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
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.
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.
Good times!