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!
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!!
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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!
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
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!
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 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 :)
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
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! ❤️
"If you're happy and you know it, rub your tummy." 😁 02:40-45 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 13:25 Emmy you are now a kid which is why we enjoy watching your YT channel. 👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍
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 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😁❤
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.
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 :-)
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.
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).
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.
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. 😋
LOL!!! "...tastes like grandma's attic." Big points for the Opinel knife, one of my favorites! My son and I collect them.
3:09 i thought the sound was coming from my stomach lool
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!!
As soon as I saw her with the Sen Sen I was like ... girl, you do not know what danger you court.
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
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!
"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.
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
sen-sens are so good, i grew up in canada, in a pentecostal church and that is what we always had as candies there!
You biting the jawbreaker scared the hell out of me, that was LOUD.
I'm going to phili thus weekend I will make sure to stop by and pick some candy's up thanks!
Yay! Thanks so much :) new videos every Monday, Thursday, & Saturday. They're usually posted at 12 pm EST hope that 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.
Mint and chocolate ARE the best of friends :)
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.
Main ingredient of Absinth is vermouth (wormwood) It's a bitter herbage. You can find it in healthy teas.
Yes, it does.
Her face when she read licorice lol
Hi Emmy! I love your channel! Thank you for making all these fun videos c:
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
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!
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." :)
The violet candy is my favorite!! It has hints of clove
I bought some choward's mints that were violet in a candy shop on pier 39 in San Francisco, I love them.
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
I love how descriptive you are emmy love ya
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!
Sen Sen is mentioned in the Billy Joel song Keeping the Faith.
Emmy i love your videos because it is child friendly and has the PERFECT names for your channel :)
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
I love your voice emmy. It sounds sooo soothing to me
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!
Whaaa, you had me on the floor when you bit kitties head, meeeuw haha!
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'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!
Love the pathetic meow after biting kitty’s head off! I’m still laughing!
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
Thanks! I enjoy recalling and using analogies.:) I find it helps other to convey unique tastes and textures.
In Stuttgart we always got sugar rabbits at Easter. You could only get them in that era.
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 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 grew up with my Pap always giving us grandkids Clear Toys. They also make great decorations!
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
If you're happy and you know it, rub your tummy!!
You share things you love, thats why you have such a big snd friendly fanbase.
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.
Your "face" when you say LICORICE!!😅😅😅❤️
Your descriptions are not to be missed! I can't get over the description of the Sen Sen tasting like "grandma's attic"!
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. :)
Thanks. :)
3:05 dat sound
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.
Love your vids Emmy, my 4 yr old son and I watch them religiously and he loves them, so thanks.
Lol I love how you delicately tasted the mustache lollipop. I would have literally stuck the entire thing in my mouth.
OMG I jumped when I heard that "meow"! Also, love your nails, Emmy!
your voice is so soothing i love you emmy!
I over black jacks, I'm only young but I really adore old candy😍
Happy Halloween.
the Opinel no 8 is my favorite knife as well.
NB rellentless not a bad knife, cheap to.
I, too, study the blade
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.
13:38 I immediately thought of fruit drops from Grave Of The Fireflies❤️
Thanks for the very detailed review.
The appearance of the candy and the packaging is great.
Ah, I absolutely adore the ending of all your recent videos. You're extremely endearing!
Go to Salem it's so much fun all the witchy type things are amazing
i just love how you're willing to try foods even though you don't particularly care for them!
I love making my own chocolates. This video gave me so new ideas to try. Thank you!
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.
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!
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!
I have learned much from this video. Fascinating!😮
I love how crunchy the chocolate seems~
i love shane confectionary
"that tastes like grandma's attic" lol!
love the video very cool candy. and now we get to see Emmy antics during the vid, super cool
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! ❤️
"If you're happy and you know it, rub your tummy." 😁 02:40-45 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 13:25 Emmy you are now a kid which is why we enjoy watching your YT channel.
👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍😎👍
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.
i love the violet chowards, one of my fav candies. ive never seen other flavors.
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.
I'm always mesmerized by your ability to ingest vast quantities of sugar with seeming immunity. Keep up the good work.
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!
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.
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😁❤
I finally I was waiting for this video in all the day :), I really love ur videos, u are the best Emmy :)
omg the meow hahaha I love it!
If you're happy and you know it, rub your tummy.
I love your videos~ I can't wait for the next one.
it make me just happy.
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.
LMAO "taste like grandma's attic" I needed that laugh!
Aww poor kitty I heard him meow
sami santos I honestly thought that was my stomach XD
Emmy, you are truely amazing! Pls make more videos!! :D
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 :-)
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.
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).
Thank you. Lovely things abound - you just have to look. :)
Mmmmm looks so good!!!!😋😋😋