Recently was in Peachtree Georgia and go to walmart for some shopping, of course i see swedish fish, my favorite candy, get some and notice they are hard and not that great. Ingredients have aspartame in it. Stuff I like to avoid, but i ain't no food waster.
Come back to my home state and look at swedish fish here, but they don't have aspartame. Interesting, are they poisoning different states with chemicals.
The hardness could simply be that they were older. I think gummies harden as they age. Might be drying out.
But not the point of the post lol