Fast Fiction

I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember the ad campaign that Lifesavers had back in the eighties. “Lifesavers, a part of living.”

Lifesavers and their ad campaigns have changed. I don’t know what their current advertising is, but I’ll tell you their product is bugging me.

They changed the five flavor roll. Okay, maybe that’s old news. I don’t buy them that often.

The current five flavor roll contains the following flavors:

Cherry
Raspberry
Watermelon
Blackberry
Pineapple

The old flavors were:

Cherry
Lemon
Lime
Orange
Pineapple

If I could design my own roll, it would contain the following:

Tangy Tangerine (found in the tangy fruits)
Pineapple (classic flavor)
Lemon (classic flavor)
Pina Colada (tropical fruits)
Banana (tropical fruits)

But I guess change is part of life. They always mess with things that are perfectly fine. They did it with froot loops. Used to be you could go into a store and buy a piece of furniture and then five years later go in there again and buy the same thing again. Now everything changes with the times. What is the world coming to that we can’t just be happy with lemon lifesavers?