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“.
WHY oh WHY can’t a manufacturer leave well enough alone? If these were sold for well over 80 yrs and remembered fondly just as they were-then leave them alone. As of today ( 8/23/15) I cannot find them anywhere anyway so I suppose this all is a moot point. And I do remember as Larry does above the faint soapy after-taste that set Snaps apart from any other licorice candy. And why was they lead in them to begin with? And I’ll never buy the new version after reading these horror stories.. I grew up in St. Louis where Switzers Licorice was and still reigns as the licorice to have, but boy oh boy I’d love some old-fashioned REAL Snaps. Not all “new and improved” things are what people want.
The old formula was a real treat. The new one is acceptable, but certainly not the same. Why not make them the same way? Not as firm either. What do you gain by changing them.? The original ones had a faint soapy after taste that set it apart and became pleasant as you got used to them. That is gone along with the memory of the original.
I wrote the company that makes Snaps telling them they are advertising “original snaps” and they are anything but. Absolutely horrible, they taste like an overkill of sassafras leaving a terrible aftertaste. Sad because I too have enjoyed these for 30 yrs. now I can’t even find them and I’m hoping the reason is because they are going back to original recipe. I do hope so because I cannot stomach the new formula.
I am wondering what happened to Snaps. First the taste was changed, then they disappeared from the shelves. I am disappointed in all the black licorice, but until the change, snaps were they only ones I would buy.
Will they be coming back at the old taste??
Yet another ruination of another great candy. Most have just faded away, which is bad enough but to fool with a time tested formula is beyond cruel and unusual punishment. Twizzler did the same thing with their chocolate flavored twizzler. Both are now inedible. The pedestrian tastes of the rising generations is being infused into every aspect of today’s society. There is no taste in art, literature, theater, movies, etc. It used to be that if one was undecerning you could say that their taste was all in their mouth. Now, one can not even say that.