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You'd think the package would have a warning on it?

• Wistar 6y ago
  It usually is sold loose, by the gram, in DK.
  • flemhans 6y ago
    I would always buy it in bags.
    • Wistar 6y ago
      This was in 1987 and came from a little candy store across the street from where I lived in Østerbro just on the edge of Hellerup. IIRC it was sold loose as I remember him eating the pipes out of a paper bag.
• ponker 6y ago
  Dutch people don’t need a warning to stop them from eating a pound of licorice in a sitting. Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American.
  • umvi 6y ago
    ...so just let tourists and foreigners in your country fend for themselves and hope the internet warns them before they eat too much unlabeled poison?
    • rabboRubble 6y ago
      let's hope those tourists and foreigners read Dutch if and when labels are added to packaging!
      • ben_w 6y ago
        I use Google Translate when I browse food somewhere I can’t read the language.
  • dang 6y ago
    This comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24581592 are obviously not cool. If you keep posting flamewar comments we're going to have to ban you again. I don't want to do that, so can you please fix this? Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255339 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469154?
    • ponker 6y ago
      What is your claim here? That Americans do not consume in absurd quantities as a way of life? Meat, sugar, oil, land, etc.? Is this even a matter of serious debate?
      • samatman 6y ago
        The Netherlands has a 20% obesity rate. Granted that this isn't the 36% in the United States. But it doesn't justify your confident claim that Nederlanders never engage in 'wanton consumption'; clearly a fifth of your compatriots take a third stroopwafel when a single serving would suffice.
      • httpsterio 6y ago
        The acts of an individual is not indicative of a whole country. Don't generalize, it's of poor taste.
      • asxd 6y ago
        You get to choose the things you say, and although many might agree your statement has some truth to it, I don't see how it adds any substance to the conversation.
      • dang 6y ago
        My claim is that you have been trolling HN with nationalistic flamebait ("Wanton excess as a way of life is culturally American") and we need you to stop.
• mr_toad 6y ago
  Where do you draw the line? People have died from drinking too much water, probably more than have been killed by liquorice.
  • umvi 6y ago
    My body naturally tells me when I'm not thirsty anymore. I'm not sure my body would tell me when I'm reaching toxic levels of glycyrrhizic acid if I'm snacking on licorice all day. Just a label like "Licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid. Do not consume more than 10 mg glycyrrhizic acid per day." Or even just "Licorice contains glycyrrhizic acid." would be enough for people to google it.
• guenthert 6y ago
  You can't make it fool-proof.
• userbinator 6y ago
  WARNING: Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals known to the state of California to cause death.