I'm from another nordic country and was pretty shocked the first time I heard that some people in other countries don't like liquorice. Everyone likes it here. Because it's SO GOOD! Especially Finnish liquorice. My native liquorice is too salty and gelatin-y for my taste. Finnish liquorice is so sweet and tasty. Panda liquorice.. Oh man.
@@highestqualitypigiron Its funny you say that. In the U.S, there is a type of licorice (not a brand) called Australian Licorice which is not difficult to find at all.
The Turkisk Peber (eng. 'Turkish Pepper' , finnish 'Turkinpippuri') is an entire family of candy products with spicy liquorices and salmiakki in them. The white vanilla-looking filling was probably the part which brought the spicy taste to the candy. That aside, if you happen to ever again wish to torture yourself with some Finnish sweet and/or salty liquorices, I would definitely recommend buying Kouvolan Lakritsi. It is a very good liquorice with a somewhat creamy feel to it. I would also recommend trying Turkish Peber's/Turkinpippuri's hard spicy candies, they might be a bit more up your alley along with any filled liquorice pipe mixes which all have similar candy to PusPus in them. And if you ever happend to go on a Finnish outdoor market during the summer, you are guaranteed to find at least one, if not two or even three, vendors who sell metre long liquorice pipes with a variety different flavours of fillings to choose from.
Most Americans have never actually eaten real licorice candy.American "licorice" is flavored with anise and candy makers tend to make the candies taste too strong which turns people off.
This! Stay away from the too sweet ones. Saying you don't like licorice is like saying you don't like ice cream. While there are many many different flavors and types.
@@StarmanDX Lol yea in extreme amounts. So much that you really have to try finding a licorice candy (because thats what it is) that has large amounts of the root in it. They only still make that stuff in Italy pretty much. Here in The Netherlands we do have good licorice people enjoy, but even those have a lot of sugar. Can eat a kilo and feel sick sure, but thats because of the sugar. American or british licorice is just pure sugary candy. So no, it has nothing to do with that.
american licorice tastes horrible , if you want some really good one go on amazon and try finding some italian licorice , licorice from calabria is just awesome
Hats off to you for trying! Yeah the Ammonium Chloride is dubbed "salmiakki" in finnish. Finns tend to love it mostly and it is great fun to offer it to foreigners to see how they react.
There's a difference between salty licorice and salmiak licorice. Salty licorice is just licorice with salt. And salmiak is ammonium chloride which is that strong "salty" taste
But is finnish or german better ?... Kidding , In the US bc all higher end liquorice is german for some reason, I live in tx by they way , also must be said I don't like trucks or guns
You didn't have like a traditional nordic-style licorice there, which is a shame, I think you might have liked it, atleast compared to what you're used to in the states. If you ever get the chance, get maybe like a plain Panda-brand licorice. It's a soft, sweet, gentle type of licorice. A gateway drug, if you will.
Would definitely recommend the root by itself. A bit like a chewing gum, and since it (if dry) only really goes proper chewable once soaked with saliva, it goes very sweet.
actually, they are not true licorice, they are aniseed. Anise is a cool seed, looks like a pretty star. You grind the whole thing and the powder has a nearly licorice smell/flavour, but slightly sharper and rougher in flavour than licorice. Real licorice is a root. It can be bought as little sticks we chewed on as kids, also for dental cleaning in the old days. You can grind it and use it in tea, or powder it and replace sugar with it.
@@seiyuokamihimura5082 It does not taste the exact same. I have samples of both in my kitchen. I have happily enjoyed anise sugar blocks in milk and licorice root tea. Anise is a much sharper flavour. I can recognize by the smell of someone else eating whether they're eating cheap licorice made with aniseed extract or real licorice made from licorice root.
@@1st1anarkissed From what I've read, it looks like black jelly beans can be either anise or licorice. Apparently Jelly Belly ones are licorice, for example. Many brands use anise. I just found some sold that are cola flavoured so that could be a nice surprise for someone.
translations with notes for the products in this video: Pus pus pus pus - Kiss kiss kiss kiss (Mansikka täytelakritsi - Strawberry-filled liqourice) Tyrkisk Peber - Turkish pepper (this one is actually danish. the finnish name is "turkinpippuri") Vanhat Autot - Old cars Pantteri - Panther to speak on this further, while liqourice is more popular here than pehaps in most places, it's popularity is typically exaggurated. liqourice is just a fairly standard type of candy, and salmiakki, liqourice with ammonium-chloride, is often simply tolerated, if not hated. in fact, salmiakki isn't so much considered a type of liqourice, rather it's own type of candy.
When I went to Finland, my Finnish friend was like "Joseph you have to try our national sweet, you will love it", and gathered her friends round to watch me trying salt-covered salmiakki for the first time
Simply tolerated... I would say that is an under exaggeration again. While there certainly are nordic people who do no like liqourice with ammonium-chloride it definitely is a thing in the Nordic countries. In the Netherlands where they like to brag about their love for liqourice it is impossible to find liqourice with ammonium-chloride. It can even be hard to find the just normal salty one, because the sweet one is the preferred one.
It's not just Finland. I'm the weird kid who will eat the black jelly beans (if good quality). I like licorice, so when my dad went on vacation every year to England, he would bring some back, usually licorice katzen which I think was from Germany. I have noticed that most folks in the US haven't had the harder or saltier kinds. Edit: Your video got me curious, so I went to find the licorice of my youth and discovered that yes, mine had been made in Germany, and even better, the recipe came from Italy, where dad's from. Thanks for the rabbit hole!
