Fruit Stripe Gum to bite the dust after a half century of highly abbreviated rainbow flavorsFruit Stripe Gum to bite the dust after a half century of highly abbreviated rainbow flavors - The Associated Press

Fruit Stripe Gum, something of a childhood icon for many gum chewers over the past five decades, will soon head over the rainbow with its zebra mascot Yipes, seemingly for good. Its manufacturer, the Chicago company Ferrara Candy Co., told Food & Wine and CNN…