California Couple Invents Fruit-Flavored Envelopes: Do You Write Handwritten Letters?

In a time when people prefer to communicate by text or e-mail, a husband-wife team is trying to bring back the art of letter writing with a new line of fruit flavored envelopes.

Flavorlopes, which were invented in the family’s kitchen, come in five standard flavors: apple, cherry, grape, orange, and strawberry. The company will also offer a line of Seasonal Lopes that will taste like candy canes, candy corn, caramel apples, chocolate, eggnog, ginger bread and pumpkin spice.

The Flavorlopes website explains, “Even in the age of the computer, we are all faced with the dreaded lick of an envelope on a day-to-day basis. With enthusiasm and confidence in the spirit of the American entrepreneur, we hope to take a basic office product that has been around for 150 years, and reinvent the envelope with a flavorful experience that is sure to delight the taste buds and put a smile on your face.”

At $9.99 for 25 envelopes, Flavorlopes are much more expensive than standard envelopes—even the QuickStrip kind that eliminate the need for licking. However, they are incredibly novel and (with their coordinating note cards) are beautifully designed.

Anyhow, all this talk about envelopes got us wondering: Do you write handwritten letters?