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[DESTROYA]

Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice

Doctors say a Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life

abcnews.go.com

Turns out the problem is glycyrrhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals called electrolytes.
This is a extreme case but can throw your nutrition out of whack . It increases blood pressure that caused the man to have a heart attack.

 

[nush]

Died of eating too much Big Black Candy.

 

[Pumpkin Seeds]

Fuck that bitch.

I love licorice. It settles my stomach. I don't eat hordes of it but I pop a few in here and there. Better than pepto unless you got the mad shits.

Tastes great. Anise, too. Electrolytes? What are you? Gatorade? Take vitamins, eat licorice, pound it.


WORD

 

[MrS]

Pardon me I had to laugh at that

 

[DESTROYA]

Fuck that bitch.

I love licorice. It settles my stomach. I don't eat hordes of it but I pop a few in here and there. Better than pepto unless you got the mad shits.

Tastes great. Anise, too. Electrolytes? What are you? Gatorade? Take vitamins, eat licorice, pound it.


WORD

It was nice knowing you.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

Black Licorice Murders

 

[Pumpkin Seeds]

It was nice knowing you.

Twizzlers are teh food of the non-binary devil.


Black Licorice or riot.

In Louisville

because laws are confusing

 

[HarryKS]

I thought it was gonna be from eating a bag of dicks.

 

[Tesseract]

reset the honk

 

[Karma Jawa]

Not surprised. It's disgusting.

 

[Cunth]

Nature warned us of its dangers by making it taste like shit

 

[Tesseract]

Fuck that bitch.

I love licorice. It settles my stomach. I don't eat hordes of it but I pop a few in here and there. Better than pepto unless you got the mad shits.

Tastes great. Anise, too. Electrolytes? What are you? Gatorade? Take vitamins, eat licorice, pound it.


WORD

trip is that you

 

[Frito_Pendejo]

Died of eating too much Big Black Candy.

Is he a Kadarshian?

 

[iconmaster]

"Glycyrrhizin" looks like a word from Eastern Europe, or something you'd type as you were keeling over from too much of it.

I hope he was snacking on a proper licorice and not black Twizzlers – those couldn't have done it, I'm sure.

I like Willy Wallaby when I don't have the hard stuff.

 

[Nester99]

Instant craving for black licorice. As I am over 40 is this more or less dangerous than going to get groceries with no mask??

 

[Grinchy]

Wow, that's insane and I never would have thought about it. There was a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry gets obsessed with the licorice at a car dealership.

I spent my entire life avoiding black licorice, but for some reason that show made me try some and I ate a bag of it like a fiend in a few days. My shits were a weird green color because of all the food dye.

 

[Amory]

If I'm gonna die from eating too much candy it sure as fuck isn't gonna be licorice

 

[bronk]

Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice

Doctors say a Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life

abcnews.go.com

Turns out the problem is glycyrrhizic acid, found in black licorice and in many other foods and dietary supplements containing licorice root extract. It can cause dangerously low potassium and imbalances in other minerals called electrolytes.
This is a extreme case but can throw your nutrition out of whack . It increases blood pressure that caused the man to have a heart attack.

My dad eats a fuck load of the grape licorice. Oh hell naw. Im telling him not to get em anymore. Dark purple too close to black.

 

[J-Roderton]

What a way to go. Damn.

 

[Northeastmonk]

My mother always made me sick with her love of black licorice. I thought it tasted disgusting. I like the red stuff, especially those that pull apart. Black licorice is up there with tootsie rolls and malt balls.

 

[Rentahamster]

electrolytes

It's what plants crave

 

[iconmaster]

My dad eats a fuck load of the grape licorice. Oh hell naw. Im telling him not to get em anymore. Dark purple too close to black.

If it's grape it probably doesn't have any of the real licorice root, and is probably completely harmless.

Black licorice is my fugu.

 

[TaySan]

RIP

Balance is key folks.

