Found an old liquorice allsort in my drawer, eat or bin it?

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

Just found a shrivelled liquorish allsort in the bottom of my untidy bedside drawer. Do I eat it or throw it?

Ummmm why would you even consider eating it?!

Eating a fresh liquorice is bad enough

Greed.

Personally, in the interests of stopping waste and saving the planet I think you should eat it RIGHT NOW!

Just eat it

Try steaming it to get a bit of moisture into it - should be fine then 😁

We need a photo pls, then we can decide!

If it's one of the pink or blue bobbly ones, eat it. Otherwise, bin. Those things are disgusting.

Eat it!

....but make sure you sterilise it first in the time honoured way of either blowing on it or rubbing it on your trousers.

Eat it of course. It’s a travesty to chuck out a liquorice allsort!

Bin it, especially if it's a coconut one. Rancid coconut can look normal but it's horrible.

Haven’t had a licorice all sort in decades! Might just buy a bag for the nostalgia

If it helps OP I found a chocolate Brazil nut under my chair last week that will have been there since Christmas.

I ate it. I enjoyed it and nothing bad happened.

Pull the hair and bobby pins and bits of cotton wool off it and bung it down the hatch.

If you pause to consider then you have to bin it, don’t you? The eating impulse has to be faster than the logic neurons.

(I’d have eaten it)

Dust it down and eat it - good for you.
I love liquorice!

@Slightyamusedandsilly @Bjorkdidit Welcome to the MN Household Slut Club.

Conclusive proof that you haven’t hoovered under furniture / cleared out drawers automatically advances you to Associate Member Status , your membership cards, car and door stickers will be sent under separate cover.

eBay it - rare vintage liquorice allsort

I've only just come across this thread but I'm invested now...did you eat it OP?

I totally would have - wouldn't even have gotten to MN to deliberate.

Out of curiosity, how old are we talking? Weeks? Months? Years old?

Think of your teeth first!

I worked in Basset's making liquorice allsorts for one week - that's all I lasted! The first thing I was told was I could eat as many as I liked, but I couldn't put half eaten ones back on the conveyor belt!!!!!

That’s not very hygienic! All those people will sometimes touch their mouths when eating them 😟

Fully paid up member of the MN Household Slut Club (MNHSC).

It's eaten. It was tasty but chewier than usual.

If you're ever in John Lewis and they have these out to sample, try them, they come in a few flavour variations and they're all delicious. Expensive but delicious. The sample lady went for a break and I took advantage. Mmmm.

I see your liquorice allsort and I raise you a Flyte Bar that went out of date in 2009.

Found a few weeks ago in the back of a cupboard (even more embarrassing is the fact we moved house 7 months after it went out of date, so we brought an out of date chocolate bar with us).

It used to be my absolute favourite. Can’t bring myself to throw it away. But if I open it and eat it I just know it will be disappointment and ruin my memory of how good they actually tasted.

Sigh. Photos attached for proof!