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/

  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
    46·
    11 months ago

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

      • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
        85·
        11 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.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        22·
        11 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™

          • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
            21·
            11 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