Fruit Roll-Ups were one of those great treats that my Mom would get us, I mean how couldn’t you? It’s smashed fruit that’s infused with more sugar than fruit and flattened onto a plastic sheet, shrink wrapped and preserved so heavily that you didn’t have to refrigerate them.
They were “Real fruit and fun, rolled up in one”! We would beg and beg and beg for stuff in the grocery store, but this was one of those things my Mom actually gave in on.
One of my favorite things about eating a Fruit Roll-Up was the sound it made when you ripped it off of the plastic, it was so loud and sounded Ike you were skinning a small animal. If you thought they were too thin, you could keep folding it up to make it thicker. To make it last longer, you could not chew it, just stick it to the roof of your mouth and slowly dissolve your new mouth skin. Just be careful, They were so sticky that they would stick to just about anything.
Fruit Roll-Ups are mighty tasty, but now I find myself just wanting whole fruit instead. I guess you just become more boring the older you get…

One thought on “Artifacts of the Analog Age: Fruit Roll-Ups

  1. Goose says:

    I don’t know about not being cool, peaches seem pretty cool to me

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