Cherry Frubes

I eat like a child.

Proof.

The picture above was taken during a recent shopping trip. In my fridge right now there are jelly pots, orange drinks (the ones in pouches that you put in lunchboxes), Billy Bear sausage meat, Pepperami, and the best of all – Frubes.

Frubes are amazing. An amalgamation of ‘fromage frais’ and ‘tube’, it’s exactly what you’re picturing – probably – a healthy fruity yoghurt in a tube-like packet. Three flavours. Three wonderful flavours. My favourite is peach, but there’s also strawberry and forest fruits, and you get three in each pack.

Wait, what?

What do you mean, wrong?

Oh, shit, you’re right.

FOREST FRUITS IS GONE AND HAS BEEN REPLACED BY CHERRY.

I buy Frubes every week (2 for 1 offer at Tesco, ding dong) and so when I opened my newest pack and dug out the familiar trio of red, orange and purple, I was aghast. Pink? What the fuck is this shit? Purple’s my favourite colour, godamnit, give me my forest fruits!

I scrambled back to the packaging and looked for something I’d missed. They must have running a trial of a new flavour – there would be an appropriate email address that I could contact and say “I want my forest fruits back, you cocks”.

That’s when I saw, right in the corner, unassuming and innocent, the contents of the pack: 3x Strawberry, 3x Cherry, 3x Peach. They hid it right in the middle, like nobody would notice. There’s nothing else on the packaging, least of all the apology I feel I deserve. I’ve been misled! This isn’t Frubes! What if you went and bought Frosted Flakes and you opened it and there was chocolate on them? And the front just said ‘frosted flakes with chocolate lol’ like it had always been that way? You’d feel lied to. LIED TO!

LIED TO!

I didn’t know what to do next, but ended up searching online. Typed in ‘cherry frubes’. And … NOTHING. No outcry, no backlash. Where have all the Frube fans gone? I want my forest fruits!

So now I think I’m going mad. Did forest fruits ever exist? Have they fallen into the crack along with Rory? (Ooh, spoilers.) Am I alone invulnerable to the effects of the memory wipe because of my treasured forest fruits memories? Can anyone explain this to me? Does anyone else miss forest fruit frubes?

Okay, here’s why this blog post is important to you. I got the internet back yesterday, which means instead of waiting to form coherent blogs on musical influence, critique and the value of personal freedom, I can go back to chatting shit about yoghurt. As a reward to you for remaining patient while I was sans connection, I present to you the nerdfighter Tube Map, a present for Hank Green’s 30th birthday, downloadable in wallpaper size so we can always have Hanko De Mayo in our hearts:


(click to download the full size image)

x

  • kaaatee

    being a curious person, i googled cherry frubes, and the first website was yours:) i am also outraged. it is a very serious matter! *tries to be serious but fails and starts laughing* i think i like your more pointless blogs better:) w0000p

  • http://www.youtube.com/cosmicscalefactor Lee

    That's a very healthy diet you're on there!

    I love the Nerdfighter Tube Map but why are Tom Milsom and John Green in wheelchairs? xD

  • http://youtube.com/wonderrflonium Megan

    omgomg BILLY BEAR WAS MY CHILDHOOD FAVOURITE.

    But onto more important matters: CHERRY? Who ever wanted cherry, of all flavours? Also, when I open a pack of Frubes, I expect to see red, yellow, and purple – replacing purple with pink doesn't give a wide enough colour spectrum! It's not as aesthetically pleasing! That, and the obvious fact that no one prefers cherry over forest fruits. Wtf, Yoplait, wtf.

  • http://youtube.com/wonderrflonium Megan

    lol P.S. I just googled Frubes to see if I could find anything, and this comes up: http://doctorwhotoys.net/frubes.jpg

    Not even gonna lie, I would definitely buy these.

  • Farzhana

    Whaaaat. Forest fruits was so good D:

  • http://www.stufftastic.blogspot.com Sarah

    Out of curiosity, what qualifies as a “forest fruit”? And you and my 4-year old should have a dinner party. =P

    =D <3

  • Bella

    Ahh I remember when they used to do Doctor Who frubes. After they went out I've boycotted frubes and have not had one since… but now that you mention it I want a forrest fruits one :( Cherry is such a crap flavour for anything. I just don't understand why they would replace a perfectly good flavour with a rubbish one.

