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The Junkees - Dave O'Neil and Kitty Flanagan

Licorice ◼️ Liquorice

18 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the significance of licorice in this episode?

9.667 - 12.491 Dave O'Neill

Hello and welcome to our podcast of junkies. I'm Dave O'Neill.

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12.751 - 32.718 Kitty Flanagan

I'm Kitty Flanagan. It's the sweet and salty roundabout with Possum and the Big Guy. Get on board! Choo-choo! I'm hyped because of all the mochi doughnuts I ate last week.

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32.778 - 37.885 Dave O'Neill

Yes, and everyone's over Easter now. We're just going to move on with life.

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38.135 - 53.051 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah, I'm just going to... I think I gave a bit of a bum steer on mochi doughnuts. They're a Japanese-Hawaiian fusion. Oh, wow, they are a bit Japanese then. Yeah, because of the mochi. Blending American doughnuts with Japanese mochi, which is known for its chewy texture.

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53.411 - 53.912 Dave O'Neill

There you go.

54.693 - 59.498 Kitty Flanagan

Created in 1992 in Hawaii, she created the poi mochi.

61.34 - 62.962 Dave O'Neill

You were right, they were created in Hawaii.

63.082 - 63.342 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah.

64.443 - 65.064 Dave O'Neill

Just get some.

Chapter 2: What types of licorice treats are featured in the discussion?

176.628 - 177.889 Dave O'Neill

Chewy. They're a chewy thing.

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177.929 - 179.571 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah, they're like a chewy licorice.

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179.591 - 183.094 Dave O'Neill

They used to be licorice chews. They used to be chocolate chews and licorice chews.

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183.114 - 184.215 Kitty Flanagan

And columbine chews.

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184.315 - 190.4 Dave O'Neill

Yes, there were three of them. And they were great. They used to buy them at the newsagents. That's right. And the chocolate chews were beautiful.

190.42 - 194.344 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah, I loved the licorice ones. And these are the closest thing I've seen to licorice chews.

194.444 - 196.986 Dave O'Neill

They're blackjacks, they're called. You see them overseas, blackjacks.

197.006 - 201.69 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah, I think they might be from the UK. So where do you want to start? No, the original. Plain old licorice.

201.871 - 207.176 Dave O'Neill

The original and the best. So what was the journey factory like?

Chapter 3: How do the hosts compare different licorice products?

304.355 - 304.936 Dave O'Neill

I'm trying green.

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307.761 - 309.544 Kitty Flanagan

Different? Are you tasting a difference?

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309.564 - 310.345 Dave O'Neill

Yeah. Yeah.

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310.866 - 313.089 Kitty Flanagan

Oh, yeah. The red's like strawberry. That's good.

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313.31 - 313.811 Dave O'Neill

Green's good.

314.191 - 316.755 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah. What else have we got? There's yellow in there, I think.

316.775 - 317.216 Dave O'Neill

I'll get a yellow one.

317.256 - 321.503 Kitty Flanagan

Well, they're just from the Warragul lolly shop, so I don't even know what brand they are.

321.533 - 322.835 Dave O'Neill

Oh, we should do the blackjack.

Chapter 4: What unique licorice flavors do the hosts explore?

402.333 - 425.155 Kitty Flanagan

Oh, yeah. Aniseed balls were red. These are black. Remember if you sucked it down to the end, you got like a little smarty? Sorry, not a smarty, like a hundreds and thousands was at the centre of the... Oh, frankly. You probably don't remember because by the time you got to a certain point, you'd just chew them, just crunch them. I'm finding a hard time to get through this.

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426.197 - 428.661 Kitty Flanagan

I haven't got any aniseed yet. I have. There it is.

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429.102 - 432.088 Dave O'Neill

They're good. Where do you get those?

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432.249 - 435.295 Kitty Flanagan

Once you get that smooth coating off. They're from the Warragul lolly shop as well.

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435.415 - 436.557 Dave O'Neill

Go Warragul. Represent.

436.638 - 439.682 Kitty Flanagan

Yep, Warragul, where I thought I was doing a 250 seater and it was 750.

439.762 - 442.725 Dave O'Neill

Oh, that's right. You thought I'd be laughing that much, but there's only a couple of hundred.

442.745 - 443.126 Kitty Flanagan

That's right.

443.206 - 454.059 Dave O'Neill

Lights come up. Jesus Christ. Millions of people here. Why weren't you laughing? Maybe they were all sucking on these. Got our antecedent balls, Kitty.

Chapter 5: What are the latest snack trends mentioned in the episode?

591.688 - 594.753 Dave O'Neill

They had a crack at Pringles with their miniatures.

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594.973 - 595.474 Kitty Flanagan

Yeah.

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595.514 - 600.221 Dave O'Neill

And now they've brought out oven baked crackers. Barbecue. Flavoured crackers.

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600.501 - 608.914 Kitty Flanagan

And they're even the same shape as a barbecue shape. Oh, shots fired. Shots fired. I mean, that's a hexagon. How many sides of a hexagon? Six?

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608.934 - 612.98 Dave O'Neill

Yeah, you'll probably know better than me. It's not a trapezoid.

615.003 - 622.013 Kitty Flanagan

And yeah, I mean, I can't believe the similarity here. It's outrageous what they've done. Like that's just a straight out.

622.033 - 623.295 Dave O'Neill

Six-sided polygon.

623.461 - 624.963 Kitty Flanagan

That's a straight out copy, isn't it?

625.644 - 627.106 Dave O'Neill

Yep, that's a hexagon.

Chapter 6: How do cultural attitudes towards candy differ around the world?

1194.092 - 1215.815 Kitty Flanagan

Is that her name? Marianne, maybe. Anyway, she's in Pennsylvania. Oh, Pennsylvania. Yeah, Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And she sent us peanut butter candy cakes. They're a cake with chocolate flavoured coating and peanut butter filling. So that's a lot of our favourite things. Cake, chocolate and peanut butter.

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1215.835 - 1217.697 Dave O'Neill

Oh, it's like a Jaffa cake.

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1217.717 - 1218.418 Kitty Flanagan

Jaffa cake, is it?

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1218.438 - 1218.718 Dave O'Neill

Sort of.

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1219.599 - 1226.547 Unknown

Oh, nice, though. Mmm.

1227.748 - 1233.053 Kitty Flanagan

Okay. Yeah, that same weird texture that you get in a Jaffa cake. Yeah. I like it.

1233.694 - 1234.294 Dave O'Neill

You like that?

1234.314 - 1237.618 Kitty Flanagan

That is nice. Yeah. They do a very nice peanut butter in America.

1237.638 - 1238.318 Dave O'Neill

They do a good peanut butter.

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