Emmy !!! when I was very small (early 1960s) I used to find little dark squares (looked like they were cut into squares by hand) at the bottom of my dad's suit pockets...he said they were breath fresheners and I loved them (liquorice yum)...have always wondered what they were - I think you've brought a very old memory back to me and solved a mystery...thank you!!
The silver powder is called lustre dust! You can get it in all sorts of colours and it's used on cakes and candies and any instance when you want a metallic shine on a confectionary.
It's really adorable to watch you encounter flavors you don't know. It goes from innocent curiosity to confusion and it looks like you're trying to stop time or defuse a bomb.
I grew up eating Chowards (Violet Flavor) which my Mom charmingly dubbed as Violets for little me. Always a treat (for good behavior)! Many years later I found a tiny store that sells a Guava flavor in the Bronx, NY! Its my new/old favorite solution for a sweet tooth!
Hello from Croatia,Zagreb...Wanna to ask you have you ever try AFTER MIDNIGHT thin chocolate leafs with mint inside,and theey come in sticks too.... xx
I'm from Philadelphia and my sister worked on 5th and Market. She'd always buy me Shane's dark chocolate butter creams. I loved them. Shane's has the best chocolate.
Agreed. Whenever I'm upset and stressed I watch one of Emmy's videos. Her sunny personality and zany sense of humor always make me feel better. Thanks Emmy!!
Hi! Emmy! I wanted to share a quick tip with you. Coconut Kefir water is an excellent digestive aid for when you've had too much sugar. You can purchase it from just about all health food stores. I'm a pastry chef and I drink it whenever I feel out of sync after having too much sugar. Just thought you'd like to know about it! Also, it tastes kinda weird but it really helps!
Neat! Thanks for sharing. My husband's great aunt used to make gingerbread houses & would include (what I think was) a barley candy hand coming out of the front door.
Your videos are so informative and fun at the same time. I like seeing all of the treats from other countries and being told what they taste like. I stumbled across your channel by accident a few days ago and now I can't stop watching😀 I even subscribed.
+emmymadeinjapan You know I was afraid that mustache was going to be licorice...but you dodged the bullet. When you picked up the sensen I knew it was all over lol! Thank God you didn't dump a bunch in your mouth! I don't like licorice much either-tho I don't mind black jelly beans too much-so I can commiserate! Lovely vid as usual. Thankyou Emmy!
My dad ( who passed in 2012 at 92 ) loved Sen-Sen. He ate them as a child . Very old candy. I waved at the screen warning you! Danger danger Will Robinson! Licorice flavor about to happen!
My dad went to Taiwan on a trip and came back with tons of REALY cool treats. He brought back this box of chocolates and one of them was tea flavored. Lol
Ok omg I laughed so hard because I had no idea what sen sen was until i was obsessed with the musical 'The Music Man' where there's one lyric about Sen Sen and how your kids will come home with it on their breath- LOL!
Emmy its so amazing how when you compare things you are tasting, to things you have tried previously, you remember the exact place they were from and other details!
the violet version is outstanding would love for u to try them . again... it is quite sweet with very faint background of violet not overpowering at all and it does give you your breath a very unique smell that people will dote on! always enjoy your videos have a wonderful fabulous rest of your week...xox Erin
When I was in elementary school I used to go to the bookstore, in the little town I grew up in near Yosemite, to buy those little round tins of French candy to give to my girlfriends. They had the fruit ones but also one that was lavender with an anise seed in the center. I had forgotten all about those. :)
The old time molded sugar things,( hand squirrel cat), used to be made out of barley sugar with no flavorings. The barley sugar had a distinctive taste fuller and richer than regular cane sugar. Like sugar just about ready to caramelize. At Mystic seaport the apothecary shop also used to have molasses stick candy. Mystic CT.
Im born and raised in Philadelphia the two brothers that own Shane's also own the Franklin fountain a old fashion ice cream parlor .before the brothers bought Shane's it was family run and owned
Sen-Sen used to come in a small bow with a hole in one corner to shake a single one out of. I bought them from time to time just because I liked them. These and horehound drops were two of my favorites.
I love how you appreciate the little details so much! Since I've started watching your videos I now pay attention to packaging on everything lol you're so great at describing the flavors! Keep it up :)
I’m from Lancaster, PA (lots of PA Dutch in our traditions) my great grandmother until she passed gave us clear toy candy on a stick every year at Christmasz
I'm a Civil War reenactor, and I'm really familiar with quite a few of these old fashioned candies. And, unfortunately, VERY familiar with Sen Sen, it was the only breath freshener my father always seemed to have. I hate them. But those cartridge candies were my favorite, I liked eating them during the cannonball firing!