  • http://twitter.com/ohfrankieflower frankie

    I just went downstairs to have a gander in my fridge, opened my frubes box and you are right, no forest fruits! Though not quite as upsetting as Rory's being swallowed up by the crack in the wall (which my eyes 'watered' at… hay fever clearly… :|) because of this rude and unnoticed replacement, I feel a formal letter of complaint coming on! Grr. x

  • ellie mae

    Serious question. How obsessed are the English with the Underground? Just Wondering. 'Cuz subway's are not a big deal here….at least not for me.

  • magicmarkers

    Because they are so awesome, it cripples them.

  • itiselizabeth

    I wish I could get away with child food but I would be judged by the other 6 people who share my fridge. (ahahaha this may only amuse me but the song Broccoli by McFly just shuffled on as I'm typing about food) I am appalled by this “Cherry” nonsense. I haven't had a frube in a while but forest fruits were my favourite! It reminds me of the uproar I felt when they replaced coffee revels with strawberry.

    I'm so glad you have the internet. :D

  • magicmarkers

    The underground map is a very iconic thing, it's all very artsy and lots of people have gone on about how lovely and graphically pleasing it it :) ….maybe it is a british thing, yeah…:L

  • http://twitter.com/cbrightylove Christian Brighty

    Dude – I'm a massive frubes fan, and have consumed them to a similar degree all my life…

    But there's never been a forest fruits frube… Maybe you're loosing it Alex? Maybe…

  • itiselizabeth

    Also I love how Paige Railstone is on (and only on) the “real people” line XD

  • Rosie

    WTF? On the website there aren't any CHERRY! I think this is some conspiracy to sneak in cherry while forest fruits (and the rest of the world) aren't looking! The cherry is taking over the world! And no one knows! …except alex and all his blog readers.

    I'm not decided on which is more upsetting yet… I mean I LOVE Rory but CHERRY? Who likes CHERRY?

  • Taara

    Frubes seem sort of like the Go-gurt we've got here in the states. (Although the flavors are more subject to change here, I think.)

  • ellie mae

    haha thanks. Yeah, I was in a store the other day that sells things that are imported from Britain and I saw underground t-shirts, mugs, signs, FLIP FLOPS…then I'm like, the most obsessed we get with the subway here is if we need a quick sandwich. Sad really. Thanks for commenting! I like learning about other cultures and stuff… :)

  • ellie mae

    McFly are amazing just saw this and had to comment. I wonder if Frubes are like Gogurts here…

  • http://twitter.com/akmelza Melissa Asselin

    That reminds me of these American yogurt tube-y things called Go-Gurt. You would freeze them, so when they were packed in a lunch, they would hopefully be at least a little bit cold. Anywho, remember when they started coming out with new flavors. As a word of warning, never try root beer float flavored yogurt.

  • Bluejaybee17

    Aww, i didn't know they changed Frubes, you would've thought there'd have bin an advert or something. I shall miss the purple ones they were ace. I loved this blog and the reference to last weeks doctor who, “ooh spoilers”

  • Abbie

    They're not really more subject to change as this is the first time they've changed ever lol x

  • Abbie

    Is purple really your favourite colour? SNAP! ;D x

  • http://www.jessicaraeblog.wordpress.com Jessica Fitzgerald

    where did all the frube fans go? they don't know how to use the fucking internet yet.

  • Maya

    No! Alex you jerk! You spoiled it for me! You spoiled Doctor Who! How could you? I think I'll go in a corner and cry
    Stupid America not airing episodes quickly enough.

  • http://twitter.com/BeckiiCruel Beckii Cruel

    I'm glad your university degree in confectionary goods has paid off well :)

  • Ansley

    That is rather gay about your yogurt change thing. I do hate it when companies mess up things like that. However I'm American and did find the (Oooh spoilers) a bit irritating because I am forced to watch Doctor Who on BBC America and we are a couple weeks behind..and now I'm sad about Rory without reason..=(

  • http://twitter.com/kateribethrose Elizabeth

    That is why you look at the box before you pick it up Alex. Really though, I would rather have forest fruits than Cherry even though I have no idea what forest fruits is or are…

    I love the nerdfighteria tube map. :D

  • Lucy

    Cherry frubes are a pile of WANK. Forest Fruits were an extremely important part of my diet (after peach, of course, which has been my lifelong favourite – i almost hyperventilated when i read it was yours too – but I've never really been a fan of strawberry…).

