# The Licorice Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 7, 2001, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903 "2001-01-07T22:25:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903/21 "2001-01-11T12:17:23Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \*
> \*\*[DDG joins hands with **Wring** and together they lumber around in an awkward circle, grunting primitively]
> \*\*
Hey - it’s not my fault, I hadda cold…
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903/22 "2001-01-13T04:06:17Z")
I’m with the licorice lovers…especially the salty one, the saltier, the better.
But I guess not everyone love salty licorice. Check out what this heathen has to say:
[http://www.bad-candy.com/doublezout/doublezout.shtml](http://www.bad-candy.com/doublezout/doublezout.shtml)
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> The more conventional fruit flavored candies can have the most unconventional names. Imagine, if you will, a color package label showing an anthropomorphized cow sitting and cupping human located breasts with her hands. The name of the candy? “Big Tits,” this is not a joke, I have a package that I brought back with me. They were gummi style candies shaped like a pair of large breasts. A salty, fruit flavored candy was called “Pissing Ants” with a label depicting a back view of a humanized ant obviously relieving himself. Another crossover sweet and salty candy was called “Dead Flies” and one of the stronger ones was known as “Dog Farts” (showing a Basset emitting a distinctly visible fug).
Those names are almost as bizare as Japanese candy names. Check our [http://www.engrish.com/](http://www.engrish.com/) for examples.
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### Author:  [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903/23 "2001-01-13T04:11:32Z")
Black licorice tastes like shoe.
Red licorice tastes like sock.
Then again, I love grits.
Opinions ? eh.
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### Author:  [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903/24 "2001-01-13T04:30:02Z")
Okay, what is the deal with that stuff anyway? I remember as a kid trekking down to Busby&Wing Drug Store, who had a real candy counter, the kind that had all the goodies laid out under glass precisely at kid eye level.
There was some kind of black licorice there that I actually liked, not the twizzler kind (Red Twizzlers are AOK) but a kind of Gum drop shaped _black_ licorice which was much, much better. They were extraordinarily tough and chewy and would stick to an 8 year olds teeth for hours it seemed like, which is important. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2001, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-licorice-thread/48903/25 "2001-01-13T06:39:02Z")
For all the licorice (or liquorice, to the connoiseur) junkies of the SDMB, here is a site I ran across that seems to be Grand Central Station of the Licorice Kingdom:
[The Magic of Licorice](http://www.licorice.org/index.htm)
It has the Straight Dope on licorice of all kinds, with links to suppliers, forums, history and recipes (???). Hmmm, I seem to have begun salivating uncontrollably…
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