Fruidles Dutchies Candy - Sour Chewy Candies - Sold By the Pound (8 Oz)

Love them, great taste.

Terrible. No flavor of licorice at all. Just sweet.

This chewy black licorice candy was neither sour nor salty, simply a rather tasteless concoction that will disappoint your tastebuds. Find another alternative to excite your sense of taste.

Saw several reviews complaining about how these aren't gum drops, or how these are chewy, or how these don't taste strongly of licorice. All correct of course, because these are real dutchies, exactly like dutchies should be. If you don't know what a dutchie is, don't buy these - it will not be what you expect. If you know and love dutchies, these are proper dutch-produced dutchies.

One of the reasons I buy from Amazon, a big one really. Is that Amazon usually deliver to my door. However about a year ago they started delivering sometimes through USPS. Unfortunately, I never know when this method applies. This was sent to our community metal mailbox in 106 degree weather. Needless to say it was melted beyond recognition. I immediately tried to separate it, no luck. So I refrigerated it, took it out the next day and tried again. Again didn't work, so I recut it the best I could, very difficult. Rerolled it in granulated sugar, like the original, and rebagged. This seemed to work and the flavor is pretty good. But, I can't help but think it would be much better (without the slightly plastic taste) if it had not been melted to smithereens in the beginning.

They taste good, but are extremely chewy! I thought they may have been softer.

I was shopping for sugar coated, licorice gum drops. These look like what I was looking for, but they are terrible! They do NOT have the consistency of a gum drop and cannot be chewed. Worst candy I've ever had in all my life. If they were made here in America I'd sue them for false advertising.

I like the black licorice taste.