Its like a Princess Bride quote "you keep using that word. I don' think it means what you think it means".
Horehounds sound like, well, something socially inacceptable. Hence bands making song with Horehounds in the title. But its an herb of some sort.
But the candies are pretty good. You should try some. Amazon will ship you a bag by dinner time.
Most candy stores, if they have wide ranging types of candy, will have horehounds there somewhere.
To me they taste like what I think molasses would taste like, but, not exactly.
Inconceivable.