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“.
I buy my snaps in bulk from the grocery store and noticed a change the last few times. I am now sifting them out to try to find the ‘good’ ones. These new ones are terrible! They don’t even taste like black licorice. I miss the ‘good’ ones!! Won’t buy them again.
The new licorice snaps are terrible! The taste is nasty and they are soft! Yuck! They are disgusting! Why was the formula changed? The old fashioned licorice snaps are the best!!!!!!!!! I won’t buy the new kind again I threw the bag away thought there was something wrong with them!
Baby boomers unhappy with new snap formula. Who ruined our snaps???
horrid horrid horrid! the company will not answer correspondence & it seems they have no intention of bringing the old LOVED snaps back. these new ones are the worst ever & i can no longer buy them… i have to buy a knock-off brand, which is now way better (than their replacement at least).
I also used to eat several bags of original snaps a month, been eating them for 25 years but not any more, the new formula is waaaay too horrible.. sorry to see this end of an era..