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If you miss it, you're American.  The genuine flavorant, glycyrrhizin, is (effectively) outlawed in the US by liability.  An unusually sensitive person eating an unreasonably large amount of genuine licorice could experience ill effects up to and including death. 

 

I'm not that person, having historically eaten unreasonably large amounts all my life until the flavorant was removed.  After, not much reason to eat it at all.  BUT:

 

New to Kroger is an Australian import, "Darrell Lea Soft Eating Licorice".  My 72yo taster is not what it was but I detect a trace of genuine flavor, which less lawsuit-happy jurisdictions permit in small amounts. 

 

Worth trying.  Not like sucking on a mouthful of 1960s genuine Heide buttons;  nothing is like that any more.  Closer to original "Nibs".  They are 2" sausage-shaped gummies, not exactly theater candy and the bag is not resealable.  I cut them in thirds.  They are priced alongside domestic candies.  Alternative to other imports with exotic flavors/prices added, or buying 5 pounds online when you only wanted 5 ounces.
 
She of today's kids ay never know the real stuff!

No, I just enjoy LICORICE that's cherry, strawberry, chocolate, banana, and anything BUT "licorice"...

Of course, if it has a trade name like "Twizzler's" then chances are it will be called that even if it is a drug store or a supermarket chain's private label...

Granted, neither I, nor many of my friends & contemporaries liked the stuff back then, (the Farrell's had black licorice whips or red candy whips, supposedly shaped like the black stuff) but I have grown to like the taste growing up...

There was a box and a bag once that had All-Sorts, real novelty-sorts of candy inside, all "real thing licorice"-flavored...

-- Dave
 
Chris, I think licorice is much more widely appreciated among Brit/Nordic tastes than it is here.  I'm mostly Brit/Nordic, might explain it.  Do you get Lakrits there?  Like M&Ms but licorice center.

 

Dave, Allsorts were my fallback but they are gone too.  They must be sold fresh and American retailers hate fresh.  Disappeared altogether couple 2~4 years ago.  They were Brit imports.  Internet will still sell you some but I'm skeptical.  And oh! the prices.

 

Other fans, last I knew Goelitz Pastels were still good.  I've still got some from 10# I bought in the 00s.  Had to buy 10# from the mfr, could no longer find a retailer.  They don't go bad due to the hard shell.  The shell doesn't keep Lakrits fresh though, thinner.
 
Licorice Allsorts are very common here in Canada. As I went to school with a lot of Dutch kids they always had salted licorice which at first sounds nasty, and may taste it as well,, then you get used to it and begin to like it. You can get it at Dutch themed stores around here
 
I'm no connoissuer, but

I've seen various brands of Oz licorice in stores around here.  Trader Joe's carries a couple of them, but as with most of what they carry, the sources can change.

 

I like licorice, but oddly, I hate anise flavor in anything.  I tend to like chewy candy, so the Oz stuff is perfect and I can eat too much of it.  The discs/coins from See's tend not to measure up as well.

 

I also found bagged soft licorice segments at Sprouts for cheap.  I was shopping in advance of a pot luck and decided on a whim to bring a bag of licorice.  That stuff disappeared and everybody was asking who brought it. 
 
I like licorice very much. There used to be a brand that was sold in cellophane packages about 6” inches long, with two layers of licorice, I believe there were 5 or 6 pieces per layer. It was soft, and delicious, I believe the brand name was Switzers, but I could be wrong about that. I haven’t seen it in ages. I bought two packages of licorice about a month age that was from Australia, one was red the other black. They were nuggets, and both the red and black were nasty! Nothing like any licorice I’ve ever tasted before, hope to never taste again.

When I was a little kid we used to buy long licorice sticks for a penney a piece. Anyone else remember the penney candy of yore? I was recently in an upscale grocery store in town and at the registar they had a display of cellephane wrapped caramels, for 69 cents a PIECE! I couldn’t believe my eyes! When the young millennial clerk handed me my receipt I told her.”Believe it or not, when I was a kid those caramels would have been a penney a piece”, she said “No way”, I said ”Way”. In 1959 if you had a quarter you could get a boat load of candy, AND a soda too! Times sure have changed.

Eddie[this post was last edited: 11/28/2018-21:36]
 
Eddie, give the the down under stuff another try.  There's more than one brand of it out there.  TJ's used to sell it in a tub with a black-on-yellow label, but no more.  I bought some of TJ's house brand claimed to be of similar origin and didn't really care for it, but the name brand stuff is addictive.  Or if you have a Sprouts nearby, check out their bagged chunks of licorice (not the sliced tidbits -- more expensive and you have to eat them by the handful).

