Blog No.32
 

Please do not incite more fighting and raised tempers during this difficult time! 

Many of you may have heard, or are in the midst of this regrettable tension, but some of you have not, so I will tell you what has happened. 

Of course, you will all be familiar with the legendary figure from history - Chewbacca. The Wookie who, while having a slightly shady history working as a smuggler and bounty hunter, was more well known for his work with the Rebels, helping to restore order to the Galaxy. 

He was deadly with a bowcaster - or with his arms and hands, to be honest - much feared by enemies and beloved by his friends. 

So the history books say. 

Well, there has been a uproar of late, caused by a mid-sized business in Mos Eisley, that has manufactured it's own brand of chewing gum. A sort of candy. They say it helps when you're thirsty out in the desert. 

Well, they have named it -'CHEW-Bacca"

Fans of the Historical Hero and Wookies across the Galaxy have been enraged by this and demanded that they change the name or else there will be dire consequences for the business, while the Gum factory claims that the NAME of the founder of the place is Bacca. So CHEW Bacca only makes sense and has no bearing on the Legend. 

I ask that all who may hear of this do not add to the strife and simply try to keep things low-key as we send Ambassadors over there to figure things out.

There is also a THIRD party who just really enjoys chewing gum and feels offended that anyone else would feel upset or angry about having a much-enjoyed candy named after them. Or after someone they admired. 

I can understand that the idea of the Historical Chewbacca, chewing gum, is a difficult picture to envision, but I can also see how not everyone was trying to intentionally insult that Chewbacca. 

Perhaps if everyone simply calmed down and talked things over, there wouldn't be so much angst over this. Maybe they could change the spelling from CHEW Bacca to SjewBacca or something. I don't know. Have any of you any ideas about this? 

There must be some way to honor Chewbacca and not put CHEW Bacca out of business.

Can you imagine if the actual Chewbacca had Chewed Bacca's gum and got it caught in his hair?! How would he even get that out? You'd have to shave him or something! I think gum and Chewbacca just don't mix, personally and no offense to Mr Bacca, the candy maker. 

I have never had gum stuck in my hair, thankfully, but that would be the worst, I'd think, for a Wookie. I can hear the howlings now. It does seem strange that the company never considered how close the words sounded to the Wookie's name. Maybe they should have thought of that. Used the flavor in the title, perhaps and I am SURE it doesn't taste like Wookie! They would certainly be shut down!