Why do fruit images appear so often on slot machines?

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Have you ever wondered why there are so many fruit slots? It turns out that in the 1880s, the first slot machines did not pay out money, but fruit-flavoured chewing gum. Cherries, lemons and plums symbolised the flavours of the gum, and these images remained on the slots even after the machines started paying out cash prizes :)
 
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Ah, that explains why fruits are such a classic in slot machines! 🍒🎰 Pretty amazing how this whole game of chance got started. ✨
 
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This is actually a quite interesting piece of information. As long as I remember there has been plumbs, lemons, watermelons, etc. I simply thought that they have been chosen because they are easy to recognize, and do not offend anyone.
 
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It's part of a gambler's 5 a day:cool:
 
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Tero said:
This is actually a quite interesting piece of information. As long as I remember there has been plumbs, lemons, watermelons, etc. I simply thought that they have been chosen because they are easy to recognize, and do not offend anyone.
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Joking apart, I think early slot machines rewarded fruit flavour gum instead of cash - this got around legal issues as they were vending rather than gaming machines.
 
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Igor G said:
Have you ever wondered why there are so many fruit slots? It turns out that in the 1880s, the first slot machines did not pay out money, but fruit-flavoured chewing gum. Cherries, lemons and plums symbolised the flavours of the gum, and these images remained on the slots even after the machines started paying out cash prizes :)
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Many times I wondered why, but I also was wondering why the 7s are very common. Now you gave me the idea of looking it up ;).
 
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Funny story, so they paid chewing gums instead of money at the beginning ?? That's odd indeed . Yeah fruits are fun to play with at slots , but I play mostly other slots , Egyptian slots . 7s , fruits in slots , interesting to know their origins in the slots
 
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