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?
Nah, but sometimes it's easier to take the damn shot or two just to shut up the friends nagging you to do so, allowing the focus to move on to something else that isn't me. Especially if the anti-anxiety meds are mostly metabolized off and boosting drunkenness levels means I can prolong social interaction without needing to immediately crawl out of my skin exit stage left.
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.
Bud always does extremely unpleasant things to my digestive tract, but yeah, given my druthers, I'll just drink Guinness and keep drinking it.
Licquorice is a complex phenomenon. It is like anise, but has many other flavours too, giving a deep, rich taste that is an acquired one. As for the health risks, the problems are acute, so you would really have to binge out on it. Now, salt licquorice is not much fun by itself, but it cleans the mouth of unending sweetness in a bag of candy, and in small amounts it is surprisingly good. It is awesome in ice cream. Most cooking with it is a failure to me. Sweet licquorice is okay, if a bit bland, and sweet enough to "join the choir", so it doesn't do much for me. Next up is salmiak, a different but similar-tasting substance, used often in powdered form in sweets. This is the bee legs above. Awesome doesn't begin to describe it. I suppose many would just consider it salt, though. It is not. :-)
For ouzo, re: my previous post, only replace "Italian" with "Greek."
funny you bring this up around the time im celebrating greek easter. Mataxia is a superior drink.
I wonder if licorice love is genetic. It seems you either really like it or REALLY don't. Not many folks in the middle that I've seen. I love it all except the salty stuff. The salty stuff tastes like ammonia :P
If the Poxeclipse ever occurs, I will gladly trade away licorice, anise, and anything similarly flavored for all the peppermint you have at a 1:1 ratio, no questions asked.
If the Pockylypse ever occurs, I'm going to do my damnedest to eat it all.
Gotta love it when a funny thread turns into mindless political bickering.
Paizo forums in a nutshell.
If the Poxeclipse ever occurs, I will gladly trade away licorice, anise, and anything similarly flavored for all the peppermint you have at a 1:1 ratio, no questions asked.
If the Pockylypse ever occurs, I'm going to do my damnedest to eat it all.
It ... has many other flavours too, giving a deep, rich taste that is an acquired one.I'm always leery whenever I hear or read the phrase 'acquired taste.' Considering how many tastes I enjoy without the work of having to acquire them, I'm not sure I see the purpose for doing so.
While that's certainly true, there's also a factor that, as you age, your flavor sensitivity profile changes, as does your appreciation for certain flavors. That's why children are notorious for liking super-sweetened foods that make their parents gag.
Licorice is the Marmite of the candy world - you either love it or hate it.
Not a fan of the stuff, personally.
Liquorice is delicious. I'm generally not too enamoured with the sweet stuff, but the strong and salty is right up my alley. Super Piratos is definitely my favourite.
It is true that you shouldn't eat too much liquorice, or at least certain kinds of it. Gajol salt lakrids (which I'm eating right now, because this thread made me hungry for liquorice) has a warning on the package that it may work as a laxative if you eat too much of it. 10-year-old me learned this the hard way.
Still delicious.
/sidestepping the political argument
Not a fan of licorice. It tastes too much like absinthe without the alcohol content to make the taste possibly worthwhile.
-TimD
I love licorice. If you've ever had Sambuca, it tastes kind of like that...but with less burning...
It's my favorite candy. I'm particularly fond of German katjes.
Mmm, salty fish...
I'm okay with licorice. In small quantities I don't mind it.
I do like me some jagermeister though. I think if you mix it with cheap tequila, it makes the tequila palatable. Luckily I'm past the point in my life where I feel the need to make cheap tequila palatable though.
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Gotta love it when a funny thread turns into mindless political bickering.Paizo forums in a nutshell.
So I'm confused ...
is black licorice the metaphor for Nazis or is it the red? Or is this more a full WWII analogy where the black, salty licorice is the Nazis, the black, sweet licorice is the Allies, and the red licorice is the ... well, the Reds? ;)
I do like me some jagermeister though. I think if you mix it with cheap tequila, it makes the tequila palatable. Luckily I'm past the point in my life where I feel the need to make cheap tequila palatable though.
My tastebuds seem to have zero problems with tequila, cheap or otherwise... which has more than once proven to be lamented by both my brain and stomach.
Twizzlers taste like plastic, Red Vines taste like sweetened plastic. Don't touch that stuff. It's gotta be a black licorice imported from Australia, or maybe the Netherlands. See's is okay, but expensive. Most people I know hate black licorice, but it's one of my favorites.
Twizzlers taste like plastic, Red Vines taste like sweetened plastic. Don't touch that stuff. It's gotta be a black licorice imported from Australia, or maybe the Netherlands. See's is okay, but expensive. Most people I know hate black licorice, but it's one of my favorites.
Black liquorice is the only liquorice. I've heard of this fabled red liquorice, but as I've never seen it myself I'm convinced it doesn't exist. I hear it's gross anyway.
I have heard that Nordic countries understand licorice, but I have yet to try theirs. I usually get mine from Australia. I get the black stuff, not the fruit stuff. Licorice needs to be black to be licorice.
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It's my favorite candy. I'm particularly fond of German katjes.
Katjes Kinder was the only kind of licorice I haven't liked. Reminded me of slightly flavoured plastic. Looked cute though.
Dutch double salted licorice is one of the foods I have cravings for, now that I live in Taiwan. I also miss biltong like it was a lost family member.
Licorice is my favorite flavor, and only black licorice is licorice. All those other flavors, with the possible exception of ginger, are imitation licorice or some kind of edible plastic stuff.
Soft chewey stuff from Australia is best, Allsorts is ok, any kind of hard licorice is good only for survival rations, spitting at your enemy or patching holes in asphalt.
My wife gets me about 10 lbs every year for Christmas, from all over the world. Most are only good for a sample or two.
Licorice tea, syrups, mints and liquers are also good.
I like the way licorice doesn't leave that bitter after taste that sugar does.
Its also a great name for a black cat.
Whenever I have the opportunity to indulge in some licorice, I take it!
No. F$*@ licorice.
I'm not entirely certain why racism was dragged into a discussion about candy
It's almost as bad as the Californians.
No. F~~& licorice.
I'm not entirely certain why racism was dragged into a discussion about candyIt's almost as bad as the Californians.
Don't get me started...
No. F&&% licorice.
I'm not entirely certain why racism was dragged into a discussion about candyIt's almost as bad as the Californians.
Oh, no, now I'm free of it forever!
Starts petition for ca. to be carbetbombed with bags of giant spiders
Starts petition to replace giant spiders with licorice
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*starts petition for iconics-shaped licorice Pathfinder candy*
It's almost as bad as the Californians.
Wanna take this s*@+ outside the candy store, punk?
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*starts petition for iconics-shaped licorice Pathfinder candy*+1 ;)
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