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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.
What do you think of Waldmeister? I love that flavor, everyone around me doesn’t agree.
I have no idea what flavor it is even pretending to be...
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I didn't like beer, wine, whiskey or coffee at 16 or 18 and now do. 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
Are you saying that you went from the "hate liquorice" to the "like liquorice" camp? At what age? I literally don't know of anyone who has "acquired" the taste for liquorice via exposure. It's really nothing like "aging into" the preference for coffee, beer, whiskey or wine. It's more like the preference for coriander / cilantro, which is genetic. I appreciate that your experience of liquorice is different to mine, b…
However you seem to reject the idea people can go from disliking it to liking it, which isn't the case.
Nobody claimed you can force yourself to enjoy it :)
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Are you saying that you went from the "hate liquorice" to the "like liquorice" camp? At what age? I literally don't know of anyone who has "acquired" the taste for liquorice via exposure. It's really nothing like "aging into" the preference for coffee, beer, whiskey or wine. It's more like the preference for coriander / cilantro, which is genetic. I appreciate that your experience of liquorice is different to mine, b…
I don't think anyone is explaining your experience. You always hated it and still do. No big deal. However you seem to reject the idea people can go from disliking it to liking it, which isn't the case. Nobody claimed you can force yourself to enjoy it :)
I'm saying that I have never seen this happen when the person has the "liquorice averse" reaction, which is not simple a regular food preference or toddler with unfamiliar food thing. And so I am very sceptical.
You say it "isn't the case" but ... nothing more. Ok, that does not convince me.
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I went to the doctor with acute high blood pressure that appeared out of nowhere. Symptoms were an untreatable headache and swelling in the facial region, lasting for a few days. In the end, I figured out that the cause was eating a big package of the same soft sweet black licorice. I even kept eating it during symptoms, making the condition worse. My main reaction, after learning that the licorice could cause this,…
On a similar note, I used to not smoke anything but gladly partake in a hookah pipe while out, I liked the different flavors and assumed the “fog” was benign. I stopped AS SOON AS I heard about how much worse hookah was. I had no clue and am completely appalled at the lack of warnings. I’ve met many other people that say the same thing. I still don't smoke anything, and also cut hookah out.
I was astonished at the time, but I guess the belief is more common than I was aware.
[1]https://www.pantagraph.com/business/students-plan-for-hookah...
Dr. Hibbert: Another broccoli-related death. Marge: But I thought broccoli was— Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on Earth. Why, it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste. I feel the same about Liquorice
> I feel the same about Liquorice I was starting to get worried that I was the only one. There should be laws prohibiting the placement of the word candy anywhere near the word liquorice. It's the worst form of false advertisement I've come across. Candy is supposed to taste good! That childhood trauma is still with me to this day. I feel disgust and anger at the mention of liquorice.
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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.
The origin of salty licorice was as a throat lozenge (same reason a singer might gargle salt water ever so often to keep their throat healthy) in cold/freezing fishing waters. (The salt was the important bit, the licorice was just the flavor the fisherman really like to make it sweeter and easier to chew.) It wasn't invented to be an appetite suppressor, though for a lot of people it certainly is. (Not many people li…
Strong black licorice, "lakrids," abounds in Denmark. My brother visited me when I was living there and ate a pound or so of little, tobacco-pipe shaped licorice in an afternoon. He got profoundly ill with a racing heartbeat, lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous. I almost took him to the hospital but he refused. It took a couple of days before he felt good enough to get out of the apartment. Sometime after, I mentioned th…
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Sure, kiddo. Does your mommy and daddy know you're using the computer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575850
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575257
We ban accounts that post like this. I don't want to ban you. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site to heart? Obviously you're a good contributor here but the community is fragile and comments like these just destroy it. I'm sure that you're not out setting fires in your neighborhood, or punching strangers in the nose, so please don't do the equivalent here.
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An old timer in his early 50s?
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Poisonous like water, table salt and other substances that are lethal in excess and benign or even essential in moderation.
Those don't continue tasting good when you already have dangerous levels of them in your system. So no it's not poisonous in the same way.
People with healthy lifestyles will feel when they're having too much licorice for their own good. This was a person with a poor diet in general and possibly didn't notice the negative effects of his overconsumption because he was already used to high blood pressure, shitting salsa and having his heart play math rock.