    When I opened my newly bought pack of frubes, all excited over their frubey goodness, to see that forrest fruits had been replaced with cherry, i was speechless. Cherry? I mean, come on. If you're going to replace a perfectly yummy flavour, at least replace it with something equally or preferably more yummy. Not Cherry. Cherry isn't a legitimate yoghurt flavour in my opinion. How many yoghurts are cherry flavoured these days? None that taste exceptionally good.

    Well, I would love to contact the stupid cunts who decided on this preposterous thing, and tell them what wankers they are and tell them what a wanker 'Clive Cherry' the frube is (for people who don't eat frubes on a daily basis, like I do, each frube has a name, and that name begins with the same letter as the flavour it's in).

    That's all I have to say on that matter … I'm off to get me a NON CHERRY frube!
    See ya … x

  • Jane

    We should start an anti – cherry frube petition, Alex! <3

  • http://www.youtube.com/strgrlollie Olga

    NATALIE TRAN IS NO LONGER A VIDCON GUEST D:

  • eilidh

    cherry?! what the fuck?! so unfair.

  • Jasmine

    I actually had those. They had mini doctor who bookmarks in them. Wild (Y)

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/starrider121 Emily

    haha love the map lol. yay for internet!

  • Lex

    Shit! The purple ones were the only ones I ate!

  • http://www.youtube.com/strgrlollie Olga

    It's the exact same thing, just a different name.
    Outside of the U.S., Go-Gurt is sold as Yoplait Tubes in Canada and as Frubes in the United Kingdom.

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    Those are rubbish, all the flavours are strawberry!

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    We used to rule the world, you see. Now America's taken it from us. But we have the solace of knowing their transport sucks (excluding NY and maybe Chicago) and ours is brilliant, so we like to keep that candle lit.

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    You + listening to McFly = <33

    Come back to London soon!

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    Hahahahaha. Touché. <3

  • http://alexdaymusic.com Alex

    I know :(

  • jess

    I had to Google Frubes… In the U.S. we have something similar called Go-Gurt. I was obsessed with it when I was a kid. For a while they had Shrek ones that I collected :D but I'm not sure if they still make them.

    Pointless comment over now.

  • username1117

    hey now, lets not use gay in any way that can be taken as negative

  • username1117

    Boston has a pretty decent subway system. so so easy to figure out!

  • username1117

    are jelly pots just packages of jelly beans? are they really in a pot? what is the meaning of life?

  • Ali

    Hi!

  • Reno42

    Cure you and your spoilers, Alex Day! D: I think I'm going to have to stop reading your blog until this season of Doctor Who has finished airing in Canada :P

  • kelsey

    Neato map. But I think Katherine Green is spelled wrong. Doesn't seem like a big deal, unless the recipient happens to be her husband…

  • http://youtube.com/lananification Hannah

    Oh, thanks a lot, Alex. You spoiled me. I don't know if you're aware, but we're quite a bit behind on Dr. Who here in North America. Now I am sad. And it is your fault.

  • Laura

    Alex!
    I know you're a busy person with things to do, and sorry to ask this question on one of your blogs, but i was wondering if you knew why the background of Charlie's videos still looks like his mums house. Did he just move his walls of pictures and train tickets to your new flat, or does he still do his videos at his old house? sorry, just wondering, since i know you guys room together. Also wanted to say that Chameleon Circuit is one of my favorite bands, i think you're a very talented musician and I cant wait to buy your album of solo work!! And i also appreciate how you arent fake, and give your honest opinion even when people oppose you for it. You're a good example for everyone of how to be your own person and not a people pleaser. You're awesome! :)

    p.s. sorry this was so freaking long

  • Laura

    I live in Chicago and am sad to say that i've never even SEEN a subway…wow, pathetic. I now feel the need to move to England. Plus, i like their accents better

  • ellie mae

    Chicago has decent transportation. I've ridden the trains. Of course, It's not like in England…I think. I'm trying to convince my parents to let me travel out of the country so I can find out for sure. For now I guess my teas, Jelly Babies (because I'm a Tom Baker dork) and Wine Gums from the British store will have to suffice. Thanks for commenting Alex, totally made a great end to my day! :)

