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It isn’t just you, Sweas. That flavor is horrid.

The only beneficial thing from that group is that fennel seed does aid in helping with intestinal gas. My wife INSISTS it be on hand, because of MY insistence on eating deeeeeelicious things (often in combination) that make me legendary in certain mythos.

I’ll slug some fennel seed down when it’s bad enough, but the flavor-family of anise/fennel/liquorice is disgusting.

Didnt you read about the guy who bought poppy seeds bc they said it made a relaxing tea? A couple of days later, they found him DEAD. You never know how much the poppy seeds are contaminated. One cup may be fine, the next brew will kill ya!

The FDA came down on black licorice a few years ago. Bad for the old ticker, apparently.

Liquorice? Meh. I eat the black liquorice Jelly Bellies but I don’t pick them out for special treatment like I do the tangerine ones (I love ’em!) or the ones they mysteriously and with not a shred of rationale call “mango” (I toss ’em in the toilet where they belong).

I like it!

You should try Drop (Dutch Licorice)
https://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2010/11/18/licorice/

I had a bottle of liquorice based laxative around here for years. It was advertised as a five-day cleanse. Many of the Amazon reviews complained that it was far from gentle. I only took it once, and it was convincingly effective. I checked the bottle about two weeks ago, it had expired years ago and the pills had all turned frosty white, so I pitched it.

Contaminated with what, Ric Fan? There’s enough opium to trip a drug test in poppy seeds, but I wouldn’t have thought enough to get you high. Certainly not enough to kill you. A pesticide or something?

AS with any seed, if you eat it a plant will grow inside you and kill you.

The end

As related to me by my older brothers the first time I swallowed an apple seed.

Uncle Al – the tangerine flavor is the bomb!
Licorice flavor, I eat because it tastes bad and is therefore, according to my authentically Yankee grandmother (the other was a fuzzy furriner), good for you.

So can you grow sesame in your neck of the woods or would that have to take up space in the hot house?

Well, I like licorice, and fennel, and star anise. But I am in the minority among the group of people I know–including, it would seem, the minions. I are resigned to it.

Licorice, good licorice, is awesome. Sadly, very little good licorice is easily available in the USA. About the best you can commonly find is in the black bag from Panda. I’ve tried licorice from all over the world, including the kind covered in chemicals from the Netherlands, and the burnt to a crisp stuff from Italy. Panda brand is right up there at the top, although I do wish the flavor was stronger. Any suggestions, fellow licorice lovers?

Stoaty: Contaminated with bits and pieces which contain a high concentration of morphine. e.g., straw, which is bits of the plant itself and latex, which I think is the gooey stuff that oozes out when they cut the pod.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/03/unwashed-poppy-seeds-under-fire-on-capitol-hill-and-around-the-world/

I love the stuff. However, a word of caution, if you eat a whole bag at one sitting the outcome is a frightful colour…

Drew458, Panda is very, very good. Have you tried Ferrara’s Anise Bears? Once the sugar melts off the fun begins!

Drew I get the Ozzy brand. Though on reading the package it seems it doesn’t have much to do with Oz.

Still, lovely texture, no hole in the middle, which was the sort I grew up with.

I was a red licorice (which isn’t of course) fiend.

“Licorice is the liver of candy.”

— Ed Bluestone

I loveses the flavor of anise. I make fermented carrot sticks with slivers of fresh ginger, garlic and 1/2 a star anise in the bottom of the jar….soooo tasty.

Here’s an easy peasy how-to page if you haven’t tried fermenting veggies yet…carrots are the perfect gateway into the hard stuff like Kraut, kimchi, pickles, fizzy lemonade and homemade ginger ale.