We buy bags of just the black jelly beans. Awesome.
The regular kind, meh. The salty Scandinavian kind (made with ammonium chloride, not sodium chloride) is fantastic.
Love it. I live in the home of Liquorice Allsorts but liquorice toffee is the best.
It’s not my favorite flavor but I am the designated licorice jelly bean eater 'round here. And I am grumpy enough be bothered by people asking “do you like BLACK licorice.” Considering it gets its name and flavor from the plant, it shouldn’t be qualified by a color. The other red stuff is good but an imposter.
I will try salmiak some day but can’t promise I’d like it. All I’ve had is a tin of Swedish Snus that was licorice flavored, and from what I can discern on the ingredients label contained both plain and ammonium’d licorice.
Licorice is the shiznit. Every month or two I pick up a couple packages of licorice at World Market. I’ve gotten the soft Finnish salty licorice there and loved it.
Oddly enough, I absolutely hated Vicks 44 cough syrup, which used to be licorice flavor. I also hate Jagermeister because it tastes just like Vicks 44. However, I do love ouzo and absinthe, which are both somewhat licorice flavored.
Where where where?!?
My physician/chiropracter/astrologer/faith healer tells me that I need to be putting more refined sugar into my body. I’d melt down and shoot up Peeps, but they still taste revolting. Do I need to get a prescription for black jelly beans, or do you “know a guy”?
Black licorice is the official candy* of Hell.
- The official drink is soured milk.
My hatred for the flavour is the only reason I cannot truly enjoy absinthe… 
Someone left a box of those in a breakroom. I tried one and it was disgusting. I went back a little later to make sure they were disgusting. Yep. Horrible. In the interest of scientific method, I kept going back every ten miniutes to test my hypothesis. But by noon, I ran out of test subjects.
Is there anyone here who lives in Scandanavia who can send me a case of more test subjects? It’s for science!
If you have a Cost Plus World Market around where you live, they sell them there. They used to be available at Ikea, too, but I haven’t seen them there the last few times I’ve been. Also, I have occasionally seen them at Meijer, if that chain exists in your neck of the woods.
You’re in luck then, because it is flavored with anise and fennel, but not licorice as far as I know. 
love it!
Love it – but I’d never heard of the salty kind. I’ve only had the regular sweet kind. Maybe a trip to cost plus is in the cards…
Order them online if you cannot find the salty ones elsewhere. Or buy them at Schipol airport when passing through.
I like licorice every once in awhile. I’m more likely to buy Good & Plenty, the red & white sugar coated candy. Licorice ribbons are good too. I don’t like the Licorice strings, because they don’t have much taste.
I’d stay away from dark alleys. As far as I can tell, they’re available all over. Branded or pick-and-mix.
They have a bunch of different varieties, from soft & chewy to hard, from not salty to very salty, so read the labels. The key word you are looking for is “salmiac/salmiak,” “sal ammoniac” or “ammonium chloride” in the ingredients list. Don’t expect a typically “salty” taste. The taste of salmiac is a bit different. It still stimulates the salt receptors on your tongue, but it also has this back-of-the-throat sting to it, that sometimes makes its way a bit up the very back of your nose. I barely notice it anymore, though.
These are the ones I’m eating right now, and I got them as Cost Plus. That’s a middle-of-the-road variety, and should be a good entry point for salty licorice. Those are firm “coins” of licorice, with the consistency of something like Slo-Pokes caramel candies.
Callard & Bowser made a great liquorice toffee. Of course, as soon as I discovered it they quit making it soon afterwards.
Love to find a source for liquorice toffee if anyone has one.
Love it, many many years ago I could buy a candy bar of it for a nickle, guess no one else did for they are long gone.
It is my number one favorite candy, I love the long strands, and the licorice herb is good for stomach problems.