Yeah, as a few people mentioned, Dubbel Zout (the small round ones with DZ initials on it) are really missing, and you can also buy pure Salmiak powder. I used to buy those as a kid, and just dip my finger it and eat it. Yum!
Nowadays you can find dubbelzout also in a brick shape with DZ on it by Venco. Or dubbelzout dices by Klene. But the best ones are indeed the round ones you can buy at Kruidvat and Jamin.
@@woutersplinter4981Both are great, and I would argue that the DZ bricks taste more like salt and the round ones have a slightly more zoethout like flavour, if that makes sense? Maybe thats just me XD
Oldtimers Zoethouders Pittigzoet: This is "zoethout" flavored, Google can't seem to translate this besides saying its licorice, it's the root of a "eurasian" plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) that contains a sweetness 30 to 50 times as strong as sugar but does not damage teeth. Its one of the "spices" we've been trading for 100's of years, at some extremely touristy destinations you might be able to find some but realistically very few people still consume it, you chew on it and over time it gets sweeter and sweeter, it's weird because you're literally chomping on some kind of stick, but if you like licorice it's honestly kinda nice, the candies are honestly weird and just what it would taste like the first 10 seconds or so, i dont get why they made it taste like that either. So yeah the comments that it reminds of wood make a lot of sense, it IS wood.
@@buncharted It is one of the ingredients of "seven spices" a very well known chinese spice-mix. I LOVE cooking with it but my Belgian family members do not support 😉
@@bunchartedI could recommend to try it, because it's a weird experience chewing on a stick. If you do, don't swallow the stick. Chewing for flavor is enough.
Google translates “zoethout” as “liquorice” because that’s literally what it is. It is the plant that liquorice candy is named after. The word “liquorice” comes from the Greek name “glycyrrhiza” which literally means “sweetwood” just like “zoethout”. All real liquorice, what Americans call “black licorice”, contains liquorice root extract. I think the “zoethout” label in Dutch just means the flavour is dominated by the liquorice, rather than anise or salmiak which often overpowers it.
It was funny how they thought 'munt' was just the Dutch word for 'mint', whereas it actually has a double meaning and in this case 'munt' is the Dutch word for 'coin'.
Hilarious! As a native in this country, I love drop. Sweet, salt, salmiak, I like it all. The looks on your faces when tasting some of it, priceless! Zoethoudertjes are the most back to basics liquorice. The outside of it is covered in finely grained root of the licorice plant. As kids, we love to chew and suck on it. It looks like a wooden branch. Since most of the drop is an acquired taste, I'm not surprised you don't like it
That's what I like about Zoethoudertjes. They remind me of chewing on actual liquorice root (zoethout) as a kid. Pure unadulterated liquorice flavor. Get used to it and all these lovely fruity notes reveal themselves.
Oops: forgot the Katja Kokindjes! Those have been around for as long as I can remember. Soft and sweet and chewy. THE classic Dutch gateway liquorice. If it weren't for my mom stopping me, I'd work my way through a whole bag of those as a kid.
They taste like the roots of the liquorice tree (zoethout struik), people used to chew on the dried roots of these trees. Just search for "Zoethoutwortel" if you want to try it. I remember getting it from my parents as it's sweet, keeps kids occupied and does not contain sugar.
Not sure if it's acquired, I liked it from the start. And well, the Scandinavian countries also love the stuff. So basically like 4 countries in the world love it (Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Finland).
The zoethoudertjes, the woody ones, are coated in the dust of licorice root, 'zoethout'. So yes, actual wood. Sticks of that stuff are occasionally sold as candy--a favourite of mine, since it lasted ages and was very cheap (important with limited zakgeld as a primary school kid). Consequently, zoethoudertjes are one of my favourite candies nowadays.
Hello Michelle and Alex, the flavor you apparently don't know about licorice is 'zoethout'. You can also buy 'zoethout' as dried plant root. It's an old fashioned kind of candy. You put it in your mouth and just chew it. In principle, you do not swallow the fluid that forms in your mouth. Chewing causes small flakes of the bark to form and the root becomes a yellow brush. Most people put it away when you don't feel like it anymore and the next time you cut the brush off and then put it back in your mouth. To understand what it is and looks like, look up: 'Zoethout'. Keep up the great work! Grtx! Han from Arnhem
De zoethoudertjes is one of my favs. Also piramides are yum. Fyi, sweet drop is pretty much just as salty as salty drop, but it has more sugar in it. And i’m pretty sure all black drop has ‘salmiak’ in it, but then it’s on the ingredient list as glycyrrhizine. When extra salt is added, the glycyrrhizine is called salmiak.
You are confusing two things here. All liquorice (in Europe) contains glycyrrhizine from liquorice root. It is an extremely sweet compound that has nothing to do with salmiak. Salmiak, or ammonium chloride, is added to liquorice candy in Northern European countries. Originally to act as an expectorant (to help with coughs) but nowadays to add the special “salty” flavour.
@eypandabear7483, you are correct. glycyrrhizic acid the the liquorice flavour (zoethout), and ammonium chloride is the salmiak flavour. glycyrrhizic acid is named after the scientific name of the liquorice plant. (Zoethout plant). Source: I just came from Wikipedia (also to copy-paste the spelling of the flavour compound).
@@Silverwing28 yes, and the word “liquorice” itself is a loan from the same Ancient Greek word, glykyrrhiza, via Latin and French into English. So liquorice literally means the same as “zoethout”.
I don't live in the Netherlands and this video makes me miss all the drop! My favorite (besides dubbelzout, the "saltier" the better) is heksenhyl, they are fairly soft, sugar coated with salmiak inside.
We Dutchies have grown up with licorice and as such have acquired the taste for the salty stuff. Americans, as far as I can tell from popular culture, are raised with sweet candies. So I'm not surprised that you don't like the salmiak based licorice. I think the worst thing you guys could try are the so-called "salmiak bollen" and "salmiak kogels aka Napoleon zwart wit". Especially the last ones start out with a sweetish outer shell before it dissolves and unleashes its salmiak powder inner core on your senses when you suck on them. But we Dutchies love the sudden salt explosion!
