Talk:Starburst (candy)

message: 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)
replies: text: The UK has lemon & lime; the two were incorporated some years ago (as mentioned in Trivia). If the same is true of the rest of Europe, the above passage can just be amended to make note of this. Simmyymmis 14:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure lemon flavour was in Opal Fruits alongside blackcurrant. I was quite shocked a couple of days ago when I discovered the lemon&lime amalgamation, I always remember them being distinct flavours in my childhood, both appearing alongside blackcurrant.--H7dders 13:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Still not sure this article is correct.  As a child in the UK in the 70's, I was used to Strawberry (red), Orange (orange), Lemon (yellow) and Lime (green). I'm sure the UK didn't get Blackberry until after the name changed to Starburst, as I stopped buying them then (don't like Blackberry).194.28.125.14 (talk) 04:35, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flavors 

message: ...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)
replies: text:   I will confirm that lime was an original US flavor, and the packaging was primarily white.  When cherry was introduced (replacing lime), the packaging was changed to yellow.  Additionally, the 'Made to make your mouth water' slogan was used in the US for print and television advertising for the spinoff product 'Pacer's Punch Chews'.  I remember the song well: "Pa - cers - Punch - Chews - MADE TO - MAKE YOUR - MOUTH  WA - TER!" limesparks 7:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  a little embarrassed to know this 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Date of introduction to the U.S.? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Gelatin in American Starburst 

message: 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)
replies: text: Cuboid. 71.87.213.168 (talk) 22:17, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Rectangular prism HandsomeMrToad (talk) 01:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Square Shaped?

message: 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)
thread_title: World record

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Starburst Logo.gif

message: 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)
thread_title:  Pinks and Reds Only 

message: 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 PheonixRMB (talk) 10:57, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kiss Starburst Goodbye (least in the UK) 

message: Can it be called a taffy? Jigen III (talk) 11:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taffy? 

message: 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)
replies: text: Juicy Fruit is a brand of gum which, like Starburst, is associated with Wrigley. Stonemason89 (talk) 17:56, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Juicy Fruits??? 

message: This stuff is exactly the same :de:Maoam and was invented in 1930.87.178.127.66 (talk) 18:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  German invention 

message: Is it possible to do a "List of Starburst products" article? I mean, Skittles has one...Visokor (talk) 10:17, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  possible variety list article? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: 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)
replies: text: Liu1126 (talk) 16:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request (copied from [[User talk:31.94.62.134]]) 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Peter Phillips