Can anyone remember the names of these?

Musty Pie · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:03

MikeHunt79 said:
Wine gums?

Also, was Starburst known as before it was Starburst?

Opal Fruits

icyshore · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:09

They were called fruitteenies, not sure of the spelling. I have one of the tubes lying about here i use for holding jumpers unfortunately it doesn't have the label on it any more.

Sp00n · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:10

icyshore said:
They were called fruitteenies, not sure of the spelling. I have one of the tubes lying about here i use for holding jumpers unfortunately it doesn't have the label on it any more.

DO NOT GOOGLE THIS AND CLICK THE FIRST LINK.

/lol

Talbs13 · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:17

Rowntrees Fruit Jellies

icyshore · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:17

Found one of the tubes still with the label they were starburst fruitensse.

http://img441.imageshack.us/i/dsc02028s.jpg/

stupid camera on the phone wouldn't focus properly.

MikeHunt79 · 13 Jan 2011 at 12:28

Musty Pie said:
Opal Fruits

Ahh, opal fruits, they were great!

BenjiSayers · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:20

How long ago were these? I don't recall ever seeing this in any shop

Sp00n · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:22

The "reviews" and whatever little information I have found is giving me 2005 as a rough date, I don't remember these at all, they must have be rubbish

BenjiSayers · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:24

They sound like a poor dweeb/nerd/runts imatation to me

The tube looks like it should have something like Gaviscon/Rennie's in it too!

G-MAN2004 · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:40

icyshore said:
Found one of the tubes still with the label they were starburst fruitensse.

http://img441.imageshack.us/i/dsc02028s.jpg/

stupid camera on the phone wouldn't focus properly.

YES! 2142451 Internets to you!

Thanks a lot.

Shame they've gone though, they were awesome.

Sp00n · 13 Jan 2011 at 13:41

Eurgh, they were sugar free