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
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