So about once a year I pur­chase a pack­age of Good & Fruity, and the last few boxes are ter­ri­ble.  It is not like it was grow­ing up, the tex­ture wasn’t jelly beanesque — it was more like the licorice tex­ture used in Good & Plenty.  They also don’t taste one iota like they used to.

Accord­ing to Wikipedia, this change hap­pened some­time around 2008 (though I remem­ber them being bad before that), so I would say the prob­lem occurred between 2000 and now.   The 1992 for­mula is the one it seem that I would love to see again.

It’s like New Coke all over again, except the fan base isn’t large enough to make them revert.

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