The tab I've had opened longest in my browser
I was introduced to fruitsticker.de through Mike Egan a very long time ago - February of 2025, I think - and it's been an open tab in my browser since then for reasons not even I can fully explain.
This website catalogs fruit sticker scans from all over the world. All these stickers seem to belong to a guy called Angelo. It has a sticker exchange community and can be browsed in 31 different languages. Any time you want, day or night, you can just go on here and see any one of 65883 unique fruit stickers from 116 different countries, 47 different fruit categories, and 31 different vegetables. There are loads of stickers here for fruits I have never even eaten, like horned melons and atemoyas. There are eight different durian stickers and only one rambutan sticker. I recommend checking out the giant grid of fruit types plotted against countries. It's so weird and cool that this exists!
There is also a PLU explorer here which allows you to take any fruit sticker with a number on it and figure out what kind of fruit it came from. Since I don't collect fruit stickers, I've never had the experience of finding a lone sticker without the fruit... but I can imagine the use case for a collector!
The site hasn't been updated since 2016 and hasn't had a news post since 2017. I really wish I knew why! I wonder how many people on the page of sticker traders still trade fruit stickers? I love looking at the guestbook page, which does contain some proof that the operator continues to check the site. He's responded to some of 2025 and 2026 posts!
I've had this open on my computer for a long time because I wanted to say something about it but couldn't think of what to say, other than "wow," and "it exists." I have had it open for long enough now - checking it out about once a month, sometimes only for a minute or two - that maybe this is the story. Here is an ancient, lightweight, highly specific website that you can keep open in your browser as some kind of mental altoid, looking at it only long enough to give yourself time to say, "wow! it exists!" before moving on. Thank you, fruitsticker.de, for your service to the world!!