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  2. Liquorice (confectionery) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Pontefract cake - Wikipedia

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    By 1780 liquorice growing was concentrated almost wholly in Pontefract and in Surrey, around Godalming. In Pontefract the growing of liquorice was done on plots of land behind people's houses. In a map of the 1648 Siege of Pontefract (reproduced by Chartres [ 3 ] ) the liquorice is indicated as being grown in "garths" either side of Micklegate ...

  4. Liquorice - Wikipedia

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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) [5] [6] is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted.

  5. Glycyrrhiza - Wikipedia

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    Glycyrrhiza echinata Fruits and Seeds - MHNT Plant as used in Chinese herbology (crude medicine). Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.

  6. Liquorice allsorts - Wikipedia

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    Made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings, and gelatine, they were first produced in Sheffield, England, by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd. Allsorts are produced by many companies around the world, but are most popular in Europe, especially Britain and the Netherlands, where they are called Engelse drop, meaning English liquorice.

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    The city's retailers wanted to capitalize on the increased traffic, so they tried to erase the negative connotation around "Black Friday," even briefly attempting to call it "Big Friday." But the ...

  8. Why 'The Color Purple' has been a source of Black healing ...

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    Black women should not be sacrificed for Black men’s pride,” she added. “Let the film roll.” Oprah Winfrey, who played Sofia in the first film, defended the movie against its critics then.

  9. Vigroids - Wikipedia

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    Nigroids tin container by Ferris & Co. Ltd. Vigroids (also Mighty Imps, formerly Nigroids) was a brand of liquorice sweet.The small black pellets were particularly marketed as an expectorant lozenge for singers, using the slogan "for clarity of voice".