  • ellie mae

    Ditto. Besides the subway part :)

  • Tayla

    I do hate it when the company just decides to eliminate your favourite flavour. When you notice it the world has official been shutdown! You wonder who came up with the idea of changing the flavour and just want to kick them where it hurts. It is also annoying where there is a limited edition flavour and the flavour is actually tastes nice. This happens a lot in Nesquik. (I'm Australian so I dont know if you ever heard of Nesquik or not but it is powder and milk put together to make a mini milkshake or you can have it hot, your choice. You have chocolate, strawberry, spearmint and a lot I can't think of at the moment). Nesquik sometimes has 'limited edition' flavours. It goes on the market and you buy think it tastes nice buy some more then 3 months later it's off the market but about a year later you find it again and it doesn't taste nice. So this Cherry Frube is probably just a trial run. If it isn't, well you better find the person you came up with the idea of eliminating forest fruits.

    Sidenote: The pouches of orange juice you where talking about, in Australia are called Fruit Juices/Boxes in some states while in other states they are called Poppers. I think it is called Poppers because you pop the top with a straw. That's why I think it was called poppers in some states.

    Btw, I'm loving the map you made and your 'pointless' blogs t. I think the pointless blogs are better than the musical ones because everyone can relate to and gives more people a chance to express their opinion on the subject.

    That's all from me but it probably wasn't very helpful in anyway :S, oh well :P

    Tayla :]

  • http://thevivid.tumblr.com/ Kendra

    I used to eat a Frube-like product when I was 12 or so, but they were called Go-Gurt over here (in North America). Those things were amazing and weirdly satisfying.

  • xSoupyTwist

    I love this post. Quite a fun read.

    I guess Frubes are like Gogurt for Americans if I'm imagining it correctly. Except we only get two flavors, both of which taste the same to me. I think they're both some sort of berry flavor. One's bluish purple, while the other is pink.

    Awesome Tube map! Makes me want to go visit London again… Good luck with your Forest Fruit Frubes!

  • Wintertree

    I can understand your pain. Cherry is the most vile of all flavors, except maybe grape. It must be all that flavored cough syrup we grew up on…

    Also, forest fruits? That's awesome! In America we have a similar product: Go-gurts. I had to choose from cherry, strawberry, and “blue razberry” (yes, with a “z”). Blech. I wish I had the option of forest fruits (what does that even detail?) and peach.

  • Vanieztia

    Ew. Cherry Frubes?!
    I froze some forest fruit ones (they're my favourite too :D ) and so they are still in my freezer! YAYS!
    Maybe I should sell them on ebay? Ahaha :L
    Oh, BTW, I actually <3 you. You know Lauren Myracle. Whoa.

  • Wolfiex

    I love blue raspberry. I can never find it as a flavor for ANYTHING in the UK. ;_;

  • http://zoeyblogs.wordpress.com/ Zoey

    I don't know what Furbes are,but replacing forest fruits with cherry is a crime!!(I hate cherry flavoured things)
    Anyway,what if someone starts searching for you or Charlie at King's Cross station or Moorgate? (I hope I didn't mess up the real station names.^^) Someone(silly enough) might think that you live around one of those stations…. =)

    [http://zoeyblogs.wordpress.com/]

  • itiselizabeth

    I'm coming to London on the 5th August with my family. So I'm going to be around and about for SitC etc. I am very much excited. :D

  • Jennica

    Well, this is completely unrelated to your clearly very pressing yogurt issues, but I really enjoy your music. I love sharing music too, so here are some artists/bands I like for you to check out if you don't already know them: Bon Iver, Andrew Bird, Wilco, The Format, fun., Steel Train, Passion Pit, You Me and Everyone We Know, & Adele. Hope you like them!

  • Laura

    I don't think Charlie's moved yet. He's still living at home while he finishes his album.
    <3

  • Laura

    Searching on twitter reveals a lot of dislike for the new cherry frube. This one made me lol…

    Cherry frubes taste EXCTLY the same as durex lube. Mind fuck.

  • katie

    woah woah woah! They swapped flavours? Proves how long its been since I ate a froob.