Oh Napoleon Zwart Wit, didn't have them in ages. My daughter is a born and raised Dutchie as well but she hates licorice. My favourite drop are Sprottendrop from Jamin. For my bloodpressure it is nice that I don't live close to a Jamin but if I'm near one... that's my treat. A whole bag..
I don’t reply that often to you or any youtube video for that matter (do watch many of your vids) but man have I laughed so so hard!! The faces, the descriptions, the jokes, the whole lot! You are very likable, entertaining and everything. Thanks for the work you put in these videos both of you. Keep it up. My cheeks are actually still hurting from smiling throughout the video!!! 🙏🏻😂😂
O and it might be a bit outside of the drop category, but Stophoest is really good, and it might be the gateway to salmiak, the way kokindjes are to drop :)
Best video ever! I personally don’t know anyone who loves every type of drop. You showed the perfect combination of courage and naughtiness while tasting and ranking drop. Cannot wait to see your next video. 😊
When I was young my nan always used to have laurierdrop (laurel licorice), hard ones from health/organic shops. It's more of an Italian flavour. The Klene brand does soft ones. Klene also does honey licorice, which I get when I've got a sore throat. Theirs has 15,8% of honey in where the Venco one you had is just 0.3% :o The 'zoethoudertjes' you had refers to 'zoethout'; the roots of the licorice plant. These roots/sticks are some sort of old candy and those 'zoethoudertjes' taste like how it would taste if you were to be chewing on those sticks. My favourite out of what you tried is the little cats, though I wish they'd be less hard. I think there is nicer licorice out there, but those you'd find in the kind of candy shops where they'd let you fill your own bag with random candy. My absolute favourite is 'trekdrop', stretchy licorice. It's an old Dutch tradition licorice candy, but only Haribo has the recipe and they stopped producing it a couple of years ago 😢 Old Dutch licorice 'duimdrop' (it can be wrapped around your thumb = duim, and sucking your thumb = 'duimen') maybe comes closest.
Zoethout translates to sweet wood. Zoethouden translates to keeping somebody sweet , so appeasing somebody. It's word play. Zoethout actually is licorice root. It grinds to a light brown powder. As a kid I used to chew it. Looks like you are chewing on a branch. It's amazingly good for your throat and and bronchi. You can also buy zoethout tea.
I tried drops for the first time when I visited the Netherlands for language camp in January and February. That first one was surprising, but I kept trying them. Now I really like them! You have me wanting to get my hands on the pear ones!
16:20 the oldtimers where zoehout flaoured, a very populair litterally tree twig that was eatable and one could chew on for days, very healty, good for the teeth and also good against throat pains. Salmiak has the same effect.
As a child we would go out to the market on saterdays and my parent let us choose 1 piece of candy by the candy stand. I always went for the salmiak in powder form. Wet your finger a litle and dip it in!! Good memories.
Some classic drop I remember from years ago: - zachte drop (very soft); - sleuteldrop (medium soft); - *dubbel zout* (small granite block of sodium death)
First off all , I like Michelle's face from the start of this video!! You both are verry brave😀... Engelse drop is nice when you are going on holidays in the car to France😁👍
Your faces when Alex said "It's coins" #classic #rofl 😂 The Zoethouders have licorice (root) powder on them, which is fit for human consumption, but an acquired taste. Good for you for trying all these, but if you don't like drop, you don't like drop. Simple. There are so many other nice sweets to try-out. Enjoy the tasting!
ps. If you wondered why Salmiak tastes like a cleaner of sorts, sal ammoniac the salt component of Salmiak is literally ammonium chloride, also historically used as industrial cleaner in hospitals et al.
My favorite drop is the Venco honingdrop, but im misging the Potters drop. Little smal black tin. Mostly found at the cashregister. Courious of your findings...
Since Alex liked the mintyness of schoolkrijt he could try kruisdrop, a hard and sweet drop. (Not for chewing!) For a very soft drop with a mild flavor you can try 'kokindjes'. Drop-adjacent things to try might be 'stophoest' pastilles, and... plain zoethout 🙂 Zoethout (the dried roots of the zoethout plant) looks like a chunk of tree branch, it can be sucked or chewed on to get the flavor out (not to eat up whole!), or can be used in cooking.
You should try napoleon candy, it’s not from the Netherlands but it’s from Belgium, but you buy it in the supermarkt here, and try Salmiak😂 I just love those
You went for the basic drop. No droptoefjes (intense sweet drop) which is gorgeous No dubbel zout (double salt) which is touch But not for the easy soft sweet drop ones either: Harlekijntjes and Kokindjes which dutch people empty a bag of easily. And you should try zoethout. Chewing on a wooden stick with the natural licorice flavor without the salmiak salts.
There was a candy store near Vondelpark I think. They had drop with sea salt or subtle amount of salt on it not what you both had and it was actually delicious to my surprise. I don't like the other kinds though. Ill be there in August if I can find it ill let you know but it was in Amsterdam at a by the weight candy winkel.
No way! Stoofpeertjes drop is back!!! They have been gone for years and I've missed them so so much! I'm so happy right now! Where did you find these? I'm going there RIGHT AWAY!
@@buncharted I went and looked for it and guess what? Nowhere to be found... So I searched online and found out that they brought it back as a seasonal item and it can be bought at Albert Heijn online. So I ordered 20 boxes. They have arrived and as we speak I'm sucking on a Stoof Peer dropje right vlapping now! So thanks for making me aware that these are currently out there. Haven't had one of these in over a decade and I'm sooooo happy!
