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 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"
I join the legions of Snaps fans who were very disappointed in the “new and improved” formulation, but today there is hope. I was at Walgreen’s in Portsmouth, VA and saw a bag that did not say something like soft, new flavor. The bag just said original Snaps. I took a chance and purchased them and am so happy that I did. They seem to have switched back to the original flavor and texture. Anyone else try again?
Yuck! I\\\‘ve been a lover of Snaps since —well- 50 years! My friends and I lovingly called them \\"soap candy\\" due to the indescribable flavor they had—we all LOVE them!! What have you done? They\\\’re mushy, have too much coating, and the coating is just, well, just sweet. Not the taste that we loved. It\\\‘s a completely new taste that I don\\\’t like. I\\\’ll have to find a new favorite. Too bad.
Yuck! I’ve been a lover of Snaps since —well- 50 years! My friends and I lovingly called them “soap candy” due to the indescribable flavor they had—we all LOVE them!! What have you done? They’re mushy, have too much coating, and the coating is just, well, just sweet. Not the taste that we loved. It’s a completely new taste that I don’t like. I’ll have to find a new favorite. Too bad.
For many years I have loved and purchased SNAPS. Several months ago I bought some and I couldn’t believe what they tasted like!! Terrible!!! They didn’t even taste like licorice and they were soft like jellies. I was shocked what they did to these! I will NEVER buy them again and they should Stop calling them SNAPS! They’re not!