    And at least its better than eating piles of takeaways, its a bit healthier :)

    You can remember them though, not because your a time traveler (because it your own past rewriting lol), but because your a nerd who can actually remember stuff like this.

    On the subject of doctor who, I made this for my friends birthday cake, an edible sonic screwdriver nomnomnom, so you might be interested in that if your bored and could do with the lulz:
    http://s714.photobucket.com/albums/ww150/camera…

    we enjoy you chatting shit about yoghurt, we're here for the lulz and you ofc.

  • Christina

    Aaw, you poor thing :( I feel you pain

  • http://elinious.wordpress.com/ Elinious

    I can't believe everyone's hating on cherry flavours. I love everything cherry flavoured <3
    I think it's outrageous that they're replacing forest fruits though, because forest fruit flavour is almost equally awesome. They should have added cherry instead of replacing…

    I LOVE your Nerdfighteria tube map! It's a brilliant idea and very well executed. It's not my wallpaper yet as I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to my Italy wallpaper (pic I took there). When I am, the tube map is going up :)

  • caitlin

    there is a number of things i would like to say on this blog post.
    1.my friend and i were just talking about the magic of frubes yesterday
    2. forest fruits was my favourite!!!
    3.is cherry any good?
    4. billy bear meat rules but dinasaur meat is much better!
    5. i cried when Rory was taken away! :(
    6. i think that is it… i will come back to add anything though.

  • caitlin

    i remembered something!!!!
    7. your favourite colour is purple you say… my 4th year school tie was purple. ive now got a green tie cos im starting 5th year on monday :D
    im not sure what you call 5th year in england but age wise, im 16. :)

  • ShakeyStacey

    You are not alone Alex! I remember forrest fruits frubes. I can't believe there's not more of a fuss! And purple is the best colour in the world.
    It's odd how in our early 20's we regress back to eating our favourite childhood foods. I've got turkey dinosaurs in my freezer right now and my house mate has a bag of potato smiley faces. I've also got quite a fish fingers obsession going on, but I can't decide whether or not fish fingers are a childish food… mmm fish fingers and custard ;)

  • Issy

    I find it quite funny that some people call them poppers: naming children's lunchbox items after recreational drugs is a relatively unusual marketing strategy :L

  • http://twitter.com/artisticmeerkat Grace

    cherry? CHERRY? ugh! I hate cherry. forest fruits were my favourite frube flavour~ I can't believe this. it's a travesty! why frube-makers why?! I'll never buy frubes again knowing that there is no forest fruit flavour, since I don't really like the other two flavours, and despise cherry-flavoured things. this is a sad sad day. ;~;

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/mickeleh Michael Markman (Mickeleh)

    I'm delighted you have internets now. But I'm forced to institute a two-week delay on checking your blog to avoid further spoilers. (Hint: say “spoiler” before the spoiler, not after.) Now, if only that crack would make me forget what I read here.

  • ROZZYISGINGER

    whaaa… CHERRY!!?!?
    Frubes will never be as cool again D:
    Even in the Doctor Who or Transformers variety :)

  • Carys

    This is an outrage! AN OUTRAGE! How dare the frube people insult us with this cherry business? It's disgusting! I say we give them a piece of our minds, huh frube lovers?

  • weirdo

    What is everyone on about? Changed Frubes? Its always been cherry… I do agree though, cherry's are meant for the top of cupcakes, not to be yogurted.

    And who the hells Rory? I've watched every episode of Doctor Who since 2005 and I've never seen a Rory…

  • DanniLovesHearts

    Can't say that I'm a big fan of Frubes (although I sympathise with your evident agony on the subject xD) but DON'T mention Rory..I am actually heartbroken about what happened to him…there are no other words for it. I was crying a Doctor Who, for goodness' sake! And stupid Amy doesn't even remember him >_> I know it's not her fault, but GRR. And I also know that you like her, but even you can't convince me of her redeeming qualities as a character! Rory </3

  • http://moogledefish.deviantart.com Martyn

    You love Rory. But you also love Forest Fruits.
    Which is better?
    There's only one way to find out…
    FIIIGGGHHHHTTTT!!!!!!
    Oh. Wait. They're both gone… :(

  • http://kristincorine.tumblr.com/ Kristin!

    THEY ALL TASTE THE SAMEEEE
    Or do I just have a problem? D:

  • rahcek

    Fruits of the Forest was the Next Best Flavour (after peach, of course ;])!

