Bassetts Refreshers

I've just bought a roll of these and I'm gutted. They just don't taste like they used to! Hardly any tang and cant tell the difference between flavours. They used to be quite sour which I loved. Bring back the old recipe.. Pleeassse!!!

I really prefer the original ones . The new version are ok but do not have the tangyness the old ones had. Now they are gritty and way too sweet. I live in Canada and it is not easy to find refreshers. I fell in love with refreshers the day sugar came of rationing. My mum gave me 3d so spend that day . I went to a couple of sweet shops near my school and I think I paid 2d for a packet of refreshers and I was addicted to them ever since until they got changed and they are not the same.

when I was little you could put a for pack of refreshers in a can of 7up and you'd have a volcano now its just a quite fizzy what have they done to you my childhood friend .

and the lolly's didn't return which sucks big time the green one's where the best.

I haven't noticed a change, they are still tangy and fizzy, I eat 2 packs a day.

Last week they were 4 for a pound in my local shop, this week they are 50p a pack but I am not happy as I was eating one tonight and there was a hair right through the middle!

I used to buy a 4 roll of these and would eat them practically all at once. They were pale in colour them and just pure ascorbic acid luxury. Ever since they have put natural flavours and colours there is no taste they aren't morish and a really good classic favourite has become bland and dull. Until they go back to the original recipe I'm staying clear.

New ones, bland, bland, blah.....no difference in taste betweeen the colours. might as well be eating a spoon of sugar. bring back the old ones please, i'm not bothered if they contained artifical colours and flavours, I loved them.

Ahhhh refreshers, I have enjoyed these sweets for years, and yes you can't beat the old ones but just having them back is enough for me, I can now enjoy them again, not easy to get hold of but you can buy them online, but yes I am with you the old style ones tasted better....Pleeeeze bring 'em' back!!

I can't believe anyone has given these sweets a 5* review.

As a child, these were my favourite sweets. Tangy, fizzy and pretty damn good. When I started seeing them on the shelves again, I was pretty happy (despite being 30 years older!)

However, I might as well have been buying chocolate such was the difference between the 'new' and poor versions, in comparison with those which I used to love.

They're sweets. I don't want to see 'natural ingredients' or 'no added colour'. If I wanted something healthy, I'll have a banana. Parents who buy hyperactive children sugary sweets shouldn't.

Sweets are sweets. Don't mess with them. Let the health freaks buy healthy foods and let the rest of us, who enjoy exercising and having a treat now and again, buy sugary sweets.

Very, very frustrating. I'm writing to Bassetts as we speak....

I was addicted to the old style Refresher, always carried some in the car. Then they dissappeared from the shops for a while, and when they returned some months later, they were different; no fizz and too sweet, not the same sweet at all. Now the've dissappeared again from the supermarket shelves. Been looking for months now. Hope the original recipe returns again some time. Never met anybody who didn't like the old style Refresher.

Refreshers are great. I haven't noticed any change to the taste, just happy they're back.