Want to taste a licorice with lots of flavor? Taste Rips! Now a bigger package of your favorite candy! Innovation in licorice. Eat some. Share some. Rips brand licorice is no ordinary licorice! It is sweet & sour sugar-sanded licorice with intense fruity flavor. Peter W. De Yager. CEO, President & Owner. The Foreign Candy Company, Inc. Hull, Iowa.