What happened to Sour Skittles? Find out if they've been discontinued

Since past few days, Twitter has been teeming with people claiming that Skittles, a widely popular brand of fruit-flavoured candy, is discontinuing its popular product, Sour Skittles. Many Twitter users took to platform to share ir opinion about news and also about Sour Skittles mselves. However, it is still unclear if news is indeed true or a mere rumour started by an Internet user. Read on to find out, “What happened to Sour Skittles?”

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What happened to Sour Skittles?

thing happened to Sour Skittles. Despite fact that some people on Twitter are claiming that sour skittles had been discontinued, official statement has been released by company itself. Upon doing some internet sleuthing, we found that candy company has anunced thing about sour skittles being discontinued on eir its Instagram or Twitter. It is only natural that company would, take to its social media handles to inform its customers, that such a popular product was being discounted by m. Hence, re is a pretty big chance that Tangy and tart Sour skittles are here to stay.

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Do y still make Sour Skittles?

While most e-commerce website and convenience stores are still selling Sour Skittles, one website called Whole Sale Candy Shop, has written in product description of Sour Skittles, that product has been discontinued. But it isn’t clear if website means that y have discontinued selling product or have been informed that Skittles is discontinuing making product. But, for w, all Sour Skittle fans can sigh and take a breath of relief. 

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A report in Takeout states that Sour Skittles are actually a successor of  Tart-N-Tangy Skittles which were reportedly started in 1989 by company. However, company discontinued m and instead y were rebranded and re-made as Sour Skittles. However, Sour Skittles represent flavours of its predecessor with only slight differences. However, specifics of flavour are still sketchy.

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According to an article on history of candy from Penn State University, Skittles were first produced in U.K. in 1974. But, hard-shelled candies with a chewy inside landed in U.S. in 1979 and started gaining international popularity. n came along ir Taste Rainbow slogan in 1994 from an advertising ncy in New York City. Today, slogan is still going strong and  folks who eat se gummies still experience same exhilaration from its taste.