Munchies From My Past – Fruit Roll-ups

When I was growing up, although my friends loved to come over because we had sugared cereal, chips and soda in ample supply, one thing we never had much of was candies and other sweets. Convincing my mom to buy such food when shopping was a challenge, but one that we managed to have consistently were delicious Fruit Roll-ups.

Available today, Fruit Roll-ups were one of many various sticky fruit tasting snacks which also included fruit by the foot (which was less sticky and came in less flavors) and gushers (which were also a personal favorite). Fruit rollups were great because you had many flavors to choose including strawberry, grape, cherry and watermelon.

There seemed to be no greater joy then unpeeling a roll out of its casing and trying to get the whole sheet off in one shot. This was no simple task as they are extremely sticky and there was, of course, the desire to just eat them as quickly as possible. Growing up I can remember Fruit Roll-ups which came with all sorts of cut out shapes you could peel including fruits, superheros or whatever the top cartoon show was for that month.

One thing I can admit is that when it came to eating them is that I was not the person pulling out the shapes. Being the must have snack for me at the time, although I tried to peel the whole sheet off, this was immediately followed by rolling the fruit roll up into a ball and struggling to chew the whole thing as it was so chewy and sticky. An unintentional benefit of this snack was that it would be stuck in your teeth adding a post-enjoyment challenge of picking it out.

Available today, it has been a long time since I’ve had a fruit roll up, but writing this post makes me just about ready to go out and get a box.

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