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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

Black licorice.

I firmly believe candy should be sweet; not bitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Bitter? You must have had some weird fake crap. I've never had any liquorice that bitter, and I'm Swedish and love liquorice.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If we had pearls here in Scandinavia we'd all be clutching them right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Surely you looted some pearls back in the 700's from innocent townsfolk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

And even if it’s not sweet, it can at least be tangy, sour, or tart.

Black licorice just taste like fucking death

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It is evidence of how bad life used to be. If that shit was the treat, what was normal food like?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Ah, yes, the world before refined sugar, lol

[–] Showroom7561 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There's fake black licorice, and there's the real stuff. Two very different experiences!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I'm upvoting you not because I agree (I don't, I love black licorice), but because you touch on a good point that if someone doesn't like black licorice, they're probably not going to like any black licorice regardless of quality. Maybe there's some exceptions out there that like bougie black licorice and not the basic twizzlers stuff, but anecdotally I've tried introducing the fancier brands to a few friends who don't like black licorice, and not one has given a single fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Came here to say this and saw this comment.

This is the correct answer.