Liquorice

 

Got these today at Geier's the German Foods store in Sarasota.

We have something similar in the U.K., where they are called Pontefract Cakes.

It must have been seven or so years ago that a young man engaged me in chit chat at Arlington Park He recognised my English accent and related that his mother was from England too.

"From where?" I asked.  "Pontefract" he replied.

I asked him if his Mum had told him about Pontefract Cakes. She had not done so.  I told him about this liquorice treat -  named for his mother's home town - a centre of their manufacture.

He ventured  "now I understand why my mother eats liquorice every day".

I would too, save that too much of it can lead to dangerously high blood pressure.