1963: 50 Times SWEETER Than Sugar | Tonight | Childhood Nostalgia | BBC Archive

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Licorice root will help inhibit high levels of cortisol and is really good for inflammation. But too much licorice extract could develop an excess amount of mineralocorticoids and you can start losing potassium and retaining sodium. Benefits of Licorice Root: • Anti-ulcer • Gastritis • Viral Hepatitis - especially the type that is autoimmune • Anti-Inflammatory • Coughing • Adaptogen - helps with stress by balancing cortisol

[@OlafProt]

Keep bringing the Fyfe, Beeb. It’s always so interesting, and often rather lyrical. Although nothing would make me eat liquorice bleurgh 😂😂😂 (Have you got the one where he talks about LSD?)

[@1969Kismet]

I hear "Pontefract cake" and I see Albert Arkwright 🤣

[@jasonayres]

In my youth, to be like "a bag of licorice allsorts" was to suggest you were muddle headed- you couldn't make clear decisions, or even not in "your right mind". Mind you, I felt totally in my right mind when I ate them, yeah!

[@jasper3127]

50 times stronger it was the fentanyl of its day! 😅 it's very interesting and quaintly informs you of things in that once ubiquitous, now obsolete, BBC accent. This video highlights the rarer Scottish BBC inflection.

[@stephenwilliams926]

They have a machine for that now 0:03 😢

[@postscript67]

Is liquorice still grown in Pontefract and liquorice sweets still made there? Can some Pontefractian/Pontefracter or whatever they are called enlighten us?

[@paulhellawell5920]

The licorice tanker smells lovely when delivering to the sweet factory. Plants are still grown for the nostalgia.

[@Rr0gu3_5uture]

Proper liquorice is delicious, unfortunately most peoples first taste of it is the horrible mass produced stuff.

[@MargaretUK]

I loved that! Especially the chap in flat cap and specs complaining about 'young men today'.......people back then didn't know how lucky they were, none of this nonsense wokery for a start, amazing how things have changed.

[@KarmasAbutch]

I’m almost scared to agree coz of all these eggshells I’ve got to walk on now 😂

[@stepheng8779]

Haha wokery, snuck in a video about sweets 😂 well done Maggie