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Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: / ˈ l ɪ k ər ɪ ʃ,-ɪ s / LIK-ər-ish, -iss) [1] is a confection usually flavoured and coloured black with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. A variety of liquorice sweets are produced around the world.
The original name for these small tablets of liquorice is a "Pomfret" cake, after the old Norman name for Pontefract. However, that name has fallen into disuse and they are now almost invariably labelled "Pontefract cakes".
Most liquorice (licorice) confectionery is heavily flavoured by aniseed (anise) and relies on true liquorice for only a small part of its flavouring, if any. Confections and candies called liquorice or widely considered to be liquorice-flavoured may be listed here.
They come in five flavors: lime, orange, cherry, lemon, and licorice. [2] Each package of Chuckles contains one piece of each flavor. The candies are made with corn syrup , sugar , modified and unmodified cornstarch , and natural and artificial flavors and colors.
A paper by Tonya Coffey, a physicist at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, confirmed that the rough surface of the Mentos candy helps speed the reaction. Coffey also found that the aspartame in diet soda lowers the surface tension and causes a bigger reaction, but that caffeine does not accelerate the reaction.
Liquorice allsorts are assorted liquorice confectionery sold as a mixture. Made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings, and gelatine, they were first produced in Sheffield, England, by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd.
Twizzlers are a licorice-type candy manufactured by Y&S Candies, Inc., of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a division of The Hershey Company. Twizzlers were first produced in 1929 by Young and Smylie, as the company was then called. The licorice company was founded in 1845, making it one of the oldest confectionery firms in the United States. [1]
My point is, for some candy to be called "licorice", it has to be flavoured with the liquorice plant, or at least taste like it is. So far, all evidence I have seen points to red licorice being just strawberry candy in a funny shape. J I P | Talk 19:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC) As I tried to illustrate above, word meanings change.