So I got a response back from the people at Fruit of the Loom and I must say that I’m impressed; they responded the next day. I am disappointed to find out however, that the fruit guys don’t have names. There are four of them though, purple grapes, green grapes, a red apple and a green apple. So now you know 
bull fucking shit. . .he is yellow and flaky!!!! not a green apple
Wow…hostile much? In case you haven’t read on, the actual fourth guy is supposed to be fig leaves. If you can’t be nice, don’t post in my blog.
Ok I ‘m not sure of this, but was their ever a black actor playing the grape?
This guy I work with was a Pro boxer that claims he was hired to be the purple grape in the mid 70s commercial but I have no way yet to check this out.
Well after a little bit of googling to get a decent picture of all the guys together, I think your friend might be right. The purple grape is played by an African-American actor in the current incarnation, so it seems reasonable that maybe the 1970’s grape was too.
Wow…. It is sssooo great to know that my husband and I aren’t the only weird ones obsessing over the wrinkled yellow thing on the commercial. I wonder who’s grand marketing idea that was?
Yeah, I emailed them about what the yellow wrinkled thingy was too… But I have yet to recieve a reply. My family is starting to get annoyed with me asking them every time a commercial comes on what the guy is lol.
I was happy to see that my friend and I are not the only ones searching for answers to the great fruit debate. I think the company has something to hide and frankly I’m not buying FOTL products until I get answers! Okay, so I don’t think that I’ve ever bought FOTL products, but damn it, if I did, I’d stop!
The mystery remains just that.
This blog captures the routine that is my life. My wife is motivated by the unknown, undisclosed yellow “flaky” fruit. I’m with Heather, I vote fig leaves. Each and every time the FOTL commercial is on, the routine is set in motion. Thanks for the laughs.
I agree with the first guy. What part of that costume is green and round like an apple. If it is an apple, well, that’s just sad.
Well, now, y’all need to know that these here fruits are part of the harvest. Mixed with the fruit are golden leaves signifing the bounty of the harvest. These leaves also make good filler material and all good business and ad men know they need fillers, binders and BS.
The Green Grape is my cousin Anthony from Greene County in NY… He lives in LA now…. He has also been in a few other commercials, (one he did for Honda where he was in a business suit snorkeling under the water.) He has also been in some roles as an extra with speaking parts in some drama TV shows…. He got the green grape gig about 4 years ago or so and it has been going pretty well for him…. If your reading this Good Luck Ty! and knock em dead in Hollywood…!!!
I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!! Let me rephrase. I have the correct answer, unlike the first comment. We just received an email from the company. On the company’s logo, the yellow things resemble grapes. They are actually currants! However, on the commercial, the yellow thing looks much different. That is because he is. He is a leaf! Debate over!
You guys are morons. Heard of google? [http://www.google.com] It’s this “search engine” where you can find almost anything you want on the internet, such as what that thing is. So to save you time from using google, here is the site it would point you to:
http://www.fruitcountryvideo.com/bio_leaf.aspx
Not only is Fruit of the Loom not hiding information and making it hard for you to find out what the guy is, they even have a bio on the dude. He’s a leaf.
Leaf, the wild card of the group, is often the topic of much discussion. The most often asked question is whether he’s in fact a fruit – to which he replies, “Well technically, no, but our lawyer says that because a leaf can be attached or connected to fruit, I can legally be called a “Fruit Guy.” Leaf was born in Rochester, New York, and found that the competition for foliage was just too intense, which is why he ended up in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After a near-deadly leaf-blower incident, Leaf developed a nervous tic that has actually helped his drumming prowess and established him as one the most powerful percussionists in country music.
this is insane my family and I think it is a fig leaf
i just wish i could what the mystery fruit. lol
if anyone knows the mystery fruits name please write back
Ok, the purple grape from the 70’s is the voice for Sebastian in “The Little Mermaid” I heard him say something on one of the shows they did. He was proud to be the purple grape. His name is Samuel E Wright.
I think it’s an internal joke at Fruit of the Loom…
I’ll bet it’s supposed to be a scrotum, and their ad guys are laughing their asses off at us right now, as we speak…
I will wear my underpants on my head in retalliation from now on…
Dear Anonymous, Forget the four fruits–I wanna see a picture of you with your FOTL underpants on your head! This is definitely lol material–we are all crazy ya know, to be so concerned with this, but it has bothered my husband and I for weeks now.
IT’S A LEAF ……IT’S A LEAF…..IT IS A LEAF IT IS A LEAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol u guys its a leaf!!!!
Go to fruitcountryvideo.com and click on artists biographies and you cand get the WHOLE lovely story behind the LEAF!!!!!!