I absolutely LOVE licorice! The Finnish people are definitely the undisputed masters of licorice, but I think we (Sweden) also have a very high consumption of licorice, as do the other nordic countries. It is really something we nordic people agree on 😄 The ammonium chloride ("salmiak" in Swedish, and I believe "salmiakki" in Finnish) is the dominant flavour of salty licorice, and since it also tastes like licorice, I don't really think you can taste the licorice in that. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE salmiak, and eat a lot of it (even though I probably shouldn't. It is really bad for your health), but I like real licorice root more. You can actually buy the pure roots. I think that is the best way to get the flavour down. It is considered fairly healthy, and has tons of antioxidants in it if you believe in the health benefits of that. It is also slightly poisonous though and gives you a high blood pressure, so you should be careful not to eat too much of it. That is a problem for us nordic people, and we sruggle to keep the consumption down 😆 There are some really awsome high quality licorice products out there, and judging from your reaction to these candies, I think you would like real licorice more. I think what uninitiated people hate the most is the salmiak, not the licorice. My favourite use of licorice lately has been a salty licorice syrup, that I use with desserts. It really enhances the dessert, kind of like salted caramel. The best complementary flavours to licorice I think are raspberries and chocolate. A chocolate mousse with raspberry purée and a small amount of salty licorice syrup is FANTASTIC!!👍
Quite a lot of British and US liquorice has aniseed in it as a flavouring. A lot of people are put off by that, Good to see someone else warning about excessive consumption.
Oh and Italy as well, they had those liquorice tic tac chewing gums in the Tuscany a couple years back, but when they came to Germany tic tac somehow forget that o absolutely love liquorice and dropped the product.. Now we only have menthol and strawberry :(
@@jeffreym68 The one I use is the swedish brand "lakritsfabriken". lakritsfabriken.se/butik/premiumlakrits/ovriga-lakritsprodukter/saltyliquorice-syrup/ If you are based in Europe, there should be many places that sell this brand. If you are based in the states or somewhere else in the world, I'm not sure if you can find that specific brand, but I'm sure there are plenty of alternatives. Just search for "salty licorice syrup" and you'll find something similar 🙂
As a Dane this video is really amazing to me. I love licorice, especially salmiakki/salty, and a lot of people that don't live in Scandinavia and its surrounding countries, I feel have the wrong perception of how much it really can be. I commend you for trying some unlike many others
@Lassi Kinnunen @Lassi Kinnunen I have actually newer seen Tyrkisk Peper from Fazer as a soft candy stick before this, only as a hard candy. The hard candy comes in 3 different variations. With 1, 2 or 3 flames. He should have tried the one with 3 flames. And even if it's hard candy, I still chew them to get the powder 🤯😋 Fun fact: it's original from Denmark, and more south in Germany, it's called Danish Pepper(not from Fazer). I know because, I'm a Dane living in Germany, but still need my daily kick 🔥 Also, remember this is not good for groving children or people with osteoporosis, because it prevents your bones from absorbing calcium
I remember the first time I tried licorice as a kid (fake, in gummy form) and instantly liking it (I already loved anise flavour candy). Then, some time ago, a relative brought me from Europe real licorice hard candy, which I liked, and salmiak pastilles (salty licorice, with ammonium chloride), which I LOVED 🤤.
Aww I was hoping you would try one of those salmiak licorices that are caked with ammonium chloride and are so ungodly salty I have no idea how anyone can enjoy them. Still an enjoyable video though.
@@hexasides6411 Ahh so thats how you train people to eat pure salt. Mix it with sugar and give it to them as kids then eventually they are eating licorice that is like 50% ammonium chloride. To someone not raised on eating it salmiak is unbearably salty. I enjoy salty sweats im a huge fan of the mexican candies covered in the salty chili powder stuff but man that stuff covered in ammonium chloride is borderline painful.
If you refer to Djunglevrål I can tell you those things are gonna burn your tongue if enough are eaten at once, however they're still my favourite licorice
We made some ammonium chloride in middle school during chemistry in finland, best thing ever. I've been thinking about buying pure ammonium chloride from the internet lol, I'm addicted to the stuff
4:20 Stop calling me the weird kid! That was the best licorice I had when I was younger, until my relatives flew over and brought the REAL show stoppers.
I know the herb "tagetes filifolia" that tastes like liquorice is also pretty popular in Finland. Worth trying! We're pretty fond of liquorice here in Norway as well, but chips with liquorice taste was new to me. Would try.
My weird relationship with licorice in Australia. As a very young child I recall I liked it when my grandmother gave me some (I suspect it was real licorice), later I hated it (I suspect cheap flavoured stuff) then as an adult I married a Frenchman, who said to me that is not licorice, and when I got to finally eat licorice again (a stick, like chewing on a toothpick that made yellow juice) I discovered I really did like it. Now I check what the ingredients are. Not too much real licorice can be found in Australia but if you look hard some small shops import it and it is in some teas.
Holland have the same candies. I am canadian of dutch heritage and grew up eating double salted licorice. The tubes are full of what's essentially just an icing.. My favorite, i kid you not, is called zwart/wit, black/white. and it is an aspirin sized tablet, one side salt, one side sweet licorice. One thing about american licorice is it has much less licorice root and more cheaper aniseed. That's the flavour difference I really notice. If you really want to taste licorice as it's meant to taste, make a tea from ground licorice root. You might not mind that either. Plus it's so sweet it's perfect for getting off sugar.
The filling inside the Tyrkisk Peber liquorice is based on a popular hard candy with the same name. It's a salmiakki flavored liquorice hard candy with a spicy powder inside. That powder is what's mixed into the center filling.
I’d highly suggest trying Panda Licorice, which is made in Jyväskylä. The salty licorice with ammonium chloride is salmiakki. If you’re feeling really adventurous, get Salmiakkikossu-salmiakki schnapps, basically.
And the afterthought was so wrong, because the licorice is the same in all of these, but the paste should be chili like hot. The default turkish peppers burn your mouth.
I always got all of the licorice jelly beans as a kid. I also loved Good & Plenty. Licorice is one of my favorite flavors, but I can understand why people hate it. Very intense. I've been known to buy a bag of just licorice Jelly Bellies. Or licorice and cinnamon. The two go together so well.
