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The article currently says: "in yellow packaging) are strawberry, lemon, orange, and cherry. In Europe, lime took the place of cherry as one of the Original flavors until 2002 when blackcurrant replaced it." However this is innacurate.
In the UK the wish to remove this statement only to replace it with something equaly innacurate.-- JamesGlover 01:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed a reference to "Lysergic Lemon" as one of the retro Starburst flavors. I got a good laugh out of it, but it obviously isn't real (Lysergic being a reference to LSD).
The flavors listed are wrong. Check out the website http://starburst.com/#/products/fruit-chews/original there are five flavors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.5.19.11 ( talk) 16:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
...lime was an original US Starburst flavor and was replaced by cherry. I remember quite disctinctly finding a lime candy all by itself in a post-cherry bag as a kid. Sadly I have no way of confirming this information (about the lime anyhow). Korvac 18:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed on a few pages spellings like "colour" instead of "color." Now, I don't want to come off as an arrogant American, so I've left these unchanged. But to me it comes as an inconsistency. Should these instances be changed? Attitude2000 19:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Just one point - the word "candy" meaning "sweets" or "confectionary" IS definitely used outside of the USA! For one thing, there used to be sweets around in the UK during the 1970s that were labelled as "candies" on the wrapper, because I remember buying them. Secondly, the well known British "Werther's Original" advert specifically uses the phrase "butter candy", and given the amount of exposure that non Americans get to US movies, TV shows and song lyrics, I don't think you will get many people outside the USA who would say "Candy? what does that mean?". I mean...COME ON. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.198.33.252 ( talk) 12:31, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
What year were they intoduced to the U.S.?
I remember being a little kid and liking this TV commerical of theirs, which had the camera coursing down a waterslide lined with fruit slices. This would have been around 1980. 151.203.53.103 18:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Never mind, i found it on the corporate site. 1976. 151.203.53.103 18:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
I remember being under the impression it was a new product sometime around 1979-1980 or so, when I was in high school (in the US). I came to this page to find out exactly when, and was very surprised to discover it had been around since I was a baby! I wonder if there was a big marketing and merchandising push in the US around that time? We had lived very frugally before then as Dad had been in the Army, and I was never much of a TV watcher, but still I was very aware of other popular candies in grocery stores. Greg Lovern ( talk) 02:18, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
The following is the list of ingredients according to the back of a bag of Starburst:
corn suryp, sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, fruit juice from concentrate (apple, strrawberry, lemon, orange, cherry), citric acid, dextron, gelatin, food starch-modified, natural and artifical flavors, acorbic acid (vitamin c), coloring (red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1)
DewDude 22:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Are Starburst square shaped? Square is a 2D shape. I have to admit, I can't name the actual shape that they are, but I get the feeling that square isn't right. Damiancorrigan 18:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I deleted the text quoted below from the article, as I know for a fact Starbust used the "Juice is Loose" motto well into 1996 and possibly 1997, I even uploaded a commercial featuring the slogan I had on a video from 1996 to YouTube [2]. Perhaps this could be re-incorporated as a Myths or Urban Legends sub-section?
"In 1994 Starburst changed its American advertisement slogan from "The Juice is Loose" to "Turn Up the Juice" because the former had become associated with O.J. Simpson during his trial for murder." -- CJ 09:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Why is the title "confectionary"? What's wrong with "candy"? - 205.153.156.222 00:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I remember that at one point, Starburst sdold hard cany versions of their flavors, however, I haven't been able to find them anywhere lately. does anyone know what ever happened to them?
They still make them, they're sold at a vending machine in my work. Other than that I have no idea though.
Is there currently a world record for the longest starburst chain...just a little curious cause i have one thats 21 feet long. and would an interesting addirion to this very boring page on the best candy in the world:D.
No..........I don't think it would be interesting to add...it would just ruin the whole thing... Halo3master5000 03:56, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
anyone remember the star burst straws? they were in a yellow package and were kinda like licorice. i called them and asked they deny making them ever, but i and many of my friends ate them religiously when we were kids. WTF happened? —Preceding
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These were around c. 1997. I seem to recall they sold very poorly and lasted three years, at most. Modor ( talk) 23:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)Modor
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Why not just package the Pinks and the Reds in a single package?
90% of Starburst fans would jump up and down with joy.
