I never heard of Acid Drops…
I have heard of dropsy, drop delivery, “Drop the Gun, Louis,” drop kick, volume drop, drop caps, and DDT (In a Popeye cartoon; Bluto is concocting a poison to use on Popeye. The vat reads [vertically] DDT, then Bluto rotates the vat slightly and you read “Drop Dead Twice.” :eek: )
Who on God’s green Earth would eat salty licorice?!
People who drink a lot of beer. Like…uh…Scandinavians and Dutch, maybe?
Don’t the Dutch like mayonaisse on their fries, too?
(I’ve got this mental image of someone pouring salt over a bunch of Twizzlers now. Am I wrong? Somebody help me!)
Salt licorice is usually a flat, round, lozenge-like candy. It’s not teeth-breakingly hard, but it’s too hard to bite and chew. I think the object is to suck on them until they dissolve. So it starts out as licorice, what, dough? - to which they’ve added salt, or salted water, mixed thoroughly, and then formed into candies. The licorice doesn’t taste like Twizzlers at all. I think it tastes more like what real licorice tastes like, and not an anise-flavored candy.
Ahhhh, I figured as much. 
Thanks!
goes off to buy herself some Twizzlers, for now she is hungry
Has anyone ever tried salty plums? I think they come from Singapore or around that region. I haven’t seen one in years- this thread reminded me of them (they aren’t the same as the lolly at the bad candy site). 
I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure out who would eat black licorice (and enjoy it).
The Dutch luv sweets that are salty. You should try their salty chocolate too. 
That sounds like a pejorative.
Be that as it may, I have, in my time as a gardener, found anise plants whose owners have allowed me to taste the plant. It’s quite pleasant, with no sugar added–let alone salt.
More seriously, I would question the propriety of heavily salted licorice the same as I would concerning anything else with lots of salt–for health reasons. In fact, when I buy one of those big soft pretzels I scrape the big grains of salt off. (I still like to slather them with mustard!)
There’s a variety of salt preserved plums. The ones I know of are all Chinese in origin. In Mexico, they are Salidos, in Hawaii they are Salty Seed. They even come in a wet variety called Rock Salt Plum (obviously, the names are different in whatever Chinese you prefer) I like Li Hing Mui, which are also dried plums, but have more strong sweet than salt. There are dozens more varieties.
On a trip to Denmark, I order what appears to be a soft served ice cream with chocolate sprinkles. No, no. They were horrible extra salty licorice sprinkles. On ice cream. The Danish should stick to their butter cookies. Travisty.
Salt on ICE CREAM??! Now that is definitely beyond my limit! Next thing you know they’ll put maple syrup on mashed potatoes or strawberries on pizza!
I love salt licorice! I can’t ever find it though. The last time I had it was a German brand shaped like a cat. Katjes maybe?
Salt plums are great too- I b rought back a few packs from Hawaii and went through them in a week.
Salt good.
-Thomas
Salty plums!
I assume you’re talking about the little 'uns that’re all dried up and make your mouth hurt when you suck on them? drool Loved the little suckers when I was a kid.
And now I need to stop by Uwajimaya and pick up a tin… 
It is also very soothing for the stomach. It’s great if you have ulcers or heartburn. Here in Holland you can also get actual peaces of licorice root (or zoethout as it’s called here) to chew and suck on, and it tastes a lot more like a nice dubbel zout dropje than Twizzlers or any of that other pseudo-licorice crap.
My absolute favourites though are the little Salmiak diamonds. These things are like biting into smelling salts. They will clear your sinuses and wake you up in an instant. Not for nothing is Salmiakgeist (spirit of Salmiak) the name for a 25% solution of ammonia in water.
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Well, I am 100% Dutch.
I am not a fan of liquorice, salt or sweet, but I have never heard of salty chocolate.
That is just wrong on so many levels.
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Hear, hear!
In 1970, there was an article in West, a supplement to the Sunday Los Angeles Times, about hot dogs. They reviewed hot-dog places all over the L. A. area. Of one they said, “Tomato dog is called ‘hobo,’ should be ‘bum.’ Anyone who would put tomato on a hot dog would put sugar in Scotch.”