mmm, licorice.

mmm, libraries.

Ill is more or less gone in the old sense of the word around here. Now, Our whole collection floats . Which if you borrow within the county system -- wherever you return the book it stay s until someone takes it out. Fantastic for little libraries like mine. and when we get to much stuff we just send it to the big library. then we belong to another system where yo can borrow from a whole bunch of other libraries for free- but the late fees and lost fees are very high.

ILL here is very easy - you can have any book in the Brooklyn system sent to any Brooklyn library, and they'll email/call/text you when it gets there.

The one annoying thing is that the boroughs all have completely separate library systems, so there's no ILL between Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Understandable because when the library systems were created, all the boroughs were separate cities. But still.)

I do not like licorice, but I like ouzo, anisette (liquor), and LOVE LOVE LOVE fennel. Grilled fennel is the best.

*gets on soapbox*

Let me just make it clear: anise is not licorice. It is often used in products that are then called licorice but anise is from an entirely different plant. Anise: [link] Licorice: [link]

I happen to like both flavors and I don't even mind if a licorice candy uses both licorice root and anise.

*gets off soapbox*

Kat, I think the difference is that I can check books out from UC libraries. And if that's not different, then the UCLA Alumni Assoc is using false advertising when it says that privileges at all UC libraries is a benefit of membership.

I really should go to LAPL. I haven't been there since the early '80s, I think.

Also? Red and other flavor Vines, Twizzlers, etc. is not licorice.

And now for something completely different:

Bags of cereal-type marshmallows.

My glucose went up just looking at the site.

I did kind of think of them as interchangeable (anise and licorice). I know the red ones are not licorice, but I don't like them either. Too waxy or something. The Red Vines are safe from me.

*high fives DCJ*

Also? White "chocolate" is not chocolate. You may love it, but don't call it chocolate.

I don't consider milk chocolate chocolate, either. So white chocolate never stood a chance with me.

Also....

Let me just make it clear: anise is not licorice. It is often used in products that are then called licorice but anise is from an entirely different plant. Anise: [link] Licorice: [link]

Huh. Not only did I think licorice was anise, I was under the distinct impression (from somebody who had a pretty thorough knowledge of plants) that anise and fennel were the same plant.

I don't care if licorice isn't anise (though in the middle east it sometimes made out of it) - they both taste like teh evil.

White chocolate and milk chocolate heretics: I'll bring some extra Max Brenner of these kinds to the U.S. just for you, and watch you, in person, rejoice at your wrongness. There!