I completely agree! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.26.184.35 ( talk) 02:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
starburst will soon be known as opal fruits (again) this will need to be address when the change is finally made see the daily mail [3] PheonixRMB ( talk) 10:57, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
I see you are incapable of reading beyond the first two paragraphs of a news story, so we can't really trust your information. -- 78.151.101.91 ( talk) 03:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
It will be sold as Opal fruits for twelve weeks starting from May 10th, and will only be sold in Asda. Falcon-eagle2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.246.56 ( talk) 18:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Can it be called a taffy? Jigen III ( talk) 11:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
EVerywhere in the article, it says "OPal Fruits", except in the picture caption, and the first line, where it inexplicably says "Juicy Fruits". I'm changing it to Opal Fruits unless someone can explain Juicy Fruits. 162.136.193.1 ( talk) 22:40, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
This stuff is exactly the same de:Maoam and was invented in 1930. 87.178.127.66 ( talk) 18:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Actually I don't think it is the same. Maoam is a popular product in Poland, while Starburst (as Opal Fruits) were launched here unsuccessfully. This was the only Mars product that didn't sell here and was pulled out. So if they were the same that would be strange, as Maoam is very popular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.255.247.72 ( talk) 16:27, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to do a "List of Starburst products" article? I mean, Skittles has one... Visokor ( talk) 10:17, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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This dynamic IP address — EE mobile in the UK — is blocked. That’s a quarter of the UK’s mobile editors right there. Odd choice. However, here’s my main point. Starburst (candy) was vandalised and not repaired properly. The intro currently reads:
“… Summer Blast and Originalin Mars in 1960, the regular flavours are blackcurrant …”
Going by the history, it needs to read:
“… Summer Blast and Original.
Introduced in the United Kingdom in 1960, the regular flavours are blackcurrant …”
Thanks!
Signed: a guy on EE mobile on a Transpennine Express train with broken wifi who doesn’t have and doesn’t want a Wikipedia account. 31.94.62.134 ( talk) 14:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
The article states that they were 'named Opal Fruits by Peter Phillips (known as Peter Pfeffer at the time), the winner of a competition that won him £5'. This is incorrect. Phillips worked for London ad agency Masius Wynne-Williams, who had the contract for naming the new sweet. Peter Phillips won £5 from the agency’s head of copy for coming up with the name Opal Fruits.
Phillips was born Peter Pfeffer. His Jewish family fled Vienna in 1936 when he was 3 years old.
Source https://forward.com/culture/392213/trump-tossed-starburst-at-angela-merkel-in-a-fit-of-pique/ 82.4.80.247 ( talk) 14:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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The article currently says: "in yellow packaging) are strawberry, lemon, orange, and cherry. In Europe, lime took the place of cherry as one of the Original flavors until 2002 when blackcurrant replaced it." However this is innacurate.
In the UK the wish to remove this statement only to replace it with something equaly innacurate.-- JamesGlover 01:38, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I removed a reference to "Lysergic Lemon" as one of the retro Starburst flavors. I got a good laugh out of it, but it obviously isn't real (Lysergic being a reference to LSD).
The flavors listed are wrong. Check out the website http://starburst.com/#/products/fruit-chews/original there are five flavors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.5.19.11 ( talk) 16:35, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
...lime was an original US Starburst flavor and was replaced by cherry. I remember quite disctinctly finding a lime candy all by itself in a post-cherry bag as a kid. Sadly I have no way of confirming this information (about the lime anyhow). Korvac 18:36, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed on a few pages spellings like "colour" instead of "color." Now, I don't want to come off as an arrogant American, so I've left these unchanged. But to me it comes as an inconsistency. Should these instances be changed? Attitude2000 19:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Just one point - the word "candy" meaning "sweets" or "confectionary" IS definitely used outside of the USA! For one thing, there used to be sweets around in the UK during the 1970s that were labelled as "candies" on the wrapper, because I remember buying them. Secondly, the well known British "Werther's Original" advert specifically uses the phrase "butter candy", and given the amount of exposure that non Americans get to US movies, TV shows and song lyrics, I don't think you will get many people outside the USA who would say "Candy? what does that mean?". I mean...COME ON. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.198.33.252 ( talk) 12:31, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
What year were they intoduced to the U.S.?
