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You Either Love It Or..
Hate it. Black Liqourice (or licorice depending on your continent):
I really don’t like this stuff. I can just about bear it on ‘Liquorice Allsorts’, which are coated in so much sugary, fondanty stuff that you can’t really taste it, but on it’s own: yuk.
Red liquorice (which I guess, isn’t actually real liquorice) is a different matter altogether, I could eat that stuff ’til it comes out of my ears. Did you ever endure certain sweets (candy) as a child that you really didn’t like, but as they were the only things on offer you ate them anyway? I can think of:
- Liquorice
- Parma Violets ( I think that’s their name) Foul violet scented sweets
- ‘UFO’s’ - Rice paper with sherbet in: Like cardboard only without the flavour
- Winter mixtures or ‘cough candy’. Bleccccch.
- Wagon Wheels -Take chocolate, take biscuit, what could go wrong? Just insert a layer of inedible white foam between the two and you’re set.
Sometimes, sweets held no pleasure at all…. 
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January 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
ack..I HATED those UFO things..yet ,yes we ate them????
And remember the licorice with the sherbet stuff to dip in……hated it..but again..ate it.
And I like black licorice….
January 28th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Chris and Crunchy you are sweet heretics!
Licorice, UFOs and Sherbet Dib Dabs are fantastic. BTW Chris, Winter Warmers and Cough Candy are 2 different sweets! I agree about the former though.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Didn’t Wagon Wheels have a layer of jam too?
Totally agree about the UFOs. We always chose them when we bought our penny sweets but why? They were cardboard.
January 28th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
You say jam Ems but I think the congealed blood of toads may be more accurate…
Winter warms, cough candy bleech whatever…
Sherbet fountains?
whatever they were called….
January 28th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
OMG..those Parma Violet things are revolting!
January 28th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Yum, I like all of those! Especially the Parma Violets. You can get giant ones of those…
January 28th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
You’re a sick man!
January 28th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I love parma violets+cough candy, my grandma gave me them all the time!
but the rest blurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:15 am
I only like the red stuff!