{"id":44466,"date":"2020-07-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=44466"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:28:39","slug":"starburst-fruit-by-the-foot-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/18\/starburst-fruit-by-the-foot-review\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Starburst Fruit by the Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Starburst<\/p>\n

What is Starburst Fruit by the Foot?<\/h3>\n

General Mills’ popular fruity kids treat that has no actual fruit now has varieties that taste like the original Starburst chewy candies \u2014 Cherry, Strawberry, Orange, and Lemon. <\/p>\n

\"Starburst<\/p>\n

What flavor you get in each wrapper is printed in dot-matrix style on the shiny packaging. Oh, how I miss hearing the melodic sound of dot-matrix printers. If you\u2019ve never heard one, here you go<\/a>. Just leave that playing in another browser tab as you read the rest of the review.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never had Fruit by the Foot, which has been around for almost **GASP** 30 years, every roll has about three feet of fun. <\/p>\n

How is it?<\/h3>\n

\"Starburst<\/p>\n

How these taste can be summed up with the following anticlimactic statement \u2014 they taste like their respective Starburst candy. But instead of having to chew on candy pieces that can be somewhat tough like the rope you would gnaw at that’s wrapped around your wrists so that you can’t escape from a laboratory where they do secret experiments on humans to determine how long a person can tolerate the sound of a dot-matrix printer, these are easy-to-chew thin strips of sugar and natural flavors.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if this is the sugar talking, but these satisfy my sweet tooth and taste buds. But, now that the sugar is wearing off, if I want candy that tastes like Starburst, why don’t I just buy actual Starburst and also give my jaw a workout.<\/p>\n

Anything else you need to know?<\/h3>\n

If thin fruity flavored strips aren’t your thing, I imagine if you wanted to recreate the Starburst chew with these Fruit by the Foot, you could unravel each strip, peel it all away from the paper, roll it up again sans paper, and squash the whole roll into a solid square block. Although, this has probably been done thousands of times since Fruit by the Foot has been around for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n

\"Starburst<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> I was bored, so I decided to attempt what I wrote above with a strawberry roll, and it’s still easier to chew than a Starburst. But when eaten like that, it tastes less like a Strawberry Starburst. Weird. Instead, there’s a generic strawberry candy flavor.<\/p>\n

\"Starburst<\/p>\n

A box comes with six rolls, and mine came with two strawberry, two cherry, one orange, and one lemon. That appears to be what’s in every box, which I’m glad about because I’d take advantage of Betty Crocker’s Red Spoon Promise if mine came with two lemon rolls.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/h3>\n

Starburst Fruit by the Foot is a candy that’s mostly successful at tasting like another candy.<\/p>\n

Purchased Price:<\/strong> $2.58
\nSize:<\/strong> 6 rolls
\nPurchased at:<\/strong> Target.com
\nRating:<\/strong> 6 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> (1 roll) 80 calories, 1 gram of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 17 grams of carbohydrates, 10 grams of sugar, and 0 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is Starburst Fruit by the Foot? General Mills’ popular fruity kids treat that has no actual fruit now has varieties that taste like the original Starburst chewy candies \u2014 Cherry, Strawberry, Orange, and Lemon. What flavor you get in each wrapper is printed in dot-matrix style on the shiny packaging. 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