Comments on: Epic Win: Fruit Stripe Gum

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:54:29 +0000

great gum, awful for teeth, though.

By: Sarhii

Sarhii — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:58:45 +0000

that was the only bad part…it was really good for teh 4 seconds the flavor lasted then it was like chewing a rock

By: sup

sup — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:58 +0000

i always see this gum in a dollar general

By: M.K.

M.K. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:24:57 +0000

I actually bought some and chewed the whole pack today. They still have it at Wal Marts , at least where I live.

By: Phill

Phill — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:10:52 +0000

I remembered it from like… Fry’s younger version in Futurama, or something like that.

By: Morna

Morna — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:58:51 +0000

ICK. This tasted like the bubble-gum flavored fluoride the dentist gave us. Thank G-D I’m old enough for mint now.

By: Sarah R

Sarah R — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:41:58 +0000

Anyone else think that Southern Comfort tastes exactly like Fruit Stripe gum? Blech!!!!!

By: JAWolf

JAWolf — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:07:59 +0000

They still make it. I’ve seen it in the Boston area.

I remeber opening a pack for the first time since I was a kid and the smell took me back.

By: YOU SERIOUSLY GOTTA TRY THIS.

YOU SERIOUSLY GOTTA TRY THIS. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:51:23 +0000

I haven’t been able to find this gum in ages, but I did discover that if you eat one Lime and one Cherry Mike & Ike, it tastes just like this gum. Go. DO IT NOW!

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:26:47 +0000

I do too! I was grinning from ear to ear during that. Watched it with TMNT, probably.

By: kma

kma — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:11:47 +0000

oh man! i loved that popcorn. it didn’t have any flavor, but it was just awesome!

By: kr0n

kr0n — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:49:47 +0000

Hah, same here! Oh, memories…

By: pea

pea — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:43:44 +0000

okay, am i the only one who could never figure out what the f**K the chick in the voiceover from the 80’s commercial was saying? other than a word here and there, and of course the “yikes! Stripes!” part, it sounds like gobbledegook, to me.

By: meredith

meredith — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:15:08 +0000

Yipes, stripes! Fruit Stripes gum! It’s the yummy fruity one – pick a pack of fun!

(I remember that without watching any videos or having seen the commercial in a million years. I don’t think I ever had the gum, either!)

By: DapperDanMan

DapperDanMan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:58:52 +0000

the elixer flavor of 5 gum tastes EXACTLY like this stuff

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:49:13 +0000

Whaddaya mean, arms? I always put ‘em on my tongue! Slightly more difficult, but infinitely more cool.

By: ChaiCat

ChaiCat — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:36:18 +0000

This gum is the best. But sadly it gives you all of 10 seconds of flavor.

By: HotFaerieMama

HotFaerieMama — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:27:14 +0000

i used to chew that gum alot… dunno why.. i think cuz my dad would buy it for me.. and is it just me or did the tattoos taste like cotton candy? cuz i swear i remeber licking them and tasting cotton candy.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:00:48 +0000

Fruitstripe gum was and is gross. Nauseatingly so.

By: Bill B.

Bill B. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:35:19 +0000

I am a sufferer of gum amnesia! I chew it so infrequently, that I forget how much I hate it…

Then I buy some, chew it a short time and end up spitting it out, usually while yelling “Why the hell did I buy this, it’s awful!”

Then time goes by and suddenly I want gum again.

By: Shalindria

Shalindria — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:38:14 +0000

Speaking of cars…I love going to the car wash where they have three different colored cleaners….and when it sprays on the car, I swear, It smells just like fruit stripe gum. The last time I washed my car, I had to go buy the gum because I couldn’t get it out of my head. Crap, now I’m craving it again.

By: bluegizka

bluegizka — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:59:41 +0000

this stuff is delicious. They sell it at certain supermarkets around here, I keep end up grabbing a pack when I see it. mmm, sugary-”fruit”-flavor gum. What does it taste like? Good? that’s not descriptive!

By: OMG

OMG — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:20:53 +0000

Yipes Stripes!!
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heh. eh. eh.

By: OMG

OMG — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:18:15 +0000

The ad seems so.. obscure. thats what they mean. i think..

