Licorice

[ishmael]

Any other fans? The best I've found commonly available is Panda, from Finland. But I really miss the drops that Woolworths used to sell, loose in bins. Stiffly chewy, but not sticky, they had a W molded into the top. Great stuff.

Here's a link to all the international licorice you could desire. I was amazed at the variety, especially in European products. Check out the Dutch offerings.

http://www.licoriceinternational.com/store/cart.php?cat=Dutch+Licorice

[Meerkat]

I prefer horhoud drops ;)

[Leon Steyns]

Let me check out that price in the local store, but $7.50 for a box sounds a bit pricey to me... :confused:

http://www.licoriceinternational.com/store/images/hd15p.jpg

Greets, Leon Steyns.

[Katherine]

Woolworth's :confused:

[Meerkat]

Originally posted by Katherine:
Woolworth's :confused: Became, or was absorbed into, K-Mart.

Woolworth's was the first department store to use what are now common mass marketing and merchandizing techniques.

[Katherine]

K-mart isn't doing so well anymore either.

[Del Lansing]

What I miss are/is Walnettos. Gooey chewy, I can feel the fillings pulling out as I type.

[Mrleft8]

You like Panda? Panda's just mollasses goop. You want licorice, you gotta go Dutch. "Lakrits". Menthol, honey, zels, dopple zels, mit anise.... Tough chewy....Like jerky.... But oh so much better! PANDA!? ICK! I'd rather eat Twizzlers!

[Zimmer]

Do not care where every one gets theirs, but it helps me stop farting. smile.gif

[Popeye]

Originally posted by Fred Z:
Also had the first lunch counter in a dime store. Remember those?

i do, loved the root beer float and a cake donut for a Saturday shopping break downtown, when there really was a downtown

our other 'big' department stores developed from the shipping trade, so named for the wharves owned by merchants Ayres and Bowring. i don't think Simpson Sears had a wharf tho'



http://www.downtownstjohns.com/images/banner2.jpg

[ 12-01-2005, 08:28 AM: Message edited by: popeye ]

[ishmael]

I don't care much for Panda either, Doug, it's just the best I've found. Hence, my search on the web.

Woolworths was great! As mentioned, they had a fountain where you could buy a burger and a shake. The rest of the store was chocked full of almost everything you could possibly want, from goldfish to darning needles. I bought my first piece of jewelry for a girlfriend at a Woolworths, a ring that turned her finger green.

The toy aisle was fun, too, back when the total number of cheap toys available took up half an aisle. Cap guns, GI Joes, plastic models, Barbie dolls, etc.

There was a phrase, dimestore cowboy, that was one of a suburban parents' greatest fears. It meant an pubescent/adolscent male who haunted the five and dime, wasting time and perhaps doing a little shoplifting. A sure road to the pool hall! My, how times have changed.

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[ 12-01-2005, 08:52 AM: Message edited by: ishmael ]

[Mrleft8]

My all time favorite licorice is called "Chips". Look up "Chipernoi" on the web. There are all sorts of flavors... The licorice/menthol is fabulous!

[Popeye]

i think the rummies would steal the Aqua Velva from woolworths and drink that, or panhandle outside for enough to buy a bottle of 'pinky' , a cheap port so named for the pink label

ah for the good old days of great smelling bums lying around outside woolworths eating licorice and peppermint knobs

the portugeuse white fleet would also be in port , the sailors , who were not struggling with english and eating licorice inside woolworths, would play soccer and eat licorice on the apron
http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/gazette/past/archive/040198/fleet2.gif

the 'white fleet' : the boat hulls were painted white to indicate neutrality during World War II, the annual expedition to the Grand Banks was another 500-year-old tradition , which is sadly lost now

[ 12-01-2005, 09:24 AM: Message edited by: popeye ]

[brad9798]

I used to eat Mac'n Cheese at the counter at Woolworth's as a kid ... loved the store near my parent's house when I was a kid.

Licorice? Not a big fan ... especially the real (black) licorice! Yuck.

I ate the long red strings back when I was a kid ... but honestly cannot remember the last time I ate any.

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