    I haven't tried cherry, but I bet that they're too sweet and not even as nice as forest fruits. GRRRr.

    :)

  • Amy

    Forest Fruits are my favourite so it's disappointing that they've gone! However:

    'I didn’t know what to do next, but ended up searching online. Typed in ‘cherry frubes’. And … NOTHING. No outcry, no backlash. Where have all the Frube fans gone?'

    WHAT?

    Are you one of THOSE people who complain to Ofcom about trivialities such as Eastenders being postponed or the Justin Lee Collins trail over the end of Doctor Who (which, yes, was bad timing, but DAMNIT IT'S AVAILABLE ON IPLAYER!!!)?

    Just kidding. Or am I?
    Love ya x

  • Ellie

    OMG. You're so right! Cherry is a foul flavour, and the Frube version is big-ass mistake!
    Eww.

    I love frubes, and I love your internet back again, even if it's given me a majoorrr WTF moment.

  • http://citysparkle.tumblr.com Jade

    oh man, that sounds kinda like my fridge. jelly pots, cheesestrings and juice cartons. plus fruit flakes, fruit winders and farley's rusks in my cupboards. eating like a kid is cheaper, and much more fun! on frubes though, i can't really comment. i don't like flavoured yoghurt so i've never really eaten them :(

  • Abby

    there's no subway in chicago. it's called the El.

  • Katie

    I had these, and they are, although awesome, absolutely terrifying to eat from. Nobody wants too see a picture of an Ood whilst sucking up so delicious Froob. It puts you right off xD

  • NoraD

    Now I can't stop thinking about Frubes… I WANT A FRUBE, DAMMIT!!! But, they've probably never been sold here… One bad thing about Ann Arbor, MI…

  • http://timeywimeystuff.tumblr.com/ Krista

    Haha, I saw the title of this blog post and thought it said this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBeHznFxYHU

  • http://www.facebook.com/olgabreslavets Olga

    IT'S GO-GURT.
    Seriously, it's Go-Gurt. I'm sure they sell Go-Gurt in Michigan d:

  • Chrissie

    what is a jelly pot? is that just like jelly… in a pot? or jelly beans? ahh i dont get it

    and i have to watch doctor who on bbc america i don't want to know spoilers!! now im sad :[

  • Lily

    ok so I've never heard of frubes before in my life but they sound awesome and we should totally start some sort of online petition so Alex can have his forest fruits back =D
    also nerdfighter map = amazingness
    (i hadn't read this post until I saw the other one where Alex calls everybody beautiful for commenting on this one so now that I've commented I feel qualified to include myself in that =P)

  • Laura

    What the hell!!!! Cherry is a fucking flavor of medicine!!!! Nobody likes cherry its like grape. Forest fruit is way more appealing. As my science teacher would say… It's violet. Haha purple was apparently “created” by Crayola. Even though it's in the bible… Haha! Back on topic, letter of complaints are going to be going into the… place.. factory. Pink-Purple. Purple obviously wins nobody hates purple. Quite a few hate pink.

  • Chrissie

    for everyone in america wondering what a jelly pot is, maybe i'm slow… but i googled it and it looks like its just Jell-o in british disguise :o

  • Chrissie

    and to actually comply with the whole frubes conversation, they have I guess a kids online play frube website with a talking “frube” with a british accent and you can play games with it and other stuff. its actually hilarious.

    http://web153.unit9.net/flash.html

  • Chrissie

    if you click “meet the frubes” forest fruits is still in there, NOT cherry.

  • cat

    I have no idea what this “frube” thing is but thanks for the spoiler alert!!!!! I'm from america we haven't seen it yet! Now my mind is making plot lines for Roary falling into the crack!
    I DON'T WANT TO KNOW I HAVENT SEEN IT YET!

  • Adela

    Alex, I love you, but some poor people haven't seen that episode of Doctor Who yet :(

  • http://shellzconlon.livejournal.com Meeshellz(Michelle)

    …Rory falls into the crack? WTF ALEX. I'm not caught up yet! D:<

    Onto the matter at hand, I do hate when they do that. Switch up the flavors and such. Though not frubes because I'm an American and I'm deprived of such fruity deliciousness. In all honesty though, if I opened up my box of Frosted Flakes and saw they were covered in chocolate, I would not be upset at all.

