"Matthew" > wrote in message >...
> Can anyone remember eating or seeing anywhere a raspberry flavoured fruit
> gum? I know I have and I thought they were made by Rowntree and each time I
> buy a box or bag of Rowntree's fruit gums (not the tube of sweets but the
> fruit shapes), I am disappointed to find none inside. I thought they might
> have been discontinued so, in order to put my mind at rest, I asked customer
> services at Rowntree's (now owned by Nestle) when they had stopped producing
> them. Much to my surprise they deny ever having made a raspberry flavoured
> fruit gum. Can this be right? If it is, whose product have I eaten
> raspberry fruit gums from in the past?
>
> Just to be clear, I'm interested in the raspberry flavoured fruit gum, not
> jellies or wine gums. If you are having problems reminding yourself what
> they look(ed) like (or are denying their existence!), go here
> http://www.webshots.com/g/poster/92/25392_poster.html for a picture of the
> fruit shape and here
> http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...fe=off&q=+site
> :www.andmas.co.uk+fruit+gums for an older picture (the one in the middle) of
> a roll of fruit gums with, what looks to me like, 6 discernable colours:
> yellow (lemon), green (lime), orange, black (black currant) and two reds,
> one light red for strawberry and a darker red for... raspberry! Or are my
> eyes, as well as my memory, failing me?
>
> I think Nestle/Rowntree's customer services are wrong but before I go back
> and ask them to check, does anyone here know any differently?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Matthew
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I don't know what the flavor was but the Rountree company used to make
a tube of fruit gums, one of which was red. I'm fairly sure it was
not strawberry. I don't think it was cherry.