AMERICANS TRY SWEDISH LICORICE FT. STEFAN THYRON!
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- Someone, please tell me why I bought so much licorice?!
Hi, friends! In this video, I am joined by my fellow American-turned Swedish- CZcamsr, Stefan Thyron! Thanks so much for doing this horrible licorice challenge with me, you're a real trooper!
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I like that you at least eat it without spitting it out like many Americans tends to do when trying it 😅 Also I love that you guys are making videos together. I watch both of your channels 👍🏻
🙌🏼🙌🏼 thank you so much! ❤️
@@KimberlySorce why didnt you buy some regular lakrits? The black soft without salt
To me the non-spitting was more of a surprise, given the initial statement that you don't like it.
I don't like licorice, and I would not be able to eat those candies that well. I'd much rather have some Surströmming, which is essentially salty fish with an aroma that takes some getting used to...
yeah, also alot of americans say the love licorice but when they taste real licorice like we have they wont eat it haha :)
Liquorice is flavoured and coloured with the extract of the roots of the black liquorice plant. In pure soft liquorice no sugar is added as the natural extract has a high content of glycyrrhizic acid, a natural sweetener, which tastes about 50 times sweeter than actual sugar. Gums and pastilles are usually made with sugar. Liquorice should not be confused with anise, which has a similar taste (found in Ouzo and Rakı). 'Red licorice', manufactured in the US, does not contain any liquorice at all.
Liquorice has been used as a antitussive and expectorant medicine for a very long time. It is in fact still used in cough medicines and is regarded as a potent pharmaceutical substance. Glycyrrhizin affects the adrenal glands and changes the balance between cortisol and cortisone, which might explain the stress-reducing effect describe by some people. It also seems to reduce inflammatory responses as it is a COX2 inhibitor.
Liquorice does have negative effects too. Most of them are harmless, but some might be problematic. It is a laxative, which might not always be desirable. Regular intake of large amounts tend to cause hypertension. It also seems to gradually reduce testosterone levels, which might cause problems for men. There are rare but regularly occurring cases of severe adverse reactions, usually caused by excessive consumption over long time.
There are almost no completely harmless food substances, too much of anything may cause problems. Average daily intake in the Nordic countries is no more than four grammes. According to the Swedish National Food Agency, exceeding five grammes per day for longer periods of time should be avoided. Consuming more than 50 grammes per day is considered as potentially harmful. The liquorice plant is related to peanuts. As cross reactions do occur, people with a severe peanut allergy should avoid liquorice.
Salty liquorice is flavoured with salmiac, (sal ammoniac) = ammonium chloride, which is otherwise mostly used as a fertilizer and in some batteries. The practice seems to originate from The Netherlands and northern Germany, probably during the late 1800's or early 1900's, and quite soon got a strong foothold in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It was originally intended for medicinal use, primarily indigestion. Many pharmacies made their own pastilles and they soon became popular as a 'healthy' sweet. It caught the attention of some of the larger confectionery manufacturers during the late 1930's, and by the 1950's they had largely taken over the production. Natural sweet liquorice became sweets for children, salty liquorice became the grown up version. Salmiac is not toxic, but excessive consumption may cause temporary confusion and irregular hearth rhythm. In Germany, salty liquorice must be labelled as 'Erwachsenenlakritz - kein Kinderlakritz' (Liquorice for grown ups - not children's liquorice).
Dutch is Dubbelzout
You should try "svenskdjävlar" (swedish devils) they are even "stronger" then djungelvrål. There are also some Icelandic licorice that are so "salty" thath I think you would faint just by looking at them. He he. Love your videos by the way.
Djungelvrål is overrated
@@spiritwolf7 svenskdjävlar is over rated.
Love Freyja lakrits, like sterkar djúpur, bingokúlur, lakkris bombur and djúpur. Also Lakrids by Bülow is a really nice brand.
(Btw "then" means "då", and "than" means "än", common mistake though, and I don't blame you😉)
Have a go at tjärpastillar. A Finnish item but big in Sweden historically. It literally translates to "tar" as the flavor is tar.
