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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