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
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.
Don’t forget it smelled fantastic too.
Don’t tell anyone, but I have a pack I literally keep to smell. Do my kids know about it? Nope.
As an older millennial this is the most amazing description of this gum that I wish I would have thought of.
Man, that is perfect. Just thinking about it, I could mentally taste it. God only knows how long it’s been. It was a truly remarkable flavor.
The taste I imagined was probably stronger than the taste after the first 5 seconds. Lol.
Never lasting gobstopper.
It’s the crack of the gum world.
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It tasted really good for all of 10 seconds.
yea its gone for a reason
But it was a really good 10 seconds.
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.
It was boomer shit lol. It first came out in 1969 when younger boomers were hitting childhood and adolescence.
Gen X was from 1965-1979
So the oldest Gen Xers were 4 years old, is the point. Gen X wasn’t the original target demographic, but rather they grew into being good consumers of Fruit Stripe Gum™
are you trying to argue that small children, even 4 year-olds, weren’t in the target demographic for fruit-flavored gum primarily sold in toy stores?
lmao
are you trying to argue that small children weren’t in the target demographic for fruit-flavored gum primarily sold in toy stores?
No
are you trying to argue that 4 year-olds weren’t in the target demographic for fruit-flavored gum primarily sold in toy stores?
Yes
Either way I think you care a lot more about this than is healthy
I’m sorry you can’t see how outrageously preposterous that is.
take a break from the internet for a while… also, pointing out that you’re wrong doesn’t mean I “care about this more than is healthy” but thanks for the high-school level of deflection. cute.
You seem angry about a candy released in 1969 being marketed to baby boomers, who were 5-23 years old at the time. Are you angry about that?
i had fruit stripe gummies a few years ago and they tasted like ass rubbed with fruit
Like good ass or bad ass?
bad
That sounds badass
I’d upvote you twice if I could for that one
tastes like shit
No no,… tasted brilliant as fuck for,…2 minutes— then like shite.
New favorite job title, from the article: “General Manager of the Sugar Portfolio at Ferrara Candy Company”
Yikes! Stripes. :'(
can we still chip our teeth on bazooka joe?
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.
I can see your handle that you commented something but it’s just blank for the comment
It’s a video loop of cartoon Spiderman grasping at a disappearing mist. I guess it’s a gif but it also has a play/pause function so who knows what format it is.
It’s hard to tell what will actually function on Lemmy. I think WebP files that aren’t jpegs have been causing grief too, I see a lot of blank posts that are probably that format. A ton of pictures are WebP now even though you’d expect an older format.
Also I’m on desktop, so if you’re mobile that might explain things.
Mobile using voyager (not the ios app the web browser version) on lemmy.world
Are you on a client that can’t handle gif (or video? looks like it auto-converted) replies? It was the spiderman grasping at dust one
I’m on lemmy.world and using voyager on mobile not the ios app, the web browser
I’m using Chrome to view lemmy.world directly, should be similar. Weird
Never heard of this. Looks like vegetarian bacon strips
They’re worse because they’re just as tough but taste of fruit for all of 5 seconds as opposed to salty smoky bacon flavor
