Is the difference subtle or substantial?
I love licorice snaps.
You could say I acquired a taste for them. Black licorice is my absolute favorite candy, so I’m always up for a new licorice adventure. The first time I ate Snaps, I thought I hated them. I thought they tasted like paint. But they had a tough toothiness that made them kind of irresistible. By the time I finished my first box, I was hooked. I don’t know what that paint thing was about. I love them.
A Troubling Tip
At CandyFavorites, a customer recently brought it to our attention that he noticed a difference in his Snaps. While the bag said “same great flavors, softer, chewy center,” the taste he loved was gone. Saying that the change was far from an improvement, he likened it to what happened with the new Coke.Watch movie online The Transporter Refueled (2015)
The New “New Coke”?
As a newly minted lover of Snaps, I was alarmed and tasted our latest shipment immediately. I felt like I could savor the old snaps, and these feel somehow less substantial and harder to hold onto. I’m able to go through a pile of them much more quickly than before. Which raises the point that I still enjoy them. I feel safer since the recall. But, as these things usually go, something seems to have been lost. I believe that luck does play a role in success, and striking just the right balance can make magic. That’s what I believe has happened with snaps. They’re still very good. They’re just not quite “The Original Licorice Snaps“.
P.S. If you let them sit a few months they taste somewhat better.
When the Snaps were recalled, I patiently waited for them to be reinstated. I have been a Snaps fan since I was a child. When I read that they were back, I got a bag at my local drugstore. When I tasted them I thought I had gotten a bad bag, so I ordered a big bulk bag from my candy source. They had the same pathetic taste and consistency. Somebody at the American Licorice Company’s got some explaining to do.
I plan to write the company and express my displeasure with this short sighted, stupid and disastrous decision to mess up a good product, They have stolen a part of my childhood, and maybe if we act they will rethink their misguided mistake.
I do not like them Sam I am.. To put “original” on the package is false advertising. Say “New”. Saying “improved” would be back to false advertising again! They do not taste at all the same and are texture is distasteful.
Why change a good thing?!!! I can’t imagine why a company would change Snaps candy after 75 yrs or whatever, unless it was beyond their control like the lead thing. Bummer I will miss them cz I can’t handle the gross new version.
I agree with all of you about how they RUINED SNAPS by changing them to drastically. I complained directly to the American Licorice Company who I believe make Snaps.
But I noticed the change in texture and hence flavor, right after small amts of lead were found to be in the candy. I wonder if whatever was causing the lead to occur, was also what gave Snaps the better, more chewy texture.
Have you also noticed how all of the pieces are now exactly the same size and shape (shorter, fatter, wider – like me as I age haha)?! Booorrring.