We will’t have something good. After 56 years available on the market, everybody’s favourite fruit-striped gum, Fruit Stripe Gum, might be discontinued by producer Ferrara Sweet Store.
“The choice to sundown this product was not taken evenly,” a consultant for Ferrara advised CNN on Wednesday. “We thought of many components earlier than coming to this determination, together with shopper preferences, and buying patterns — and total model tendencies for Fruit Stripe Gum.”
In addition they advised Meals & Wine, which type of hilariously broke the story nationally, that it was a “troublesome determination.”
The gum was first offered within the Nineteen Sixties and most any Gen Zer or Millennial can sing the jingle or at one time sported a Yikes the Zebra non permanent tattoo, which got here with every pack.
Is Yikes the Zebra headed to the glue manufacturing facility now? There’s no strategy to know.
We are going to miss all 5 flavors: Moist n’ Wild Melon, Cherry, Lemon, Orange and Peach. Why did Moist n’ Wild Melon get such a bizarre and particular title? Now we might by no means know.
Ferrara Sweet Store makes lots of the nation’s hottest non-chocolate candy treats, together with Pixy Stix, Jujyfruit, Runts, Lemonheads, Boston Baked Beans, Fireballs, Spree, Enjoyable Dip, Crimson Hots, Gobstoppers, Trolli, Candy Tarts, Now and Laters, Laffy Taffy, and Nerds. In different phrases, they may actually wreck our lives at any second by discontinuing extra stuff instantly tied to our core recollections.
Ferrara stated that buyers “might have the opportunity” to nonetheless discover the product on cabinets across the nation earlier than it sells out, however if you wish to, it’s best to act rapidly. It’s already unavailable on Amazon. One thing tells me that the remaining product is not going to even final so long as the flavour on the sticks of gum did.
On eBay, the gum is already going for $100-200 for a carton of 12 packs of gum.
Over on Reddit, followers of the gum have been eulogizing the novelty merchandise in their very own methods.
“RIP fruit stripe gum. Your taste will now be a reminiscence, identical to 10 seconds after I popped a recent strip in my mouth,” one connoisseur wrote.
“I am actually bummed now,” stated one other particular person, who was nonetheless shopping for the gum on the Greenback Retailer. “I am 46 and nonetheless gave myself a tattoo now and again.”
Anyway. Let’s watch the business only one final time, okay?
