Liquorice

You can buy them at health food shops. I used to love them when i was young - kept me happy for hours! I also liked the small thin hard sticks of salty liquorice. Supposed to be better for you than the soft chewy stuff.

The 'twigs' are actually the liquorice roots and still available to buy and will be available fresh next September from Robert Copley's farm shop in Pontefract. Google it for more info ( I have no connection to them at all but just thrilled that something that was lost is coming back 'home').
Plants are also available from a nursery at Wakefield.

Yes, like bits of twig that you chewed and chewed and pretty soon the twigs looked like Rapunzel on a bad hair day.

And while we're on the subject does anyone remember liquorice wood ?

When I was a child, no sweet was too disgusting to me, I welcomed them all,even parma violets and those tiny little red lips sweets, also lovehearts,
Pineapple chunks and sour lemons ( and the pear drops that tasted like nail polish) but my absolute fave was jap desserts.

And coconut mushrooms! Yum!

Pear drops were nice, though!

I thought pineapple chunks were the most disgusting sweets ever invented.

My brother and I used to have competitions to see who could keep sucking a Victory V the longest. We made our own entertainment in them days!
I loved Parma Violets.

No, none of them are. You must have very sensitive taste-buds, apricot!

I don't pronounce it because it's absolutely disgusting.
So are Fisherman's Friends, Victory Vs, Extra Strong Mints, pineapple chunks, Parma Violets. I hope most of these are now extinct.

Iss - for me. Is there a north /south divide on this? I am north.

You have made us hungry tiggy

'Lickerish' is now being grown commercially again (on a small scale) in Yorkshire.
So lucky to live in a county that is famous for so much lovely food especially 'lickerish' grown near Pontefract, rhubarb around Wakefield and Wenslydale cheese at Hawes.

Oh nearly forgot Yorkshire puds and Yorkshire tea !

Never liked liquorice in sweets- but when we were kids, we used to buy liquorice sticks to such and chew for 1/2 centime- much better for your teeth I'm sure, and great for digestion.

Just noticed the ambiguity in my last post! . Can't stand liquorice however it's pronounced. On the other hand, I am glad I'm Scots.

When i was growing up, Thorntons had their factory not far from where I lived. At that time, they were a relatively small concern which only sold its toffee and chocolates in the Yorkshire area. I remember wanting to work there when i left school because you could, apparently, eat as many chocolates as you wanted ! I wouldn't buy them now; they're not nearly as nice as they used to be.

anyone tried Thorntons 'lickerish' toffee?

the blue and pink bobbly ones are the worst!The best are the brown and orange sandwich types, and the black and white ones.
It would seem the consensus is that Scots [including bagpipe Ana] say ice and the English say ish. Mind you, it may depend how posh you are as well.

Yes - I love the allsorts too.

As nina.

Ahaa!

Lickoriss,and I am Scottish,love liquorice in all shapes and forms,used to buy liquorice laces from tuck shop at school.

Here it is folks - the definitive pronunciation by the Cambridge dictionary.

DH is a cockney and he says lickrish without the 'o'
He should talk proper like wot I do