3:03 thats the international name of the product xD the finnish name is "Turkin pippuri" Also thats neither pure licorice. "tyrkisk peber" -> turkin pippuri is Fazer's candy and this licorice has that fillment. Turkin pippuri means "Turkish pepper"
Going through Reykjavik, Iceland I purchased a wonderful licorice treat. Balls of licorice covered in chocolate with a white candy shell. Extremely addictive! The combination was very complementary. Wish I could get hold of some more.
Turkisk Peppar (which it is called in Sweden) is a really salty licorice and it's sadly mostly artificial! The salty taste is the ammoniumcloride (Salmiak). Most of the regular licorice candy is artificial here and in Finland but you can find candy made with real licorice root in pharmacies and some markets :)
Salmiakki (salmiac in english a.k.a. salty liquorice) is that ammonium chloride liquorice stuff! Some Swedes and Dutch people like that stuff too, but Finns absolutely love it. My favourites are Super Salmiakki and Vanhat Autot to name few. While I love Pantteri (the ones you had), they're not really "salmiakki" for me to count them in. Nothing to do with liquorice IMO, salmiac is an acquired taste :D Really fresh soft liquorice is awesome tho and you had none of those kinds of candies. My favourites are Paksu Pepe XXL and fresh Kouvolan Lakritsi.
there is 2 types of Licorice. One is made from a salt (Ammoniumklorid) and one is made from Licorice root, so its a plant. The root Licorice is most made as soft sweet Licorice whilst the hard is mostly done from the salt and is much more stingy in the taste.
Agree but it's fair to appreciate that others don't enjoy the intense flavor of the proper root sweet, although quick to admit that salted licorice is easily a favorite
@@zaddyzeeseburgnutz I like those with a stout. Really enhances some of the coco/coffee flavors if you're into beer. Otherwise yes I agree that they can be aggressively salty.
Black jellybeans and gummies in the US are usually flavored with anise seed, which is somewhat similar in flavor. I love anise. Actual licorice root, though, tastes like rotten tobacco to me. Another common licorice substitute is fennel, though it's not as close.
The real deal is salmiakki, which is ammonium chloride. People call it usually salty licorice, but they are two different things. Here in finland we love our salmiakki.
OMG! LICORICE IS AWESOME! I love salted licorice. And I love licorice from Kookaburra, Australia. So soft and delicious and chewy. Just absolutely decadent. And Allsorts are fun. Yum. Yum. Yum.
There is always a list of ingredients and the name of the candy in English if you fold and look at the packaging a little! Finnish products almost always have ingredient list in English, Chinese, Danish and Swedish!
I do think most American candies that are licorice flavoured tend to be more of the anise flavour instead of licorice root if you tried a quality licorice tea it is more of the licorice root flavour that is much more palatable if you arent used to it! Keep up the awesome videos!!
Liquorice candies should be safer but making a root tea can be dangerous if you have it every day. Especially if you have heart or circulatory problems. Some of the steroids in the root make your body get rid of potassium, lack of potassium is really bad for you. The candies should be using extracts with reduced levels of those particular steroids.
I hate salty licorice and the stuff that are mass produced for the stores. But localy fresh licorice is really tasty and not that offensive for one's tastebuds. If you wanna try licorice that's the way you should go.
You got the ammonium chloride thing all wrong. Both Vanhat Autot and Pantteri contain menthol that is responsible for the cooling effect, not the ammonium chloride. Ammonium chloride is called Salmiakki here in finland and translated sometimes as salty licourice. Salmiakki is literally ammonium and chloride merging a molecule. Salmiakki is often accompanied by licourice in candies. But if ur going for salmiakki candies you should have gone with Lakrisal (my favourite), Apteekin Salmiakki, Turkin Pippuri, Fazer Salmiakki pastilli, Super salmiakki, ässä mix or Oukki Doukki. And if you want just licourice just unquestionably the best is Kouvolan Lakritsi. And none of those have the menthol cough drops cooling effect. Thats just menthol. If you would like to try them I'd be happy to send you some samples! :D
Heard a story about a guy who ate nothing but licorice for a long period of time? He died. It messes with the potassium in your body. I think he died of heart failure.
Hey, I'm from Finland, and I didn't even know they have salty liqorice -flavored chips! :O Also, no one from Finland knows how to pronounce "Turkisk peber", we've always just known it as Turkinpippuri. Personally, I think the original Turkinpippuri is the best candy ever. "Vanhat autot" means old cars. They're kind of a classic product that has existed for decades. We call salty liqorice "salmiakki", and it's kind of our national candy.
I love black licorice. Particularly black licorice with a nice strong anise oil added to it for flavoring. Finland does a lot of salted licorice though, idk how I feel about salt in my licorice.
In the nordic countries the ammonium chloride is often called salmiak and is a common candy flavoring. Sometimes they add tar flavoring too. I don't get it tbh? Probably an acquired taste. Try Zout licorice: those have quite a strong salmiak flavor. Another fun fact is that licorice flavoring in the US is typically Anise, and actual licorice root just tastes sweet with few to none of the salty or spicy tones that people usually expect from licorice.
Fazer is the best Salmakki. And Salmakki ice cream is amazing. Panda is also a good brand. And it's Pronounced like Turkish pepper and the hard candy is great dissolved in vodka.
Due to WW2 black licorice was cheapened in Licorice whips and likely beans. The same as with tootsie rolls in the early 1960s.it once was darker looking and taste far better.
i was friends with a japanese foreign exchange student in high school who asked me why I wasn't eating the licorice flavor of some gummy candy I was eating, he didn't know what licorice was, or maybe it just didn't translate right or something, but when I offered him one to try it, at first he said, this tastes fine, then made the worst face and spit it out, it was hilarious and I remember this years later. He also didn't like root beer flavored candies, said they tasted like medicine.
I enjoy licorice, always have. I grew up in Northern Indiana, where there is a lot of Amish culture, and I can remember being introduced to black licorice at an Amish shop owned by a friend of my grandmother. It was a little round puck that was probably the most chewy thing I had eaten up to that point, mind you I think I was like 6 or 7. I liked it nonetheless. Good stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Try out Panda brand "lakupala", it's in red package if I remember correctly. It's pretty much the original sweet licorice. Many who don't like licorice, still like that. There's also no extra stuff on it.
