1.12.2024

If a gum disappears in a forest…

Fruit Stripe Gum to bite the dust after a half century of highly abbreviated rainbow flavors

Fruit Stripe may have been best known for its oversized packs of spectral-striped gum sticks, each bearing a distinct fruit flavor that typically faded away quickly upon chewing. For years, the packs contained temporary tattoos of brand mascot Yipes the rainbow zebra that kids could apply to their arms, legs and faces; gum chewers often joked that the tattoos lasted far longer than the gum’s flavor did.

…and nobody's there to chew it…

Well, OK, that doesn't work any better than the gum does, apparently.

But I, for one, was never there to chew it. In fact, even though hanging around Chicago for quite a few years, I've never even heard of it. And there may be a tree falling in the a forest right now…

But that doesn't mean…

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