For over 50 years, Hickory Farms has been a tradition in gift giving. And for good reason: Tasteful gifts of our award-winning Beef Stick Summer Sausages, delectable cheeses, meats, fruits, desserts and more that are easy to give - and always delicious to receive. Make it Hickory Farms Special!
Hickory Farms (hickoryfarms.com) has 38 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 1.3 out of 5.
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2026
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We received a gift box as a gift, & was very disappointed. The Summer Sausage basically had no taste, it was like someone wrapped up a cheap hotdog, & printed a pretty label for it. I would never recommend this product to anyone.
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Sandra M.
Quality has changed - Turkey Sausage
Just cut open the turkey sausage and right away you can see the difference between last year and this year. No longer fies it look like sausage it's more compressed meat or pate looking. The taste is similar to the old sausage but it's softer and squishy?. Haven't tried the ham or beef stick yet but now I'm dreading it. The cheese balls were still good tho .
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Rika R.
It is "edible"
It is edible, but not good at all, you would do better (price and taste wise) by buying just a half lb of meat and cheese from your grocery deli.
The packaging is very misleading, showing a thick box when the cheeses are about 1/4 of an inch thick, but the gap behind the box is like 1-2 inches. The mustard that came with it is ok, but you could get better again by purchasing anything else at the store.
I thought of Hickory Farms as more of a semi-luxury brand or at least a better brand, but I would prefer eating leftover fast food from someone's trash. The "cheese" if you can call it that, not only was super small in size, but tasted terribly awful.
The summer sausage is bad for summer sausage, but along with the mustard, was the only ok part.
I said it was edible, as in safe to eat, but not remotely worth the time to eat. I hate wasting food, and this is one of the few things I ended up throwing away parts of.
Now I know HF as a trash brand, not even a bargain brand. Seriously, ~$20 for a charcuterie spread that can be beaten by any other food from most restaurants, and still getting less food.
The giant air gaps alone should be a legal issue, but the quality control really really surprised me with how bad it is.
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Kathy W.
Very disappointed in this companies…
Very disappointed in this companies complete lack of customer service. Right on their site it boasts 100% customer satisfaction regarding refunds. My daughter gave us a very expensive very large (1.81kg) gift box. We are u able to eat this and I explained the issue to them to be told there are no refunds. This, this is completely false advertising. They are a horrible company and I will never, ever deal with them again. Not that they give a crap about anyone but I will over and over again urge everyone to deal literally anywhere else. I originally called the 800 # then called the store. I waited for over 5 days of not even getting a call back but when I went to get the ,coal store number again it turns out it’s temporarily closed. That’s awesome. Hope they get pulled out of here permanently and actually have to close down…wishful thinking.
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Rebekah T.
85% air 15% crackers in the boxes
For the price of the entire box you'd think you would get more crackers, of all things to cheap out on. Disappointed.
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Graeme Van L.
What a disappointment
What a disappointment. We were given the sweet and savory gift box for Christmas and it looked really impressive- three boxes all tied up with ribbon. Then we opened it up. Each box was 85% packaging of shredded cardboard. The box of truffles and the box of crackers were so light it was hard to tell there was anything in them. There were four tiny truffles and 10 and a half crackers. The mustard is quite nice but to be honest the rest of it all tastes very processed. Never again.
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Tanya
The summer sausage tastes like…
The summer sausage tastes like chemicals. There is a definite change in their product. It just tastes awful now.
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Youtuber N.
Hickory Farms Gift Box
Hickory Farms Gift Box — Complete Disappointment
This is not a gift box — it’s misleading and feels like a scam. About 80% of the box is filled with cardboard shreds, which went straight into the trash. I did not pay for garbage and packing filler.
The actual product boxes are tiny and almost empty, and even those are not fully filled. The box only looks big because it is sold sealed, so the customer cannot see how much empty space is inside.
This was a complete waste of money. I bought garbage, not a gift. The excessive filler is clearly used to create a false impression of value. I am extremely disappointed and will never purchase Hickory Farms again.