My family was too poor to afford jellybeans. The few times we ever get some, the black ones were too precious to pass up. Just imagine a family of 9 siblings sharing one packet of jellybeans.
I recommend treating Licorice like garlic, it's a condiment to candy, goes really well with very sweet stuff, like that filling or caramel. But eating just pure licorice is too much, just like you wouldn't eat a clove of garlic.
Most US licorice contains no licorice herb at all, and is flavoured with aniseed instead. A lot of European licorice candy is still flavoured with a substantial amount of the herb.
I have a Swedish friend that sometimes comes here to the states and brings us a bunch of Tyrkisk peper and oh my god is it good The ones that lean even more into he spicyness are the best
I'm from Finland and I've never seen those chips.. But the best liquorice is the one with ammonium chloride it's good. I would really want to taste those black jellybeans tough.
As a kid in southern Europe (close to Barcelona, Catalonia), we used to chew the actual licorice root, like the picture you showed. It's actually very nice. I also love licorice sweets, but the taste of the processed ones and the natural root it's quite different.
It’s an acquired taste. I always avoided it growing up, but one day my boss/cousin brought it to work and I’ve liked it ever since. I don’t eat it often, but occasionally I have intense cravings for it
You should allso try Kouvolan Lakritsi that is sold at some K-markets next to the cash register and Apteekin Salmiakki that is sold at some regular stores but most likely can be found at the pharmacy they are my favourite liquorices.
Given that, in English, pus (with a single "s") is not a cat or a genital euphemism, but is what oozes out of an infected toe, the dissonance is even more striking in print!
Aaah man you rally missed out. You should have tried the lemon licorice bars, the normal tyrkisk peber round candies and last but definitely not least the classic salmiakki. its a classic for a reson. you really should have had a guide or asked a local for this.
The "Beyond the press" channel has a video "How Tyrkisk Peber Salty Liquorice Candy is Made?" They are from Finland and big fans of these liquorice candies
It's just chemicals, like everything else. Your body needs oxygen, which is one atom away from ozone. Some plastics have plenty of hazardous substances. Even stuff we eat and drink can be dangerous (water poisoning, beans are poisonous when un-cooked etc.).
Lets settle things once and for all.
Licorice: YEA or NAY?
Yea for sure
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Yea!!!!
As a Dane I forget that most other countries don't like licorice, to us it's a normal candy like gummy worms lol
I wish Australia was like Nordic countries. I love licorice so much but it's hard to find the good stuff.
I had some lakrits (spelling?) thanks to a friend who went to Denmark. It was freaking amazing.
I'm from another nordic country and was pretty shocked the first time I heard that some people in other countries don't like liquorice. Everyone likes it here. Because it's SO GOOD! Especially Finnish liquorice.
My native liquorice is too salty and gelatin-y for my taste. Finnish liquorice is so sweet and tasty.
Panda liquorice.. Oh man.
@@highestqualitypigiron Its funny you say that. In the U.S, there is a type of licorice (not a brand) called Australian Licorice which is not difficult to find at all.
@@cyanide_breathmint I thought Panda Licorice was Australian. I love that stuff! Licorice in the US SUCKS!
The Turkisk Peber (eng. 'Turkish Pepper' , finnish 'Turkinpippuri') is an entire family of candy products with spicy liquorices and salmiakki in them. The white vanilla-looking filling was probably the part which brought the spicy taste to the candy. That aside, if you happen to ever again wish to torture yourself with some Finnish sweet and/or salty liquorices, I would definitely recommend buying Kouvolan Lakritsi. It is a very good liquorice with a somewhat creamy feel to it. I would also recommend trying Turkish Peber's/Turkinpippuri's hard spicy candies, they might be a bit more up your alley along with any filled liquorice pipe mixes which all have similar candy to PusPus in them. And if you ever happend to go on a Finnish outdoor market during the summer, you are guaranteed to find at least one, if not two or even three, vendors who sell metre long liquorice pipes with a variety different flavours of fillings to choose from.
I love Kouvolan Lakritsi. Its the best soft liquorice ever. :D
heh. pipe.
Tyrkisk Peber is originally a Danish candy later bought by Fazer.
@@McSlobo Huh, didn't know about that. Thanks for informing us!
Ammonium chloride is also called Salmiak
salmiakki*
Sal ammoniac in English. Named for the temple of Jupiter Ammon in Egypt where it was prepared from camel dung. Gave its name to ammonia.
@@Aleksisaulamaa Depends on the country. In Germany, it's salmiak.
Most Americans have never actually eaten real licorice candy.American "licorice" is flavored with anise and candy makers tend to make the candies taste too strong which turns people off.
This! Stay away from the too sweet ones. Saying you don't like licorice is like saying you don't like ice cream. While there are many many different flavors and types.
It's because licorice is toxic in high amounts and people can become ill if they eat too much of it, so they wanna cover their asses
@@StarmanDX Lol yea in extreme amounts. So much that you really have to try finding a licorice candy (because thats what it is) that has large amounts of the root in it. They only still make that stuff in Italy pretty much. Here in The Netherlands we do have good licorice people enjoy, but even those have a lot of sugar. Can eat a kilo and feel sick sure, but thats because of the sugar. American or british licorice is just pure sugary candy. So no, it has nothing to do with that.
@@StarmanDX Anything is toxic if you take too much of it. A human can easily die from water poisoning.
american licorice tastes horrible , if you want some really good one go on amazon and try finding some italian licorice , licorice from calabria is just awesome
Hats off to you for trying! Yeah the Ammonium Chloride is dubbed "salmiakki" in finnish. Finns tend to love it mostly and it is great fun to offer it to foreigners to see how they react.
We have cough drops with it in it, so it won't be something new for foreigners, but they will think of it as medicine, not food.
