I took the Icelandic gift of black licorice to work to share with my colleagues. I passed out pieces of the delicate candy, one piece stuffed with marzipan and shaped like a tootsie roll and a piece of the more traditional rope licorice.
Moses popped it in his mouth, chewed, swallowed and said, "It's all right."
Sarita took a tentative bite of the rope licorice. Apparently her mouth began to cramp badly because she was forced to spit the repulsive candy in the trash can. She tried the marzipan and licorice next. She said this one was even worse.
Travis tried the candy and stated, "It tastes like ass."
I couldn't agree more.
Since Elvira searches my desk daily for candy, she had already tried it. Ha Ha, serves her right.
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Okay, I should =so= not admit this, but here goes.
My mom loves black licorice. The American, watered-down version, that is. Jelly beans and rope and such.
I live in Europe, and for some reason started collecting different kinds of strong licorice candy for her. By December, I had 24 different kinds. I wrapped each package in shiny red foil-paper, tied red ribbon on, and hung them from a red rope with clothespins. Packed the whole thing into a red tote bag and got my XH to write a card to my mom, saying the whole thing was from him and he wanted her to have a special kind of advent calendar.
When I arrived for Thanksgiving, I presented the card to my mom and said that XH had said it would be best to cut the bag open. "Oh, you'd better follow his advice then." My dad hung the rope in the greenhouse-thing my mom has at the side of their kitchen. It looked terrifically festive.
Since they couldn't open the first package until Dec. 1 and I was gone by then, I didn't get any read on what my mom's reaction to all that strong licorice was. I'm betting she still has some of it kicking around the house.
Guess you have to be raised with the taste to really dig it.
Happy holidays!
Bill loves the stuff. I could probably learn to like it, it was just such a shock the first time I tasted it. It is supposed to be candy, but it tastes like something dead.
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