Red Vines vs. Twizzlers - vote and be heard!
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Firmly in the licorice camp. Real licorice. I only eat the red things under duress. I can't even remember the last time I saw Red Vines in a store. Maybe never. So I don't have an opinion on the actual poll. Unless we get an "Option 4: Give me the real stuff!".
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My big shopping day is usually Sunday. I sometimes do a mid-week run, but there's a crappy Jewel that's closer to my house if I just need something small.
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When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, my teacher, a first generation American whose parents had immigrated from Norway, held a 'Norwegian Day' every year. She'd bring in memorabilia, teach about Norway, read Norwegian folktales, and she'd bring in piles of Norwegian food. That's where I got hooked on pickled herring. Most of the kids didn't like it, but me? I loved it. She had so much left over that she let me stay after class and help 'clean it up.' I was also obsessed with the krumkake, which I haven't had in more than 40 years. I really need to get myself an iron and a roller and learn to make it one day.hentzau wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:07 amYou would love my neighborhood. We have the original Hagen's Fish Market, and they have multiple varieties of both canned and fresh pickled herring. Hagen's Fish MarketBlackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:19 pm I'd avoid the second bit, but I do love some good pickled herring. Which is, sadly, hard to find. Wine herring (which is tolerable) and sour cream herring (which is not) are both all over, but actual pickled herring? Nowhere.
And yes, I also enjoy extra strong stinky cheeses.
Then at the Mariano's grocery store, down at the end of my block, they have just put in a free-standing 4 sided display filled with all kinds of varieties of canned fish. So, I kind of live in pickled herring central.
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Mostly because most people don't know how to pronounce it, and aren't going to say "anise tastes like a niece."
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Guess I forgot you had moved into the 'hood. If you're a WFHer, we should do lunch sometime.ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:55 amMy big shopping day is usually Sunday. I sometimes do a mid-week run, but there's a crappy Jewel that's closer to my house if I just need something small.
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I enjoy them both. Twizzlers are easier to come by and probably my favorite. I won’t turn down Red Vines though.
I am strange, I really like the chocolate flavor of Twizzlers.
Actual black licorice is disgusting, of course.
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Actual black licorice is disgusting, of course.
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My wife makes krumkake and sandkaker and rosettes every holiday season. She and my daughter just made a batch of vaffler for my daughter's holiday party yeseterday.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:07 pmWhen I was in 1st and 2nd grade, my teacher, a first generation American whose parents had immigrated from Norway, held a 'Norwegian Day' every year. She'd bring in memorabilia, teach about Norway, read Norwegian folktales, and she'd bring in piles of Norwegian food. That's where I got hooked on pickled herring. Most of the kids didn't like it, but me? I loved it. She had so much left over that she let me stay after class and help 'clean it up.' I was also obsessed with the krumkake, which I haven't had in more than 40 years. I really need to get myself an iron and a roller and learn to make it one day.hentzau wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:07 amYou would love my neighborhood. We have the original Hagen's Fish Market, and they have multiple varieties of both canned and fresh pickled herring. Hagen's Fish MarketBlackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:19 pm I'd avoid the second bit, but I do love some good pickled herring. Which is, sadly, hard to find. Wine herring (which is tolerable) and sour cream herring (which is not) are both all over, but actual pickled herring? Nowhere.
And yes, I also enjoy extra strong stinky cheeses.
Then at the Mariano's grocery store, down at the end of my block, they have just put in a free-standing 4 sided display filled with all kinds of varieties of canned fish. So, I kind of live in pickled herring central.
I'd send you some krumkake but I don't think It would survive the transit.
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We could go to Hagen's for fish sandwiches!hentzau wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:13 pmGuess I forgot you had moved into the 'hood. If you're a WFHer, we should do lunch sometime.ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:55 amMy big shopping day is usually Sunday. I sometimes do a mid-week run, but there's a crappy Jewel that's closer to my house if I just need something small.
