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 started eating Snaps back in the 1950s. They were sold in boxes. At the time, I thought how appropriately they were named because when you bit into them they would snap apart in your mouth. In other words the licorice was dryer than what’s in the product today. I bought a bag yesterday and found the licorice very soft and chewy, e.g. stick to your teeth chewy!!!. Sorry, you’ve now lost me as a customer because I dislike the new product so much.
I love the old snap enough to actually reply. I purchased some at Walgreens. They had ‘Same great taste’. Ha what a joke. They destroyed there product. I wrote the company and never obtained a response. I also wrote Walgreens. Since I last tried the ‘New Snaps’ Walgreens at least in my area no longer carries them. It is sad when some young snot at a company destroys the product. Unless they go back to the old Snaps I will never buy them again.
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 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.
I recently purchased 5 bags of the\"original\" snaps at Walgreens up here in Wisconsin and I am very dissapointed! FALSE ADVERTISMENT! The candy is not the same anymore. I know. Ive been enjoying Snaps since the early 70\’s! The new formula has too thick of the coating, which does not taste the same as it did when it was made in Alsip,Illinois and throughout those many years! Also the candy is too soft(which is acceptible to me) but again not \" original\"