By: OMG

OMG — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:16:38 +0000

/pats D.r. compassionately. perhaps over compassionately.

By: moi

moi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:32 +0000

holy crap, that show was awesome…oh and what about pepper ann, and recess? that was pretty much my saturday mornings

By: moi

moi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:51:13 +0000

it is =D

By: toribug11

toribug11 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:46:40 +0000

i love this stuff!!
i get 5 more packs every week at sheetz and crackerbarrel.
kinda have to get five packs, the flavor only lasts about 5 seconds.
5five5five… and now i want some….

By: Sheri

Sheri — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:20:35 +0000

I remeber one time on a long car ride, my friend and I had a pack of fruit stripe gum, and by the time we got to where we were going we had tattoos all over our arms.

By: Casa

Casa — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:44:17 +0000

Normaly I hate comercials, but I LOVE that second one. I vividly remember watching it saturday mornings between cartoons.

Speaking of cartoons, some one needs to put Reboot up here.

By: Matador

Matador — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:33:36 +0000

OMG I remember that 80’s commercial! I probably saw it alot during all the cartoons I watched. =D

By: Annemarie

Annemarie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:56:04 +0000

I totally remember them because of the awful tattoos that never worked.

By: stef

stef — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:09:44 +0000

I TOTALLY thought so too!

By: Lynnie

Lynnie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:45:36 +0000

The voice over from the second commercial sounds familiar. Kind of like Phil and Lil from Rugrats? Meh, too lazy to look it up myself.

By: Puppatoons

Puppatoons — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:13:19 +0000

But it was such pretty gum, if it only had 4 seconds of flavor.:)

By: Puppatoons

Puppatoons — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:12:19 +0000

LOL…I did that too, kept piling more and more gum in my mouth hill the pack was gone.

By: Puppatoons

Puppatoons — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:11:43 +0000

That second commercial has some terrrrrrible animation. But wow,the old ones were graphic genius, and the gum was very tasty(if only for a few seconds)

By: Casey Kasum

Casey Kasum — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:10:08 +0000

This stuff was the first gum my mom ever let me chew, back in the early 90’s when she figured I was old enough not to get it all over my hair :p loved this stuff!!!

By: Dover

Dover — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:39:50 +0000

I know they sell them at most rite-aids too. same thing as CVS really.

By: Siava

Siava — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:21:25 +0000

Hehe, yea, no wonder the packs were so big!

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:18:30 +0000

I was one of the kids that chewed it long after it turned into a flavorless lump of wax.

It was fun to continue stuffing pieces of that stuff into your mouth without spitting out the old ones, though. If you did it right you could have flavor (and enough gum to coat your entire face after the bubble pops) for a good twenty minutes.

By: SchlagerFuchs

SchlagerFuchs — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:47:51 +0000

Same here I thought it was new around 86 when I was in 3rd grade.. used to love that stuff too.. so what if it didn’t last you could always chew more..lol

By: RCIAG

RCIAG — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:35:16 +0000

I was just gonna say that if I recall correctly, this stuff was horrible. Great packaging & marketing though.

TEABERRY FTW!!

By: lady rocketpants

lady rocketpants — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:29:17 +0000

what do you mean “doomed to obscurity?” that commercial is all i can think of when i see fruit stripe gum! and do they still have the tatoos?

By: Johnny's girl

Johnny's girl — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:12:40 +0000

Aahhhh, but what a delicious 4 seconds it was!

By: KayQy

KayQy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:54:20 +0000

Wow, I had no idea this gum had been around for so long; I always assumed it was new in the 80s/90s.

By: Confoozled

Confoozled — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:24:33 +0000

LOL! My dentist used to give me this stuff after our cleanings! Guess he figured if there was only enough sugar for 4 seconds of flavor, it wasn’t enough to rot our teeth.

By: Jaie

Jaie — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:30:00 +0000

OMG! I saw some at CVS the other day. I used to love this stuff.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:02:34 +0000

Holy spork! I remember that stuff! I want some now. =(

The tattoos were awesome.

By: Siava

Siava — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:39:05 +0000

Bleh. Yes it did. This stuff was awful.