Black Licorice - C/D

Received mine today! All crap of day made better by "Caution: May contain LICORICE"

Cold windy rainy day wholly brightened by receipt of licorice! Thank you kindly, you are the best!

(my note said "caek," tho, so I hope he got his licorice too..)

these are totally delicious btw..

got mine, too! what a nice surprise as i had forgotten all about it. thanks!

salty licorice is the best candy in the world. staple here in scandinavia, when I grew up and realized salty licorice wasn't the most popular candy worldwide was like learning santa claus doesn't exist x 1000. I loved it from I was a little kid, never thought of it as unusual, strong or "bitter". just pleasant and delicious. also the saltier the better.

haha - akkurat!

ha Pillbox ILX HAS REWIRED MY MIND TO THINK 'CAEK' IS ONLY PROPER WAY TO SPELL THAT WORD.

aw shit sorry bauot the caps

enjoying some pastis (a pastis?) and getting ready to bake some coconut anise cookies. aw yeah.

verdict: cookies were only medium good. i should have toasted the coconut and maybe skipped the anise flavoring. It tastes kinda...alcoholy? just not as good as i had hoped. oh well.

well fuck me - I just discovered a Scandinavian supermarket right next to where I work, which stocks a zillion types of salted licorcie *mind-melt*

Does anyone remember Black Bart gum? It was jet black and way more licoricey than Black Jack-- I think it must be the gum described in David Bowie's "Sweet Head." I haven't seen it since the mid-80s. Do they still make it anywhere?

i just polished off a bag of darrell lea original soft eating liquorice which i thought would last longer than a day but then i couldn't stop eating it.

Ok I just bought this at my local asian grocery:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4465119011_d831e66cd8.jpg

what do i do with it? make tea? put it in soup? i have NO IDEA.

It was $0.75 btw

steep in a bottle of either gin or vodka for a week?

GOOD IDEA!!!!!

i tried to make anise liquor with star anise and it was really really vile. maybe this will be better!

You know what;s great? It's great when ppl are eating jelly beans and they don't like the black ones so you get to eat them. That is what's great.

i hated this stuff for decades but just recently started to like it

― velko, Monday, September 14, 2009 7:00 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ENBB speaks the truth.

esp. pertinent as the anniv of the death of our savior draws near

i like jagermeister and the smell/taste of fennel but don't really like licorice at all anymore. there's something... almost lard-y about it. hell maybe it is lard, i don't know

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126136480

annoying in the way that all npr stories are annoying, but contains interesting information, like this:

the secret source of sweetness in licorice flavors: It's the aromatic compound anethole. (Well, OK, in tarragon it's anethole's close cousin, estragole.) Subtly but insistently, anethole weaves its sweet and haunting anise theme into the essential oils of plants

if the writer would stop talking about herself for 5 minutes it would be an interesting piece, but whatever
i will consume anything that is licorice-related, including this annoying article

did you have any luck with the licorice slice? maybe you could make some flavored sugar with it

Glad to see I already mentioned the joys of chewing on a licorice root while driving w/yr left foot hanging out of the car window.

i hated this stuff for decades but just recently started to like it

― velko, Monday, September 14, 2009 7:00 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― sambal oobleck (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 30 March 2010 04:57 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

great instead of cigarettes
sainsbury's twirlidoodles for 35p a pack = best

eating licorice feels great while driving whatever and having your whatever hang out

licorice iced tea, I love you.

licoriced tea, surely

really been diggin some licorice taffy recently

whatever that is i bet i would like it.

it's pastis season

Estela can you tell me more about your licorice iced tea? I have some amazing licorice tea but never thought to ice it. Is that what you've done? Just cold brewed some of the reg stuff?

had some strong black licorice lately

it was narcotic

enbb, i made a pot of hot licorice tea (which i also love) but i only ended up drinking half of it so i chilled the rest and then poured it over ice and it was delicious and next summer i'm going to live on it.

you should try this.

I am going to try that.

Going to do this today. Will report back!

I am going to do this too, minus the "living on it" part. Lately I have been making various syrups with which to flavor my regular iced tea. Maybe I should try one with star anise? My star anise liqueur did not turn out well, though :(

- eating weird Swedish sweets in the shape of sinisterly cheery cat-faces, two-thirds quite sweet black liquorice and one-third parma violet flavour, like eating liquorice with a light dusting of old lady perfume. Undecided on this combination.

(Made by Bubs Godis, who also do chilli + cherry liquorice, pear / liquorice bear heads, and raspberry / liquorice skulls. Oh hot damn they make colabottle+liquorice stars too, why did the shop not have those?)

- got a bottle of Finnish liquorice-flavoured vodka Salmiakki Koskenkorva hiding in my room too, not sure if this will be a Christmas present for someone else or if I'm going to drink it allll myself. Had it once before, unexpectedly drinkable and black as ink.

- eating weird Swedish sweets in the shape of sinisterly cheery cat-faces, two-thirds quite sweet black liquorice and one-third parma violet flavour, like eating liquorice with a light dusting of old lady perfume. Undecided on this combination.

Black licorice and parma violets are two of my most favorite things but I can't really see them working together? This sounds very strange.

http://data5.blog.de/media/105/3499105_95f5d27abc_m.jpg

YOU MUST BE A PATHETIC MORON

has anyone tried these?

http://www.evinia.it/imageserver/item_big/files/immagini//immagini_prodotti//evinia//amarelli//ama0001.jpg

I'm a huge black licorice fan, but I think I've met my match with these. I can't even finish a single lozenge, they're so strong I have to spit them out! I've kept them at my desk because I'm determined that they will win me over eventually but holy fuckballs.
Like, for a moment it tastes like mmm strong black licorice and then it ramps up to 'oh wow this kinda tastes like..dirt? hmm oh okay sump oil no wait it's like eating a battery aaaagggggh get it out get it out'

Never tried those, but this different brand (and shape) of Italian liquorice defeated us, so I'm suspicious of the Italian stuff now:
http://www.rotolini.it/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/D/O/DOLRDE593413.jpg

the rest of their food is delicious! what gives italy?

Reached the bottom of my bottle of Salmiakki Koskenkorva (see posts by guymauve and myself upthread) to find that after pouring a final shot there was about 3mm of thick black sludge absolutely welded to the bottom.

Poured a little unflavoured vodka in and gave it a shake to un-weld it. Such inky droplets.

Rest assured I have ordered a new bottle.

(In my previous post I wasn't sure whether to keep the previous bottle for myself or give it as a present. Well, I kept it for myself but opened it with the possible recipient and poured two shots. The look on his face on tasting it... just as well I didn't give him the whole bottle. ALL THE MORE FOR ME.)

https://www.rootsofcompassion.org/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x500/602f0fa2c1f0d1ba5e241f914e856ff9/mig/1508_0.jpg

http://www.loveofliquorice.co.uk/image/cache/data/Liquorice/Bassetti-500x500.jpg

These are my faves. I would love to try try some salty liquorice with the same hardness/texture of Basset's Bassetti though. Italian pure liquorice pellets are good, an extreme flavour, most people find them foul. Salmiak is great, too.

my favourite italian pellets are actually not the pure ones but the ones with anise. I might use some to make this liquorice pudding, although I don't know if I will like liquorice + dairy.