# Do green candy strings exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747 "2003-11-12T02:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/1 "2003-11-12T02:46:03Z")
This thread is as mundane and pointless as they come, but here goes. Remember licorice strings? I only remember two colors, black and red. But has anyone out there ever seen _green_ candy strings? The flavor is not important, just the color. I am in the process of planning a gingergread structure. Tentatively titled “Pavilions of Rivendell”, it will be a series of gazebo like structures, with gardens, a fountain, and a pool or small stream. I want some vines twining around pillars and some of the canopies that will shelter garden paths. I have available some green sugar dusted flat candy ribbons that could be thinly sliced into vines. But if simple strings are out there I would prefer them. So far a googling search has not yielded what I want, which is not surprising as I am not sure anything like it exists. But about three years ago a Doper helped me find _blue_ hard candies, which I needed for “stained glass”, so I thought my fellow Dopers might be of assistance yet again. Thanks for listening! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/2 "2003-11-12T03:02:16Z")
I used to buy green licorice ropes when I was a kid. They tasted like toothpaste. They were quite skinny, about the thickness of the wire on my CD-player’s headphones. Is that what you’re looking for? ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/3 "2003-11-12T03:11:59Z")
I don’t know if these are the right color or length… [http://tomsfarms.com/cgi-bin/merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store\_Code=TF1&Product\_Code=GASPS&Category\_Code=Licorice](http://tomsfarms.com/cgi-bin/merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TF1&Product_Code=GASPS&Category_Code=Licorice) ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/4 "2003-11-12T03:16:46Z")
And here I thought that green strings were a special case of string theory: [http://superstringtheory.com/](http://superstringtheory.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/5 "2003-11-12T03:17:25Z")
[Licorice Belts Green Apple](http://www.candydirect.com/html/eng/1300-AA.html). ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/6 "2003-11-12T03:28:04Z")
Found 'em. [http://www.candyshoppe.ca/shop/Licorice\_Candy.htm](http://www.candyshoppe.ca/shop/Licorice_Candy.htm) Scroll down about 32 candies and you’ll see Allen Candy Laces green shoestring spearmint flavored ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-green-candy-strings-exist/212747/7 "2003-11-12T04:03:21Z")
God, I love the SDMB!!! I tried quite a number of word combinations while doing a search for what I could see in my head. When that proved fruitless I turned to the Teeming Millions, and what do you know? **IrreverentTone** , that second link is _exactly_ what I was visualizing. The first was good too, but the second even better. I will probably order some tomorrow and hope they get here in time. Postage to the USA will end up costing more that the candy itself, but for once I don’t care. **roxx222**. the thickness you mentioned is about right. **QED** , the belts are what I could get locally. I will be buying some of those too, to cut up for tiny leaves on the “vines” Thanks everyone! I only wish I could visit the store itself, it looks fantastic. Oh well, got to find the credit card so I can buy some postage, I mean, candy!🙂