I knew there was a good reason not to eat those black jellybeans.

The strange case of the man who died after eating to...

I read a similar article a few years ago, coinciding with my going through the first symptoms of menopause. I had been eating quite a few Good -n- Plenty candies and black licorice bits and it scared me right off of them.

heylisa : I’ve never been a fan of black licorice, ever since I was a kid. Something just off about it. Maybe it’s a genetic thing, like people who taste cilantro as soap.

You're not a fan of the black licorice ones?
Sounds like the man in the article was making a lot of bad food decisions.

✩`*•.¸✷¸.•*´✩ : Yes, he was. And no, not a fan. They taste almost like turpentine. Very unpleasant to me. I also find artificial sweeteners deeply unpleasant - at least all of them that I’ve tried. And the potassium-based salt substitutes that they came up with years ago.

I can't do artificial sweeteners either. I do enjoy black licorice though. It reminds me of tiny mints called Sen-Sen my parent used to get when I was little.

I remember trying one of those once and spitting it out very quickly. I think there was someone in a book I read that always was eating them. I was reading mostly adult books by age eleven or twelve.

Sometimes books steer you wrong.

That's exactly why I don't eat this stuff anymore.