Zoethout stokjes are litterally sweet wood sticks. You chew on them. They're not a common candy anymore but i used to get these as a child. Also "pasta" in Dutch also means "paste", so that's a speculaas paste like peanut butter but with speculaas. Enjoy! Was fun to see these Dutch candies on your bench!
As a dutchman: You can spread a slice of bread with pasta. This is a special kind of spread. Regular kinds of spread are peanutbutter and 'chocoladepasta'. The 'stokjes' are called 'zoethout' which literally means 'sweetwood'. I remember these sticks from my childhood. I think you're supposed to just chew on them.
I'm half dutch, and as others have said, the stroopwafels are best when you make a cup of hot tea or coffee (or even hot chocolate if you'd want) and you put the stroopwafel over the mug. It's a bit of a game to know when to lift it off before it becomes too soft to flip it over and let the other side get warm. Also, those sticks are anise or licorice sticks, I believe, they are meant to just be chewed on, if I remember what my mother has said.
Like a few other people mentioned here: The "zoethout" are licorice root, literally the root of the licorice plant. Really like those, but I guess you don't as you also don't really like licorice. The "Duimdrop" is a kind of sweet(er) licorice, "duim" translates as "thumb" and "drop" translates as "licorice". The idea is that you stick the licorice on your thumb and than suck on it. Never tried that to be honest. The "pasta" translates as "paste", you can put it on a sandwich. Never had this "stroopwafel pasta", seems tasty. The "kaneelstok" is a cinnamon stick, it's really sweet. The pink stick is even sweeter. Really like your videos, keep up the nice work :)
The stroopwafels are a special kind (caramel seasalt). The sticks are “sweetwoodsticks”. You chew on the tip. This will turn in “fibers” and will give a kind of sweet taste. You don’t eat the fibers but suck on it until its taste is lost. My father used to buy the kaneelstokken and the zuurstokken at the local yearly fair and buy my mother oliebollen at the oliebollenkraam at the same fair.
From wikipedia Dried sticks of the liquorice root are also a traditional confectionery in their own right in the Netherlands as were they once in Britain although their popularity has waned in recent decades. They were sold simply as sticks of zoethout ('sweet wood') to chew on as a candy. Through chewing and suckling, the intensely sweet flavour is released. The sweetness is 30 to 50 times as strong as sucrose, without causing damage to teeth. Since about the 1970s, zoethout has become rarer and been replaced by easier to consume candies (including 'drop').
The notchless ram is probably 72pin sodimms. And the ones with the pair of white push on pin connectors looks like 386/486 era laptop ram (compaq?) or perhaps a classic powerbook.
I have also seen these types of ram used in laser printers as memory expansion my HP laserjet printer has a slot for one stick of ram that looks similar to those sodimms that he has.
The memory module at 7:32 could also be from the 486/Pentium/early MMX era of laptops. I installed plenty of those modules in laptops circa 1995-1997. Toshiba, Compaq, HP, and TI all had some variation of that memory before the widespread implementation of SODIMMs. And while they looked similar, each brand had its own proprietary interface.
Stokjes is liquorice root, you chew it, very popular in the UK in the 60's & 70's, also, place a stroop waffle on top of a mug of coffee then eat it after a few minutes.
I am a big fan of your videos. There is no Power Supply in 6:06 - this is a solid state relay, capable of switching 120VAC at 1A. Greetings from Germany.
6:30 this is not a power supply. This is an isolated solid state relay for AC. I am sure. There is also a PDF online. 5 volt input DC. Output triac switches AC with zero detection.
Based on whatever printing was on that wireless card, it claims itself to be a Eumitcom WL11000 which is a HFA3841 based device, it's a chipset primarily targeted for Windows 98 machines. Supposedly, the Belkin F5D6020 v1 is a rebrand of this card, so their driver should work and is available on the official site for 98 to XP.
IIRC the modules with the two little white connectors maybe might possibly be for clamshell-style Pocket PC devices from the early 2000's. It looks similar to the one in my NEC MobilePro.
Duimdrop is a sticky liquorice, you take a small piece of it, put it in your mouth and wet it, then press it on your thumb nail. So you can taste the liquorice by putting your thumb in your mouth without the need to have the liquorice in your mouth all the time so it lasts longer. Duim is the Dutch word for thumb and drop for liquorice, hence duimdrop.
Pasta. From my VERY basic Flemish is equivalent to 'paste' , so ground up stroopwaffels. Spread it on bread for a sandwich! And the stroopwafels have sea-salt in them!
