Nah... I'm still bitter about maynards ruining midget gems. (I did, though, find that lion liquorice gums are available at Morisson's and are practically the same thing as the original blacks (just twice the size)).
I also had a pleasant surprise when chasing the Tour of Britain from Bury St Edmunds to Colchester:- the midget gems from the traditional sweetshop near the cathedral in BSE have proper liquorice blacks in them