ROFLOL It was so funny to see you 'shiver' when you started to taste some of my favourite 'dropjes'! Well done, and as someone pointed out elsewhere: 'dropjes' should be part of the 'inburgering'! 🙂
Licorice is something we grew up with. If you have parents from an older generation , they give you licorice for all kind of fever / sick moments. Like : Having a cold - you get Salmiak mix . Having a starting cold in the throat, you get either the Menthol Crayons or the small blocks with a cross on them ( eucalyptus) . Or the honey ones. Having a fever, you get the salty mix and feeling dizzy / lightheaded. You get the coins / munten. Most of us love licorice ( especially older generations ) it is more a thing from "either you love it or hate it."
American here. I can take a little of the salty stuff, but I never bring drop of any kind back as a souvenir unless someone specifically requests it. You're actually making me miss it a little!
There are some types of drop and salmiak ( or drop related candy) that may be friendlier to your tastebuds: -Harlekijntjes honingdrop ( cheap and very soft and sweet not like the beehives) - Drop muizen ( often white and grey from Haribo or other brands) very soft and squishy bit like marshmallows but firmer. - drop flavour spekkies, white and grey marshmallows with sugar powder coating ( are they mice too?) - trekdrop, sweet and very rubbery, but with a not so strong unique drop flavour. - kindjes or dopjesdrop, very small and sugary. - griotjes, beige coloured cubes with sugar on them, also found in hoest melange tumtum. - stophoest from topdrop should help against coughing not drop but ehh same flavour ( drop text hartjes and imitation pastilles are similar) - also in a paper roll wrapping: italiano drop with a brown sugar flavour - in the Oudhollandse section in the supermarket you will find tiny green salmiak candy that look like doperwtjes. Cant think of the name. - and there is an ice popsicle with lemon sorbet flavour and a licorice stick, very refreshing. Liuk, it is originally Italian they say. - and for an acquired taste there are choco drop balls: in a jar, try the white chocolate with blue berries and drop inside .
Hahaha, that was funny 😅. Love the expressions on your faces. Poolwater...!!Ocean water!!! Lol 😊 My favourite is Muntendrop ( Coindrops). The best was sold by the Hema, a very long time ago. They don't sell it anymore. 😢
I love salmiak, in my youth they sold these plastic straws filled with pure salmiak, they were my favorite candy. I haven't seen those around for many years.
Lidl, as part of their old-Dutch (nostalgic ) weeks sometimes has laurel/bayleaf drop. Sweet with bayleaf flavor but very hard/tough, even tougher than e.g. honingdrop. On one hand you probably don't like it because of that, but is also less salmiak-y , I think. Anyway it is simply different enough, so might be worth a try.
Salmiak is ammoniumchloride, the name salmiak is from Finland. Only in Scandinavia, the coastal parts of Germany and The Netherlands salmiak candy is popular. Salmiak candy from Scandinavia is even saltier than the Dutch versions. It is mostly in the form of hard candy with a salmiak powder filling, and it really bites on the tongue. Jamin used to sell dubbelzoute (double-salt) drop which was also very strong, but they don't sell it anymore. Some supermarkets sell 'drogistendrop' (pharmacist's drop), which also has a dubbelzoute variant, but it isn't as salty as it used to be. I get the distinct impression that it is either not allowed anymore to sell such salty drop, or it isn't a popular flavor anymore. For instance, the Oldtimer Ruitjes drop used to be pretty salty, but since they removed the pork gelatin, they also made it much less salty. YOU may think it is salty, but I don't like it anymore. It's also much softer than it used to be, this may be a result of the removal of the gelatin.
Drop is licorice root extract, sugar, salmiak, flour and gelatine. It's the amount of salmiak that determines the level of saltynes. I don't know if they still sell it, but in the past they sold tubes, like wide straws, filled with salmiak. You can actually buy jars of salmiak in the candy aisle. And sticks of licorice root (zoethout) next to it. Oh, and try de drop and salmiak variaties of Bonbon Napoleon.
oh the straws! completely forgot those 🤣 We had a candy / party shop around the corner where we always bought weird candy or stuff to prank people (or set things on fire 😬)
i love salmiak. as a chemist I love how to produce it too. its a reaction between the 2 things ur not supposed to eat or mix... and delicious comes out
Well go to a supermarket/candy store and check if they have zoethout, the licorice plant to taste the actuell plant., Salmiak, it is a mix of zoethout, salt(Ammoniumchloride) and sugar.
An extract from the roots of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (zoethout wortel in Dutch) serves as the primary ingredient in drop. This extract is called glycyrrhizine. Salmiak is ammonium chloride, and it is not the same as glycyrrhizine. It is added to the mixture to give drop a salty taste. The more salmiak, the saltier the drop tastes. If you add more glycyrrhizine, the typical drop taste gets much stronger. Most people don't like the very strong taste of drop. The oltimers zoethouders are made with quite a lot of glycyrrhizine, making them almost uneatable for many people. Although I like drop very much, I don't like the zoethouders at all. Almost all the others I like, but I don't eat much drop at all. It does raise the blood pressure, and it may cause an irregular heart rate. I have heart problems and have a pacemaker. That is why I stay away from drop as much as possible. On very rare occasions, I eat a honing dropje, but that is only once a month if it is that much.
Proud of you trying all the different liqourice…brave. Drop is an acquired taste. I love the plain coin liquorice or the kokinkjes. The best way to eat drop is put at least 5 in your mouth to enjoy the taste. Great video again, enjoyed watching you try.
As far as Zoete Drop goes, my favorites are Harlekijntjes (which are soft, i'll eat a whole bag in one sitting) and Oldtimers Scheepsknopen (which aren't as soft or i would eat the whole box in one sitting) If you ever feel like trying out more drop, give those a go.
I stayed with a family in the US once, and I brought them a big bag of drop. I don't think they liked it very much, because for the two months I was there, I was pretty much the only one who ate from the bag. By the by, "riks" is short for "rijksdaalder". It was a two-and-a-half guilder coin we had pre-euro.
