As an Italian living in California, I found myself missing some of the most elemental flavors from my childhood. As most kids do, I had a sweet tooth, and I remember spending evey extra bit of change buying candy on my way to and from school or at the ice cream kiosk at the park.
Back then Italian stores were always struggling to keep change in the register, and it became common practice to go to the 'drogheria' or the 'bar' to buy a piece of focaccia or a pastry and get back candy instead of change. Some of those childhood flavors have made it big all over the world: Tic-Tac, Nutella, and Perugina are some of the brands that you can find at almost any supermarket across America. Yet the vast majority of Italian sweets and candies are still mainly sold in the Italian domestic market, where they continue to enjoy great success with generation after generation of Italian kids.
When my kids started playing sports, I decided to steer them towards soccer, as it was the only sport I had somewhat played myself. As many parents do, I volunteered to coach, and it seemed fit that I would do so since I was Italian, and soccer is what Italians do.
My wife and I first experienced these lemon drops while traveling along the Amalfi coast on two occasions many years ago. We loved them and brought back as many as our luggage would allow. We were so happy when we found them on Amazon’s web site and have been ordering the six pack every 3 or 4 months. Our after dinner treat is a lemon drop. About a year ago, we began to find that it was almost impossible to unwrap the candies, The paper would stick to the candy and, because it was transparent, pieces of paper would end up in our mouths. Also, the candies had lost that great lemon flavor that we were used to. When I called your company to find out what was happening with the lemon drops, and whether these obvious problems were being corrected. The person I spoke with was very apologetic and explained that heat in Amazon’s warehouses was causing the problem. He said the problem had been resolved and sent us a courtesy six pack to test. We were gratefully surprised that the problems had been resolved, the candy easily rolled out of the paper and the drops had that great lemony flavor we remembered. We will now order directly from the company as was suggested and we thank you for the courtesy packs.
All the lemon drop wraps are stuck to the candy. They are impossible to unwrap. Ordered3 order and 1 lemon and received 3 lemon and 1 orange. All lemon are unwrapable. Wasted my money.
I'm so glad I found you guys! I will be ordering this again from you!
My goodness! These are the best I've ever had!
These are the best! They have such a perfect flavor and then little bursts of intense orange here and there! I can't quit eating them!