rock. I’m going to listen to it only in my private chambers.

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Blackjack is a popular casino-gambling card game.

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Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

• 1Places
• 3Arts, entertainment, and media
  • 3.5Music

Places[edit]

Australia[edit]

• Black Jack, Queensland, a locality in Queensland
• Black Jack, a civil parish of Pottinger County, New South Wales
• Black Jack Hill, near Gunnedah, New South Wales

United States[edit]

• Black Jack (Red Oak, North Carolina), a historic plantation house near Red Oak, Nash County, North Carolina
• Black Jack, Missouri, city in St. Louis County
• Blackjack, Missouri, an unincorporated community in St. Clair County

People[edit]

• Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), Inuit woman
• Roddy Blackjack (c. 1920–2013), Canadian elder and former Chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation of the Yukon Territory
• Blackjack Lanza (born 1935), ring name of former professional wrestler John Lanza
• Blackjack Mulligan (1942–2016), ring name of former professional wrestler Robert Jack Windham
• 'Blackjack' Hoss Taylor, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

• Black Jack (manga character), the main character of the 1973 manga series of the same name
• Blackjack (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe

Films[edit]

• Black Jack (1927 film), an American silent Western film
• Black Jack (1950 film), written and directed by Julien Duvivier
• Black Jack (1968 film), a Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Baldanello
• Black Jack (1979 film), by Ken Loach
• Blackjack (1978 film), an American crime drama film
• Blackjack (1990 film), directed by Colin Nutley
• Blackjack (1998 film), a TV movie directed by John Woo
• BlackJack (film series) (2003–2007), a series of Australian seven TV movies starring Colin Friels

Games and cards[edit]

• Black Jack (card game), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom
• Black jack, a playing card jack
• Blackjack (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari
• Blackjack, an NES video game developed by Odyssey Software; See American Video Entertainment
• Chinese Blackjack, a game also known as 21-point

Literature[edit]

• 'Black Jack', a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection Soldiers Three
• Black Jack, a 2003 novel by Finnish writer Reijo Mäki

Music[edit]

• Blackjack, a 21-note scale in the miracle temperament

Groups[edit]

• Black Jack (Chilean band), a Chilean rock band
• Black Jack (Australian band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Blackjack (American band), an American rock band featuring Michael Bolton, Bruce Kulick, Sandy Gennaro and Jimmy Haslip
• BlackJack (Swedish band), a Swedish dansband

Albums[edit]

• Blackjack (Blackjack album), by the American band, 1979
• Blackjack (Donald Byrd album), 1968

Songs[edit]

• 'Black Jack', by The Hives from Barely Legal
• 'Black Jack', by Junkie XL from Big Sounds of the Drags
• 'Black Jacks', by Girls Aloud from Tangled Up
• 'Blackjack', by Airbourne from Runnin' Wild
• 'Blackjack', by Aminé from OnePointFive
• 'Blackjack', by Death Grips from The Money Store
• 'Blackjack', by Everclear from Slow Motion Daydream
• 'Blackjack', by Ray Charles from Yes Indeed!

Television[edit]

• 'Black Jack' (Jericho episode), a 2007 episode of the television series Jericho
• 'Blackjack', season 4, episode 12 of Fear the Walking Dead
• 'BlackJack', an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• 'Blackjack', an episode of the TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Other arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

• Black Jack (manga), a 1973 manga and anime series

Brands and enterprises[edit]

• Black Jack (confectionery), aniseed flavour chews
• Black Jack (gum), a brand of chewing gum
• BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
  • BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• Blackjack Pizza, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado, US

Military and law enforcement[edit]

• Black Jack (horse), served in the Caisson Platoon
• Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
• National Society of Blackjacks, a High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership program
• RQ-21 Blackjack, a small tactical unmanned air system
• 'The Black Jack Brigade', nickname of the U.S. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
• Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
• VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron

Science[edit]

• Black jack (fish), a gamefish
• Blackjack oak or Quercus marilandica, a small tree
• Black jack, a common fig cultivar
• Black jack, often weedy species of the genus Bidens from the family of Asteraceae
• Sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

