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/

  • gregorum
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    6 months ago

    yeah, I’ve gotten more than one of you to engage in a stupid argument about gum. and you feel good about that? like you’ve done that adult thing by engaging, as a group, in a shitty, petty, and childish exercise?

    congratulations, shitbags! you’ve proven that you can all sink to the lowest level! take a bow!

      • gregorum
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        -46 months ago

        enjoy laughing at yourselves, because you are the joke

          • gregorum
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            -46 months ago

            wow, you will do anything t take credit for something.

            no dice

            • roguetrick
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              36 months ago

              No, the correct response would be “I didn’t say you were a good joke”

              • gregorum
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                6 months ago

                Your withholding parents aren’t my problem