Who doesn’t like the excitement of having hidden ‘landines’ in their food? Haha
This reminds me of my college years. Me and my roommates would order a batch of buffalo wings once in a while. When we ordered them, we would order a bunch at medium level heat and only 2 or 3 at the hottest level. We would ask that they just mix them in with the milder wings. It made dinner a bit more exciting. Haha
Avoid Scandinavian licorice at all costs.
My family had a saying: “the more you chew, the worse it tastes”
That being said, anise hard candies are delicious 
I quite like Scandi liquorice, a little goes a long way.
FTFY
Oof, no kidding. I worked with a Swedish team for a while, and they all ate that stuff by the giant bagful. They said “all candy in Sweden is this” which I presume was an exaggeration to tease me, but it is certainly extremely popular, at least. Perhaps our Swedish mutants here can confirm or deny. 
Don’t go to Iceland! 
Acrid salt spunk? Is there any other kind? 
“so perhaps the Irish use something other than black as their universal color of licorice?”
Well, considering the colour of sweets made from licorice root is traditionally black I’d suggest the problem is with the grape colouring.
Looks very dark purple to me. Not sure it is really that hard to tell them apart.
The best thing about liking licorice jelly beans is that you don’t have to fight anyone for them.
By the way, licorice toffee is the best of both worlds.
My dad loved Good n Plenty. I was team Good n Fruity. My wife picks out all the black jelly beans which is good because I hate them.
I had a freind that worked for AkzoNobel they loved their licorice, I mean really really loved their licorice. Something about Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Carly Simon sang the jingle.
My blood sugar level rises for a few weeks surrounding Halloween because of all the discarded black jellybeans I get to hoover up.
Thanks, Paddy!!! I feel like my Jelly Bean game just leveled up IRL w/o having to work for the xp. ^______^
Sure, but you’re looking at a picture of them side by side there. What if there’s only one left in the bag, without the other to compare it to? Could you be sure? What if the lights were low? What if the lights were low and you were with your beloved, and they sweetly and seductively asked you to feed them a grape jelly bean, and you lovingly placed on their tongue a licorice one inadvertently? It could be the biggest mistake you ever made!!! IT COULD BE THE END OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP!!! You could slide into the blackest depths of depression, as black as the cursed licorice jelly bean that was your undoing. But nay, it was your hubris that was your undoing, wasn’t it?
For the record, I’m Team Licorice.
Reminds me of trying to tell the black Jujyfruit gumdrops from the other dark ones in a movie theater. You had to hope that there was enough light from the movie screen to be able to tell them apart without biting them.
Next time I go to the movie theater, you can have mine.
I’m am, too! Just definitely NOT Team Swedish Salty Ammonia Licorice. That’s a bridge too far for me.
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