Haribo Lakritz Schnecken Licorice Wheels 175g (6.2oz)

Haribo Lakritz Schnecken Licorice Wheels are 175g of the classic German rolled licorice candy — soft, chewy licorice spiralled into flat wheels, the Schnecken (snail) format that Haribo produces as its soft licorice line alongside the better-known Goldbären and gummy formats, in the mild, European-style licorice that is gentler than Scandinavian salt licorice but still unmistakably the liquorice root-derived sweet. Haribo was founded in Bonn by Hans Riegel in 1920 and the licorice lines — including the Schnecken wheels — represent the brand's engagement with the European licorice tradition that runs from Dutch drop through German and Austrian liquorice sweets, a tradition that shares a continent with gummy candy but appeals to the distinctly different palate that prefers the earthy, herbal sweetness of licorice root to the fruit-flavoured gummy format. European licorice wheels are embedded in the German candy aisle: the licorice format that appears alongside the gummies in the Haribo range, that the licorice-devoted buyer seeks out specifically while the gummy-lovers pick the Goldbären, and that the European candy tradition has maintained for generations as the sweet for the palate that grew up appreciating the particular taste that the rest of the world's candy aisle doesn't replicate. Share at a film night with the licorice lovers in the group, mix into a Haribo assortment for textural variety, eat from the bag as the satisfying chewy licorice roll, or give as the classic European licorice format to anyone who will appreciate a soft licorice wheel that Haribo has been perfecting since its earliest days.