There are some sodas that I enjoy. The company name is hard to read. But they have various flavors. One is lilac; it is very subtle, then there is vanilla bean, one is blood orange, another is cucumber. And they have more of them.
It's called anise- Anise, Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia. Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice.
Thanks Emmy those candies looked so delicious. I had to pause half way though to inject myself with 40 units of insulin. The home made candies reminded me of a neat place my last girlfriend and I loved to go to when we visited Galveston. Tx called " The Peanut Butter Warehouse. They sold many old curios and the like but as you first walked in there was an old time candy counter.
We used to have the candy shapes (the hand and such 2:15) only at Christmas time and we called it 'Barley Candy'. It came in either red or yellow, most often a bag with various shapes in it, and it would taste like you said, sugary but no real flavor. As un-flavorable as it was, we used to love getting it as a treat. I guess more because it was a Christmas tradition than because we thought it tasted good.
If you're happy and you know it, rub you tummy! Clear toy candies are so adorable! The bronze coloring on top on the chocolates is called luster dust. It's edible power to color deserts :-)
Leone pastilles are my favorite candies, but I really don't care for the Absinthe flavor. In case you find more, I suggest you try their other flavors. I absolutely love most of their "digestive" flavors, most of them have that little bitter note and are made with alpine herbs. They also make an absolutely fantastic "Spritz" flavor (sprits being a kind of slightly bitter orange-flavored cocktail that is popular mostly in the Venice area of Italy).
My father used to buy the violet flavored Chowards candy and the gum. He was a smoker and used them to mask the smell of cigarette on his breath. I remember me, my older sister and brother used to steal them from him because wet loved the flavor so much😁❤
Hi Emmy! It's been a while since I've watched this, but it used to be my favorite video of yours. I was searching up how to make mochi and I found your video, and i decided to come back and find this. So many memories have been brought back after watching this lol! Hope your doing well and congrats on a million! ❤️
You have no idea how much I love watching your videos.Sometimes,I check up on those days I know you will upload videos to see if there are up and gets a little sad when they aren't there.Time difference.Also this is creepy but I enjoy watching you eat and all.Not a stalker but there's just something about you that makes me like your videos so much and keep watching them again and again.
Sen-Sen!! Most men I knew as a child used those as breath fresheners- mostly my minister and especially my dad! The company went out of business a handful of years ago, sadly. Bought my father some for his birthday a few years back on Ebay....so expensive! He loved it!
My favorite candy is dark chocolate sea salt Carmels . I get them a Gardners candies. They are 26.99 a pound but oh so worth it. I only buy them around the holidays as a treat for myself.
Oh my gosh, I wanted to jump through the screen to tell you not to eat a large handful of that SenSen.. LoL. I haven't seen a packet of SenSen in years, my grandfather was a pipe smoker and you could always find a packet of SenSen inside his shirt pocket. I never cared for the taste much, as I recall it tasted like as if spraying perfume in your mouth. A most definite aquired taste. Brings back good memories though :-)
emmymadeinjapan I only heard of SenSen before because Lauren Bacall said in her autobiography that when she was 15 she used to take them so her family didn't know she was smoking ;) I bet a lot of teens of her generation did that.
I've always wanted to go to New York and and I also have loved old fashioned candy too. But its so hard to find them here in Alabama. Thumbs up for Roll Tide!!
LOL When you said you got Absinthe, I said "Oh, honey, no!" to my screen. I have never had absinthe personally, but I keep hearing how it tastes like licorice, so...yeah XP
Emmy !!! when I was very small (early 1960s) I used to find little dark squares (looked like they were cut into squares by hand) at the bottom of my dad's suit pockets...he said they were breath fresheners and I loved them (liquorice yum)...have always wondered what they were - I think you've brought a very old memory back to me and solved a mystery...thank you!!
How cool to read!
Zen Zen. Tiny liquorice squares used as breath mints. Often used by those who had a drink and didn't want to smell like alcohol.
i know it's kinda off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new movies online?
@Matias Wesley Ehh I use Flixportal. you can find it by googling:) -ulises
@Ulises River thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service :D I really appreciate it!!
The silver powder is called lustre dust! You can get it in all sorts of colours and it's used on cakes and candies and any instance when you want a metallic shine on a confectionary.