One of my favourites, they are really yummi.
Terva Leijona - finnish tar-candy. Delicious.
@@SteamboatW I always buy a lot of those when I travel with Viking Line or Silja Line :D
Reflections;
What about Tyrkisk Peber?? The best of them all! I can eat a bag in one night, and the day after I wonder why my mouth feels strange...
Come on - get with it! It is not all that bad... Soon you will love it! It is like olives...or something... Hahahaha...
@Stefanthyron: Piteå!!! :-) My hometown... So happy for this! It is great - I hope the weather is with you!
This was wo much fun seeing the two of you together! Made my day.
Always thought licorice (drop) was a Dutch thing, turns out Scandinavia and the North of Germany likes it to. Will be in Norway this summer so surely will try me some of that Scandinavian black gold.
Yeah I thought licorice was only a thing in the Netherlands :-D My grandma always gave me drop 😁 (and spekkies) The taste can be quite intense sometimes. Maybe countries with rainy weather invented it to stay warm ;-)
Scandinavia and the Netherlands are very similar. Not the same, but very similar, down to the love of herring.
belive me 90% of there "Drop" come from the Netherlands
Licorice and Salmiak are two different flavors. Often they are combined. It's the Salmiak flavor that is unique to Finland and Sweden. Another name for it is ammonium chloride and it was used as a fertilizer in the past.
So, 10 months later, did you try any?
They did a test some years ago with candy, and the result was ; asia liked sweet'n'sour , most of Europe and US liked sweet and norden Europe liked lakritc . One theorie is that we stored our food (fish, meat etc) in salt during the winter.
Fun video. I’ve been watching Stefan for a while so it was fun seeing you doing a video together!
hehe. Lovely seeing you guys doing a video together!
I can already see Stefan going through the transformation phase lol. Give it a few more tries and some time and he will crave it as much as myself
Oooh, I really like the idea of licorice latte! 😍😍😍 I’ll have to try that. ☕️
Whaaaat! Nice colab! 💪🇸🇪
Love the video, fun to see you both in a video.
Wow really cool to see you guys in the same video. American from MD living in Uppsala and I’m subscribed to both channels!! Let’s go!
The reasoning at the end is literally why I as a kid loved both licorice and sour candies. The horrible and shocking experience, was the fun of it.. if that makes sense. It was like a dare of finding the worst thing - and at the end of it, it just... turned into love.
When i saw this i got a really bad craving for Djungelvrål so tomorrow i definitely will go and purchase a bag. Cheers from Eksjö! 😎
All of those you tried i absolutely love, except the powder one! Heja Sverige, vi kan vårat Lakrits! ;)
I love liquorice. We have some that is even more salty. Svenskjävlar. So good 😍
there is an hell of an difference between sweet and salty lakris
You guys should really try the Icelandic Sterkar Djupur. It’s a sweet licorice covered by chocolate which is again covered in a very thin layer of salmiak. Really tasty. Can be bought at Lakritsroten and other more well-assorted stores. Not in most stores though. Its one of those licorice candies that can actually be nice even to non-licorice lovers.
The collab we're all been waiting for.
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Haha, you're drawn to the extremes. If it's not this God awful shrimp cheese it's licorice. I avoid both like the plague and I'm swedish. Great to see you both collaborating. Love both of you!
😂😂😂 I like the shrimp cheese! Licorice… not so much haha
First time here , but i follow Stefan ....Loved this one, as a Dane this was so funny to watch " underdeveloped American palates" :-) all of the nordic countries love "lakrids" and not all of it is Salt lakrids.. salmiak flavor is also eaten alot... and one thing, besides even tackling the licorice stuff, is that you didnt like a ton of Americans would do, just spit it out
Those are so meek, You should try Svensk Jävlar from Haupt.
Bassets is British sweet licorice - not really licorice flavored.
You should try vanilla icecream with some cloudberry jam (hjortron sylt) next time. The berries are yellow/orange in colour, in texture it is similar to blackberry, or rasberry, but tastes completely different.
It is very popular in the North of Sweden. I remember I did'nt liking it as a child, when my relatives in Norrland took me for a walk on the mires for picking some cloudberry, today I like it quite a lot. It is a berry for the grown-ups I guess. 😉
Åh ja! Har en myr utanför mitt sommarställe i Ångermanland där vi kunde plocka litervis på några timmar. Varmt och blött att gå runt i våtmarken men så värt det. Har mängder med hjortron i frysen men har glömt att använda dem faktiskt. Får ta tag i det, är riktigt gott.
love the licorice in Sweden. have you tried the panda licorice from Finland? we can buy it in Iowa very easily. very good too!
Im norwegian and have loved lakris my whole life. So it must be a nordic thing 😂😎
We had Dunkin Dinuts here for like 5 years but they pulled out of Sweden during the pandemic. Here the ice coffe was Not sweetened which I actually was expecting it to be. The number of Starbucks locations also shrunk during the pandemic. We do have Cinnabon though talking about sugar. 😁
Haribo is German and Bassetts is English.
Without really knowing, I guess that powder was Ammonium Chloride. During Chemistry lessons in school, we sometimes sneaked out into the room where all the chemicals were stored, and eat a few spoonfuls from the Ammonium Chloride jar. We thought it was sooo delicious!
I actually tried Djungelvrål a few weeks ago. Soo disappointed, it only tasted salty on the outside, and it was a bit too hard to be really chewy.
Oh, and try a bottle of Turkish pepper shot. I can arrange a bottle for you or Stefan anytime in Stockholm.
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"the're gonna think we're drugging them" Such a Swedish thought. Welcome to the nation!
I love licorice and my absolute favourite licorice is from Haupt Lakrits, they are a small company who really makes top quality licorice 10/10 would recommend
Nice vid!
I think lot of liquorice are mixed or fused with other components to enhance taste markers. Like anise, sal amoniak, tar, different syrups etc. The salt is ammoniumcloride and is supposed to contribute with a 'kick'.
I am a huge liquorice fan, both sweet and saltish, althought I dont like all sorts.
Hello. Great video. Thank you.
Here in finland! I love licourice! Pantteri, Tyrkisk beber,….
If I remember correctly, the spirit is also flavored with anise, star anise and fennel that tastes like licorice.
So warning for these if you do not like licorice. I eat licorice but can not say that I choose it myself but it is when you buy a bag Gott & Blandat as it comes with the bag. But I think it smells good. 🙂
Sweden gets more beautiful the further north you come/go!
I´m salivating like crazy here!! Salty licorice is the ultimate candy!!
Reminds me of growing up. All the grandparents loved licorice for some reason, lol.
Sometimes you get a jungelvrål that is softer, i think they age rapidly.
Keep a bag of jungelvrål in a cabinet where you live and if you get the craving for sweets you eat one of them. Then maybee you will start to like them or you wont eat wery much candy at all. So a win win :D
How nice to see two of my favvo US-Swedes in the same video.
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My favourite liquorice is 'salta balkar' (salt beams). It'll be interesting to see your reaction to how much less sweet our food is in general.
Licorice is the best 😉 Love it 😋
Gott och Blandat lakrits is my go to. But Jungleroar was a staple in my youth 😁
that basset licorice blend is the one i never eat, love everyother licorice candy but not those ones :) and why i love licorice is probably the taste + the tinglefeeling in your mouth
you must try Turkisk peppar candy!
Well I get my licorices fix from my municipality of Haninge just south of Stockholm city, there is this small factory here named Haupet Lakris. There most famous salt licorice "Svenskjävlar" make "Djungelvrål" look like amateur hour.
i wonder if the liquirice powder would work as pasta water seasoning and then eat it with sea food. cause aniseed type flavour works well with that
Nice video!!
try turish peber and kicks (the red ones) - the peber one is strong and the kicks are sweet soft toffelike, or the seaman pipe (also sweet, in the shape of a corn pipe).
haha. so fun, licorice is my favourite candy
Try salt licorice on a hot summer day when you have drunk a lot of water and need both salt and sugar, then it tastes different
Hello! It's really fun to see you Americans, what your life in Sweden looks like and to know how you experience Sweden with everything from big to small. Now this episode is about licorice, but I came to think of things I've seen before, both from you and others, regarding Swedish food. Everyone talks only about Swedish meatballs and (God forbid) sour strömming). But have you tried Kålpudding med lingon, Raggmunk, Kroppkakor, Palt? They are also typical Swedish (good) dishes!
Surströmming is really not something everyone eats, it's so horrible and only a small (insane) percentage of Swedes eat this disgusting fish.
Lakrits is life!
Well, does Licorice grow in Sweden? As a matter of fact it does Lakrisrot is the Swedish name f the medical plant.
We do have a root in Scandinavia that's very popular. In Norwegian, it's called sisselrot and it does taste a bit like licorice. I learned to pick them from my grandparents, who probably learned it from theirs, so I think it's a good hypothesis.
you both need to try penguin liqurish can be bought on the cruse ships between sweden and finland
Hey, and when you visited Piteå, did you try Pitepalt Stefan? Typical for that part of Sweden
Licorice is a category of candy of their own. Salt but candy :) My favorite licorice are the Bassett ones :) And chocolate and licorice mixed is a favorite too!
Oh! Just remembered. There is also famous licorice from Holland / The Netherlands. Zouiten. It’s mostly common in Sweden on the Finland ferry’s in tax free. The cans have both black and orange licorice. Panda and Fazer are Finnish brands and Malachi is a Swedish one. Malachi has a candy bag called Salt och blandat that has black orange AND red licorice in it. You should have tried that one here.
Kimberly is spot on! Vrål means roar and djungel is jungle
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You really need to try "Kryptoniter". They are sooo good.
Try Marabou with licorice and raspberry I think, that one is good!
You should taste Lakritsshots.. that's Great.
In the military, all over Sweden, all soldiers were trained in Scania throughout Sweden for two years.
A lot of European licorice doesn't use "regular" sodium chloride salt. It uses ammonium chloride. This is basically what it sounds like; a salt based on ammonia. And if you have ever smelled ammonia, you will understand why this salt is not only extremely powerful taste wise, but also very rarely used in food.
Bassets is ENGLISH sweet licorice. Not Swedish. Otherwise it is about the salt. Give me the salt. And salted moose. My grandpa was a hunter, so I grew up on moose. It built this great body!
And please do not mix up salt, salmiak and licorice. Totally different stuff. If you want to go, try out "Turkish pepper shots". Most often homemade stuff, but nowadays you can get it in basically ever bar.
And you didn´t even try out Turkish pepper or some of the really good stuff! :D
Bassets, I think it was the second can be quite nice if it's fresh. Then it was some I've never eaten, Djungelvrål is definitely an acquired taste.
When you talk about liquorice root it's not the same as jagermaster or ouzo both of them use anise seed to get the liquorice taste
i think the reqason the nordic counties likes salty liqurice is becourse since ancient times when living in a colder climate with a few fresh food to choose from, salting food was the mest preservationmethods, together with dehydrating, smoking, pickling and jamming.
Eating more than 57g (2 ounces) of black liquorice a day for at least 2 weeks could lead to potentially serious health problems, such as an increase in blood pressure and an irregular heart rhythm.
Bassetts is inglish.. but very nice candy,, it was my favorit as young,
Lakris är bäst!
Tyckte ni om kaffe första gången ni provade? Eller öl? Vissa saker måste man kanske vänja sig vid?
stefan as a former teacher i supose you would like the "Kritor" (chalks)
My (Swedish) daughter of ten months loved "salta nappar" (the one that looked like pacifiers). Now she's ten years and I still get her to take bad tasting medicine by offering her that particular liquorice as a reward.
I have always liked salty liquorice, even as a kid. None of my friends like it. But if we have candy (Gott & Blandat) at work the liquorice dissappears first.
Greetings from Finland (again) for both of you! Actualy Ouzo has anis flavor and that is horrible for my taste even thou i like liquorice and salted liquorice aka salmiakki. It is a bit similar taste but those are totaly different plants anis & liquorice. Salmiakki actualy is ammonium sodium and it is white powder. It is usualy combined with liquorice to get the black color to it.
