I used to eat a lot of Pontefract cakes or Barratt Hard Liquorice sticks (not sure of the US equivalent.) Sadly, my sweet eating days are over as pretty much all sweets contain Palm oil or High fructose corn syrup, two ingredients I generally avoid. There is an alternative, using natural liquorice root sticks and making into a tea (do a search,) it is a staple in Chinese herbal medicine.