I remember being a little kid and liking this TV commerical of theirs, which had the camera coursing down a waterslide lined with fruit slices. This would have been around 1980. 151.203.53.103 18:29, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Never mind, i found it on the corporate site. 1976. 151.203.53.103 18:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
I remember being under the impression it was a new product sometime around 1979-1980 or so, when I was in high school (in the US). I came to this page to find out exactly when, and was very surprised to discover it had been around since I was a baby! I wonder if there was a big marketing and merchandising push in the US around that time? We had lived very frugally before then as Dad had been in the Army, and I was never much of a TV watcher, but still I was very aware of other popular candies in grocery stores. Greg Lovern ( talk) 02:18, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
The following is the list of ingredients according to the back of a bag of Starburst:
corn suryp, sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, fruit juice from concentrate (apple, strrawberry, lemon, orange, cherry), citric acid, dextron, gelatin, food starch-modified, natural and artifical flavors, acorbic acid (vitamin c), coloring (red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6, blue 1)
DewDude 22:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Are Starburst square shaped? Square is a 2D shape. I have to admit, I can't name the actual shape that they are, but I get the feeling that square isn't right. Damiancorrigan 18:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
I deleted the text quoted below from the article, as I know for a fact Starbust used the "Juice is Loose" motto well into 1996 and possibly 1997, I even uploaded a commercial featuring the slogan I had on a video from 1996 to YouTube [2]. Perhaps this could be re-incorporated as a Myths or Urban Legends sub-section?
"In 1994 Starburst changed its American advertisement slogan from "The Juice is Loose" to "Turn Up the Juice" because the former had become associated with O.J. Simpson during his trial for murder." -- CJ 09:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Why is the title "confectionary"? What's wrong with "candy"? - 205.153.156.222 00:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
I remember that at one point, Starburst sdold hard cany versions of their flavors, however, I haven't been able to find them anywhere lately. does anyone know what ever happened to them?
They still make them, they're sold at a vending machine in my work. Other than that I have no idea though.
Is there currently a world record for the longest starburst chain...just a little curious cause i have one thats 21 feet long. and would an interesting addirion to this very boring page on the best candy in the world:D.
No..........I don't think it would be interesting to add...it would just ruin the whole thing... Halo3master5000 03:56, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
anyone remember the star burst straws? they were in a yellow package and were kinda like licorice. i called them and asked they deny making them ever, but i and many of my friends ate them religiously when we were kids. WTF happened? —Preceding
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These were around c. 1997. I seem to recall they sold very poorly and lasted three years, at most. Modor ( talk) 23:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)Modor
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Why not just package the Pinks and the Reds in a single package?
90% of Starburst fans would jump up and down with joy.
I completely agree! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.26.184.35 ( talk) 02:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
starburst will soon be known as opal fruits (again) this will need to be address when the change is finally made see the daily mail [3] PheonixRMB ( talk) 10:57, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
I see you are incapable of reading beyond the first two paragraphs of a news story, so we can't really trust your information. -- 78.151.101.91 ( talk) 03:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
It will be sold as Opal fruits for twelve weeks starting from May 10th, and will only be sold in Asda. Falcon-eagle2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.192.246.56 ( talk) 18:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Can it be called a taffy? Jigen III ( talk) 11:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
EVerywhere in the article, it says "OPal Fruits", except in the picture caption, and the first line, where it inexplicably says "Juicy Fruits". I'm changing it to Opal Fruits unless someone can explain Juicy Fruits. 162.136.193.1 ( talk) 22:40, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
This stuff is exactly the same de:Maoam and was invented in 1930. 87.178.127.66 ( talk) 18:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Actually I don't think it is the same. Maoam is a popular product in Poland, while Starburst (as Opal Fruits) were launched here unsuccessfully. This was the only Mars product that didn't sell here and was pulled out. So if they were the same that would be strange, as Maoam is very popular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.255.247.72 ( talk) 16:27, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to do a "List of Starburst products" article? I mean, Skittles has one... Visokor ( talk) 10:17, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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This dynamic IP address — EE mobile in the UK — is blocked. That’s a quarter of the UK’s mobile editors right there. Odd choice. However, here’s my main point. Starburst (candy) was vandalised and not repaired properly. The intro currently reads:
“… Summer Blast and Originalin Mars in 1960, the regular flavours are blackcurrant …”
Going by the history, it needs to read:
“… Summer Blast and Original.
Introduced in the United Kingdom in 1960, the regular flavours are blackcurrant …”
Thanks!
Signed: a guy on EE mobile on a Transpennine Express train with broken wifi who doesn’t have and doesn’t want a Wikipedia account. 31.94.62.134 ( talk) 14:36, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
The article states that they were 'named Opal Fruits by Peter Phillips (known as Peter Pfeffer at the time), the winner of a competition that won him £5'. This is incorrect. Phillips worked for London ad agency Masius Wynne-Williams, who had the contract for naming the new sweet. Peter Phillips won £5 from the agency’s head of copy for coming up with the name Opal Fruits.
Phillips was born Peter Pfeffer. His Jewish family fled Vienna in 1936 when he was 3 years old.
Source https://forward.com/culture/392213/trump-tossed-starburst-at-angela-merkel-in-a-fit-of-pique/ 82.4.80.247 ( talk) 14:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)