  • amelia

    i would just like to say that i have the tube map printed on some socks i own..
    legendary or just retarded?

  • chandni

    OMGOMGOMG!!! THIS IS A FUCKING OUTRAGE!! THEY CANNOT DO THIS!!

  • username1117

    thank you for this! I used yahoo search and kept getting stuff about jelly beans. Now I am wondering what they call jelly? Maybe everything is just called jam? These are pressing issues and i want some answers!

  • http://letsponderthat.blogspot.com/ TT-Tardis time

    I was also outraged at this new frube but do not fear you can still buy the packets with the forest fruits in it you just have to look. you can get different flavours now. So do not fear forest fruits are still out there.
    Love f.f.l- fellow frubes lover

  • Noelle

    In Canada we have a yougurt tube thing too, they're called tubes (how creative right?)

    And i just wanted to say how much i hate Rory and I am so glad he is gone!

  • Katie

    I'm 18, still eat billy bear ham and frubes :) Cant really admit i'm especially bothered by the loss of forest fruits as my sister always eats all of them before I can even get a look in. Cherry to replace them though?! What a joke. I hate cherry flavored things. Cherry drops are literally my worst nightmare :P

  • http://twitter.com/BBC_Fangirl Laura Blakemore

    I'm glad you blog about the important things in life, Alex. I would dread to think how my life would have gone, had I not known there was no longer a Forest Fruits Frube (ooh, alliteration).

    I jest, of course, but this blog was absolutely hilarious to read. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still eats like a child. <3

  • http://twitter.com/BBC_Fangirl Laura Blakemore

    I'm glad you blog about the important things in life, Alex. I would dread to think how my life would have gone, had I not known there was no longer a Forest Fruits Frube (ooh, alliteration).

    I jest, of course, but this blog was absolutely hilarious to read. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still eats like a child. <3

  • America_gets_DW_1week_later

    fuck man, i live in the US what do you mean rory fell into the crack of time?!?! nooo! alex why?! WHY?!

  • emily elizabeth

    Ok, so frubes is the uk equivalent of go-gurt, yes? that's what it sounds like from this post anyway. and what is a jelly pot?

  • Charlotte

    you know what this is like. 1984!! things just change and no one is told anything…all the past information erased and we don't know what to believe…our minds…or what the government…*cough cough* I mean yogurt producers tell us

  • Abbie

    what the actual fuck.
    i feel like crying.
    forest fruits were always the worst flavour but as they say you don't know what you got til its gone :'(

  • Lily

    Oh, wow. You finished it! Nice work.

  • Alle

    i am fully in love with this
    forest fruits are clearly the greatest
    and, bizarrely, the easiest to get into ;/
    i don't what what it is, but i can't open the other flavours

    alle xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • Em

    noooo i <3 forest fruits !!
    and yes there has, since, forever. :) x

  • http://twitter.com/lauracato Laura Cato

    No! You're supposed to put “spoiler” before you spoil something! Damnit, some of us live in the United States, Alex! …shit, Rory fell in the crack…

  • http://www.louparkextraordinare.webs.com Chilligirl05

    I had completely the same thought, Alex. I absolutely hate cherry, particularly because of those weird lipbalms which you bought in chemists which were popular in the 90s. Never liked them. And now, the gorgeous frubes have been destroyed by this catastrophe that is cherry frubes. Why didn't they just add it to the packet and kept forest fruits? Because then, you wouldn't have to eat it, you could just leave it out for some 90s person to use it as a lip treat.

    xxx

  • CassidyKamada

    dick! SPOILERS! you fucker.

  • Lucy (:

    All this talk of awesome British food (like forest fruits frubes and Billy Bear) is making me terribly homesick.

  • theendofme

    What exactly IS jelly pot?

