Well, I'm so far from 'sane' that I can't even see it on a good day, but I will note that:

- licorice -when properly balanced- is lovely
- Glycyrrhizin -is- problematic in large quantities, yeah, but so is salt
- anise/licorice flavor is utterly essential for certain liqueurs (but it usually gets mixed with a lot of other herbs, except for Ouzo, which is -lovely- but, I admit, an extremely acquired taste)

>> Except vichyssoise, and was that really even cooked? Cold onion soup, blech.
>> Who thought that was a good idea?

I would gather "the French" - inventors of mayonnaise, you know. ;-)

>> "By the government, not the people they're directly protecting. It's...
>> different." Remilia sighed.
>
>Would the government of the area in question in the 1200s have really
>been set up to be, or interested in, paying a monster hunting squad?

I think a better question would be "how many wandering Van Helsings were in the area who would take a bounty on the local vampires" ;-)