I LOVE IT 😂
I as a Swede react “More, give me more”
There's a difference between salty licorice and salmiak licorice. Salty licorice is just licorice with salt. And salmiak is ammonium chloride which is that strong "salty" taste
@Johan Abdullah Holm Yes but salt licorice is made with regular salt and not ammonium chloride
Laku is also really good! You know the soft licorice witch is kinda mild.
Yea I think he might be confusing it with something else in the ones he tried
Swede here, salty liquorice is the best kind!
But is finnish or german better ?... Kidding , In the US bc all higher end liquorice is german for some reason, I live in tx by they way , also must be said I don't like trucks or guns
Usch fy blääää!
Give the man some djungelvrål!
salmiakki is devil shit
@@VocalMusicMinority opinions exist
You didn't have like a traditional nordic-style licorice there, which is a shame, I think you might have liked it, atleast compared to what you're used to in the states.
If you ever get the chance, get maybe like a plain Panda-brand licorice. It's a soft, sweet, gentle type of licorice. A gateway drug, if you will.
Would definitely recommend the root by itself. A bit like a chewing gum, and since it (if dry) only really goes proper chewable once soaked with saliva, it goes very sweet.
I was one of those weird kids who liked black jelly beans. The older I got, the stronger the licorice flavor appealed to me.
actually, they are not true licorice, they are aniseed. Anise is a cool seed, looks like a pretty star. You grind the whole thing and the powder has a nearly licorice smell/flavour, but slightly sharper and rougher in flavour than licorice. Real licorice is a root. It can be bought as little sticks we chewed on as kids, also for dental cleaning in the old days. You can grind it and use it in tea, or powder it and replace sugar with it.
@@1st1anarkissed it tastes the exact same. But correct. Licorice is the actual root of a licorice bush. Star anise comes from a different plant.
@@seiyuokamihimura5082 It does not taste the exact same. I have samples of both in my kitchen. I have happily enjoyed anise sugar blocks in milk and licorice root tea. Anise is a much sharper flavour. I can recognize by the smell of someone else eating whether they're eating cheap licorice made with aniseed extract or real licorice made from licorice root.
@@1st1anarkissed From what I've read, it looks like black jelly beans can be either anise or licorice. Apparently Jelly Belly ones are licorice, for example. Many brands use anise. I just found some sold that are cola flavoured so that could be a nice surprise for someone.
translations with notes for the products in this video:
Pus pus pus pus - Kiss kiss kiss kiss (Mansikka täytelakritsi - Strawberry-filled liqourice)
Tyrkisk Peber - Turkish pepper (this one is actually danish. the finnish name is "turkinpippuri")
Vanhat Autot - Old cars
Pantteri - Panther
to speak on this further, while liqourice is more popular here than pehaps in most places, it's popularity is typically exaggurated. liqourice is just a fairly standard type of candy, and salmiakki, liqourice with ammonium-chloride, is often simply tolerated, if not hated. in fact, salmiakki isn't so much considered a type of liqourice, rather it's own type of candy.
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Thank you for the translations... 😊
@@TheLinkoln18 np ^^ it makes me happy to know people care
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Am going to add to your subscribers.... 👍
When I went to Finland, my Finnish friend was like "Joseph you have to try our national sweet, you will love it", and gathered her friends round to watch me trying salt-covered salmiakki for the first time
Simply tolerated... I would say that is an under exaggeration again. While there certainly are nordic people who do no like liqourice with ammonium-chloride it definitely is a thing in the Nordic countries. In the Netherlands where they like to brag about their love for liqourice it is impossible to find liqourice with ammonium-chloride. It can even be hard to find the just normal salty one, because the sweet one is the preferred one.
It's not just Finland. I'm the weird kid who will eat the black jelly beans (if good quality). I like licorice, so when my dad went on vacation every year to England, he would bring some back, usually licorice katzen which I think was from Germany. I have noticed that most folks in the US haven't had the harder or saltier kinds.
Edit: Your video got me curious, so I went to find the licorice of my youth and discovered that yes, mine had been made in Germany, and even better, the recipe came from Italy, where dad's from. Thanks for the rabbit hole!
Now I wanna go to Finland for sure!
I wish i had known you were coming to finland, i could have helped you with translation etc and helped you pick the right licorice :)
I absolutely LOVE licorice!
The Finnish people are definitely the undisputed masters of licorice, but I think we (Sweden) also have a very high consumption of licorice, as do the other nordic countries. It is really something we nordic people agree on 😄
The ammonium chloride ("salmiak" in Swedish, and I believe "salmiakki" in Finnish) is the dominant flavour of salty licorice, and since it also tastes like licorice, I don't really think you can taste the licorice in that.
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE salmiak, and eat a lot of it (even though I probably shouldn't. It is really bad for your health), but I like real licorice root more.
You can actually buy the pure roots. I think that is the best way to get the flavour down. It is considered fairly healthy, and has tons of antioxidants in it if you believe in the health benefits of that.
It is also slightly poisonous though and gives you a high blood pressure, so you should be careful not to eat too much of it. That is a problem for us nordic people, and we sruggle to keep the consumption down 😆
There are some really awsome high quality licorice products out there, and judging from your reaction to these candies, I think you would like real licorice more. I think what uninitiated people hate the most is the salmiak, not the licorice.
My favourite use of licorice lately has been a salty licorice syrup, that I use with desserts. It really enhances the dessert, kind of like salted caramel. The best complementary flavours to licorice I think are raspberries and chocolate. A chocolate mousse with raspberry purée and a small amount of salty licorice syrup is FANTASTIC!!👍
Quite a lot of British and US liquorice has aniseed in it as a flavouring. A lot of people are put off by that,
Good to see someone else warning about excessive consumption.
Goes down into Northern German and the Netherlands as well.
Salmiak and Lakritz are pretty standard sweets in coastal areas for some reason.
Oh and Italy as well, they had those liquorice tic tac chewing gums in the Tuscany a couple years back, but when they came to Germany tic tac somehow forget that o absolutely love liquorice and dropped the product.. Now we only have menthol and strawberry :(
I must try that syrup!
