red licorice

Strawberry candy tubes

Red licorice is a chewy candy shaped like traditional licorice twists or ropes but flavored with fruit—usually strawberry or cherry—rather than actual licorice root.

The name is a misnomer since it contains no licorice at all, just borrows the form: Twizzlers are the most popular red licorice in America.

Sometimes called licorice simply by color association.

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rope · sweet · pull apart · twist off · pull · twist · vine · rubbery · snack · movie · theater · peel · strand · sugary · sugar rush · treat · stringy · bite

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candy color/type

red licoriceblack licorice

Anise-flavored dark candy

licorice whips · Dutch licorice · salty licorice · drop

Family

licorice, reds, redden, reddish, redness, redder, reddest

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G