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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

More: https://www.snackhistory.com/fruit-stripe-gum/

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[–] Czarb@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah yes. The memories of a few minutes of flavor and a few more of sadness as you chew hoping it would return.

I'll never forget that time at 6yrs old when I just kept chewing. It eventually just disintegrated and I was left with the consistency of old wet kleenex. I had to literally scrape my tongue to get rid of it all.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You got the flavor to last for several minutes??! I swear it lasted maybe a dozen chews or so and then lost all flavor.

It looked like something that I really wanted to love, but within seconds it was pure disappointment.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Good times!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It tasted really good for all of 10 seconds.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

But it was a really good 10 seconds.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

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

[–] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

5 minutes? Try 10 seconds.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried but it only lasted 6.3 seconds.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I only got 6.9 seconds

[–] quicklime@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did this stuff come with tattoos?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It did, on the insides of the wrappers. They never worked very well, and even if you could get one to transfer they tended to last about as long as the flavor in the gum itself did.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

When I found out they were food dye, I tried them on cookies and they worked so much better on food than on skin.

[–] Steveanonymous@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I vaguely remember that

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I always gave myself a half sleeve while eating an entire pack

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i had fruit stripe gummies a few years ago and they tasted like ass rubbed with fruit

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

No no,.. tasted brilliant as fuck for,..2 minutes— then like shite.

[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

New favorite job title, from the article: "General Manager of the Sugar Portfolio at Ferrara Candy Company"

Yikes! Stripes. :'(

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't say I'm entirely surprised... I distinctly remember getting Fruit Stripe gum because it just looked so cool and being disappointed that it wasn't actually very good every time lol

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was terrible then, and it's till terrible now. But I still buy a pack from the local dollar store every now and again, just for the nostalgia.

I guess we still have Bazooka Joe, at least for now.

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

can we still chip our teeth on bazooka joe?

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fox@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see your handle that you commented something but it's just blank for the comment

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm on lemmy.world and using voyager on mobile not the ios app, the web browser

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[–] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Mobile using voyager (not the ios app the web browser version) on lemmy.world

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never heard of this. Looks like vegetarian bacon strips

[–] BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

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