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“.
Where does a bad idea (like reformulating Snaps) get started, and why would anybody go along with it?
These things are terrible, and now can just be added to a list of once great candies which have lost all of their personality:
Snaps (now soft and putrid)
Bit O’ Honey (no longer has swirls of peanut butter or nuts in it)
Mary Janes (see Bit O’ Honey comments)
Jujy Fruits (made softer and with flavor changes – they’re now just like Dots…..which suck)
NECCOs (horrific flavor and color changes)
Candy Cigarettes (credit NECCO for ruining these as well. Once a strong pepsin flavored candy is now like eating a piece of chalk)
These were some of my all time favorites, but, alas, are just memories now.
The new Snaps are terrible. They may be softer,
but the flavor is off. I also feel that the licorice center
has a grainy texture to me.
I spoke to a girl at a Candy Shoppe, and she said they don’t sell like they used to. Seems that people are very unhappy
about this change.
The new " Original "formula needs to be tossed out
and bring back the old " Original " formula. Til then,
snaps are no longer on my grocery list.
Hate new snaps. Snaps have been my favorite since childhood. The new formula is very bad with little licorice flavor. False advertising by company as they are not the original snaps made since 1930s. I am upset that the company refuses to explain or respond to inquiries. They have lost another previously loyl customer.
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!