If you’re doing Valentine’s Day candy shopping for someone who doesn’t eat chocolate, you may have lost your usual low-budget standby, for now. Those classic-but-not-tasty conversation hearts aren’t available this year. Not fresh, anyway. If you find them anywhere, be warned they’re from last year’s supply.
The hearts should be back next year. In the meantime, there’s a Sour Patch Kids alternative. Here’s a Better Homes and Gardens article (shared on MSN’s homepage) explaining what happened: