Growing up In Finland it was the only candy we would really want to eat, and if given a bag of mixed sweets would first fish out all the salmiakki (salty liquorice), and in the end reluctantly go on with the other, more lame sweets in the bag.
Can't imagine why someone from the land of fermented shark flesh would like the flavor of ammonia.
In Denmark we mixed in some pepper with the salt, making salty licorice with pepper inside (Tyrkisk Peber). People love that stuff.
I just ate a bag of it tonight in Sweden, I love that stuff!
I used to eat bags of it. It's my favorite.
TBF ammonium chloride tastes as much like ammonia as sodium chloride tastes like chlorine.