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.
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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.
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!
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
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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It tasted really good for all of 10 seconds.
yea its gone for a reason
But it was a really good 10 seconds.
Did this stuff come with tattoos?
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.
When I found out they were food dye, I tried them on cookies and they worked so much better on food than on skin.
I vaguely remember that
I always gave myself a half sleeve while eating an entire pack
i had fruit stripe gummies a few years ago and they tasted like ass rubbed with fruit
tastes like shit
No no,.. tasted brilliant as fuck for,..2 minutes— then like shite.
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
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.
Yikes! Stripes. :'(
New favorite job title, from the article: "General Manager of the Sugar Portfolio at Ferrara Candy Company"
can we still chip our teeth on bazooka joe?
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.
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.
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