Alternatively, you can order last year’s conversation hearts online in bulk, which isn’t as bad an idea as it sounds.
VALENTINES CANDY HEARTS PATCH
In this year without Sweethearts, your best romance-candy options are, as People Magazine so helpfully suggests: the Brach’s knockoff of conversation hearts (so much flirtier!), the Sour Patch Kids knockoff of conversation hearts (unacceptable aesthetic), or Oreos with words on them (fine). We look forward to announcing the Sweethearts relaunch for the 2020 Valentine season.” Which brings us to our present dilemma. Less pleasantly, he also announced, “There are a lot of manufacturing challenges and unanswered questions at this point, and we want to make sure these brands meet consumer expectations when they re-enter the market. These are perfect additions to our portfolio of traditional candies.” Spangler is best known for Dum Dum lollipops, circus peanuts, and candy canes, and CEO Kirk Vashaw announced at the time, “Sweethearts and Necco wafers are iconic brands with rich hundred-year-plus histories. That company sold Necco again in September, to the Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company. Round Hill, apparently reconsidering the acquisition, had sold Necco to a mysterious new owner, which was never publicly named. Then in July, the Necco factory shuttered without warning, sending all 230 of its employees home permanently in the middle of the week and providing only a vague explanation of why. In May 2018, it was purchased at bankruptcy auction by Round Hill Investments, a Connecticut-based company that had previously purchased and buoyed dying brands like PBR, Chef Boyardee, and Hostess. To back up: Necco has been struggling for a long time, with profits sliding steadily south over the past 15 years. The hearts will be back in 2020, but this year, there will be none. We will not be permitted to suck down affection in the classic flavors of chalk-powder-infused cherry, banana, wintergreen, lemon, orange, and grape, and it’s all because of the shuttering of what was - by all accounts - a gorgeous and longstanding candy factory by the ocean. There will simply be none for sale anywhere in 2019.Īs is so often the case these days, we can blame this crisis on corporate drama we had no hand in: Necco, the candy company that has been making the little pastel sugar-and-grout Valentines since the mid-19th century, was purchased by a new parent company at the end of last year and simply did not have enough time to set up the manufacturing process for its yearly 8 billion hearts. This Valentine’s season, we’re facing a mild catastrophe: We will not be telling each other “I Love You” or “Fax Me” or “LOL” with Sweethearts conversation hearts this year.
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