There is at least red Snören påsse in Sweden that is red liquorice and in lös gådis you can find some other red liquorices. I´ve bought both from Sweden (and Finland of course).
Those black apes are not good at all. Texture is unpleasant and taste is bad. Even as a Finn i don´t like all those candies. I have to say that we have much more different varietes of salmiakki and liquorice as Sweden does. We also have alot of harder candies like Tyrkisk peber that you let slowly melt in your mouth. You two would propably hate most of them but those are more for my taste.
That powder you have would be nice if you steard it into vodka. We (of course) have salmiakki vodka here in Finland. Actualy we have few different brands of it´s good. Very popular in Finnish bars as a shot called salmari.
Licorice is the best candy I know 9 out of 10 times that is my goto. However I feel like saying that there are so many flavours that just eating one doesn't equal liking all licorice.
Swedish licorice is usually not my favourite but I guess it is because I grew up in Denmark.
In public school we would learn how to make the white powder you say is salt. It is ammonium chloride also called salmiak.
Best flavour imo.
Gillar er båda 2, hoppas att ni testar mer av svensk mat/godis/fikabröd! Och jag är en av MÅNGA som ÄLSKAR lakrits!!!
Hmm. This time I don’t know the history of licorice, but it is a root of a plant so it’s not far fetched it started as some sort of remedy/medicine. Then turned into candy. I AM a fan though. I love when CZcamsrs I follow do collabs like this! 😁. Salty licorice and Salmiak seem to be very Nordic. It does exist in Norway and Denmark too. But even more I’m Finland and Sweden. 🇸🇪
I heard that there was a kid that opens a can of surströmming in the hallway in a school and all the kids and the staff had to leave early that day due to the bad smell.
In other words DON'T open a can of surströmming inside the house. ALWAYS open the can outdoors. Unless you want the entire house to smell like fermented fish. Because surströmming is fermented fish.
I agree to the comments below. I'm born in Sweden, and my parents are born in Finland. I truly LOVE salty liquorice, if there's one candy left on this planet, I vote for salty liquorice!! I dare you to go to Willy's and get the Haribo Salty Sea! Oh my... It's so good! ❤️
I’m actually salivating and I don’t even eat candy. 😂
When u get used to djungelvrål you cannot stop😈😎
Laktris is wonderful. //Love from Borås
I think most Swedish kids don´t like licorice, BUT as you grow older, sugar doesn´t taste as good and licorice can become quite tasty. So have patience my friends, you might like more when you grow older. It´s like an "adult candy". One day you´ll both like it! I believe!
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True salt can also reduce tooth pain so that the adult version as we eat too much with sugar while kids😂
Really? I've never met a kid that doesn't love it, at least salmiak.
How fun! And disgusting. Lol. It’s nice for you to have a new American friend in Sweden!
😂 I’ll be happy if I never taste another piece of licorice
Junglevrål is my jam, when ever I buy a bag it will go down faster then any other candy ^^ Give it a few more years of learning how to love salt more =D
Ni glömde testa tyrkisk peppar och patroner❣️
Lakrits is the best! There are other things more groce than that, like surströmming, and i really dont like peanutbutter. 🤣
my two favs..
Djugelvrål - my absolut favorit candy!
Ä is in swedish, finnish, estonian, tatarian, german and slovak, ö is in Swedish, finnish,german and many other languages like turkish but å is in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and finnish , I think finnish ussaly don't use å but O instead.
Sweden used own finland and as I remember when I was in finals it almost felt like Sweden big difference was that most people spoke a completly unrealated language to my native language of Swedish.
Tyrkisk peber is the licorice you should try
Time to try swedish sour candy.
Olika lakridsgodis är ju görgött, ibland längtar man efter det
Love ouzo, not surprised?
Salty licorice is the best! Surströmming is, even though I live in the north, nothing for me.
Im from sweden alingsås and i love lakrits it my favorit godis