Here is a fact: Scandinavian people are also fond of "drop". When i am in Sweden or Norway i always gather chacolatebars with licourice. Also the have icecream with liquorice. Thats the best! Imagen a Magnum with hard liquotice winit the chocolate and liquorice sauce in blended in the icecream....
Very brave you're tasting stuff which is so acquired taste. Thumbs up for you guys!! Personally i like the Manneke Pis, bielzen en - sadly no longer avaible - Trekdrop.
you might try soft sweet licorice like : kokientjes, harlekijntjes, honeycomb or the licorice winegum mix. much sweeter, hardly any salty taste, yet still not very good for blood pressure ;)
I used to eat muntdrop with milk. for some reason it seems to blend it very well. Love your chanel by the way :-) I love the DZ small salty dropjes. and salmiak is one of my fav. flavors.
I guess it’s what you’re used to, the hard honey flavored is actually one of my favorites, and I also love the salmiak flavor, and the salty licorice, I don’t like the soft sweet licorice, but then I’ve been eating this licorice since early childhood and am used to salty and salmiak flavors.
I looove honey drop. It's my favourite one. + I love Napoleon zwart wit (super salty salmiak flavour on the inside, sweet on the outside) Don't bite on it!
I'm Dutch, but also not a big Ammonium Chloride fan, however one drop that you may also like are Harlekijntjes (little harlequins), they're very mild and sweet half sphere candies. A half kilo bag generally won't last a day in my house. 🤣
Props for soldiering through with this. My personal favorite is dubbelzoute drop with a DZ pressed into them. I'm kinda glad you guys didn't subject yourselves to that. I had a roommate from Algeria who thought I was trying to poison him after I offered him one :D Btw, I think muntendrop is specifically using the plural to avoid Dutch language confusion with mint ;)
fair point about the 'muntendrop'. We always simply refer to it as 'muntdrop', so there's a pretty good chance the manufacturer put 'muntendrop' on the package in the vain hope of making clear it's not mint 😂
Drop should be part of "Inburgering". 😎
i’d rather learn dutch 😂
True, if you don't like it, stay away 😅😅😅😊
@@buncharted That is also required.
But then we would have no more immigrants to blame for everything.
Learning Dutch is hard enough as it is.. don't make them eat drop, ffs ;-)
Booh, you dodged the “dubbel zout” with the DZ on them, my favourite 😅
Exactly! I bet most of us where waiting for you guys to end the list with the ultimate "Dubbel Zout"!
Tripple salt is even better tho😂🤭
@@B.Krol.050 the saltier the better
Yeah, they are my favoirites too!
Theyre the worst ones lol
Yeah, as a few people mentioned, Dubbel Zout (the small round ones with DZ initials on it) are really missing, and you can also buy pure Salmiak powder. I used to buy those as a kid, and just dip my finger it and eat it. Yum!
Nowadays you can find dubbelzout also in a brick shape with DZ on it by Venco. Or dubbelzout dices by Klene. But the best ones are indeed the round ones you can buy at Kruidvat and Jamin.
@@woutersplinter4981Both are great, and I would argue that the DZ bricks taste more like salt and the round ones have a slightly more zoethout like flavour, if that makes sense? Maybe thats just me XD
@@ray1988ME too long ago for me to know the differences, but I remember that the round ones were so salty that it made my jaw hurt.
most salmiak back in the day was in sticks, really could not make it wet.. or use the scissors.. but salmiak isn't drop ;)
Oldtimers Zoethouders Pittigzoet: This is "zoethout" flavored, Google can't seem to translate this besides saying its licorice, it's the root of a "eurasian" plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) that contains a sweetness 30 to 50 times as strong as sugar but does not damage teeth.
Its one of the "spices" we've been trading for 100's of years, at some extremely touristy destinations you might be able to find some but realistically very few people still consume it, you chew on it and over time it gets sweeter and sweeter, it's weird because you're literally chomping on some kind of stick, but if you like licorice it's honestly kinda nice, the candies are honestly weird and just what it would taste like the first 10 seconds or so, i dont get why they made it taste like that either. So yeah the comments that it reminds of wood make a lot of sense, it IS wood.
ahhh thank you! i googled it and yeah, it just says it’s licorice. that makes a lot more sense
@@buncharted It is one of the ingredients of "seven spices" a very well known chinese spice-mix. I LOVE cooking with it but my Belgian family members do not support 😉
@@bunchartedI could recommend to try it, because it's a weird experience chewing on a stick. If you do, don't swallow the stick. Chewing for flavor is enough.
@@kingmickey666 Indeed: definitely do not swallow, as it is a laxative
Google translates “zoethout” as “liquorice” because that’s literally what it is. It is the plant that liquorice candy is named after. The word “liquorice” comes from the Greek name “glycyrrhiza” which literally means “sweetwood” just like “zoethout”.
All real liquorice, what Americans call “black licorice”, contains liquorice root extract. I think the “zoethout” label in Dutch just means the flavour is dominated by the liquorice, rather than anise or salmiak which often overpowers it.
It was funny how they thought 'munt' was just the Dutch word for 'mint', whereas it actually has a double meaning and in this case 'munt' is the Dutch word for 'coin'.
Like minting a coin 🙂
Munt is *also* a Dutch word for mint
Yes,muntendrop
@@ShadyNetworker muntendrop means coint
Hilarious! As a native in this country, I love drop. Sweet, salt, salmiak, I like it all. The looks on your faces when tasting some of it, priceless! Zoethoudertjes are the most back to basics liquorice. The outside of it is covered in finely grained root of the licorice plant. As kids, we love to chew and suck on it. It looks like a wooden branch. Since most of the drop is an acquired taste, I'm not surprised you don't like it
That's what I like about Zoethoudertjes. They remind me of chewing on actual liquorice root (zoethout) as a kid. Pure unadulterated liquorice flavor. Get used to it and all these lovely fruity notes reveal themselves.
