I’m looking for the year they stopped making Good 'N Fruity candy. At one time these were my favorites, but Hershey must have found out I loved them and stopped making them. I’ve been searching the web to no success.
The reason I ask is, I was in dyersville, Iowa yesterday. My wife wanted to go into the Ben Franklin store because she hasn’t seen one for years. I was stunned to see they were selling Good 'n Fruity candy! I bought a few boxes and found them to be so stale they crunched like hard candy. I’m trying to determine how old this shit is.
Actually doesn’t it mean they were still being sold at that point? The candy could have been made a decade earlier and sat in a storage room for 10 years.
Which is what I think happened to what I bought at the BF store!
Anyway, I followed astros’ link and fired off an Email to Hershey.
I hadn’t seen GnP in Wisconsin for at least 10 years. Maybe they just stopped distributing them here and I thought they stopped making them.
Both my wife and I went over the boxes inside & out and we can’t find anything. There is a UPC barcode, but nothing else.
My wife, of course, wants to know why a 45 year old man is so damn interested in when a box of candy was made. Sigh!:rolleyes: Women! They just don’t understand the important things in life!
I’ve done some of the work, but you can do the rest.
Go to the trademark index and hit “search.” When you get to a search box, hit “good 'n fruity.” You’ll get five links. Open them all and read.
What I think happened is that the brand changed hands more than once in the early/mid-90’s and was a problem. I think a Dutch company owns the rights now. Perhaps you’ll see them again.
Did Hershey’s really own them? I didn’t read much. Busy right now.
Technically yes, since they were both rice crispies and caramel covered in milk chocolate. However, in the opinion of many–most notably, Steve Almond in his book Candyfreak, that Caravelle Bars were superior to the $100,000 Bars in every way.
