Never mind Migs and her chocolate.

This thread pays homage to the true joy of life..........Licorice

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Bloody liquorice !! Used to drive me crazy in Iran.

The liquorice plant has roots about fifty metres long (or so it seems) that rapidly regenerate themselves when cut. Then grow through anything - concrete included.

So, when we had a patch on our site out in the desert, we had to excavate much more than we expected, put down really nasty weed-killer (making sure NIOC were not watching) and wait till it all turned black. This happened several times until we got the project out of the ground.

All over the arab world this root is used as a toothbrush - take a six-inch length, slightly chew the end to spread the fibrous inner layers, then brush all day.

But very little liquorice taste to it. Don't know if this is where the black stuff comes from, or if you have to mix it with crude first.

Back when I was a wee lad, the family business was a tannery.

Before the hides were treated, they were run through a fleshing machine (something akin to a mangle with blades on it) to removed all the fat/meat/other stuff left over from skinning the animal.

I seem to re-collect stories of how the licorice factory would come around once a week and pick up all the "fleshings". Apparently they were used in the licorice making proces.

Back when I was a wee lad, the family business was a tannery.

Before the hides were treated, they were run through a fleshing machine (something akin to a mangle with blades on it) to removed all the fat/meat/other stuff left over from skinning the animal.

I seem to re-collect stories of how the licorice factory would come around once a week and pick up all the "fleshings". Apparently they were used in the licorice making proces.

You Sir are a bounder !!

Pick your weapons and meet me behind the bike shed. Casting aspersions against Licorice is a sin that needs to be addressed and by G-od I'm the man to address it !!!

Back when I was a wee lad, the family business was a tannery.

Before the hides were treated, they were run through a fleshing machine (something akin to a mangle with blades on it) to removed all the fat/meat/other stuff left over from skinning the animal.

I seem to re-collect stories of how the licorice factory would come around once a week and pick up all the "fleshings". Apparently they were used in the licorice making proces.

You Sir are a bounder !!

Pick your weapons and meet me behind the bike shed. Casting aspersions against Licorice is a sin that needs to be addressed and by G-od I'm the man to address it !!!

Suiging.

Absolutely in full agreement with you.

Darrel Lea in OZ makes fab likkerush bullets.

Used to eat a pack a day.

My airline of choice flying back to Europe is always Finnair. Not only do old Grannies drink beer in the streets of Helsinki at 0900, but Licorice is everywhere. Heaven, beer, licorice and drunk Grannies. What more could a soul ask for ........?

As an aside, I did think of putting this subject in " Outside The Box ", as it is Important in a way Oil Spills and the like will never better.

All over the arab world this root is used as a toothbrush - take a six-inch length, slightly chew the end to spread the fibrous inner layers, then brush all day.

Yeah I see them doing it all the time. Didn't realise it was Licorice. Now that I've learned something new today, I can go and get intoxicated without worry.

Back when I was a wee lad, the family business was a tannery.

Before the hides were treated, they were run through a fleshing machine (something akin to a mangle with blades on it) to removed all the fat/meat/other stuff left over from skinning the animal.

I seem to re-collect stories of how the licorice factory would come around once a week and pick up all the "fleshings". Apparently they were used in the licorice making proces.

You Sir are a bounder !!

Pick your weapons and meet me behind the bike shed. Casting aspersions against Licorice is a sin that needs to be addressed and by G-od I'm the man to address it !!!

Suiging.

Absolutely in full agreement with you.

Darrel Lea in OZ makes fab likkerush bullets.

Used to eat a pack a day.

Darrell Lea is one of the world's great confectionery makers.

The original shop is on the corner of Rundle Mall and King William Street in the Adelaide CBD and their liquorice is fantastic.

Their chocolate products are also world class. (If you happen to be in the vicinity MiGGie).

Darrell Lea - Home

Licorice Facts and Figures

* In 1957, the Lea family developed Darrell Lea’s unique soft eating liquorice.

* 25% of the Australian liquorice market is now soft eating.

* 50 million strands of Darrell Lea’s soft eating liquorice are consumed by Australians of all ages each year, equating to 2.5 strands for every single Australian.

* 40,000km of liquorice is currently produced each year at the Darrell Lea factory (ENOUGH TO CROSS AUSTRALIA 10 TIMES!).

* This will increase to a potential of 83,300km per year (OR TWICE AROUND THE WORLD) with the opening of our new world class liquorice production facility catering for the export market.

* The United States, Canada and United Kingdom are among the countries that now eat Darrell Lea’s famous soft eating liquorice.

* Darrell Lea liquorice is now sold in more than 8000 retail outlets around the world – and growing constantly.

JUST WHAT IS LIQUORICE?

* The liquorice plant – also known as the blue flowering snow pea – likes its surroundings hot. It is native to southern European countries like Spain and Italy, parts of central Asia and the Middle East, including Israel. Liquorice for manufacturing is supplied as solid blocks, powder or in its purest form of a brown liquorice paste that is extracted under steam from the liquorice root.

* Liquorice is also good for what ails you. Called the ‘grandfather of Chinese herbs’, liquorice root extract appears in most Chinese herbal remedies for afflictions from coughs to constipation to peptic ulcer.

* Its use as a medicinal remedy date back to as far as Hippocrates in the fourth century BC and this modest plant was also supposed to have healed the wounds of Nero’s armies in the first century AD and accompanied Egyptian pharaohs to a higher plane.

Pastis or Ricard is nice too.

I remember we used to get strings of either black or red licorice when i was a kid. And then the wonderful bags of licorice allsorts.

Pastis or Ricard is nice too.

I remember we used to get strings of either black or red licorice when i was a kid. And then the wonderful bags of licorice allsorts.

About 8" x 1" wide straps in our school tuck shop, great stuff.

All over the arab world this root is used as a toothbrush - take a six-inch length, slightly chew the end to spread the fibrous inner layers, then brush all day.

When I was a sprog I used to go and see my Granny every Saturday to pick up my pocket money. She always gave a couple of sticks of liquorice root to chew. She wasn't an Arab though - she was from Lancashire.