The snack with a government warning

Some notes on salty licorice

Hello, Snackers. It’s Chewy Candy Week! We sampled some Swedish Fish on Monday and went deep on the history of gummi worms on Wednesday. Today, we tackle our most controversial snack yet:

Salty licorice (a.k.a salmiak or salmiakki)

Image via Wikipedia and then I added a halftone filter and a little nod to Barbara Kruger

The basics

Black licorice, the regul…