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Humor aside: oven-roasted or pan-seared broccoli with garlic, salt, and butter tastes amazing! And depending on how much salt and butter you add, is probably way safer to eat than black liquorice.
Literally any vegetable is good with salt pepper and butter :)
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I loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle. It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
> It's a very acquired flavor... I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.
I don't know when I started liking black licorice but surely I didn't eat that as a toddler. I remember my parents giving it to me when I couldn't sleep pretending it was a sleep medication. It worked haha
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I loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle. It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
Sort of like Jaegermeister. I can't believe people drink that by choice.
I am pretty sure Jaegermeister is more popular in the US than Germany
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> It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb"). And this is why Europe is less litigious than the US (that and reasonable healthcare costs): the courts won't stand for frivolous cases.
Reports of frivolous cases in the US are usually PR hit jobs from the company that lost their case.
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I loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle. It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
I grew up in Germany as well (Stuttgart) and love licorice, don't eat too much here but there are quite a few stores that carry it. Most NW IPAs are nasty, enough said. Luckily the microbrewers are coming off their hops high and returning to drinkable beers again. Lots of great lagers in Oregon right now.
I hear the kind of hops and water they use may be partially to blame
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Reports of frivolous cases in the US are usually PR hit jobs from the company that lost their case.
Eh, I dunno. The default react to a lot of things here on HN is "talk to a lawyer". It feels very different to cultire here in the UK where lawsuits are seen as a last resort.
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“I absolutely hate the taste of black licorice.“ Liquorice is an acquired taste ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquired_taste ). You have to learn to like it.
Growing up in the USA, my impression was that licorice is one of the most popular candy flavors among children. As an adult, I was surprised to discover that every Korean and Japanese I offered licorice to reacted violently to the taste...wouldn't even try to be polite about it. I doubt it's genetic, so I've often wondered what about their diet predisposes them to have such a negative taste sensation.
...I don't know a single American under the age of 70 who will admit to liking licorice. Everyone I've ever known thinks it's vile.
It was popular, like, a century ago. Black licorice now is pretty uncommon.
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Ah Then purpose of the salty licorice with ammonium chloride must be to prevent people from consuming too much in one sitting. Usually I can only make it 2/3rd through a single piece before the ammonia flavor is too over powering.
I loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle. It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
There was a case when a woman in Germany also ate lots of liquorice on a daily basis and developed health problems. The case went to court because she thought that she should have been warned by the producer. It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb").
> It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb"). And this is why Europe is less litigious than the US (that and reasonable healthcare costs): the courts won't stand for frivolous cases.
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> It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb"). And this is why Europe is less litigious than the US (that and reasonable healthcare costs): the courts won't stand for frivolous cases.
Reports of frivolous cases in the US are usually PR hit jobs from the company that lost their case.