Ah, that explains that I hate zoethoudertjes! I've always hated the sticks as well XD
i just wonder if you keep eating it sometimes and then end up having a bad night ;-)
Zoethoudertjes... yum. Also works well if you 'dissolve' them in water... dropwater :)
@@fredvankempen2177 i did that as kid with all candies in my tea
"Trekdrop" It's all I'm gonna say.
and “duimdrop”
Bring 'trekdrop' back!
Mijn favoriete drop. Wordt helaas niet meer gemaakt
good luck finding that
old candy and if you eat too much it's not that yummy anymore
13:04 And this is where the coin dropped... : D
Brilliant reaction when she realized…
@@Eek1971 Alex gained some citizen points as well, when he rated this at 2 stroopwafels after he'd drawn the conclusion.
Oops: forgot the Katja Kokindjes! Those have been around for as long as I can remember. Soft and sweet and chewy. THE classic Dutch gateway liquorice. If it weren't for my mom stopping me, I'd work my way through a whole bag of those as a kid.
Me too...I used to squash two of them together to a flat round thing..
@@kirsa9911 Same. These were my Dad's fav.
I'm not the biggest drop lover but if you put a bag of these in front of me I'll get through them before I notice!
Yeah I missed these too!! I mentioned them on the last drop video to try them, sad to see they didn’t try them 😅
They are just addicting
Michelle's expression eating "zoethouders" was priceless... And, yes, Dutch licorice is an "aquired taste"...
They taste like the roots of the liquorice tree (zoethout struik), people used to chew on the dried roots of these trees. Just search for "Zoethoutwortel" if you want to try it. I remember getting it from my parents as it's sweet, keeps kids occupied and does not contain sugar.
Not sure if it's acquired, I liked it from the start. And well, the Scandinavian countries also love the stuff. So basically like 4 countries in the world love it (Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Finland).
So basicly only the countries with strong tuff ppl 😂😂@@thenonexistinghero
The zoethoudertjes, the woody ones, are coated in the dust of licorice root, 'zoethout'. So yes, actual wood. Sticks of that stuff are occasionally sold as candy--a favourite of mine, since it lasted ages and was very cheap (important with limited zakgeld as a primary school kid). Consequently, zoethoudertjes are one of my favourite candies nowadays.
I love these the most
Interesting, the honing drop is my favourite! 😆
Hello Michelle and Alex, the flavor you apparently don't know about licorice is 'zoethout'. You can also buy 'zoethout' as dried plant root. It's an old fashioned kind of candy. You put it in your mouth and just chew it. In principle, you do not swallow the fluid that forms in your mouth. Chewing causes small flakes of the bark to form and the root becomes a yellow brush. Most people put it away when you don't feel like it anymore and the next time you cut the brush off and then put it back in your mouth. To understand what it is and looks like, look up: 'Zoethout'. Keep up the great work! Grtx! Han from Arnhem
Goeie stad
If in the US murky poolwater tastes like honingdrop you should bottle it and sell it over here! Een gat in de markt, you could become rich.
😂😂😂
Dropjeswater was Grandma's recipe for all colds 🙂
I am Dutch guy living in the US. Regularly I order a box with 12 bags of muntendrop. It won’t last a month. Very addictive
then i bet you fart a lot, honey flavoured is better
Yeah, I actually have a subscription for them on Amazon. K&H Muntendrop. Yum!
Oehhh salmiakballen! Zo heerlijk, eerst de zwarte coating eraf en dan de salmiak binnenkant 😍
Doorgaan tot je gehemelte bloedt 😊
De zoethoudertjes is one of my favs. Also piramides are yum. Fyi, sweet drop is pretty much just as salty as salty drop, but it has more sugar in it. And i’m pretty sure all black drop has ‘salmiak’ in it, but then it’s on the ingredient list as glycyrrhizine. When extra salt is added, the glycyrrhizine is called salmiak.
You are confusing two things here. All liquorice (in Europe) contains glycyrrhizine from liquorice root. It is an extremely sweet compound that has nothing to do with salmiak. Salmiak, or ammonium chloride, is added to liquorice candy in Northern European countries. Originally to act as an expectorant (to help with coughs) but nowadays to add the special “salty” flavour.
@eypandabear7483, you are correct. glycyrrhizic acid the the liquorice flavour (zoethout), and ammonium chloride is the salmiak flavour.
glycyrrhizic acid is named after the scientific name of the liquorice plant. (Zoethout plant). Source: I just came from Wikipedia (also to copy-paste the spelling of the flavour compound).
@@Silverwing28 yes, and the word “liquorice” itself is a loan from the same Ancient Greek word, glykyrrhiza, via Latin and French into English. So liquorice literally means the same as “zoethout”.
I don't live in the Netherlands and this video makes me miss all the drop! My favorite (besides dubbelzout, the "saltier" the better) is heksenhyl, they are fairly soft, sugar coated with salmiak inside.
Yes heksendrop❤
You missed the best one with the engelse drop. The red and pink circles are with coconut and I go WILD for them...
yeah well it's drop but only a little, i never liked that
I really don’t like the ones with sprinkles in there though😂 love engelse drop but those are gross.
We Dutchies have grown up with licorice and as such have acquired the taste for the salty stuff. Americans, as far as I can tell from popular culture, are raised with sweet candies. So I'm not surprised that you don't like the salmiak based licorice. I think the worst thing you guys could try are the so-called "salmiak bollen" and "salmiak kogels aka Napoleon zwart wit". Especially the last ones start out with a sweetish outer shell before it dissolves and unleashes its salmiak powder inner core on your senses when you suck on them. But we Dutchies love the sudden salt explosion!
Oh Napoleon Zwart Wit, didn't have them in ages. My daughter is a born and raised Dutchie as well but she hates licorice. My favourite drop are Sprottendrop from Jamin. For my bloodpressure it is nice that I don't live close to a Jamin but if I'm near one... that's my treat. A whole bag..
hahaha, would be so funny to see them try Napoleon zwart wit 😛
or any Napoleon really, the lemony ones would be equally funny probably
oh man, memories.. 👍
I don’t reply that often to you or any youtube video for that matter (do watch many of your vids) but man have I laughed so so hard!! The faces, the descriptions, the jokes, the whole lot! You are very likable, entertaining and everything. Thanks for the work you put in these videos both of you. Keep it up.