@@jeffreym68 The one I use is the swedish brand "lakritsfabriken".
lakritsfabriken.se/butik/premiumlakrits/ovriga-lakritsprodukter/saltyliquorice-syrup/
If you are based in Europe, there should be many places that sell this brand. If you are based in the states or somewhere else in the world, I'm not sure if you can find that specific brand, but I'm sure there are plenty of alternatives. Just search for "salty licorice syrup" and you'll find something similar 🙂
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As a Dane this video is really amazing to me. I love licorice, especially salmiakki/salty, and a lot of people that don't live in Scandinavia and its surrounding countries, I feel have the wrong perception of how much it really can be. I commend you for trying some unlike many others
You need to learn about ammoniumchlorid candy. They are not like cough drops. And it shouldn't taste like mentol.
@Lassi Kinnunen @Lassi Kinnunen I have actually newer seen Tyrkisk Peper from Fazer as a soft candy stick before this, only as a hard candy. The hard candy comes in 3 different variations. With 1, 2 or 3 flames. He should have tried the one with 3 flames. And even if it's hard candy, I still chew them to get the powder 🤯😋
Fun fact: it's original from Denmark, and more south in Germany, it's called Danish Pepper(not from Fazer).
I know because, I'm a Dane living in Germany, but still need my daily kick 🔥
Also, remember this is not good for groving children or people with osteoporosis, because it prevents your bones from absorbing calcium
Licorice is one of those things that no matter how hard I try I can't wrap me head around how anyone on this planet can enjoy it
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Me Me! I do! :D
It is an acquired taste. I grew up eating it with my grandmother, so I am partial to it.
I remember the first time I tried licorice as a kid (fake, in gummy form) and instantly liking it (I already loved anise flavour candy). Then, some time ago, a relative brought me from Europe real licorice hard candy, which I liked, and salmiak pastilles (salty licorice, with ammonium chloride), which I LOVED 🤤.
I absolutely love black licorice. I know many people dislike it with a passion but I don’t understand it because my taste buds adore it
Aww I was hoping you would try one of those salmiak licorices that are caked with ammonium chloride and are so ungodly salty I have no idea how anyone can enjoy them. Still an enjoyable video though.
hexahedron hockey powder, right?
@@hexasides6411 Ahh so thats how you train people to eat pure salt. Mix it with sugar and give it to them as kids then eventually they are eating licorice that is like 50% ammonium chloride. To someone not raised on eating it salmiak is unbearably salty. I enjoy salty sweats im a huge fan of the mexican candies covered in the salty chili powder stuff but man that stuff covered in ammonium chloride is borderline painful.
Yes we eat those as children, it's a real experience for a young childs taste buds, it prepares you for life lol
If you refer to Djunglevrål I can tell you those things are gonna burn your tongue if enough are eaten at once, however they're still my favourite licorice
We made some ammonium chloride in middle school during chemistry in finland, best thing ever. I've been thinking about buying pure ammonium chloride from the internet lol, I'm addicted to the stuff
4:20 Stop calling me the weird kid! That was the best licorice I had when I was younger, until my relatives flew over and brought the REAL show stoppers.
Scientists have been trying to solve this mystery for thousands of years
And it was simply answered by the Danes “yes, it is good”
Two minutes into the video and I have an enormous smile on my face! Thank you so much! Your own brand of humour is wonderful!
I know the herb "tagetes filifolia" that tastes like liquorice is also pretty popular in Finland. Worth trying! We're pretty fond of liquorice here in Norway as well, but chips with liquorice taste was new to me. Would try.
Irish marigold if i'm not mistaken, i've trying to find in my country, just because it tastes like liquorise
As someone who used to not like licorice the gateway drug is licorice covered in milk chocolate. It's strange but pretty delicious.
My weird relationship with licorice in Australia. As a very young child I recall I liked it when my grandmother gave me some (I suspect it was real licorice), later I hated it (I suspect cheap flavoured stuff) then as an adult I married a Frenchman, who said to me that is not licorice, and when I got to finally eat licorice again (a stick, like chewing on a toothpick that made yellow juice) I discovered I really did like it. Now I check what the ingredients are. Not too much real licorice can be found in Australia but if you look hard some small shops import it and it is in some teas.
I definitely want to go to Finland for this because I always loved licorice in all forms. It's my favourite candy.
The more fresh licorice you can get from Finland is often really sticky and soft. Really good stuff.
Holland have the same candies. I am canadian of dutch heritage and grew up eating double salted licorice. The tubes are full of what's essentially just an icing.. My favorite, i kid you not, is called zwart/wit, black/white. and it is an aspirin sized tablet, one side salt, one side sweet licorice. One thing about american licorice is it has much less licorice root and more cheaper aniseed. That's the flavour difference I really notice. If you really want to taste licorice as it's meant to taste, make a tea from ground licorice root. You might not mind that either. Plus it's so sweet it's perfect for getting off sugar.
I was that weird kid eating the black jelly beans. I love all kinds of licorice, I wish I could try all the varieties you found! They look amazing :)
The filling inside the Tyrkisk Peber liquorice is based on a popular hard candy with the same name. It's a salmiakki flavored liquorice hard candy with a spicy powder inside. That powder is what's mixed into the center filling.
I reckon it's an acquired taste. Also possibly worth distinguishing licorice and aniseed.
Fennel has a similar taste too.
I’d highly suggest trying Panda Licorice, which is made in Jyväskylä. The salty licorice with ammonium chloride is salmiakki. If you’re feeling really adventurous, get Salmiakkikossu-salmiakki schnapps, basically.
The commentary before trying turkish peppers ;D i am crying.
And the afterthought was so wrong, because the licorice is the same in all of these, but the paste should be chili like hot. The default turkish peppers burn your mouth.
Haha that was the best thing ever, "maybe it's vanilla" so innocent
I was that weird kid eating the black jelly beans. I love me some black licorice...
