No, you specified a want.
It was comparison to Prop 65 that doomed the prop that would put “may contain GMO” labels on all our food.
You were saying?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. However, Yookeroo has pointed out that the meaning of “licorice” has shifted so that it no longer excludes candies that are not licorice-flavored.
So I want to find out what is the new single, stand-alone word that does exclude such candies.
I don’t have the time to go using multiple words to store clerks when I need to get my licorice on.
I assume the same sort of thing you said to Kayla when she insisted she needed a pony.
Heh.
Look, it isn’t even simply about a thing that I need. The English language needs it, for the sake of all of us speakers thereof, to facilitate communication, and to allow our vocal interactions to be both concise and accurate.
You assume that concision is necessarily a desirability in a language. Here, swap out facilitate for aid. Now you’ve got the syllables free for black licorice. You’re welcome.
I was all set to agree with you until I realized you said “I love black licorice” therefore you are clearly delusional and be dismissed out of hand.
Wait, so if licorice no longer means “things that taste like licorice”, what does it mean? Chewy candy in general?
Licorice
- Candy that tastes like licorice
- Candy that tastes like plastic
That seems like a poor categorization anyway, unless you also refer to things like anise, star anise and fennel as licorice since they also taste like licorice. There’s regular black licorice and red licorice. Which one you think of when hearing just the word licorice is probably a product of where you grew up and the common candies there. That being said, I definitely don’t really think of things like twizzlers or red vines as being ‘licorice’ candy.
Maybe those other candies are just licor-ish?
I think you’re assuming way too much about what the people in the other 49 states would freak out about. Most of them probably don’t give a damn about what California thinks.
Licorice does not taste like plastic! It tastes like vulcanized rubber.
XD
I’m not sure why I get the Vermont Country Store catalog, but it’s always interesting.
Mine too. Does licorice simply by its very nature have high levels of lead, or it is just the licorice produced by these particular manufacturers? And aren’t we talking about artificial flavorings anyway? Why can’t they just remove the lead from the product?
How about these Twizzlers? Or these Red Vines?
How does everyone feel about peach licorice?
It does mean “things that taste like licorice”. It seems to also mean “chewy candies that come in the same forms as licorice traditionally does”.
I bet, without clicking the peach licorice link, you have a pretty good idea of what the candy is like.
I hope it tastes like peach with a hint of licorice, because that sounds yummy. if it just tastes like peach, though, then the way I feel about peach licorice is “disappointed.”
They just should put it on there, but add a part to that says “Hey, don’t worry about this, our licorice is perfectly safe but you know those crazy Californians, so let’s just humor them with this silly, inaccurate warning. Please disregard the previous sentence if you indeed are a crazy Californian. Please disregard the warning if you’re anyone else.”