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 was really disappointed when I had the new licorice snap for a snack. It was not the same like it was before. I couldn’t detect the delicate balance between thin and dry licorice with powdery slightly sweet sugar coating. On the contrast with the older one, I could taste thicker and wetter wall of less tasty licorice wall with a bit more sugary coating which was not appealing at all to my fondness for strong licorice with less sweet coating. When will we get the original licorice snap back?
Thank you, Christine
If American Licorice Company won’t make them they way they used to, I wish they would sell the recipe to somebody who stay true to the original Snaps. I miss them so much, but I refuse to buy the disgusting tasting ones they make now. What a shame! I’ve tried knock offs but they don’t quite cut it.
other then Wal-Greens – I am struggling to locate people who will sell this product! I am a bit disappointed that this “New version” seems to not meet the quality of the old origional version of Snaps! Whats up with the change?? Why did it have to be changed?? If it was the lead….PLEASE simply put it back in!!! Take some pride in your product and go back to making it the old way…the RIGHT WAY!!! We are in need of the Snaps – Please hear us out here crying for the good stuff!! Thank you
Once a month I would go to the Bulk Store in Taylor,MI and get my fill of Snaps. First they told me they were recalled,Then they came back with a new formula, TOTALLY awful! I was told that American Licorice bought-out Snaps and this is what you get now. Well, what a disappointment. This new “Original Flavor” has the taste and texture of a gummy bear that they forgot to add in the flavor. American Licorice please bring back the real “Original Flavor” or sell the Snaps back to it’s “Original Company”. You and Tootsie Roll are ruining so many classic candies!
Is all hope lost?! Will Snaps ever be brought back to the original formula that we dedicated Snaps lovers all came to enjoy. I rather eat the ones with the lead in them than the newly formulated ones. Snaps makers please listen to your dedicated customers (or you will lose us)