Personally I'm not a big fan, although it does give me something of a nostalgic warm fuzzy (my grandparents always had licorice). Some people love it. But I guess, like most things, if you buy a quality product it's more likely to be nice than a cheap brand :)
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It tastes like if sin and bitter salt had a love child.
The red stuff is OK.
I've never really enjoyed liquorice in any of its forms, though those twisty red things from the US are mildly tolerable, mostly because I can't find any flavour in them (interesting for chewing idly while playing Civilization).
I have an uncle who always carries a tiny box of salty liquorice candy with him; that thing's nasty. Called salmaki or something like that.
I've heard regular ingest of liquorice is supposed to be good for you, though.
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It's excellent. Try it with raspberries or as "spice" in a vanilla ice cream is my recommendation.
And if you can find some Swedish licorice boats you've hit the jackpot.
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It's disgusting. I despise the stuff regardless of the color, cost, or place of origin.
If I recalled correctly, Hama is from Germany, and over there, "licorice" means the black stuff.
The nords love it. It's an acquired taste though.
You could also try Absinthe, which is flavored with black anise (oddly, that's the main flavor of licorice, not the licorice plant).
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I'd actually had half a mind to ask you what life in Serbia was like. SO: No licorice. Interesting.
Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard of the board game Candyland? It features a cast of light-fantasy characters made of various sorts of candy...and the dastardly villain is none other than Lord Licorice. I think that's appropriate.
Then of course, there's German licorice liqueur Jagermeister; if really want to find out what licorice is like and can't find any of the real deal, you might have an easier chance to find and try that.
That being said, finding out if YOU like a given food can really only be determined by trying it yourself. You're obviously curious, so I'd encourage you to try.
Just don't blame me if you sprout tiny fly wings or something afterwards.
P.S.: Do you have wine gums in Serbia? You'd think that if America were good for anything, it would be the ability to conveniently find and purchase anything, but there's a conspicuous lack of wine gums here.
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Wait, Jagermeister tastes like alcohol licorice?
Then this candy we make in Serbia tastes like licorice too.
Funny enough, this happened on one Halloween :D
Wine gums...wine gums...maybe. I don't know. I usually gorge myself on Haribo gummi bears :D
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Black licorice looks and tastes very much like tire patch strips.
Obviously, not a lot of liquorice/licorice fans here. I'm a tremendous fan of both the sweet and the salty kind.
The most common analogy for the flavor is anise. If I remember correctly, there's a common Mediterranean drink called "ouzo" by the Greeks, "raki" by the Turks, and "arak" by the Arabs that has anise as the primary flavor. (Further west, it turns into sambuca and pastis.)
The Scandinavians (and also some of the Germans/Dutch) make very good licorice flavored candy, but they also make salty licorice that can be too strongly flavored for people to handle, esp. if you don't like it.
Licorice contains a number of compounds that can cause health problems if you eat too much of it.
Shrug. So does bread.
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Licorice is delicious. I will devour it in mass quantities.
Give me my share on addition to Orthos and David's.
I don't know if it's nice or not, but I love it.
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Sambuca only tastes good if you're 70 years old, Italian, and already drunk.
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For ouzo, re: my previous post, only replace "Italian" with "Greek."
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I have vague memories of drinking sambuca. Vague.
Licorice is delicious. I will devour it in mass quantities.
Give me my share on addition to Orthos and David's.
WAIT, WAIT, I want my shares of that extra licorice!
Now that salty licorice hard candy? That stuff is a little harsh.
Don't forget about absinthe! I'm convinced it's not actually alcoholic, but rather, its effects derive entirely from the OVERWHELMING anise flavor.
I'm convinced that the stuff is just repackaged drain cleaner.
Yeah, it's an anice flavored candy basically.
I love licorice. I tend to have a strong preference for natural sweet flavors (licorice, vanilla, chocolate, root beer, mint) as opposed to some new flavor cooked up in a lab.
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Bees + Knees = Licorice
I hate licorice and anise. While I do like Italian basil and fennel, I can't love them because of the anise/licorice undercurrents. I will drink ouzo and Jäger, but I have to be buzzed before I'll take a shot of either. So if giving up all the licorice protects me from baby-murdering paladins or the subzero wrath of Frozone's Weather Dominator, I hand it over gleefully and with a smile.
I will drink ouzo and Jäger, but I have to be buzzed before I'll take a shot of either.
So you're a 70-year-old half-Greek, half-Italian man?
Honestly, if I'm already buzzed and want to be more so, I just keep drinking more of what I was drinking before. Because what I was drinking before was probably cheap, s%!%ty, and plentiful.