  • Tikiria

    I'm a bit late to answer but I just read that. I think we still have forest fruits here. Last time I checked anyway. Do you want me to send you some? :p

  • Rhiannonsanders94

    I was also devastated when I saw they'd brought in the cherry Frube, mainly because it tastes like Calpol. Ewww. I like the Frubes pouches, where you get the raspberry flavour. They should have brought that in instead of CHERRY.
    I should be revising for my exams right now, but instead I'm writing about Frubes on here. I love my life :)
    Ohhh, and Alex, I have a bone to pick with you! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOUR SONGS SO DAMN CATCHY! I had Holding On stuck in my head during my Geography exam yesterday, which really isn't useful when I should have been focusing on employment in different countries.
    Please carry on being so awesome :)
    xx

  • Billy

    you missed out sxe phil on the map
    other wise its really call

  • http://twitter.com/WithYouImHome Melissa L

    Alex Daaaay I'm not up to date on the Dr. Who episodes yet!! Oh well. Not that I liked Rory very much anyhow. Hah.

    I don't like yogurt very much, but I enjoy your outcry over it. ^_^ I'm sorry they lied to you!! In your honor I say: Bring back Forest Fruits!

  • Tonje

    You all make me want to go to england to try these frubes! :D
    I usually don't like forest berries flavour on yoghurt, but to be honest that is only because here in norway there are often raspberry or blackberry seeds in them :S

  • chloeee x

    forest fruit was the best and shouldn't have been replaced with cherry cos it is horrid

  • Joe

    That map is great. On the 'Real People' line, your 2nd stop is… The Yeti. Oh yes

  • Hamsterdowns

    Personally, I think your taste in food is absolutely amazing (as is your taste in clothes, hair styles, videos, music, tv, stalkers… (wait what?!)).

    However, I think cherry would have been alright (I was also very upset when I opened my frubes) if they had replaced strawberry. Forest Fruits and Peach are my favourite, strawberry not so much. The cherry is good but I WANT FOREST FRUITS.

    And more videos. And please could you kick Charlie to get some more videos up aswell. Because you two are my homepage on my computer, and I always watch the top video when my internet opens because I love them too much to turn them off, so I end up watching them about 50 times before I end up having to revert to an older video.

    I don't actually stalk you, (+_+) but my friends are trying to organize a trip where we all accidently get lost in London and go to every flat asking for directions home until we come across you two and can *accidently* say hi. But anyway…

    I'm rambling, feel free to stop me at anytime. (If my internet shut down now it would be hillarious) . For me anyway. No one else would know. Unless they were in my house. Which would be odd. Because I'm pretty sure I'm alone. And No one else would know it had shut.

    WHY ARE YOU HOLDING AN IGUANA.

    Honestly. Don't judge me. I'll go now.

    xxx

  • Sandy

    … There's a BRITISH store in America?! :O Do tell all… we don't have specifically American shops here. Apart from Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister etc. Is this a shop which only sells British stuff??? xxx

  • Sandy

    Go to a cinema, get a Blue Rasberry Frozen Fanta Slush Puppy… or get a mixed one with the pink flavour. They are amazing. xxx

  • Sandy

    I love cheese strings! Cheese strings, peperami, frubes, aero chocolate mousse, 3 bags for £1 foam sweets at Sainsburys (<– mushrooms and teeth are the best)…

    I'm such a four year old. xxx

  • Ainebourke

    Haven't had Frubes in ages!!! I love Forest Fruits!!! There gone?! :(
    Lol did anybody else notice on the Nerdfighters Tube Map that there was a Maureen Johnson on it?! I saw her name and didn't realise that she was on YouTube and thought it was referring to the character Maureen Johnson from Rent!!! XD

  • Áine

    I live in Ireland and we have NO underground rail systems!!! :P

  • Aine

    I'm pretty sure Jelly pots are little plastic tubs of jelly!!! If your American I think its called jello!!! So basically its just jello in a tub!!! But I'm from Ireland so it could be different in England!!! :)

  • http://twitter.com/hahablacksheep Matthew Ayres

    hello alex,

    i, a fellow frube enthusiast, have decided to take a stand against yoplait and their treacherous, unacceptable frube travesty. i've made this video which will explain the matter at hand more clearly, please take the time to have a look!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_9Y4Bv2j0

    together we can bring back forest fruits! please help us nerimon!

  • http://twitter.com/hahablacksheep Matthew Ayres

    hello alex,

    i, a fellow frube enthusiast, have decided to take a stand against yoplait and their treacherous, unacceptable frube travesty. i've made this video which will explain the matter at hand more clearly, please take the time to have a look!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_9Y4Bv2j0

    together we can bring back forest fruits! please help us nerimon!

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