But salt is where I draw the line.
I always ate the black jelly beans. As for salt, I am open to try.
I always got all of the licorice jelly beans as a kid. I also loved Good & Plenty. Licorice is one of my favorite flavors, but I can understand why people hate it. Very intense.
I've been known to buy a bag of just licorice Jelly Bellies. Or licorice and cinnamon. The two go together so well.
licorice and cinnamon together? interesting.. I need to try this.
3:03 thats the international name of the product xD the finnish name is "Turkin pippuri"
Also thats neither pure licorice. "tyrkisk peber" -> turkin pippuri is Fazer's candy and this licorice has that fillment. Turkin pippuri means "Turkish pepper"
It’s actually the original name, that being in Danish
@@coastmalone Thank you for the reply, didnt know that
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Salty licorice is one of my favorite candies 😍 i hated (sweet) licorice as a child until i tried salty, very different flavors! /a swede
Going through Reykjavik, Iceland I purchased a wonderful licorice treat. Balls of licorice covered in chocolate with a white candy shell. Extremely addictive! The combination was very complementary. Wish I could get hold of some more.
Turkisk Peppar (which it is called in Sweden) is a really salty licorice and it's sadly mostly artificial! The salty taste is the ammoniumcloride (Salmiak). Most of the regular licorice candy is artificial here and in Finland but you can find candy made with real licorice root in pharmacies and some markets :)
You did well, most videos I've seen of foreigners trying Finnish licorice and salmiakki end with spitting it out.
Salmiakki (salmiac in english a.k.a. salty liquorice) is that ammonium chloride liquorice stuff!
Some Swedes and Dutch people like that stuff too, but Finns absolutely love it. My favourites are Super Salmiakki and Vanhat Autot to name few. While I love Pantteri (the ones you had), they're not really "salmiakki" for me to count them in. Nothing to do with liquorice IMO, salmiac is an acquired taste :D
Really fresh soft liquorice is awesome tho and you had none of those kinds of candies. My favourites are Paksu Pepe XXL and fresh Kouvolan Lakritsi.
I love licorice. I buy the bag with ONLY black jelly beans!
there is 2 types of Licorice. One is made from a salt (Ammoniumklorid) and one is made from Licorice root, so its a plant. The root Licorice is most made as soft sweet Licorice whilst the hard is mostly done from the salt and is much more stingy in the taste.
Licorice is incredible, it can always taste good.
Agree but it's fair to appreciate that others don't enjoy the intense flavor of the proper root sweet, although quick to admit that salted licorice is easily a favorite
@@sissypissyrapper23 Salted is great, but not the super salty ones that burn the tongue lol.
@@zaddyzeeseburgnutz I like those with a stout. Really enhances some of the coco/coffee flavors if you're into beer. Otherwise yes I agree that they can be aggressively salty.
Wrong.
@@sissypissyrapper23 nothings fair in love and war.
Black jellybeans and gummies in the US are usually flavored with anise seed, which is somewhat similar in flavor. I love anise. Actual licorice root, though, tastes like rotten tobacco to me. Another common licorice substitute is fennel, though it's not as close.
Tyrkisk Peber is really popular in the nordic countries, love it!
The real deal is salmiakki, which is ammonium chloride. People call it usually salty licorice, but they are two different things. Here in finland we love our salmiakki.
OMG! LICORICE IS AWESOME! I love salted licorice. And I love licorice from Kookaburra, Australia. So soft and delicious and chewy. Just absolutely decadent. And Allsorts are fun. Yum. Yum. Yum.
You should try "Terva Leijona" licorice with tar taste, second best type of candy after that black pantteri one ;)
Salmiakki is like hot chili foods, Getting used to it takes few times to eat it, but after that, it is soooo good.
There is always a list of ingredients and the name of the candy in English if you fold and look at the packaging a little! Finnish products almost always have ingredient list in English, Chinese, Danish and Swedish!
I do think most American candies that are licorice flavoured tend to be more of the anise flavour instead of licorice root if you tried a quality licorice tea it is more of the licorice root flavour that is much more palatable if you arent used to it! Keep up the awesome videos!!
Liquorice candies should be safer but making a root tea can be dangerous if you have it every day. Especially if you have heart or circulatory problems. Some of the steroids in the root make your body get rid of potassium, lack of potassium is really bad for you.
The candies should be using extracts with reduced levels of those particular steroids.
Have salted licorice almost every day. Love it.
I hate salty licorice and the stuff that are mass produced for the stores. But localy fresh licorice is really tasty and not that offensive for one's tastebuds. If you wanna try licorice that's the way you should go.
Im from the netherlands and its pretty popular here too i love all kinds but my favorite is honing drop = honey licorice
You got the ammonium chloride thing all wrong. Both Vanhat Autot and Pantteri contain menthol that is responsible for the cooling effect, not the ammonium chloride. Ammonium chloride is called Salmiakki here in finland and translated sometimes as salty licourice. Salmiakki is literally ammonium and chloride merging a molecule. Salmiakki is often accompanied by licourice in candies. But if ur going for salmiakki candies you should have gone with Lakrisal (my favourite), Apteekin Salmiakki, Turkin Pippuri, Fazer Salmiakki pastilli, Super salmiakki, ässä mix or Oukki Doukki. And if you want just licourice just unquestionably the best is Kouvolan Lakritsi. And none of those have the menthol cough drops cooling effect. Thats just menthol. If you would like to try them I'd be happy to send you some samples! :D
Heard a story about a guy who ate nothing but licorice for a long period of time? He died. It messes with the potassium in your body. I think he died of heart failure.
Quite true. Its originally an herbal medicine and will interfere if eaten too much.
Water kills you if you drink too much, too. Just consume in moderation people.
Hey, I'm from Finland, and I didn't even know they have salty liqorice -flavored chips! :O
Also, no one from Finland knows how to pronounce "Turkisk peber", we've always just known it as Turkinpippuri. Personally, I think the original Turkinpippuri is the best candy ever.