 

I do remember Switzer's and wish it was still around.  When my sister and I were kids going to St. Clare's School, if Mom was going to be running late after school, we'd agree when she dropped us off in the morning to go to tiny (a converted living room) Jane's Gift Shop a few blocks from school and meet Mom there.  Jane had an extensive candy section with most of it costing only a penny.  The edible necklaces were a nickel, though.  Malted milk balls were two for a penny, but I've never been a fan.  Pixie Stix, tiny red licorice strands wrapped into a silver dollar sized round disc like a record with a yellow tablet of candy in the middle, gum that looked like small hot dogs, edible wax lips, wax buck teeth and so much more -- stuff only a kid could love, particularly the price!  Jane bagged everything up in small white ones that she had used crayons to decorate with some simple multi-colored vertical striping. 

 

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Yes, Thats It Ralph!

So I did remember the correct name of that wonderful licorice. I forgot about the malt balls being 2 for a penney, I loved them! When we moved to El Sobrante, Calif.in 1958 Mom had to drive us to and from the Catholic School we attended in Berkeley. She often used to shop for dinner at a little neighborhood grocery store in El Sobrante on the way home, the Canyon Park Market. They had a FULL penney candy selection and kids swarmed there like flies on you know what.

Well, Mom used to get right pissed off that she had to wait her turn to pay for the groceries while the kids bought their “penney crap”. But the store owner was adament that everyone waited for their turn in line,fair was fair. He treated all of us kids just like valued customers. And as you can imagine, with so much to select from, and everyone wanting their 5 or 10 cents to get max value,some kids had a hard time deciding just what they wanted. This was very trying for the Mom’s needing to get home to start frying the chicken or pork chops for that nights dinner. Such a great blast from the past! 😁
 
Ah, Switzers.  A staple.  Coins, pipes and cigars, specialty.  There were belts with candy dots along them.  Black Jack licorice gum.  Good and Plenty, before Hershey swept through buying up the candy industry like WCI bought weary appliance mfrs. 

 

Think I was mistaken above; Lakrits were chocolate on the inside and the shell was licorice.  Been a long time.
 
lakrits

I have never seen lakrits. It might be at the Swedish foods shop inside Ikea, not sure.

as a kid we ate licorice bullets by the ton, they are a small cylinder of licorice, dipped in chocolate. In high school I had a great friend (we are still in contact to this day) who was an exchange student from the USA. He loved our licorice bullets, he also shared my love of spearmint leaves lollies.(no licorice there.)

I no longer eat gluten but still like licorice, NuVit and Orgran are GF and pretty good brands but aren't as delicious as the Darrell Lea.(Which is not GF.)

link to licorice bullets below:

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www.woolworths.com.au
 
Bullets are sort of like Lakrits but inside out.  Bet I'd love em.

 

Think it's the gluten/wheat that makes Darrell Lea chewy.  Pure gum candies don't chew very well.  Speaking of gum candies, Jujubes!  Simple yet scrumptious.  They're still for sale but like so many legacy-name candies, not what you'd remember.  The real ones were clear, the current ones are... cloudy.  And the flavors no longer vivid.  I suspect HFCS got in there.
 
For Chewy Candy

I like a box of Dots once in a while they still maintain some distinctive fruit flavors. Used to like Good And Plenty, but we got a box several months ago, they don’t taste anything like they used to, no trace of licorice what so ever.

Eddie
 
Walgreens used to have boxes of Crows (all black Dots) on their 3/$3 candy shelves, but I haven't seen them there for a while.  Crows are a little sweet, but I like their texture and can eat a whole box in one sitting if I let myself. 
 
'Green' used to be lime.  Something happened.  It's now sour apple.  Same with 'red' which used to be either cherry or cinnamon.  Now, watermelon.  What?  Apple and watermelon are the only flavors China makes?

 

I keep a box of Milk Duds and Junior Mints and open them once a day.  2 is plenty.  They're not exactly the same, but the flavors are indistinctive enough you can't tell the difference.  Milk Duds are 'distributed by' Hershey, made by who knows who.  Junior Mints are made by TRI, Tootsie Roll Industries. 

 

Exactly how many industries does it take to make Tootsie Rolls?  Those wouldn't be, 'consolidated' industries, would they?
 

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