M&S have changed Percy Pig recipe

[APurpleSquirrel]

I know this is a First World problem but M&S have changed the recipe for the entire Percy Pig range to vegetarian, removing the gelatine.
Now they taste awful & the texture is wrong. 🤢
They've made them the same as the Green Earred Veggie versions but haven't announced the change - staff don't even know.
I bought several bags a few weeks ago, opened one & thought I'd bought the wrong thing, then checked the ingredients. There is nothing on the packaging to say it's been changed bar the ingredients list & a suitable for vegetarians note.
I took the bags back, got a refund & was lucky to find a few original packs still on the shelf but once they're all gone that's it - no more Percy Pigs 😭
Am gutted.

I got a packet of the Easter Percy Pigs last and they were not nice. I mean I still ate the whole packet to be absolutely sure, but even the plain pink pigs just didn't taste the same.

I will have to do a taste test on the Farmyard ones with the cola cows, they were my faves.

I always found the veggie ones the best

That’s explains why they tasted horrible. I hate when companies do that. Like you have a veggi version no need to mess with the original.

I'm pretty sure they did this ages ago. I remember my veggie daughter being pleased that she could eat them again

I prefer the vegetarian ones. They taste nicer.

Bleurgh! We bought some Christmas Percies the other day. They've lost their pleasing, soft chewiness and are too hard. They're like Rowntree's Fruit Gums where you end up scraping lumps of hard goo off your back teeth with your finger. Their intense fruitiness is no more - they just taste overbearingly sweet. And they have an odd taste of carbolic soap. We had a couple each and then threw the rest away.