It's really adorable to watch you encounter flavors you don't know. It goes from innocent curiosity to confusion and it looks like you're trying to stop time or defuse a bomb.
LOL!!! "...tastes like grandma's attic." Big points for the Opinel knife, one of my favorites! My son and I collect them.
I grew up eating Chowards (Violet Flavor) which my Mom charmingly dubbed as Violets for little me. Always a treat (for good behavior)! Many years later I found a tiny store that sells a Guava flavor in the Bronx, NY! Its my new/old favorite solution for a sweet tooth!
They still make them! I can find them in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Chowards are really tasty. 😋
All the effort you put into your vids! So descriptive, the music, the thumbnail pic etc. Just love ittttt xxx
Scatty C Thank you for noticing. :)
Hello from Croatia,Zagreb...Wanna to ask you have you ever try AFTER MIDNIGHT thin chocolate leafs with mint inside,and theey come in sticks too.... xx
I'm from Philadelphia and my sister worked on 5th and Market. She'd always buy me Shane's dark chocolate butter creams. I loved them. Shane's has the best chocolate.
As soon as I saw her with the Sen Sen I was like ... girl, you do not know what danger you court.
3:09 i thought the sound was coming from my stomach lool
You biting the jawbreaker scared the hell out of me, that was LOUD.
"Fresh pack of Lucky's and a mint called sen-sen" Billy Joel -- Keeping the Faith.
The first thing I thought of when she said Sen-Sen.
sen-sens are so good, i grew up in canada, in a pentecostal church and that is what we always had as candies there!
I just want to say, I think the Absinthe candy got the flavor right if you're getting black licorice. That's basically what the stuff tastes like. :P
Agreed. Whenever I'm upset and stressed I watch one of Emmy's videos. Her sunny personality and zany sense of humor always make me feel better. Thanks Emmy!!
Hi! Emmy! I wanted to share a quick tip with you. Coconut Kefir water is an excellent digestive aid for when you've had too much sugar. You can purchase it from just about all health food stores. I'm a pastry chef and I drink it whenever I feel out of sync after having too much sugar. Just thought you'd like to know about it! Also, it tastes kinda weird but it really helps!
Main ingredient of Absinth is vermouth (wormwood) It's a bitter herbage. You can find it in healthy teas.
I'm going to phili thus weekend I will make sure to stop by and pick some candy's up thanks!
Mint and chocolate ARE the best of friends :)
Neat! Thanks for sharing. My husband's great aunt used to make gingerbread houses & would include (what I think was) a barley candy hand coming out of the front door.
Your videos are so informative and fun at the same time. I like seeing all of the treats from other countries and being told what they taste like. I stumbled across your channel by accident a few days ago and now I can't stop watching😀 I even subscribed.
+Donna Gilhousen Thanks for the comments Donna! :)
emmymadeinjapan You are welcome!!😄😄
+emmymadeinjapan You know I was afraid that mustache was going to be licorice...but you dodged the bullet. When you picked up the sensen I knew it was all over lol! Thank God you didn't dump a bunch in your mouth! I don't like licorice much either-tho I don't mind black jelly beans too much-so I can commiserate! Lovely vid as usual. Thankyou Emmy!
My dad ( who passed in 2012 at 92 ) loved Sen-Sen. He ate them as a child . Very old candy. I waved at the screen warning you! Danger danger Will Robinson! Licorice flavor about to happen!
sen-sen is my favorite. the italian side of my fam used to call it "getting high on sen-sen." :)
I bought some choward's mints that were violet in a candy shop on pier 39 in San Francisco, I love them.
In Stuttgart we always got sugar rabbits at Easter. You could only get them in that era.
My dad went to Taiwan on a trip and came back with tons of REALY cool treats. He brought back this box of chocolates and one of them was tea flavored. Lol
Ok omg I laughed so hard because I had no idea what sen sen was until i was obsessed with the musical 'The Music Man' where there's one lyric about Sen Sen and how your kids will come home with it on their breath- LOL!
If you're happy and you know it, rub your tummy!!
Hi Emmy! I love your channel! Thank you for making all these fun videos c:
Her face when she read licorice lol
3:05 dat sound
Emmy its so amazing how when you compare things you are tasting, to things you have tried previously, you remember the exact place they were from and other details!
Sen Sen is mentioned in the Billy Joel song Keeping the Faith.
I've had the cartridge candy and the black sugar stuff. They were both at a local museum and at an old battle fort. I love them!
I grew up with my Pap always giving us grandkids Clear Toys. They also make great decorations!
the violet version is outstanding would love for u to try them . again... it is quite sweet with very faint background of violet not overpowering at all and it does give you your breath a very unique smell that people will dote on! always enjoy your videos have a wonderful fabulous rest of your week...xox Erin
The violet candy is my favorite!! It has hints of clove
When I was in elementary school I used to go to the bookstore, in the little town I grew up in near Yosemite, to buy those little round tins of French candy to give to my girlfriends. They had the fruit ones but also one that was lavender with an anise seed in the center. I had forgotten all about those. :)
Yay! Thanks so much :) new videos every Monday, Thursday, & Saturday. They're usually posted at 12 pm EST hope that helps.
The old time molded sugar things,( hand squirrel cat), used to be made out of barley sugar with no flavorings. The barley sugar had a distinctive taste fuller and richer than regular cane sugar. Like sugar just about ready to caramelize. At Mystic seaport the apothecary shop also used to have molasses stick candy. Mystic CT.
I love how descriptive you are emmy love ya
Emmy i love your videos because it is child friendly and has the PERFECT names for your channel :)
Your descriptions are not to be missed! I can't get over the description of the Sen Sen tasting like "grandma's attic"!
Im born and raised in Philadelphia the two brothers that own Shane's also own the Franklin fountain a old fashion ice cream parlor .before the brothers bought Shane's it was family run and owned
Sen-Sen used to come in a small bow with a hole in one corner to shake a single one out of. I bought them from time to time just because I liked them. These and horehound drops were two of my favorites.
Omg I died when you bit off the cat head and I heard that cat meow sound! You have a great sense of humour ;D
the French candy you said you had as a kid I had all the time too omg!! they were so good and I started fangirling when you said that lolz
I over black jacks, I'm only young but I really adore old candy😍
Thanks! I enjoy recalling and using analogies.:) I find it helps other to convey unique tastes and textures.
Aww poor kitty I heard him meow
sami santos I honestly thought that was my stomach XD
this is my favorite video on UA-cam so far I've been watching this video since 2016 I want this video about 30 times already love you Emmy
Whaaa, you had me on the floor when you bit kitties head, meeeuw haha!
I love how you appreciate the little details so much! Since I've started watching your videos I now pay attention to packaging on everything lol you're so great at describing the flavors! Keep it up :)
I’m from Lancaster, PA (lots of PA Dutch in our traditions) my great grandmother until she passed gave us clear toy candy on a stick every year at Christmasz
You share things you love, thats why you have such a big snd friendly fanbase.
Love the pathetic meow after biting kitty’s head off! I’m still laughing!
I love your voice emmy. It sounds sooo soothing to me
Emmy, the pastilles are great! They were so cute and so dainty and that precious little can. I have not seen those in years. Thanks.
My dad used to keep sen sen in his drawer at work. I remember sneaking them when we would go visit him. I adore that memory of childhood!
Thanks for the very detailed review.
The appearance of the candy and the packaging is great.
Go to Salem it's so much fun all the witchy type things are amazing
I'm a Civil War reenactor, and I'm really familiar with quite a few of these old fashioned candies. And, unfortunately, VERY familiar with Sen Sen, it was the only breath freshener my father always seemed to have. I hate them.
But those cartridge candies were my favorite, I liked eating them during the cannonball firing!
Yes, it does.
13:38 I immediately thought of fruit drops from Grave Of The Fireflies❤️
i just love how you're willing to try foods even though you don't particularly care for them!
the Opinel no 8 is my favorite knife as well.
NB rellentless not a bad knife, cheap to.
I, too, study the blade
Ah, I absolutely adore the ending of all your recent videos. You're extremely endearing!
"that tastes like grandma's attic" lol!
There are some sodas that I enjoy. The company name is hard to read. But they have various flavors. One is lilac; it is very subtle, then there is vanilla bean, one is blood orange, another is cucumber. And they have more of them.
It's called anise- Anise, Pimpinella anisum, also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia. Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice.
OMG I jumped when I heard that "meow"! Also, love your nails, Emmy!
Thanks Emmy those candies looked so delicious. I had to pause half way though to inject myself with 40 units of insulin. The home made candies reminded me of a neat place my last girlfriend and I loved to go to when we visited Galveston. Tx called " The Peanut Butter Warehouse. They sold many old curios and the like but as you first walked in there was an old time candy counter.
Lol I love how you delicately tasted the mustache lollipop. I would have literally stuck the entire thing in my mouth.
