not surprised, american liquorice has a tragic lack of ammonium chloride
Beware!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Salmiak is life.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Moved to Sweden, tried salted licorice. Somehow even worse. Ammonium chloride is legitimately the worst flavor I’ve ever had in my mouth and I put everything in there
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or you’re just weak. If my candy isn’t trying to kill me, what’s the point.
RustyLog@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Worst flavor? Have you tried petrol or brake fluid?
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Try the tar-flavored ones, those are all great! Or I assume terrible, if one does not like salmiak or tar.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, there’s probably plenty of lead in it.
lime@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
oh it’s sweet licquorice? :/
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, yeah, we like to shoot at our licorice, as is tradition.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Black licorice, despite comprising only 14% of the total licorice inventory, is responsible for over 50% of customer complaints.
redlemace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
responsible for over 50% of customer complaints.
and I quote a complaining customer : “And yet AGAIN there wasn’t enough of it in the package”
NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I want to stay in bed, eating black licorice.
atomicorange@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
🤘
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know this a shitpost, because yet another food item legitimately has shit in it, this is now a constant problem in America.
I can only presume it’s because the workers are treated extremely badly, remunerated poorly, and the corpos face no consequences for apparently disgusting factories, and there’s no regulations?
There’s no reason this should happen in a modern factory, there should be three hand wash stations before a worker even gets close to the food.
“American food tastes like shit”
droans@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, it’s just that some people don’t like the flavor of anise.
InputZero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay but for real a little anise in a few recipes makes them taste right. I do not like the taste of black licorice but I keep a little star anise in the spice cupboard and a small piece makes ramen taste right.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah but you have to keep your anise clean and hygienic if you want people to eat it
hanke@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
I think rats and birds in the factories are the main source of shit contamination in american foods factories
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Their actual quote is “recalled 100 tons for possible fecal contamination”.
But it’s not any more real than OP’s image
deacon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
More for me.
Bytemite@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not a shitpost, but don’t eat too much black licorice all at once, it can cause heart problems. Too much of the glycyrrhizin produced naturally in the plant’s root that’s used to make black licorice causes your kidneys to flood potassium out into your blood and it’ll mess up the electrical signals in your heart. You have to eat like two bags a day for two weeks though.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Most licorice candy is actually made from anise root, which has no glycyrrhizin.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eh, I can’t eat it anymore, anyway. Gives me a headache.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nordics: Good. More for us.
SourDragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The article was written by Big Candy Corn™
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
A subsidiary of Big Traffic Cone™.
olejellylegs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“Recommends chewing a handful of anise seeds and grimacing…”
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
It’s an acquired taste. Of shit.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And what of root beer?
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Too honest to be coming from this FDA
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The chocolate one is also gross and weird and yet you end up eating all of it.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Chocolate licorice is gross and weird in a good way. Black licorice is gross and weird in a gross an weird way.
BooBees@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
I’ve never once eaten the chocolate one and I only once took a bite of the black one.
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Try the chocolate. It tastes fake but it’s still better than Hershey’s vomit chocolate by far.
TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, now I want to try a peanut butter and black licorice sandwich on sourdough toast with butter.
I bet that would be amazing.
We’re gonna need a name for this sandwich, too.
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
"Taco Bell was closed"wich
Heide@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It tastes like shit and there is some evidence it even lowers testosterone. It has no redeeming qualities
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In that case, foreign armies could deploy millions of bags of them at invading US military, turning them Low-T and making Pete Hegseth fire them! Tactics. Always tactics.
gatitaQwQ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, these days it feels like there’s poison in almost everything, as if they’re trying to kill us faster.
redlemace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
-At least-The Netherlands, Sweden and Finland are taking an offense !
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Is the FDA announcing this, so I’m guessing the announcement is that somehow the licorice has been contaminated with uranium or something because they just keep escalating.
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This particular screenshot was from 2018, but nowadays you are totally right. Just waiting to see the next thing they announce has been recalled.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The licorice companies are waiting for RFK Jr to make a speech in the shade somewhere, so that a similar looking photo of contaminated licorice can be taken.