One of my favorite candies ever is good old Good and Plenty. I love black (read: real) licorice, and a little sugar coating over a mild black licorice was a wonderful thing. Anyway, I hadn't had any for 15 years or something, just because I never had any reason to have candy at all, but now I have kids and they got some Good and Plenty on halloween... It tasted terrible in comparison to what I remember, didn't even really taste like licorice anymore. I looked at the ingredients and, indeed, there was no licorice in it, just a long list of chemicals. Everyone already knows that sugar is bad for you, but I bet these chemicals they're replacing the old real food ingredients with are even worse.
One of my favorite candies ever is good old Good and Plenty. I love black (read: real) licorice, and a little sugar coating over a mild black licorice was a wonderful thing. Anyway, I hadn't had any for 15 years or something, just because I never had any reason to have candy at all, but now I have kids and they got some Good and Plenty on halloween... It tasted terrible in comparison to what I remember, didn't even really taste like licorice anymore. I looked at the ingredients and, indeed, there was no licorice in it, just a long list of chemicals. Everyone already knows that sugar is bad for you, but I bet these chemicals they're replacing the old real food ingredients with are even worse.