Leland's most favorite, Blackjack Gum allegedly used to be made with real black licorice that turned the chewer's teeth black, or the gum was black and you cover your teeth with it (to appear as if they were missing/knocked out.) I can't confirm or deny the factuality of this, but I know my mom used to chew it so I could ask her.  

Here's the Wikipedia entry, maybe the links say something:

Black Jack (gum)

But it used to turn people's teeth black back in the early 1900s. Ingredients change over the years. It was made with licorice and enough licorice will turn your teeth black.

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

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Yes I agree that Windom drank some oil but that doesn't mean there isn't a connection between the gum and the oil. Maybe Leland (Bob) chews the gum to "remind" himself of the oil.

So, Black Jack gum is actually mentioned in the series as the gum Leland chews?

I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but I've never heard that licorice by itself has any blackness or staining properties on it's own, and I've studied a bit about herbal remedies and such.

 Here's a good article: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/licorice-000262.htm

Of course, that gum may have had a black coloring of some kind.

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

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Okay fellas. I come from the land of black liqurice and there´s no way it turns your teeth black...

Maybe windom flew off to denmark, stuffed his face with it, flew back on the fastest plane EVA, and as his mouth was still full he looked a leo and went "eeeeeeewwww"....

Sorry, Im tired

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drinking oil?

This is what happens when people try to rationalize things too much, I think. :)

I think it is connected to Leland and Laura looking like that in FWWM. Laura when she talked about BOB to Harold, and Leland when he entered the Black Lodge. I believe it means Windom had either been to the Black Lodge or was very close to reaching it.

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"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

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Well then, how about just swishing it like mouthwash?

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

http://tinyurl.com/yqwurw

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

http://tinyurl.com/yqwurw

The scenes of Laura and Leland possessed by Bob are fantastic. Laura's character is based around the concept of a person who's 'radiant' on the outside and 'dying' on the inside according to David Lynch and these scenes are the only time the dichotomy is physically manifested. The teeth seem to indicate there's something wrong inside the body - that it's literally corrupted. I find the scene of Leland entering the lodge moving because it juxtaposes Bob's evil (or hunger) with Leland's pain.

"Do you see creamed corn on that plate?"

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True. It could be that they made Windom look like that to make him look tainted with evil, and when making FWWM Lynch wanted to work on the look and thus it is slightly different. I still think they're connected.

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