My cheeks are actually still hurting from smiling throughout the video!!! 🙏🏻😂😂
i’m glad you liked it! we had fun recording this video despite our reactions to the drop 😂
O and it might be a bit outside of the drop category, but Stophoest is really good, and it might be the gateway to salmiak, the way kokindjes are to drop :)
No Dubbelzout?
Oh dear
And haribo is German liquorice, that’s like doing a beer tasting and including Dr Pepper.
Best video ever! I personally don’t know anyone who loves every type of drop. You showed the perfect combination of courage and naughtiness while tasting and ranking drop. Cannot wait to see your next video. 😊
When I was young my nan always used to have laurierdrop (laurel licorice), hard ones from health/organic shops. It's more of an Italian flavour. The Klene brand does soft ones. Klene also does honey licorice, which I get when I've got a sore throat. Theirs has 15,8% of honey in where the Venco one you had is just 0.3% :o
The 'zoethoudertjes' you had refers to 'zoethout'; the roots of the licorice plant. These roots/sticks are some sort of old candy and those 'zoethoudertjes' taste like how it would taste if you were to be chewing on those sticks.
My favourite out of what you tried is the little cats, though I wish they'd be less hard. I think there is nicer licorice out there, but those you'd find in the kind of candy shops where they'd let you fill your own bag with random candy.
My absolute favourite is 'trekdrop', stretchy licorice. It's an old Dutch tradition licorice candy, but only Haribo has the recipe and they stopped producing it a couple of years ago 😢 Old Dutch licorice 'duimdrop' (it can be wrapped around your thumb = duim, and sucking your thumb = 'duimen') maybe comes closest.
The first drop I remember having when I was a child and still like are "Kokindjes"
13:02 LOL, the realisation
I went "omg these are so good" with everything you tried 😂
Zoethout translates to sweet wood. Zoethouden translates to keeping somebody sweet , so appeasing somebody. It's word play. Zoethout actually is licorice root. It grinds to a light brown powder. As a kid I used to chew it. Looks like you are chewing on a branch. It's amazingly good for your throat and and bronchi. You can also buy zoethout tea.
I tried drops for the first time when I visited the Netherlands for language camp in January and February. That first one was surprising, but I kept trying them. Now I really like them! You have me wanting to get my hands on the pear ones!
Did you already try the dubbelzout?
@@JohnBlutarski not that I remember! The most recent ones I have tried are Venco Topdrop hard zout. I like them a lot.
@@HappyHooligans Thanks, have to look into those Venco's Can't remember if I tried those!
16:20 the oldtimers where zoehout flaoured, a very populair litterally tree twig that was eatable and one could chew on for days, very healty, good for the teeth and also good against throat pains. Salmiak has the same effect.
As a child we would go out to the market on saterdays and my parent let us choose 1 piece of candy by the candy stand. I always went for the salmiak in powder form. Wet your finger a litle and dip it in!! Good memories.
Oh yeah, I was looking for this. Just wait till you see kids voluntarily eat jars of salmiak powder by dipping their fingers in😂
The green flavor of your opvallende trui most also taste great!!
De Drop Mentos zouden jullie ook eens moeten proberen!
The zoethoudertjes are my favorite liquorice. Love them!
I use honingdrop when I have a cold, they help with the throat. This is the original reason to eat drop. They used to sell them at the pharmacy.
Some classic drop I remember from years ago:
- zachte drop (very soft);
- sleuteldrop (medium soft);
- *dubbel zout* (small granite block of sodium death)
First off all , I like Michelle's face from the start of this video!! You both are verry brave😀... Engelse drop is nice when you are going on holidays in the car to France😁👍
Your faces when Alex said "It's coins" #classic #rofl 😂
The Zoethouders have licorice (root) powder on them, which is fit for human consumption, but an acquired taste.
Good for you for trying all these, but if you don't like drop, you don't like drop. Simple. There are so many other nice sweets to try-out. Enjoy the tasting!
ps. If you wondered why Salmiak tastes like a cleaner of sorts, sal ammoniac the salt component of Salmiak is literally ammonium chloride, also historically used as industrial cleaner in hospitals et al.
This video made me crave for drop so much that I just bought the largest package of Engelse drop Albert Heijn has 😂
My favorite drop is the Venco honingdrop, but im misging the Potters drop. Little smal black tin. Mostly found at the cashregister. Courious of your findings...
The oldtimers zoethouders are even hardcore for the average dutch person:)!!!! I was sadistically laughing before you guys ate it:)
15:27 "Salmiak riksen" Riks is short for Rijksdaalder (2.5Gulden) and Daalder has the same origin as the Dollar.
My favorite is Venco Dubbel Zout. It's hard, it is salty, it is licorice. It is divine!
Since Alex liked the mintyness of schoolkrijt he could try kruisdrop, a hard and sweet drop. (Not for chewing!) For a very soft drop with a mild flavor you can try 'kokindjes'.
Drop-adjacent things to try might be 'stophoest' pastilles, and... plain zoethout 🙂
Zoethout (the dried roots of the zoethout plant) looks like a chunk of tree branch, it can be sucked or chewed on to get the flavor out (not to eat up whole!), or can be used in cooking.
You should try napoleon candy, it’s not from the Netherlands but it’s from Belgium, but you buy it in the supermarkt here, and try Salmiak😂 I just love those
You guys will absolutely 100% love oud hollandse duimdrop
You went for the basic drop.
No droptoefjes (intense sweet drop) which is gorgeous
No dubbel zout (double salt) which is touch
But not for the easy soft sweet drop ones either: Harlekijntjes and Kokindjes which dutch people empty a bag of easily.
