About 25 years ago when I was at school there was a lad who joined the school half way through the term. He had moved from Australia to England with his Dads work. He only stayed about a year and then they moved back I think.
He lived near me so one night after school I went back to his and we were watching TV and messing about and he said do you want some liquorish? Yeah I said, then he offered me what I thought was sugar coated liquorish but it was salt....I ate it, very odd stuff but not horrible.
This was the first and last time I had heard of it until this thread. I kind of feel better now that it wasn't some bizarre concoction he had created himself as I have never forgotten it.