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Pickeled herring is a christmas food for me, on account of my Norwegian heritage. My Grandmother would make some every year, and let it pickle until Christmas. Yes, we also had krumkaka, and salmon with dill sauce. That is how I enjoyed Christmas dinner as a child.
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Regarding the poll, it depends on my mood. I would say Red Vines mood more often than Twizzlers, but have to make sure the Red Vines are fresh and soft.
I like filled Twizzlers too, and love licorice.
I like filled Twizzlers too, and love licorice.
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My wife is more into liquorice than I and first choice is the All Sorts, followed by Nibs (red). I voted Red Vines as my preference, though, from vague remembrances.
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Dammit, guys.TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:50 am Firmly in the licorice camp. Real licorice. I only eat the red things under duress. I can't even remember the last time I saw Red Vines in a store. Maybe never. So I don't have an opinion on the actual poll. Unless we get an "Option 4: Give me the real stuff!".
I will put an option for "real licorice" in this poll which has NOTHING to with licorice, except possibly the shape of licorice is SOMETIMES in a cord like this...if I start to see people make polls like...."which of these is better, Fallout 2, Jagged Alliance 2, or 2003 Acura Legends?"
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I understood that. But I felt you needed to understand why "I don't have an opinion on the actual poll". i.e. I'm not voting in your poll. I suppose all us licorice fans could have stayed out of the discussion. But I wouldn't want you to wonder why people weren't responding. Well... some people.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:46 pmDammit, guys.TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:50 am Firmly in the licorice camp. Real licorice. I only eat the red things under duress. I can't even remember the last time I saw Red Vines in a store. Maybe never. So I don't have an opinion on the actual poll. Unless we get an "Option 4: Give me the real stuff!".
I will put an option for "real licorice" in this poll which has NOTHING to with licorice, except possibly the shape of licorice is SOMETIMES in a cord like this...if I start to see people make polls like...."which of these is better, Fallout 2, Jagged Alliance 2, or 2003 Acura Legends?"
To put it another way, you don't have to change your poll. But you probably will get more responses to it if there is an option for those that don't prefer either of those.
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I'm surprised Twizzlers are winning.
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I'm surprised that there is any other option except for Twizzlers.
I have always had huge bag in my house but because I am diabetic I have to limit myself to 1 or maybe 2 per day. If sugar is running high, no Twizzlers for me and that is a sad day.
My current issue is remembering that I even have them but they are a nice surprise when I remember them weeks later.
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WOW! I had no idea those existed. I wonder how close to the originals taste they are.
Looks like I need to remember this on the next trip to Walmart.
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Sounds like they are sweetened with the same thing that caused sugar-free gummy bears to cause a lot of cases of diarrhea and gas. Maltitol syrup. Proceed with caution
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I'm surprised that the UN hasn't stepped in to put a stop to what is obviously a crime against mankind in both cases.
After a nuclear war there will be two things: cockroaches and waxy, crappy candy.
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Looks like the cockroaches will be starving.
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At the movie theater, my candy of choice is a bag of twizzlers. But the theater closest to my house doesn't carry them. So usually I have a box of red vines.
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I do enjoy me some fine licorice through. All sorts are good, I like the coconut additions. But nothing compares to the cat ears or salted herrings.. However I detest good and plenty, and I also have a strong dislike for anise in food, and dont like licorice in tea.
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...he says, casually, as if those two things are pretty much the same! Aaaah!
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Not close. To put it another way, unless you have non-functioning taste receptors, have you ever had ANYthing that is sugar-free, that tastes like the original? I've tried them all, including the lastest, nasty option (monkfruit) and they all, to me, have a horrible, sacchariny aftertaste.
Having said that, the wife and I went through a years long phase of drinking Diet Coke for some weird reason. Neither of us drink soft drinks now, and haven't in 20 years or so. Now that I think about it, she may have used that to try and wean me off the Dr. Pepper I so loved (still do, just never drink it...maybe ONE can a year, as a treat to myself).
