Americans Try Scandinavian Salty Licorice
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2022
- We received some Scandinavian licorice from a friend who recently visited Norway. Check out what we thought of these salty and sweet treats. Have you had Scandinavian licorice?
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Mmmm, salty, green bean juice! 😀The twist liquorice sweets you tried reminded me, from your description, of a favourite liquorice toffee (with a silver and black striped wrapper) that used to be kind of a mix of liquorice and caramel; very tasty, very sweet!
Those sound good. The twists were even Ross approved! 🙂
I only tried salty liquorice a few days ago and love it. It's like a salt version of sour candy. It's extremely salty but has a tanginess to it. Also you get that nasally ammonia vapour type thing which is pretty weird but tbh I find it quite enjoyable.
It's so different from the licorice we're used to in the U.S.
Dundersalt is something i did grow up with since i was little and i like it very much
It's so different for us not growing up with it. It was growing on me, but I do like licorice much more than Ross does.
Lovely content, nice to see you trying foods you don't like...rough with the smooth! I'm looking into the "stinking bishop" issue air travel etc my local deli does it!blessings from Devon England. X
This channel does encourage us to try foods we wouldn't normally eat. Thanks!
I love liquorice! I recently went to Haworth, (a village in England where the Bronte sister's wrote their books), there was an amazing sweet shop that probably hasn't changed for 100 years. They had a whole wall full of jars of various liquorice sweet, a lot of them from the Netherlands. When I visited Amsterdam, there was lots of liquorice, I loved it!
That sounds like a fun shop to visit!
Have you tried Pontefract cakes? theyre the ultimate soft liquorice and so good we ban children from looking at them lol
Yes, I love them!
I mean, Dundersalt in Sweden is sort of kid's candy. It means "thunder salt" if you translate it directly but more like, "really salt", which it isn't. It's just a little hit of ammonium chloride at the beginning and then it's kinda sweet with a mild licorice/salmiakki taste. Like she said, no problem finishing a bag of these, tho you'll get thirsty. The Twist lakrits is a classic. It's really nice, soft toffee. And it's moist enough it doesn't make your throat overly dry.
The Twist lakrits is delicious. The bag of Dundersalt did get finished. The one we tried a while back that had liquid salmiakki in the center - neither of us could finish it!
Haha this was a funny video, Ross’s face whilst eating that evil troll liquorice 🤣
He really was a good sport for trying all these.
Pro tip: Salty licorice goes great with milk, or even better, vanilla ice cream.
That sounds like an interesting combination. I'll have to give that a try some time.
I'm not a big fan of salty food, but I love my Danish salty 'lakrids', and Tyrkisk Peber is one of my favourites (they usually come as strong hard candies with a peppery exterior and a salmiac interior). I have never seen the version you tried, which is definitely milder than the norm. Kudos to Ross for keeping it in your mouth. Friends have spat it out with gusto.
That version of Tyrkisk Peber we had was quite enjoyable. The Napoleon Zwart Wit we tried was the one we just couldn't handle!
salty licris is my favorit candy im a swedis
I must admit that I do like liquorice, when I was a kid we used to get liquorice root that looked like a stick, we used to get blackcurrant and liquorice sweets and the soft liquorice like Pontefract cakes, there have been lots of adds on social media for different types of liquorice recently, have you heard of liquorice all-sorts, they're another one we have in the UK
Are you from UK? I love the same sweets.
@@angelavara4097 yes I am from the UK, so you'll probably have an idea of the things we have here
The blackcurrant and liquorice toffees were a favourite of mine, The liquorice root you chewed and chewed at ‘til you were left with the yellow stringy strands of the chomped-on root.
We've heard of liquorice all-sorts, but haven't tried them yet. I'm sure Ross would pass. 😃Blackcurrant and liquorice sounds good!
@@woodentie8815 that's so true, it was also considered as a laxative 🤣
It is not sodium chloride in Scandinavian licorice. Instead we use ammonium chloride or as it is commonly known Salmiak. A much more intense saltiness that complements and enhances the licorice taste perfectly. Most of Northern Europe prefers saltiness licorice over sweet. By the way, the red twizzlers are not licorice.