And you should try zoethout. Chewing on a wooden stick with the natural licorice flavor without the salmiak salts.
There was a candy store near Vondelpark I think. They had drop with sea salt or subtle amount of salt on it not what you both had and it was actually delicious to my surprise. I don't like the other kinds though. Ill be there in August if I can find it ill let you know but it was in Amsterdam at a by the weight candy winkel.
No way! Stoofpeertjes drop is back!!! They have been gone for years and I've missed them so so much! I'm so happy right now! Where did you find these? I'm going there RIGHT AWAY!
it was the last box at the maasplaza albert heijn here in dordrecht 😅
@@buncharted I went and looked for it and guess what? Nowhere to be found... So I searched online and found out that they brought it back as a seasonal item and it can be bought at Albert Heijn online. So I ordered 20 boxes. They have arrived and as we speak I'm sucking on a Stoof Peer dropje right vlapping now! So thanks for making me aware that these are currently out there. Haven't had one of these in over a decade and I'm sooooo happy!
ROFLOL
It was so funny to see you 'shiver' when you started to taste some of my favourite 'dropjes'! Well done, and as someone pointed out elsewhere: 'dropjes' should be part of the 'inburgering'! 🙂
Thank you!!!! :D ten seconds in and I am already laughing my backside off!
Licorice is something we grew up with. If you have parents from an older generation , they give you licorice for all kind of fever / sick moments. Like :
Having a cold - you get Salmiak mix .
Having a starting cold in the throat, you get either the Menthol Crayons or the small blocks with a cross on them ( eucalyptus) . Or the honey ones.
Having a fever, you get the salty mix and feeling dizzy / lightheaded. You get the coins / munten. Most of us love licorice ( especially older generations ) it is more a thing from "either you love it or hate it."
American here. I can take a little of the salty stuff, but I never bring drop of any kind back as a souvenir unless someone specifically requests it. You're actually making me miss it a little!
There are some types of drop and salmiak ( or drop related candy) that may be friendlier to your tastebuds:
-Harlekijntjes honingdrop ( cheap and very soft and sweet not like the beehives)
- Drop muizen ( often white and grey from Haribo or other brands) very soft and squishy bit like marshmallows but firmer.
- drop flavour spekkies, white and grey marshmallows with sugar powder coating ( are they mice too?)
- trekdrop, sweet and very rubbery, but with a not so strong unique drop flavour.
- kindjes or dopjesdrop, very small and sugary.
- griotjes, beige coloured cubes with sugar on them, also found in hoest melange tumtum.
- stophoest from topdrop should help against coughing not drop but ehh same flavour ( drop text hartjes and imitation pastilles are similar)
- also in a paper roll wrapping: italiano drop with a brown sugar flavour
- in the Oudhollandse section in the supermarket you will find tiny green salmiak candy that look like doperwtjes. Cant think of the name.
- and there is an ice popsicle with lemon sorbet flavour and a licorice stick, very refreshing. Liuk, it is originally Italian they say.
- and for an acquired taste there are choco drop balls: in a jar, try the white chocolate with blue berries and drop inside .
Hahaha, that was funny 😅. Love the expressions on your faces. Poolwater...!!Ocean water!!! Lol 😊
My favourite is Muntendrop ( Coindrops). The best was sold by the Hema, a very long time ago.
They don't sell it anymore. 😢
Munt drop is my all time favorite. I always have a bag in my car and on my workbench. It is like coffee, it takes time to like it.😅
I love salmiak, in my youth they sold these plastic straws filled with pure salmiak, they were my favorite candy. I haven't seen those around for many years.
Have one muntdrop or boerderijdrop every day for a month - you will start to appreciate and even crave it. Same with black coffee!
My favorite drop is honing drop. Can't stop eating it when I start😂😂
Michelle kan zo lekker moeilijk kijken 😂hilarious. 😁
Lidl, as part of their old-Dutch (nostalgic ) weeks sometimes has laurel/bayleaf drop. Sweet with bayleaf flavor but very hard/tough, even tougher than e.g. honingdrop. On one hand you probably don't like it because of that, but is also less salmiak-y , I think. Anyway it is simply different enough, so might be worth a try.
You need to try Bielzen at the Kruidvat pick and mix, they are a rectangle shape, about 3 cm's long. It's our fave!
Zoethoudersdrop is actually made to represent the candy zoethout that was indeed a plant you could eat.
My favorite? Salmiak Riksen. Hmmm Salmiak.
Salmiak is ammoniumchloride, the name salmiak is from Finland. Only in Scandinavia, the coastal parts of Germany and The Netherlands salmiak candy is popular. Salmiak candy from Scandinavia is even saltier than the Dutch versions. It is mostly in the form of hard candy with a salmiak powder filling, and it really bites on the tongue.
Jamin used to sell dubbelzoute (double-salt) drop which was also very strong, but they don't sell it anymore. Some supermarkets sell 'drogistendrop' (pharmacist's drop), which also has a dubbelzoute variant, but it isn't as salty as it used to be. I get the distinct impression that it is either not allowed anymore to sell such salty drop, or it isn't a popular flavor anymore. For instance, the Oldtimer Ruitjes drop used to be pretty salty, but since they removed the pork gelatin, they also made it much less salty. YOU may think it is salty, but I don't like it anymore. It's also much softer than it used to be, this may be a result of the removal of the gelatin.
Drop is licorice root extract, sugar, salmiak, flour and gelatine.
It's the amount of salmiak that determines the level of saltynes.
I don't know if they still sell it, but in the past they sold tubes, like wide straws, filled with salmiak.
You can actually buy jars of salmiak in the candy aisle.
And sticks of licorice root (zoethout) next to it.