Weapons[edit]

• Blackjack (weapon), a hand weapon typically consisting of a piece of leather-enclosed metal with a strap or springy shaft for a handle
• Baton (law enforcement) or 'Blackjack', a small easily concealed club weapon

Other uses[edit]

• Black Jack (stamp), a United States postage stamp
• STV Black Jack, a 1904 Canadian brigantine sailing ship
• The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team

See also[edit]

• Blak Jak (born 1983), American rapper
• Blk Jks, signifying Black Jacks, South African rock band

Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum made by Mondelēz International, originally the American Chicle Company. As of July 2018 Gerrit's Brands, Inc. acquired the rights to Black Jack gum, along with Beemans and Clove, relaunching reformulated versions in November 2018.

In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (famous for losing the Texas War of Independence) was living in New Jersey.^[1] He brought Mexican chicle with him in hopes of selling it to raise funds to help him return to power in his home country. He persuaded Thomas Adams of Staten Island, New York, to buy it. Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute. Adams' efforts at vulcanization failed, but he noticed that Santa Anna liked to chew the chicle, which the ancient Mayans had done.

Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum. He gave some to a local store to see if people would buy it; they did and he began production.

In 1871, Adams received a patent on a gum-making machine and began mass-producing chicle-based gum. His first product ('Snapping and Stretching') was pure chicle with no flavoring, but sold well enough to encourage Adams in his plans. He began to experiment with flavorings, beginning with sarsaparilla. In 1884, he began adding licorice flavoring and called his invention Adams' Black Jack, the first flavored gum in the U.S. It was also the first gum to be offered in sticks.

Black Jack Gum was sold well into the 1970s, when production ceased due to slow sales. It was re-introduced in October of 1986.^[2]American Chicle was purchased by the Warner-Lambert Company in 1962, which became part of Pfizer in 2000. In 2002, Adams was purchased by Cadbury, which merged with Kraft Foods in 2010 and became part of Mondelēz in 2012 following the split.

Black Jack chewing gum returned to the market in the 2000s, in limited quantities, often sold in candy specialty shops.

In popular culture[edit]

In the book Deviant, author Harold Schechter mentions that American serial killer Ed Gein chewed Black Jack gum during his sanity hearing.In the TV series Homeland, Saul Berenson is fond of those chewing-gums. Black Jack gum was also used in the television show Boardwalk Empire. It was featured in Nucki's flashbacks in Season 5, Episode 6.

In Seinfeld Season 3, Episode 5 ('The Library'), Seinfeld is reminiscing with an old friend. He asks if they were chewing Black Jack gum. She says, 'Ugh licorice gum? Never!'

In the 1990 movie Pump up the Volume, Christian Slater's character prefers Black Jack gum .

Referenced in the song 'back to the hotel' by SF Bay area group N2Deep.

In the Sanford and Son episode 'Coffins for Sale' Fred makes a reference to Black Jack Gum being chewed by General Pershing.

In Season 3, Episode 10 of the Showtime original series Homeland, acting director of the CIA, Saul Berenson ensures his secretary has an adequate supply during a tense moment. (Later it is referenced as his lucky gum). 'I'm out of Black Jack. Anymore out there?' Secretary brings him a pack from her desk. 'Is this the last pack?' Secretary: 'I've got you plenty more. Don't worry'.

Rage (1977) by Stephen King. In chapter 22 the lead character, Charlie Decker, says: 'Black Jack gum - there is no finer'

In Season 3, Episode 16 of the American TV series Northern Exposure, 'Three Amigos,' Ruth-Anne offers Maurice a pack of Black Jack gum to bury with their late friend, Bill. She said he always liked it. Then, before they completely finish Bill's burial in the wilderness, Maurice offers Holling a stick and then he stuffs the pack of gum between the rocks that are covering the burial mound.

References[edit]

1. ^http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-santa-anna
2. ^https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/25/business/new-revival-old-time-gum.html