It seems many people in the US don't care for licorice, even when it's sweet. The salty licorice takes some getting used to, but I'm liking it.
Tyrkisk pebber as hard candy s the best candy i know
Ive already muttered a quick prayer for you, if you are going to try Surstromming please look it up first most people try from the can according to what I've seen no1 open under water to stop the liquid and the stench flying around no2 rinse several times, serve with h boiled potatoes and onion no3 in the salad include other strong flavours like radishes and maybe hard boiled eggs and beets
Surstromming not bad on rye crackers too, its an outdoor food best with plenty of vodka or aquavit
We didn't get any surstromming - that sounds scary! We did get a can of fiskeboller which we should be able to open indoors. 🙂
@@FinnLovesFood good luck
Karl Pilkington from the TV series idiot abroad ate something similar, on the eating Chinese sushi episode..yup nasty egg smell.. revolting 🤮
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Lakrids by Bülow and Ga-Jol Danish liquorice
I wonder how they compare to what we tried?
@@FinnLovesFood the little boxes of Ga-Jol liquorice are cute and fit well in the pocket or car glove box.
Theve lots of varieties, I'm most familiar with the salty ones, But! bit of a heads up, there's one with a particular un savoury name🤪
Bülow alaso have various premium favours and there tasty also.
@@keiths-teeth we don't have much variety in licorice here, but I'll have to check our World Market store again. Curious about that unsavory name! 😃
I love salty licorice. Also known as childrens chewy tobacco
It's a bit of an acquired taste, but I'm liking it more.
@@FinnLovesFood If you want some good licorice try some ''Haribo super piratos''
Or imo the best sweet licorice ''Skippers pipes''
@@steen275 we see a lot of Haribo flavors here - we'll have to watch for it.
i once bought 3 small bags of what i think were swedish salted blueberry flavour sweets, someone will have to correct me on that, nasty salted flavour and then once the salt dissipated i was left with ok actual sweets, i think i managed one bag and then threw out the other 2. I didnt expect such saltiness, i thought they would have been like salted caramel with that pinch of salt
if i remember right they were hard dark salt covered lemon pip sized sweets, something my brain has tried to forget until now
That reminds me a bit of the Dunder Salt. So much salt at first, then wasn't too bad.
The Napoleon candies are alright. I prefer the soft licorice over the hard candy.
Same here, I also prefer soft.
Dunder Salt is Swedish.
Our package said this bag was from Norway.
Thay got Them in Norway too.
The dundersalt troll smiles like an axe murderer. (=
You are right! 😄
Completely understand Ross's reaction. Black liqourice is horrible! 😁 And salty liqourice sounds vile!
If you don't like the sweet, the salty isn't an improvement! 😆
In America what you call black liquorice we call sweet liquorice.
Even being sweet it seems to be one of those candies that people either love or hate here. You only see salty liquorice in the import stores. Glad we finally got to try it.
@@FinnLovesFood Weird, I think the licorice in and of itself is actually really tasty. If you've ever had pure licorice root or powder you'd know exactly what it tastes like in its natural state. Salmiak (ammonium chloride) is within the salty licorice and I can understand that people react strongly to it. It's actually a substance that signals toxicity to the body. It's not in and of itself toxic at the doses of candy, but in nature, it will be found in things humans are not supposed to eat. Therefore the "yuck" reaction is probably just a sign of health if you at least do it the first time.
@@oscarsh2909 we didn't realize that about the Salmiak. We tried one candy with a liquid Salmiak center. That one was too much for both of us and we couldn't finish it.
Salted liquorice is certainly an acquired taste - much like Marmite. The Dutch and German varriants are in my view better than the Scandinavian stuff.
It's so different from what we're used to. So far I haven't been as impressed with the hard licorice, but enjoy the chewy stuff.
@@FinnLovesFood When I was a kid there were two types of liquorice - the softer, floppy stuff, and the harder sweetstuff we called 'spanish' - whether this was short for Spanish liquorice I'm not sure? Again, the spelling has me wondering; I tend to spell it 'liquorice', but 'licorice' looks right too!?
@@woodentie8815 I think it's one of those American vs. British spellings. I've seen it both ways, but the spell checker always underlines liquorice like it's misspelled!