Sweet ‘fettish’
Now I love liquorice, always have done since childhood when my gran, who regularly ate Pontefract Cakes, introduced me to this delight.
Strangely, I can occasionally have a hiatus from this habit which has in the past lasted a few months or even years and then, seemingly out of the blue, I get that urge and just have to have my shot! I’m currently in a Liquorice phase of my life and really enjoying the visits to our old fashioned Sweet Shop which sells dozens of these tiny sweets in many forms and flavours. The kind owner offers new to me samples of which there are so many brands and forms of this confectionery to keep me returning.
I’m now wondering if there any other liquorice lovers out there if so which is your favourite or do you have another sweet ‘fetish’ similar to mine?
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We love liquorice as well. Prefer the plain black, unadulterated stuff best. But I do like Chalkies, those delicious little liquorice pieces that are either white or black coated. We like Salt Liquorice as well, but not the really really salty stuff. There’s a lovely old fashioned sweet shop in Helmsley, we always stock up there if in a holiday cottage nearby😋
My OH occasionally brews as well. We both like Stout, and he was given the tip to put a stick of hard black liquorice in with the brew. It eventually melts into the liquorice and gives a very tasty extra dimension!
We are artisan ice cream lovers as well. Liquorice and Blackcurrant flavour being a favourite.
Pontefract Castle has Liquorice plant growing in the grounds👍
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I also like liquorice but only the hard sticks. my favourite is Barratt Bassetti Hard Sticks, the ones shaped similar to an oar. I can spend an evening slowly sucking a piece. The small rectangular liquorice tablets are good as well but they never last long enough for me.
The soft liquorice is okay but for me, it doesn't quite cut it.
As a child I used to like chewing on the proper liquorice root you could buy from the corner shop but its very rare to see it in shops these days.
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Apparently the popularity of liquorice in England has highs and lows, so I’m told, at present it is on the rise. I’m sure quite a few of us will remember the TV adverts which suggested ‘too many would turn you Bertie’. There were quite a few but I liked the Adam and Eve one best.
On our last visit to Denmark our friends introduced me to a very salty favourite of theirs. Of course, in the name of cordiality I told the it was delicious but it did turn my cheeks inside out and I needed quite a few glasses of Tuborg to recover.
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I like the root liquorice as well. You can still buy it, Grape Tree stores (used to be Julian Graves) sell it.
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Thanks Takethedogalong I'll look out for one of the shops.
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I don't mind liquorice but prefer it in Allsorts! Use to like the liquorice stick in the sherbet dip (round yellow packet).
Now here's a thing, my Dad used to eat small liquorice sweets called Imps. They were perhaps on the medical side of sweets as an expectorant, anyone remember them?
David
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I do but I wasn’t keen on the menthol flavour. Also those red liquorice wheels and bands, they didn’t cut the mustard for me.
As a child I loved those black liquorice tubes filled with different sherbets. Can’t for the life of me remember their name though.
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My wife hates liquorish despite the fact her family are responsible for making Pontefract cakes popular. They existed as hand stamped before her relative bought a factory and mechanised the manufacture. For those who remember Wilkinson's Pontefract cakes, that was him.
Personally I can take them or leave them.
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Mrs.WN is a great fan of liquorice.
She was in Nirvana when we were in Middleburg in the Netherlands a good few years ago and found a shop selling only liquorice (or Zouthout as they call it). Quite salty.
Me? Don't particularly like it.
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