h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Some of the best sweets ever contain them
- the traditional liquorice comfits, and the larger liquorice torpedos, I used to have so much fun trying to get the sugar-case off the outside whilst leaving the liquorice intact.
- liquorice allsorts. why do the new bags have funny little men in them? These were possibly my favourite sweets when I was little, the only sweets my mum would by me, just so she could nick some.
- Army Navy. do you get these any more? They were hard, navy blue sweets, I used to have to get them in little paper bags by the quarter pound. Very aniseedy, I loved them
- Aniseed Balls, the truly original, little red balls. Never try to suck 3 or more at once.

I still love liquorice torpedoes, and I'm glad to discover that I'm not the only one who tries to get the candy shell off and leave the liquorice till last!

Did you like those liquorice bootlace ones?
Red weren't they?
I can still smell aniseed balls.
I remember carrying a bag home from the sweet shop & being chased by a large dog!

Aniseed balls...oh yes!Please!Do they still have those liquorice sticks that looked like a bit of twig,well, were bits of twig!........kept you quiet for hours...but even nostalgia aint what it used to be!lol

I always hated English liquorice when I was a child. I lived in Holland for nearly six years and loved 'drop' which is their equivalent - it has the most incredibly strong taste especially the sour version 'zout' or even 'dubbel zout'. There was also a little bag of equally strong tasting black powder which we used to walk miles to buy from the only shop in my area that sold it - hence I never got into sherbet much either (far too fizzy and sweet for my taste)

mm yeah
liquorice sticks, and bootlaces - which I've not seen in ages, only the apple and strawberry ones
and the liquorice Catherine Wheels - the spirals, with the liquorice allsort in the centre

liquorice bullets - 2cm long bits of liquorice coated with chocolate.
liquorice sticks bought from the school tuckshop for 5c (they occasionally had choc-coated for 20c which were delicacy)
aniseed rings - hard to find and not a classic but a good occasional treat.
liquorice straps - australian equivalent of the yard - strap-shaped like a guitar strap but smaller size - 40cm long as I recall...
liquorice yards - like the liquorice sticks.. twisted around - four strands twisted to make one.
And of course the liquorice allsorts always made with gelatine and so on and which my vegetarian diet makes me avoid

Real Liquorice, the twiggy stuff... I remember spending a large part of my (admittedly somewhat deprived) childhood, gnawing on one
of these branches. My grandmother decided that Liquorice root was better for me than the nasty black sweet stuff. Actually, I still like the Black stuff as well, especially the extremely hard and brittle black stuff.

I vaguely remember a company once made a Blackcurrant Ice Lolly that had a Liquorice stick (the hard black kind - not the twig) instead of the timber, but these vanished without trace...

*sobs in a corner*

all my aniseed and liquorice stuff in the entry, but entry not in my list

*sob*