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Sunkist Fruit Gems... and gems is
the right word. Naturally flavored soft fruit candy in a 2.05 oz
package. The flavors are lemon, grapefruit, orange, lime and
raspberry... 6 pieces per package. A box of 24 is $29.99
Single
packs are $1.39 each on the
Pack-a-Bag page. |
Sunkist Fruit Gem memories... I
remember, as a little girl (not all that long ago, too - I'm only 20
now), that whenever the synagogue would celebrate the Bar or Bat
Mitzvah of someone in the congregation, there'd be a couple of
people walking around the shul passing out individually-wrapped
Sunkist Fruit Gems to everyone in the pews.
When the ceremony came to a close, that was our cue to stand up and
start pelting the newly Bar or Bat Mitzvah'd girl or boy with the
candies, to "wish" them a sweet beginning to the start of their
adult life - which is why Fruit Gems were chosen: they were a nice,
soft candy that wouldn't accidentally put your eye out.
Once the pelting was done, all of us little kids would run up to the
bemah to collect up the candy; it was one of the few reasons I liked
wearing a dress: I could scoop up and hold onto more candies than
the boys could, without risking squashing those sweet prizes.
Being a rather unusual kid
(maybe it was the fact that the only Avondale I could go to, for a
long while, was across a busy road), I'd hoard my candies and try to
save them as long as I could - after all, as long as they were still
wrapped, they'd stay soft and chewy (not that I liked them any less,
once they'd gotten hard). ~ Hannah from Ontario
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