What happened to those hard licorice squares? :(

Franco Cozzo · 25-06-2015, 08:18 PM

Hello guys,

I'm hoping you can help me, used to be able to get a pack of hard licorice squares from the local servo, it was flat, moulded into 6 squares in a clear packet, and hard as a freakin' rock (like nearly break your teeth hard).

I haven't been able to find them anymore, I'm trying to find pictures of them but I'm not having any luck.

Looks like this:

But flatter, maybe 3mm thick.

Hopefully you guys know what I'm talking about.

Stefan · 25-06-2015, 08:35 PM

Satan got tired of makin em...

**Ross 1** · 25-06-2015, 08:47 PM

Some Coles stock it in the international section, in the Dutch part. Pick the right one though, one is salted.

Franco Cozzo · 25-06-2015, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Stefan

Satan got tired of makin em...

Well damn it Satan, snap snap get cracking!

XR Martin · 25-06-2015, 09:21 PM

Yeah I think ive seen them occasionally at ALDI also

Blue Ice · 25-06-2015, 10:32 PM

Inch licorice, that's what I remember it being called, sometimes see it for sale at servos and newsagent around here.

I normally don't fancy licorice much but this stuff is pretty good.

Lunch · 26-06-2015, 04:52 AM

Probably find it in stores that stock arsenic, feral sheet! That stuff is as bad as Vegemite!!

**buggerlugs** · 26-06-2015, 07:18 AM

Red Licorice mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............
Any Licorice for that matter, cleans you out to !!

**Beastie** · 26-06-2015, 07:51 AM

Maybe try Darrel Lea or Stixs

FPV GTHO · 26-06-2015, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Lunch

Probably find it in stores that stock arsenic, feral sheet! That stuff is as bad as Vegemite!!

Soft ****. Everything is weak once you've gone double salted.

2011G6E · 26-06-2015, 12:40 PM

When I worked in a soft drink factory, one of the ingredients in the Sarsaparilla was licorice. It came in a cardboard box, about the size of two house bricks. The stuff was literally hard as a rock, glossy black, and to get pieces off you had to hit it with a hammer whereupon it would shatter like glass. You had to put it in heated water to soften it.
Interestingly over a period of months it would start to "sag" in the box as it sloooooowly flowed downwards under gravity. After about a year it was rounded all around the edges

**MercurySilver** · 26-06-2015, 01:07 PM

the misses gets those dutch salt things from the supermarket
**** me drunk they are disgusting

loves em but she grew up with them from dutch parents

horrid things lol

**aussiblue** · 26-06-2015, 02:22 PM

This: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4-x-Melba...item3cf9588259

blueoval · 26-06-2015, 04:20 PM

I used eat Kopiko's coffee hard boiled lollies from servo's a lot. Was one of my favorites. Hard to find now.

Blue Ice · 26-06-2015, 08:04 PM

https://www.melbaschocolates.com.au/...icorice-block/

$1 per block or a box of 40....

Franco Cozzo · 26-06-2015, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by aussiblue

This: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4-x-Melba...item3cf9588259

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue Ice

https://www.melbaschocolates.com.au/...icorice-block/

$1 per block or a box of 40....

XR Martin · 26-06-2015, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by blueoval

I used eat Kopiko's coffee hard boiled lollies from servo's a lot. Was one of my favorites. Hard to find now.

Still see them at asian/indian grocers

Ford_The_Win · 27-06-2015, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Big Damo

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Haha, this was my reaction when I found Junior Mints in the Reject Shop today...one of the few American chocolates worth buying. I bought 10 boxes to be on the safe side.... Mmmm

**MercurySilver** · 27-06-2015, 10:23 AM

oh man junior mints
we always are on the scope for them
a box lasts like 2 mins

Franco Cozzo · 27-06-2015, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by blueoval

I used eat Kopiko's coffee hard boiled lollies from servo's a lot. Was one of my favorites. Hard to find now.

Yeah I liked those too, our IGA still sells them, maybe try an IGA?

superyob · 27-06-2015, 11:56 AM

Now this is a first tier mystery worthy of further investigative endeavour Big Damo, almost on par with the rapid decline of cobbers and choo choo bars, none of which I have seen in the wild this century!

God speed in fulfilling your long and arduous quest for those delectable culinary delights and should you find that which your heart desires, see if you can find me a Golden Gaytime (now, now!

) from the seventies...

msman · 27-06-2015, 03:08 PM

choochoo
http://www.lollywarehouse.com.au/pro...bars-licorice/

has gaytime changed over the years? still see it at coles aussie made aswell.

superyob · 27-06-2015, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by msman

choochoo
http://www.lollywarehouse.com.au/pro...bars-licorice/

has gaytime changed over the years? still see it at coles aussie made aswell.

I may just be getting old a cranky but I am sure that most of the goodies I loved in the 60s and 70s have been tampered with in one way or another. What they call Coca Cola now is not what I was used to years ago...

Franco Cozzo · 27-06-2015, 03:34 PM

USA Coke and the Aussie variant are different, ours is made with cane sugar but not sure on changes over the years.

Majority of USA soft drink has moved to HFCS instead of cane sugar like our stuff as its cheaper.

But gives me stomach problems, I bought 10 slabs of Dublin Dr Pepper made with cane sugar rather than HFCS after they couldn't export it anymore legally.

nuthin' fancy · 27-06-2015, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Damo

USA Coke and the Aussie variant are different, ours is made with cane sugar but not sure on changes over the years.

Majority of USA soft drink has moved to HFCS instead of cane sugar like our stuff as its cheaper.

But gives me stomach problems, I bought 10 slabs of Dublin Dr Pepper made with cane sugar rather than HFCS after they couldn't export it anymore legally.

How long will that last you?

Franco Cozzo · 27-06-2015, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by nuthin' fancy

How long will that last you?

It was a few years ago, I only have them every now and again, its very close to what our variant of Dr Pepper was like.

I've still got 6 slabs left.

The HFCS variant is no good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Dr_Pepper

I wont drink the last can when I eventually get down to it, I'm going to keep it.

**Cav** · 27-06-2015, 05:04 PM

At Junee, about an hour's drive from my place. Great place to visit..

http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Attrac...uth_Wales.html

Franco Cozzo · 27-06-2015, 05:10 PM

What's the deal with salted licorice? I've never tried the salted variety.

superyob · 27-06-2015, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Damo

What's the deal with salted licorice? I've never tried the salted variety.

I think this is Dutch licorice? You will ether love it or hate it...

FlipXW · 27-06-2015, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Damo

It was a few years ago, I only have them every now and again, its very close to what our variant of Dr Pepper was like.

I've still got 6 slabs left.

The HFCS variant is no good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Dr_Pepper

I wont drink the last can when I eventually get down to it, I'm going to keep it.

Dr Pepper

. Most underrated product ever and by far the best soft drink money can buy.