Never be as good as a Clark Bar, anyway.
Do they still make those? I miss them.
If it ain’t broke, fix it 'til it is.
+1
The only improvement is if they made them a little less messy to eat. Otherwise, they are perfect. Fun-size Butterfingers are particularly perfect.
has anyone tried the "new and improved ones "yet?
holy bart simpson! nestles changing butterfinger bars !
Looks like they laid a finger on Bart’s Butterfinger…
but if I can get that flavor without sticking my teeth together and sending me into insulin shock, I’ll try it.
More peanutbuttery goodness; what’s not to like? The only gripe I’ve ever had -and this is more about the stores that sell them- is that once they get the slightest bit stale, it’s like chewing on something out of the Flintstones. Maybe they have a shorter shelf life than other candy.
I wonder if they would have been better off not saying anything. People don’t like change and it seems people are already prepared to dislike them. On the other hand, McDonald’s fries, while still excellent, took a definite turn for the worse when they stopped making them with beef tallow. Was that announced beforehand? I don’t think I knew about it until years after the fact.
Agreed.
I like a Butterfinger occasionally, but I find the chocolate to be cloyingly sweet (and as others have mentioned, it tends to flake off far too easily). If they could use a slightly darker chocolate I’d probably be far more likely to purchase them.
Butterfingers make me think immediately of Halloween.
I love them, but will only eat a fun-size bar. (I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a regular sized Butterfinger.) And it has to be fresh - they do seem to go stale quickly. My biggest complaint is how they stick in my molars. Maybe they can fix that problem!
Since nobody answered you when this thread was still active, and I finally got around to trying the new version …
WTF was Nestle thinking? This is an outrage! This … this …
… this is the most godawful candy bar I can remember ever eating!
It tasted almost nothing like the old version, and worse than that, it has a freaking bitter aftertaste! How the hell do you make a pile of sugar taste bitter?
Good God.
I bought one package of the new Butterfingers and disliked the aftertaste.
I haven’t bought any more. They used to be one of my favorite candy bars.
Glad I saw this thread, now I’ll know not to do my usual butterfinger raid on Mom’s halloween candy stash…sigh…
Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust,
Nestle said, “it ain’t broken so fix it we must”
Pretty much any candy that’s sweeter than a 90% dark chocolate is way too sweet for me to eat more than once a year or so. So I can’t imagine making a habit of it. That said, I tried these and thought the old recipe was better. Also, the new Snickers with real peanut butter (or whatever the hook is) wasn’t too good. My thought is that people who like the cheap sickening sweet stuff and the people who want “better” ingredients are different segments and the die hard fans aren’t going to appreciate messing with the formula. For me the things that try to meet halfway between candy bars and “health bars” miss the mark completely. There are plenty of low-sugar protein bars and the like that don’t taste any worse than “improved” candy bars.
My question is, were Butterfinger sales dropping off, prompting them to think a change was needed? I mean, Coke came up with New Coke in an attempt to directly attract drinkers of the sweeter Pepsi. I can’t think of a competing candy bar that was anything like Butterfinger.
Oh, I never followed up with this. I actually prefer the new one to the old. I had them side-by-side when they were first making the transition, and the newer one has better chocolate (to me) and more peanuty. (And Butterfingers are one of my favorite candy bars, though I don’t eat them all too often, as I tend to avoid sweets.)
I find the new ones disappointing. The bar is not as flaky and, to me at least, the taste is a bit musty as if the candy bar had gone off slightly.
Not that I eat a lot of candy bars but this one’s off the roster. Shame too cause I really liked it.
Perhaps to lower the cost to produce and increase profit margin?
I bought some 5th avenue bars and like them better than the new Butterfinger.
I get them at Walgreens
Perhaps by making it as good as a Clark bar.
A little passed due, perhaps, but I just tried one of the new butterfingers out of curiosity.
It has a less crispy crunchy mouth feel than I think the original was, as if it’s a little bit stale or has been kept somewhere damp. A tad bit stickier.
It lacks the richness and fullness of chocolatey peanutty buttery richness it once had. It tasted thin, weak, like muddy water coffee made with cheap used grounds instead of rich full flavored coffee made with quality fresh grounds. And yes, there is a soapy bitter after taste. I’m told that Europeans like this being more accustomed to having more real chocolate in the confections they eat, but I don’t know that I buy that story. At any rate, it isn’t a good change, and I cannot recommend the new butterfingers to anyone except as the give away candy for Halloween.