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Sunkist® Fruit Gems
Sunkist® Fruit Gems
Sunkist Fruit Gems and gems is the right word. They are naturally-flavored, soft fruit candies in lemon, grapefruit, orange, lime and raspberry.
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Sunkist Fruit Gems - 2.05 oz tray
Sunkist Fruit Gems - 2.05 oz tray
$1.39
Sunkist Fruit Gems - 2.05 oz tray - box of 24
Sunkist Fruit Gems - 2.05 oz tray - box of 24
$32.99
  
 
Sunkist® Fruit Gems 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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