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[mangosteen]

So, someone recently shipped a co-worker a whole bunch of British candies, included in these was a bag of Aniseed Balls. Think marble-sized gobstoppers with a very strong licorice flavor. They're very hard candy, and they last for a while.

So, I popped one in my mouth, and I started rolling it around on with my tongue, against the back of my teeth. Ooooo! Nifty tactile fidget toy!

I think I finally understand why people with tongue piercings do that, now.

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[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

fear my most recent discovery:

http://www.britishdelights.com/

Re: apropos

[mangosteen]

Similarly, http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/.

British candies by the quarter-kilo.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

You know, because I live in God's own country, the British Isles, I am favoured by having a stall on the market 6 days a week that sells many of these sweets.
I could, in fact, just cycle there tomorrow morning and buy as much as I like.

Re: apropos

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Yes, but try getting a decent bagel anywhere. :)

Re: apropos

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Touché

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[claerwen.livejournal.com]

Who wants bagels? We just need white sliced bread, to make sandwiches with the good bacon we have :)

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[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

We just need white sliced bread

It's simpler that way. Trying to buy a sandwich at an American deli is just too complicated for us British. We get thrown by the question What kind of bread would you like?, and when I stare at them blankly a list of a dozen different kinds of bread I've never heard of is rattled off at breakneck speed. I don't want to have to think that hard just to buy a sandwich. Give me white sliced bread (and no choice) any day...

I'll pass on the bacon though :)

-roy

[claerwen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I do that with aniseed balls too. They're my favourites. Or maybe blackjacks. Or maybe the blackcurrant and liquorice ones are. Or, Fox's have a new kind of aniseed and liquorice boiled sweet, which they have in the Post Office next-door-but-two from work, and I've been meaning to try them, and maybe they'll be my new favourite. Basically, the black and red sweets are always the best.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

I play with my tongue piercing constantly, and likely excessively.

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that a tongue piercing would feel quite interesting; I've always wanted to get my tongue pieced but I'm sure I never will.

Apart from the fact that I just wouldn't have the nerve (the immediate after effects are by all accounts quite unpleasant) the fact that there is an (admitedly very small) risk of ending up with a paralyzed tongue is somewhat offputting...

-roy