 

[Armorian]

Reminds me of...

 

[and 3 others]

Breaking, Police released the video

 

[GymWolf]

I only like liquorice rolls from haribo...

Oh and liquorice mojito...

 

[Prison Mike]

Died of eating too much Big Black Candy.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

It flushes out of the system if you take a break every week or two. I put dry licorice root in my tea and it carries the same warning. There are also 'de-glycyrrized" licorice extract people take for the benefits.

 

[Melon Husk]

I once ate two pounds of licorice in one go.

He collapsed while having lunch at a fast-food restaurant. Doctors found he had dangerously low potassium, which led to heart rhythm and other problems.

Co-morbidity: This guy didn't eat his veggies.

 

[RoadHazard]

Another reason why you shouldn't eat liquorice, the other being that it's the worst tasting shit on the planet. So disgusting.

 

[Spaceman292]

Fuck that bitch.

I love licorice. It settles my stomach. I don't eat hordes of it but I pop a few in here and there. Better than pepto unless you got the mad shits.

Tastes great. Anise, too. Electrolytes? What are you? Gatorade? Take vitamins, eat licorice, pound it.


WORD

Someone needs to put a hot beat behind these lyrics

 

[Kenpachii]

Did the new york times already mention how black candy is opressed yet?

 

[Texas Pride]

I love licorice and had no idea it raises blood pressure. But I'd wager the guy was a total fat ass eating that much candy and dropping dead at a fast food join on lunch break. The TLDR is overeating will kill you. Yeah no shit.

 

[Kev Kev]

must have some pretty long black licorice..... THICK too

 

[Ikutachi]

Licorice is good fish bait.

 

[jufonuk]

No gonna lie. I fucking love licorice

 

[Nymphae]

Fuck that bitch.

I love licorice. It settles my stomach. I don't eat hordes of it but I pop a few in here and there.

He ate bags of it, you're calling him a bitch because you eat "a few here and there" lol. Eat a couple bags and report back tough guy.

I ate almost a full bag of large Pull and Peels once and it gave me fucked up heart palpitations, haven't touched the stuff since.

 

[EviLore]

 

[buizel]

and thats why i hate black licqourice

 

[Kadayi]

and thats why i hate black licqourice

Why? Was he a friend of yours?

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Nature warned us of its dangers by making it taste like shit

Fuck nature.

 

[manfestival]

My dad eats a fuck load of the grape licorice. Oh hell naw. Im telling him not to get em anymore. Dark purple too close to black.

You really should tell him to just consume it every once in a while. Just to be safe

 

[Kamina]

Too much water can kill you too

 

[Mihos]

Too much water can kill you too

Did that chick's family ever get that Wii BTW?

 

[buizel]

Why? Was he a friend of yours?

no, but it tastes like death

and now we know why

 

[bender]

My superior tastes buds will save me from this fate.

 

[Tesseract]

no, but it tastes like death

and now we know why

put that on his gravestone

 

[Kadayi]

no, but it tastes like death

Mortician right?

 

[poodaddy]

Man I fucking love black licorice too...... Nutritional imbalance huh? Tell ya what, I'll probably keep eating my BBL, (big black licorice), but I'll balance out the nutritional impact by upping my beer, wine, and spirits intake while getting extra mushrooms on my pizza. I'm sure everything'll work itself out.

 

[Kadayi]

Man I fucking love black licorice too...... Nutritional imbalance huh? Tell ya what, I'll probably keep eating my BBL, (big black licorice), but I'll balance out the nutritional impact by upping my beer, wine, and spirits intake while getting extra mushrooms on my pizza. I'm sure everything'll work itself out.

Indeed. I read this story and was like 'huh, good to know' and then went and found out that I do indeed have a couple of bags of the black stuff stashed away in the cupboard and busted some out because I like living on the edge, plus it's delish. My only regret is that I forgot to buy some of the red as well because that stuff is awesome too.