salty licorice fix
^ This stuff is mildly addictive for some of us
Carousel Candyland in Kahala Mall is the only place in Hawaii with a reliable source of black licorice and most importantly, the salty salmiak kind. Above are the four strong ones they had earlier this week.
The kitty kat one is very mild and sweet with a hard, gummi texture but sort of a waxy, shell coating. The diamond and the coin are Dutch, very salty. Both are usually chewy, but unfortunately this double salt coin is hard and stale. The lil gumdrop is somewhere in the middle flavor-wise, sweet but with a definite tang.
Course there is a blog devoted to salt licorice now. LOL. I’m adding this important resource to the blogroll.
Also happy to report I’ve got a lead on a place in SF that supposedly has “17 different kinds of salt licorice”?!? This I must see.
14/08/2008 at 3:47 pm Permalink
Haha, I didn’t know that this kind of licorice had a following. You LIKE this stuff? It’s pretty strong stuff isn’t it? Have you ever tried these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrkisk_Peber
Some friends from Finland brought them and we have some video of the taste testing… http://blip.tv/file/1142165
14/08/2008 at 5:17 pm Permalink
I bet a lot of candy connoisseurs would be grateful to you for finding them a good place to pick upp black licorice. However, I have yet to acquire the taste for it, and am kinda reluctant. It reminds me of Flintstones vitamins, but instead of a candy form of your RDA, it’s like a chewable form of Robitussin, without the hallucinatory benefits of over-indulgence.
When I used to work at Honolulu Chocolate Company, we would give away samples of everything. Truffles or coffee beans/oreos/pretzels dipped in chococlate. Kinda fancy-fancy.
Sometimes people would keep coming back, or just start asking for too much as if the samples were their latest fad diet. To get rid of them we would smile and offer them some brightly coloured “licorice pastels” that looked like longer skinnier tic tacs. The look of joy on their face would slowly turn to disgust as they spit out a gray-ish glob of goo into their hands, while we’d hand them a napkin then watch them leave.
Sorta sadist salesfolk.
21/08/2008 at 4:19 pm Permalink
LoL@ you sadist salesfolk, that would only have kept me coming back for more! I guess my palate likes it rough
YES@Tim, that “Turkish Pepper” is one of my faves! you can melt em in vodka for some serious fun lol
I cant condone being wasteful with the black licorice tho… send me ur black jelly beans if you’re not going to eat them :~j
ps sorry for the slow comment approval, urs slipped by