Licorice - There is more than just red and black!

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When you say licorice to the average person, they think of red or black licorice. I have loved licorice since I was a little girl. My grandmother used to buy us Switzers black licorice. When we were young, we used to go to Knott's Berry Farm (California) and go to the General Store. There we bought licorice for a penny a stick. We usually were given a dollar or two and bought 100-200 pieces of licorice. They had the following kinds of licorice: Black, 2 kinds of red, one was strawberry, I am not sure of the other, green licorice -- like a spearmint flavor, chocolate licorice, grape licorice, licorice pipes, licorice ropes, etc. Nowadays, they have even more funky flavors. I just bought a package of Twizzlers "cinnamon" fire licorice. It taste like the old cinnamon sticks (hard candy). You have to get used to it and have a bottle of water handy to "put out the fire" but it actually grows on you. I miss those good old days. Moral is: Don't limit yourself to just red or black licorice. There is lots of new stuff out there including sour licorice.