Oh, and try de drop and salmiak variaties of Bonbon Napoleon.
oh the straws! completely forgot those 🤣 We had a candy / party shop around the corner where we always bought weird candy or stuff to prank people (or set things on fire 😬)
Love the reaction to Zoethoudertjes, your faces...
i love salmiak.
as a chemist I love how to produce it too.
its a reaction between the 2 things ur not supposed to eat or mix... and delicious comes out
Well go to a supermarket/candy store and check if they have zoethout, the licorice plant to taste the actuell plant., Salmiak, it is a mix of zoethout, salt(Ammoniumchloride) and sugar.
An extract from the roots of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra (zoethout wortel in Dutch) serves as the primary ingredient in drop. This extract is called glycyrrhizine.
Salmiak is ammonium chloride, and it is not the same as glycyrrhizine. It is added to the mixture to give drop a salty taste. The more salmiak, the saltier the drop tastes.
If you add more glycyrrhizine, the typical drop taste gets much stronger. Most people don't like the very strong taste of drop.
The oltimers zoethouders are made with quite a lot of glycyrrhizine, making them almost uneatable for many people. Although I like drop very much, I don't like the zoethouders at all. Almost all the others I like, but I don't eat much drop at all. It does raise the blood pressure, and it may cause an irregular heart rate. I have heart problems and have a pacemaker. That is why I stay away from drop as much as possible. On very rare occasions, I eat a honing dropje, but that is only once a month if it is that much.
Drop is something you don't in particular like, but also somehow can't stop eating. And than it grows on you.
Proud of you trying all the different liqourice…brave. Drop is an acquired taste. I love the plain coin liquorice or the kokinkjes. The best way to eat drop is put at least 5 in your mouth to enjoy the taste. Great video again, enjoyed watching you try.
As far as Zoete Drop goes, my favorites are Harlekijntjes (which are soft, i'll eat a whole bag in one sitting) and Oldtimers Scheepsknopen (which aren't as soft or i would eat the whole box in one sitting) If you ever feel like trying out more drop, give those a go.
I stayed with a family in the US once, and I brought them a big bag of drop.
I don't think they liked it very much, because for the two months I was there, I was pretty much the only one who ate from the bag.
By the by, "riks" is short for "rijksdaalder". It was a two-and-a-half guilder coin we had pre-euro.
Here is a fact: Scandinavian people are also fond of "drop". When i am in Sweden or Norway i always gather chacolatebars with licourice. Also the have icecream with liquorice. Thats the best! Imagen a Magnum with hard liquotice winit the chocolate and liquorice sauce in blended in the icecream....
I missed Klene Pinpassen in your review. Big sweet liqorice credit cards, totally addictive.
Very brave you're tasting stuff which is so acquired taste. Thumbs up for you guys!! Personally i like the Manneke Pis, bielzen en - sadly no longer avaible - Trekdrop.
You guys have no idea how I miss drop here in Greece.
You should try the triple salted Bisal drop. Its made in Delft I believe. Fantastic on a hot summer day if youve been sweating a lot.
a pickle (augurk) is sometimes called "zure bom" (sour bomb) in Dutch. The shape of the Zoute Bom (Salty Bomb) is a reference to it ...
The 'Zoethouders' are my absolute favourite! It's everything good drop needs to be ;)!!
9:18 "They look like little tiny pieces of chalk!" -- You mean like _Schoolkrijt_ (school chalk)?
you might try soft sweet licorice like : kokientjes, harlekijntjes, honeycomb or the licorice winegum mix. much sweeter, hardly any salty taste, yet still not very good for blood pressure ;)
Harlekijntjes 😍
When you guys tried the zoethout (which actually are the roots and the stem of a plant) the plant flavour was so accurate... 👌🏻
Autodrop Dubbele Dubbeldekkers is the best drop of all times.....
The 'muntdrop' part was hilarious btw😂
13:00 That realisation: "It's coins" XD
I really recommend you guys to go to Replubliek Bloemendaal when its good weather, its such a beautifull restaurant at the beach.
But do they have drop over there?
I used to eat muntdrop with milk. for some reason it seems to blend it very well. Love your chanel by the way :-) I love the DZ small salty dropjes. and salmiak is one of my fav. flavors.
19:16 Hey!! Where is Dubbelzout? ... not complete without that one
I guess it’s what you’re used to, the hard honey flavored is actually one of my favorites, and I also love the salmiak flavor, and the salty licorice, I don’t like the soft sweet licorice, but then I’ve been eating this licorice since early childhood and am used to salty and salmiak flavors.
I laughed so hard! Drop is definitely an acquired taste 🤣, having said that, you dissed my favourite salmiak drop ....
I looove honey drop. It's my favourite one. + I love Napoleon zwart wit (super salty salmiak flavour on the inside, sweet on the outside) Don't bite on it!
Riks is slang for Rijksdaalder, which was the 2.50 guilder coin from before we switched to the Euro.
And “daalder” shares its roots with “dollar”, both are named after the “thaler” coin.
Craving for drop now! 😂
Unintentionally I've been eat half a bag of liquorice while smiling at you guys suffering. Yummy. 😂
I'm Dutch, but also not a big Ammonium Chloride fan, however one drop that you may also like are Harlekijntjes (little harlequins), they're very mild and sweet half sphere candies.
A half kilo bag generally won't last a day in my house. 🤣
Good job haha. This was fun to watch as a Dutch person who eats drop everyday. TopDrop is my favorite.
not sure if i ever really tried salty licorice . The engelse drop and krijtjes are pretty common in Belgium though. Had a lot of these as a kid.
Props for soldiering through with this. My personal favorite is dubbelzoute drop with a DZ pressed into them. I'm kinda glad you guys didn't subject yourselves to that. I had a roommate from Algeria who thought I was trying to poison him after I offered him one :D Btw, I think muntendrop is specifically using the plural to avoid Dutch language confusion with mint ;)
fair point about the 'muntendrop'. We always simply refer to it as 'muntdrop', so there's a pretty good chance the manufacturer put 'muntendrop' on the package in the vain hope of making clear it's not mint 😂