"Vanhat autot" means old cars. They're kind of a classic product that has existed for decades. We call salty liqorice "salmiakki", and it's kind of our national candy.
I love black licorice. Particularly black licorice with a nice strong anise oil added to it for flavoring. Finland does a lot of salted licorice though, idk how I feel about salt in my licorice.
Licorice root.....it's awesome! I used to chew root. One of the most pleasant things to can chew.
I was the kid that ate the black jelly beans. I traded the other flavors to my friends and collected all the black ones I could get. So yummy!
I bought licorice yogurt today. Yes we do love our licorice!
In the nordic countries the ammonium chloride is often called salmiak and is a common candy flavoring. Sometimes they add tar flavoring too. I don't get it tbh? Probably an acquired taste. Try Zout licorice: those have quite a strong salmiak flavor. Another fun fact is that licorice flavoring in the US is typically Anise, and actual licorice root just tastes sweet with few to none of the salty or spicy tones that people usually expect from licorice.
Fazer is the best Salmakki. And Salmakki ice cream is amazing. Panda is also a good brand. And it's Pronounced like Turkish pepper and the hard candy is great dissolved in vodka.
My wallet would hurt leaving that store :D.
I don't listen to my wallet, I listen to my tongue.
Due to WW2 black licorice was cheapened in Licorice whips and likely beans. The same as with tootsie rolls in the early 1960s.it once was darker looking and taste far better.
You should try that salmiakki powder, it's a bit harder to find but some shops have it in tubes or tiny paper bags
I was born in Holland and it’s the biggest consumption of black licorice in the world I love black licorice!
i was friends with a japanese foreign exchange student in high school who asked me why I wasn't eating the licorice flavor of some gummy candy I was eating, he didn't know what licorice was, or maybe it just didn't translate right or something, but when I offered him one to try it, at first he said, this tastes fine, then made the worst face and spit it out, it was hilarious and I remember this years later. He also didn't like root beer flavored candies, said they tasted like medicine.
Hmm, suggestion. Try the original Plant Licorice is made from? Dried sticks of the root should be available online.
You should try anise hyssop. It has a nice licorice flavor and can be used in tea.
I enjoy licorice, always have. I grew up in Northern Indiana, where there is a lot of Amish culture, and I can remember being introduced to black licorice at an Amish shop owned by a friend of my grandmother. It was a little round puck that was probably the most chewy thing I had eaten up to that point, mind you I think I was like 6 or 7. I liked it nonetheless. Good stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Try out Panda brand "lakupala", it's in red package if I remember correctly. It's pretty much the original sweet licorice. Many who don't like licorice, still like that. There's also no extra stuff on it.
The contrast on your camera 😭😭
When I was a kid, the black jellybeans were my favorite...now i hate them, it's really weird how our taste buds change.
That happened to me too lol
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In the US I buy from Licorice International, and of all they offer, I like the Walkers Licorice Toffees the best.
My family was too poor to afford jellybeans. The few times we ever get some, the black ones were too precious to pass up. Just imagine a family of 9 siblings sharing one packet of jellybeans.
I recommend treating Licorice like garlic, it's a condiment to candy, goes really well with very sweet stuff, like that filling or caramel. But eating just pure licorice is too much, just like you wouldn't eat a clove of garlic.
Most US licorice contains no licorice herb at all, and is flavoured with aniseed instead. A lot of European licorice candy is still flavoured with a substantial amount of the herb.
I like those Pantteri and the car, mild salmiac. But my daily drivers are Super Salmiakki, Fazer Salmiakki and Dracula. They give a good kick.
Favourote jelly bean - cinnamon; grape; blueberry; caramel popcorn; pear (in that order)
I hate licorice and salmiak but PusPus, MintMint and SukuLaku are the best! The licorice taste is so subtle in it it compliments the filling
I have a Swedish friend that sometimes comes here to the states and brings us a bunch of Tyrkisk peper and oh my god is it good
The ones that lean even more into he spicyness are the best
A bag of tyrkisk peber in a vodka is the best :)
Surprised you didn't get any of the Fazer Salmiakki or the DZ salt licorice. I love that stuff.😁
I love licorice especially salted licorice.
I'm from Finland and I've never seen those chips.. But the best liquorice is the one with ammonium chloride it's good. I would really want to taste those black jellybeans tough.
As a kid in southern Europe (close to Barcelona, Catalonia), we used to chew the actual licorice root, like the picture you showed. It's actually very nice. I also love licorice sweets, but the taste of the processed ones and the natural root it's quite different.
It’s an acquired taste. I always avoided it growing up, but one day my boss/cousin brought it to work and I’ve liked it ever since. I don’t eat it often, but occasionally I have intense cravings for it
Here in The Netherlands people like licorice, too lol
The tyrkisk peber bar is so goooooodd mmmmmmm!
You should allso try Kouvolan Lakritsi that is sold at some K-markets next to the cash register and Apteekin Salmiakki that is sold at some regular stores but most likely can be found at the pharmacy they are my favourite liquorices.
"Pus Pus Pus... Pus" Imagine if someone heard this with no context.
Given that, in English, pus (with a single "s") is not a cat or a genital euphemism, but is what oozes out of an infected toe, the dissonance is even more striking in print!
In English it would be ”Kiss kiss kiss kiss”
Aaah man you rally missed out. You should have tried the lemon licorice bars, the normal tyrkisk peber round candies and last but definitely not least the classic salmiakki. its a classic for a reson. you really should have had a guide or asked a local for this.
The "Beyond the press" channel has a video "How Tyrkisk Peber Salty Liquorice Candy is Made?"
They are from Finland and big fans of these liquorice candies
When I hear "Salmiak" I think "Part of Welding Flux." There is a reason I don't eat welding flux
It's just chemicals, like everything else. Your body needs oxygen, which is one atom away from ozone. Some plastics have plenty of hazardous substances. Even stuff we eat and drink can be dangerous (water poisoning, beans are poisonous when un-cooked etc.).