You need to visit here if your addiction is that bad 😆 salty skulls and salty fish should see you right.
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This dutch stuff you're speaking of....
No, don't tell me.
wait
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Oh no, the ice cream pic you posted just loaded.. 💡
Derek. Ok, I'm shaking now.
At the weekly market in Leiden the licquorice truck visits. It's standard market stall truck with hundreds. (seriously 😯 ) of varieties of Licquorice. Dutch aficianados know what each shape means in terms of taste so every 'house' or 'fish' etc is the same flavour no matter the manufacturer.
They had 4 or 5 smiling Women serving doling bag after bag of goods to the salivating masses. I just ordered a kilo of mixed.
It's called drop over there.
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The power of suggestion!
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I'm going here tomorrow morning, I can't stand the shakes any longer.
[url] http://www.caramella.co.uk/DutchLiquorice.html [/url]
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Had me out in the lunchtime looking, no joy.
That big box for 13 quid...
The way I'm feeling now, knowing also I've managed 7 months, it'll barely last the weekend and those natural sticks, I'd ride chewing them, we don't have Holland & Barretts down here in British Eastern Europe even Marks & Sparks gave up the ghost.
Picton Road, is that in Wales? Anything to do with Picton Boats?
I went to Castle Douglas (Scotland) the other day, if you are ever passing (maybe when visiting 7 Staines?) there's a good health food shop on the high street that sells the solid liquorice, as well as the liquorice root. There's also a sweety shop close by to stock up on other classics, here's my stash:
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I've disolved a chunk of the liquorice (hard stuff) in some boiling water, which is a new one on me, but pretty good.
mmm liquorice.
There's a great stall at Borough Mkt