We used to have the candy shapes (the hand and such 2:15) only at Christmas time and we called it 'Barley Candy'. It came in either red or yellow, most often a bag with various shapes in it, and it would taste like you said, sugary but no real flavor. As un-flavorable as it was, we used to love getting it as a treat. I guess more because it was a Christmas tradition than because we thought it tasted good.
If you're happy and you know it, rub you tummy! Clear toy candies are so adorable! The bronze coloring on top on the chocolates is called luster dust. It's edible power to color deserts :-)
emmy get the choward's violet flavor mints--you will like them! they are unique--peppermints ok, but chowards is famous for its violet flavor.
Oh Lord Emmy, when you held up that package of SenSen, I said NOOOOOOOOOO Emmy don't eat those!!!!
why
Love your vids Emmy, my 4 yr old son and I watch them religiously and he loves them, so thanks.
Leone pastilles are my favorite candies, but I really don't care for the Absinthe flavor. In case you find more, I suggest you try their other flavors. I absolutely love most of their "digestive" flavors, most of them have that little bitter note and are made with alpine herbs. They also make an absolutely fantastic "Spritz" flavor (sprits being a kind of slightly bitter orange-flavored cocktail that is popular mostly in the Venice area of Italy).
My father used to buy the violet flavored Chowards candy and the gum. He was a smoker and used them to mask the smell of cigarette on his breath. I remember me, my older sister and brother used to steal them from him because wet loved the flavor so much😁❤
Oooh I love Leone! I can't find them in Florida though :c Only when I visit Rhode Island. My favorite is the Violet flavor.
Hi Emmy! It's been a while since I've watched this, but it used to be my favorite video of yours. I was searching up how to make mochi and I found your video, and i decided to come back and find this. So many memories have been brought back after watching this lol! Hope your doing well and congrats on a million! ❤️
I'm always mesmerized by your ability to ingest vast quantities of sugar with seeming immunity. Keep up the good work.
You have no idea how much I love watching your videos.Sometimes,I check up on those days I know you will upload videos to see if there are up and gets a little sad when they aren't there.Time difference.Also this is creepy but I enjoy watching you eat and all.Not a stalker but there's just something about you that makes me like your videos so much and keep watching them again and again.
Pepsin Life Savers
Horehound drops
Barley sugar
Ribbon candy
Sugared almonds
Maple sugar candy
My mom used to give me a Sen Sen square, very strong taste. I didn't like them, but grew to appreciate it now.
Oh man, I love Sen-sen. It reminds me of my Oma (dutch grandma) and it reminds my husband of his Grandpa (from czechoslovakia)
Your "face" when you say LICORICE!!😅😅😅❤️
Sen-Sen!! Most men I knew as a child used those as breath fresheners- mostly my minister and especially my dad! The company went out of business a handful of years ago, sadly. Bought my father some for his birthday a few years back on Ebay....so expensive! He loved it!
I love how crunchy the chocolate seems~
your voice is so soothing i love you emmy!
The metallic powder is called luster dust, I use it when I make cakes at my family's bakery.
My favorite candy is dark chocolate sea salt Carmels . I get them a Gardners candies. They are 26.99 a pound but oh so worth it. I only buy them around the holidays as a treat for myself.
I've never had absinth, that's why I bought it.
i love shane confectionary
Thanks. :)
Oh my gosh, I wanted to jump through the screen to tell you not to eat a large handful of that SenSen.. LoL. I haven't seen a packet of SenSen in years, my grandfather was a pipe smoker and you could always find a packet of SenSen inside his shirt pocket. I never cared for the taste much, as I recall it tasted like as if spraying perfume in your mouth. A most definite aquired taste. Brings back good memories though :-)
Shine W While I don't like them I think SenSen's definitely worth tasting at least once. :)
emmymadeinjapan I only heard of SenSen before because Lauren Bacall said in her autobiography that when she was 15 she used to take them so her family didn't know she was smoking ;) I bet a lot of teens of her generation did that.
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I've always wanted to go to New York and and I also have loved old fashioned candy too. But its so hard to find them here in Alabama.
Thumbs up for Roll Tide!!
Thank you. Lovely things abound - you just have to look. :)
I just subscribed! I love you personally and uniqueness! Stay awesome Emmy! Much love from NC ❤️
My Dad used to give these to us kids when we were small. Fun times with Sen Sen.lol
LOL When you said you got Absinthe, I said "Oh, honey, no!" to my screen. I have never had absinthe personally, but I keep hearing how it tastes like licorice, so...yeah XP