Since you asked about black jellybeans, I like them, but I moderate my intake ever since I snacked on some, and my poop was a weird shade of green the next day. Looking more closely at them, I did notice that they are actually very dark green and not truly black.
The black-bunned “Halloween burgers” Burger King sold a few years ago created the same problem. This year, they used black sesame seeds instead.
If it comes out the other end, it’s probably harmless. Anyway, i group that with “pee scented by asparagus” and “pee colored by beets” as an acceptable and expected outcome to certain patterns of consumption.
If it is the same food dye I am familiar with it is fluorescent green. Very cool looking poop!
It wasn’t QUITE fluorescent-level of green, just enough tinting to have me worried for a few seconds.
I also understand that everyone who eats asparagus urinates “asparagus odor”, but not everyone can smell it. I definitely can’t.
Never thought of that! Licorice is one of my favorite ice cream flavors (when I can find it).
IMO, the overly sweet American licorice like Twizzlers and Good N Plenty isn’t worth eating.
Now Australian licorice OTOH is a real treat. There is only one market in my area that stocks it reliably, though – they tend to expensive "gourmet " foods.
I like dark chocolate and dark, black Italian Roast coffee as well as sour candy. My affinity for licorice has gotten stronger over the years, tastes change.
I used to be addicted to black licorice Twizzlers and had the same problem when I ate too many. Apparently it’s the dye that’s used to make them blacker.
Now that I’ve discovered Australian licorice, my poop is no longer green. Plus, the Australian licorice tastes better.
Scored some salty fish today.
Anybody else tried Tiger Tail ice cream? Not sure how easy to find outside of Canada.
I’m reading a mystery series set in Canada and the main characters mention getting a licorice pipe with their coffees:
And now I know what to do with the licorice powder I saw at the candy store:
Under $4 here but I have no idea about the shipping.
I remember loving the stuff at Baskin-Robbins when I was a kid. Being diabetic, I make my own ice cream these days and, yes, have made some with anise extract.
It’s utterly fucking disgusting. Full stop.
I never thought of that. I don’t care for ice cream’s triple attractions: sweet, cold & creamy but I’d make an exception and try a scoop of licorice.
I forgot about Thai basil which has an anise flavor, I love the stuff.
I disliked black licorice as a (Canadian) kid, but I liked tiger tiger ice cream well enough. I’ve also had a licorice pipe or two in my time.
Food dyes used to be metabolized (that is, broken down), and not come out the other end. Now, because it’s considered safer, the ones that used to get metabolized have been replaced by ones that go straight through you. Since they go straight through you, they still have their color.
Read this in a parenting magazine in an Urgent Care waiting room-- a write in column (or email/text/voicemail in; what’s writing?) reassuring a parent that rainbow poop, especially after a party where lots of junk food (ie, artificial colors) is consumed, is normal, and why it didn’t used to be.
I’ve never seen “anise” candy in the US (I can’t think of several reasons why), and I was unfamiliar with the flavor when I was in Embassy (international) school in Moscow in 1977. My teacher, who was English, read the book Danny, the Champion of the World to us, and there’s a passage where he waxes euphoric over the mere memory of tasting anise-flavored candy.
So, mental note-- find anise.
Months later, at Heathrow, and seeing the last bit of Europe I will see for years (we did some touring for about six weeks after our year in the USSR, before returning to the US), I’m looking over a newsstand for any comic, like Whizzer & Chips that I don’t already have (I’m in love with these British comic digests), when I see some rows of Tic Tacs, of all things, and a color I’m not familiar with. It’s a sky blue color, which color I have never seen in the US; I investigate further, and…Oh, MY GOD! it’s ANISE flavored!! and not expensive.
Abandoning my hunt for comics, I buy a pack of these remarkable Tic Tacs. Should I buy two? I may never be in Heathrow again.
As soon as the change is in my paw, and open the pack. I tap out two-- they’re as small in England as they are in the US-- pop them in my mouth, ready for the orgy of flavors, and, and…AND–
I spit them out.
LICORICE!
Anise was licorice.
What the hell? I’ve been deceived! Curse you, Roald Dahl!
And yeah, it wasn’t as strong as black jelly beans, or black Twizzlers, and there was an undertaste of mint, but it was definitely in the family of licorice.
I was lagging behind my parents, and they called me to catch up. I ran to them, a little sadder, but a little wiser.
Heh heh, I’ve never seen or heard of those but would certainly use them to prank children and colleagues. The inviting blue color must have increased the betrayal.
I hope this isn’t a hijack-- if it is, please move it-- but why is licorice candy always black? Anise isn’t black. Isn’t black an odd color to choose for candy if it’s not that color in the wild?
Licorice is brown on the inside. It’s made from molasses.
A medium brown bar might resemble something smelly. 
Natural licorice root is brown, even without molasses added. I think molasses was chosen as the extra sweetener possibly mostly to make it darker.
Like great coffee?
