If you call yourself an older millennial, then you definitely grew up with Fruit Stripe gum, its wildly erratic zebra mascot, and the brightly colored sticks of gum with bold fruit flavors that lasted almost as long as it took you to read this sentence. Almost.
However, according to Fruit Stripe’s manufacturer, Ferrara Candy, the gum is being discontinued. (That’s big news to anyone who didn’t think it was discontinued about the time “Hannah Montana” went off the air.) “We have made the difficult decision to sunset Fruit Stripe Gum, but consumers may still be able to find the product at select retailers nationwide,” a Ferrara Candy representative said in a statement.
Fruit Stripe commercial from the 1960’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUKenR9k238
Yikes! Stripes. :'(
Fruit Stripe gum had the unfortunate distinction of being the most delicious thing you’ve ever put in your mouth, a total whirlwind of flavor… for five seconds. Then it’s just sugar, then shortly after that, it’s just nothing. It’s like something Willy Wonka would have wished for on a monkey’s paw.
It’s the crack of the gum world.
It’s like something Willy Wonka would have wishes for on a monkey’s paw.
(slow clap from a middling GenXer)
can we still chip our teeth on bazooka joe?
It tasted really good for all of 10 seconds.
Wow the memories. Like everyone said, the flavor lasted for seconds at best. It’s currently going for $140-200 for 12 packs on ebay.
Incredible. It’s the only gum I’ve ever tried that crumbled to bits when chewed. Even just bought, it was like it had been sitting in the Arizona sun for decades.
It was gone five minutes after you put it in your mouth. But the memory is forever.
if you call yourself an old millennial
Shut up, that was some old-school Gen X shit.
Ugh, whatever
There was a short time around 1977, during which my wildest fantasy of the best and happiest thing that could possibly happen to me (short of truly fantastical and nigh-impossible things like going to Disneyland, which I wasn’t yet sure really existed) would have been to receive multiple packs of Fruit Stripe gum.
i had fruit stripe gummies a few years ago and they tasted like ass rubbed with fruit
