Juicy Fruit v. Fruit Stripe
Is there a more pointless chewing gum ever than Juicy Fruit?
I’m not really down with fruit-flavored gum in the first place – though I’ve never been known to turn down a piece of Grape Hubba Bubba or some Wild Cherry Big League Chew – but can Juicy Fruit even be considered fruit-flavored? What fruit is it? What fruit do you know of that’s pasty tannish-gray and tastes like a Fruit Roll-Up and a dog turd had a baby? I haven’t seen this in the produce aisle lately, have you?
Juicy Fruit looks nasty, tastes nasty… it even smells nasty. I don’t understand how anyone could suddenly perk up and say, “Damn, I wish I had a stick of Juicy Fruit. Thirty seconds of semi-sweet barf flavor followed by thirty minutes of chalky aftertaste sure would hit the spot right now.” Disgusting.
JT argues that Fruit Stripe is a more pointless gum, mostly because the flavor only lasts for about 3 seconds in your mouth before you’re chewing on what amounts to a squishy Bic pen cap. I would disagree. What Fruit Stripe lacks in flavor longevity it makes up for in character and pluck. At least Fruit Stripe has some colors to it that resemble the colors of actual fruit, unlike the aforementioned cardboard berry that Juicy Fruit seems to be going for.
Fruit Stripe is also rocking the trippy zebra, Yipes, that has the freaky colored stripes. Fruit Stripe realizes that if you can’t have flavor that lasts a long time, the least you can do is have a mascot with some LSD overtones. Did I mentioned the zebra’s name is Yipes? Good times.
So to summarize: Juicy Fruit sucks. Fruit Stripe has character, and that counts for something.
Now that we have that cleared up, I need to go buy some Wild Cherry Big League Chew.
So by that rationale, if Juicy Fruit had more character, it would cease to suck. Is that true?
I know that this is a Fruit Stripe vs. Juicy Fruit match, but I gotta throw in a "dark horse" contender for rank gum…I think Freshens wins the nastiest chewing gum award. I mean this gum has goo inside it. And not good tasting goo, but disgusting goo. Who thought of this??
I also gotta throw Bazooka and Double Bubble under the bus on the bubble gum side of the contest – both have serious taste deficiencies.
This is some really interesting stuff. Please teach me more about this ‘chewing gum’.
Mr. Juicy says, "kiss my ass!"
That doesn’t even make sense.
it could kick juicy fruits butt any day. I mean how many gums have a zebra with colered stripes.
Juicey fruit sux it smells and tastes nasty!!!!!!!!! Zebra fruit stripes smell good taste good and don’t get all chalkey and pastey!!! Zebra fruit stripes rock!!!!!!!!1111
Fruit stripes should be in every store but I can’t find it anywhere. Hotlanta went cold. I’m going to have to buy my kid some on the internet. What the @#$%.
hey tom GO TO DOLLAR GENERAL!!!!!!!!!!
Juicy Fruit has gotton worse. I remember my gf liking it a lot. But then they changed the recipe (you know how it used to be sort of grayish tan, now its more yellow-green). Even I agreed it tastes worse. So, whenever I saw the original old packs I’d but like 7-8 of them (although the 5 stick packs). Eventually though, we’d get tired since they tasted much older and stale. I mean they were really losing the durability and just breaking into several pieces and really tasting stale.
Fruit Stripes are really fancy. The flavor only lasts 30-45 seconds and they have a ton of artificial food coloring LAKES (I think 3). But where can you find the flavors they make? I wish they’d make lime, but really they make pretty good flavors. Its ashamed they have only 2 different packs, and they each share two of the same flavors.
I just bought a pack for old time’s sake and it’s absolutely no lie that the flavor (whatever it is) really only lasts less than 1 minute. And, I think 3 minutes in, I’m getting a headache. Very strange…
Fruit Stripes, that is…
ARE you guys crazy FRUIT STIPES rock!!!! they taste soooooo gooooood,smell awesome,have rainbow stripes,tatoos,and you dont now what AWESOME flavor surprise youll get from the awesome fruity-ness. GO FRUIT STRIPES!!!!!!!!!!
Hey juicy fruit…yeah you.
Your gonna get your butt kicked
thats right im talkin to you
GO fruit stripes…..GO..GO..GO fruit stripes
GOOOOOOO FRUIT STRIPES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FRUIT STRIPES RULE….. JUICY FRUIT DROOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UH-HUH
OH OH OH YEAH
nope…fruit stripes have 3 packs you morons. purple,ofcourse green and PINK. juicy fruit only has 1 pack.they dont even have different flavors.its just one DANG EXACT SAME flavor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its juicy fruit tastes good but not good enouh to compete with the AWESOME flavor of……………..FRUIT……STRIPESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
WOOT JUICY SRIPES!!! =D
Too bad Fruit Stripe doesn’t last, seriously four minutes into it and I am tasting wax… kinda gross, eh? But the first taste is amazing. Better than Juicy Fruit’s new stuff.
You myopic dribblerdicks completely miss the point of this type of chewing gum. Juicy Fruit isn’t about the fruit. It’s about the motherfucking juicy. Therefore, your limp little “shootout” is invalid. Juicy Fruit vs. Fruit Stripe, indeed. Rather like comparing something that tastes and smells good to, uh…I don’t know. Your wife’s yeasty, festering cunt? Yeah. That’s what I thought, gumboy…
You know what I haven’t had in a while? Big League Chew.