Personally if I were going to recommend alternative sweets on the basis of not being gross and not poisoning you, I would not have chosen Hershey's (contains butyric acid, frequently perceived as gross especially by non-Americans), Snickers (Mars chocolate recently found by Consumer Reports to be high in heavy metals), or M&Ms (same as Snickers plus recurring concerns about the dyes).
> They even eat licorice salted with ammonium chloride which is especially gross.
Luckily we can also eat our ammonium chloride without glycyrrhizin!
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Thanks, knew it was bad, but not these details!
Personally if I were going to recommend alternative sweets on the basis of not being gross and not poisoning you, I would not have chosen Hershey's (contains butyric acid, frequently perceived as gross especially by non-Americans), Snickers (Mars chocolate recently found by Consumer Reports to be high in heavy metals), or M&Ms (same as Snickers plus recurring concerns about the dyes).
Lucky for me, I hate the taste of black licorice and the texture of red licorice. Why not chew on a rope dipped in sugar?