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Right? I mean, one is akin to a bag of broken glass, while the other is more like a cup of partially frozen, fetid waste water.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:40 pm...he says, casually, as if those two things are pretty much the same! Aaaah!
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As you've seen in this thread, there are people who like both licorice and the "very much not-licorice" candies in the poll. So THOSE people could vote here... a third, missing, completely unrelated option be damned.TheMix wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:07 pmI understood that. But I felt you needed to understand why "I don't have an opinion on the actual poll". i.e. I'm not voting in your poll. I suppose all us licorice fans could have stayed out of the discussion. But I wouldn't want you to wonder why people weren't responding. Well... some people.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:46 pmDammit, guys.TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:50 am Firmly in the licorice camp. Real licorice. I only eat the red things under duress. I can't even remember the last time I saw Red Vines in a store. Maybe never. So I don't have an opinion on the actual poll. Unless we get an "Option 4: Give me the real stuff!".
I will put an option for "real licorice" in this poll which has NOTHING to with licorice, except possibly the shape of licorice is SOMETIMES in a cord like this...if I start to see people make polls like...."which of these is better, Fallout 2, Jagged Alliance 2, or 2003 Acura Legends?"
To put it another way, you don't have to change your poll. But you probably will get more responses to it if there is an option for those that don't prefer either of those.
Just admit that you're option 3, man, no one is judging! (much).
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"mmmm...broken glass.....LRLGRHRH"hepcat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:48 pmRight? I mean, one is akin to a bag of broken glass, while the other is more like a cup of partially frozen, fetid waste water.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:40 pm...he says, casually, as if those two things are pretty much the same! Aaaah!
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I've grown accustomed to a lot of diet tastes out of necessity.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:44 pmNot close. To put it another way, unless you have non-functioning taste receptors, have you ever had ANYthing that is sugar-free, that tastes like the original? I've tried them all, including the lastest, nasty option (monkfruit) and they all, to me, have a horrible, sacchariny aftertaste.
I really like the taste of all the Atkins brand stuff I've tried.
I've found that if the product uses Splenda it tastes way better for me.
I went from bottles of soda to diet soda to mostly Propel water now.
Thanks to Covid. My taste has been shot anywsy for over 2 years.
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Finally got a chance to taste these and...i like them!
Not quite as sweet as the originals but I can only just barely taste the difference.
They seem to be made a bit different. They are thinner and shorter then the originals.
Still need to watch how many i eat because there is still some carbs in them, but at least i can eat a few with less guilt.
I'm still keeping my originals on hand for those times when my sugar gets too low, but these are a fine alternative for regular eating for me.
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Redvines are too sweet. I'll have to look up the sugar-free Twizzlers, although the sugar alcohols used in sugar-free candies are usually quite the laxative.
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Sweet! (see what I did there?)Punisher wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:55 pmFinally got a chance to taste these and...i like them!
Not quite as sweet as the originals but I can only just barely taste the difference.
They seem to be made a bit different. They are thinner and shorter then the originals.
Still need to watch how many i eat because there is still some carbs in them, but at least i can eat a few with less guilt.
I'm still keeping my originals on hand for those times when my sugar gets too low, but these are a fine alternative for regular eating for me.
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Ethan and I enjoying some red vines as we wait for Wonka to start
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I thought this debate had ended weeks ago after everyone who said they enjoyed this type of “candy” admitted they were just lying as part of an elaborate prank? Now you people are dragging innocents like Ethan into this thing?
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I actually don't think I've had Red Vines. In doing a search, it seems like they originate in California? I'm assuming then the Twizzlers plant in Hershey, PA intercepts any of those trucks headed to NJ and destroys them without prejudice.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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I don't think I've ever seen them. I thought they were those nasty red shoestring things that tried to pass as candy. Which, for some reason, still exists.
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Yeah, those things are just annoying. How about red ropes? I used to consume about one a day from the high school concession store-Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:02 amI don't think I've ever seen them. I thought they were those nasty red shoestring things that tried to pass as candy. Which, for some reason, still exists.
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