Henry Goodes Soft Liquorice

About my passion for licorice: I am a huge lover of licorice and particularly love the Australian and New Zealand brands but I have discovered one that is almost as good and the Aussie Darrell Lea and the Kiwi RJ’s stuff and that is Henry Goode’s which comes in a brown paper bag just like these two brands too. My love from licorice may come from my family‘s Dutch origins. T he Dutch are extremely fond of licorice and eat it in many different shapes called drop. Some of the Dutch drop is hard and others are softer and some are sweet whereas others are really very salty. If you don’t speak Dutch ... more

I am a huge lover of liquorice but often find that the likes of Asda and Tesco don’t sell the good stuff that you find in health shops and higher end stores, so I tend to avoid buying it, but on a recent shopping trip to Asda I noticed on the shelf something I hadn’t seen before...a new kind of liquorice in the form of Henry Goode’s soft eating liquorice. The friendly British butler on the front of the pack was enticing me with a platter of liquorice cylinders advertising them at less than 2% fat with all natural colours n flavours, packaged in a 300g greaseproof paper bag, so I thought to ... more

Henry Goode* is a very English butler who has come up trumps with soft eating liquorice in strawberry flavour. I hate black liquorice but adore the strawberry equivalent. When I worked at a pub I used to go to the cash and carry and buy big boxes of those huge strawberry whips you could get for 10p a whip in the newsagents. They lived under my desk at uni and lasted forever, it seemed like an on-going supply…..until I left my job for work nearer my studies and the cash and carry was no longer an option. I haven’t had decent red liquorice since and that was 6 years ago. In Asda last week I was ... more

I do like liquorish but it is not something that I usually buy, but recently I have become aware of the growing availability and trend of the soft eating liquorish that you can now buy. I know that Lakeland sell this in big bags in a variety of different flavours, but on a recent shopping trip to asda I spotted amongst the display of individual chocolate bars individual bars of soft eating liquorice. The difference between the soft liquorice you find in Lakeland and the Henry Goode liquorice is that the Lakeland one is Australian and the Henry Goode's is British. I was surprised to find that ... more

Henry Goodes soft liquorice comes from Pontefract so I am led to believe. It is made by Tangerine confectionary. My husband knows how much I love liquorice so when he went to our local corner shop he bought me a bag. This cost him 59 p. I know this because the price is written in black in a black rimmed red circle on the brown paper bag. On the bag there is a picture of a balding man with a moustache wearing a bow tie and white shirt, he has a union jack apron on. In his hand he is holding and presenting an oval tray of sticks of liquorice. I tore open the bag and found little sticks of black ... more