Your Favorite Childhood Gum Was Just Discontinued
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Fruit Stipe gum has officially been discontinued. And fans are reeling.

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/

  • @[email protected]
    -2•6 months ago

    It was boomer shit lol. It first came out in 1969 when younger boomers were hitting childhood and adolescence.

      • @[email protected]
        3•6 months ago

        Yeah so the absolute oldest Gen X were 4 when it came out.

        The younger Boomers were 5-15 when it came out.

          • roguetrick
            10•6 months ago

            Could you imagine our reactions if we told ourselves as kids we’d grow up and electronically argue about this stupid shit when we were old. The mix of wonder and soul crushing despair.

              • roguetrick
                6•6 months ago

                I guess I feel a small bit of shame for reading this deep in a dumb argument for a laugh, but we all have our guilty pleasures.

                  • roguetrick
                    5•6 months ago

                    You don’t seem to be aware that you’re responding to multiple people at this point, with some of us here to mock the entire comment chain and others who are straight up trolling you to get you to engage. I’m the former.

          • @sangriaferret
            2•6 months ago

            Jesus Christ, everybody just block this fucking guy.

            If you haven’t read the thread, don’t bother. Trust me.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•6 months ago

        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™

          • @[email protected]English
            1•6 months ago

            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