That 3 set of mini sims look like what I remember the ram for my SGI 540 looking like. You had to install them in sets of 3. And I remember them being VERY finicky about installation.
The laptop RAM is most likely 66mhz and would have been installed in some of the first portable computers which would have been considered laptops. The strange plug-in modules are likely for a video card as a RAM expansion for video memory. The ones that you suspect are cache are exactly that. They were most likely pared with an Intel Xeon in a slot-1 p3 or pentium 2. Not as old as some things you work on but still good tech.
Hi Adrian! I wonder if you ever heard of the adhoc mode the old b WLAN Cards most time were capable of. This mode allows you to connect exactly two machines to each other which could be useful to transfer data. Since the g+ standard however I think the adhoc mode is depreciated and so most people I know don't even know this mode existed.... Keep up the excellent work!
Instead of a baking pan... can also use a microwave for 10 seconds per stroopwafel (and after that, wait about a minute before trying to eat or you may burn your mouth).
the peppermints are called extra strong mints in the uk. the bits of wood are raw licorice, you suck on them and gently chew them, they are an acquired taste, if you chew too much you will taste it all day.
I visited Amsterdam just before the great plague, and went to the fair where The Stroop Waffle guy is, hot off the grill. ... Aw man. It completely _wrecked_ me.
The sticks remind me of Slippery Elm and, to some extent, Horehound but both of these are more natural medications than sweets though Horehound is sometimes used as a flavoring in old fashioned hard candy lozenges.
[Sticks?] You strip the bark off on the sticks and then chew on them. I used to do that when I was a kid... bit of a health food thing in the 80's I think its also an ingredient in root beer... (racine). Cheers,
One of those modules might be an AIMM (AGP Inline Memory Module). I have an Abit 815 (maybe 815E) chipset board with 1MB built in video. The manual mentions an AIMM that can bring the graphics memory up to 4MB. I never had an AIMM and ended up running that motherboard with a Voodoo 2 SLI.
"pasta" == "paste" The English word "paste" comes the from the Romance (or late Latin) word "pasta" which meant paste or dough. The word "pasta" eventually came to mean noodles in addition to paste/dough, because pasta is made by extruding a dough through a die and then drying it. In English the word "pasta" (with its original meaning) became "paste" over time, then we re-imported the word "pasta" into English again to mean noodles. French tends to drop the "s" after certain vowels; these words now usually have a circumflex accent over the vowel. Hence the modern French word "pâté" (pasta->paste->pâté) which is a different kind of edible paste. 😄
Plastos = Greek for molded or formed. Pasta is a related word in Latin. Pasta is our word 'paste'. Pasta, paste, pastry, plaster, plastic... you get the idea
I saw on another tech channel that the Dutch are not calling their country Holland anymore, but just "The Netherlands" because Holland refers only to a particular region without that country.
I'm English but know how to pronounce it because I've been learning Dutch for a few years. There was an episode of The Great British Bake Off where they had to make stroopwafels, and the presenters mispronounced it every time they said it, like they'd not done even the most basic research. It annoyed the hell out of me.
Also being from 1984, I can identify with those CPUs. There's some days I feel like I can't work either. Unfortunately unlike those CPUs I can't just cease functioning, I have to drag myself out of bed and into the shower, then off to the office.
That WiFi card has a label indicating it uses a Prism chipset. I had an IBM T30 with a PCI variant of the card and I was able to find firmware versions which enabled WPA and WPA-2 under Linux. It was super neat but unfortunately the hard drive died two days later and I lost everything.
When I was working in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, I was taught to put my stroopwafel on top of the coffee to heat it up and make it super tasty. I guess it works for teas as well but either way an economical use of available materials.
Ah- Eric lives in Baarle-Nassau, a place where borders are recursive: Netherlands encloses Belgium which encloses Netherlands which enclose Belgium - a really funny place. Houses that straddle the border have two entrances, one per country. Whichever country has the lower property tax, they unboard that door and board up the other. Yes, I've drive through there - I used to live in Breda, about 20 km away in the Netherlands.
Those stroopwafels are heated on a plate in a microwave for some seconds. look through the window of the microwave at the stroopwafels if you see the stroop or caramel coming out they are done. Better before the caramel comes out turning off the microwave. They will taste even better.
And next time you are in the Netherlands, we are going to meet up to get you some freshly made stroopwafels. Sure, the mass produced ones you can buy at the supermarket are nice, but they should be eaten when freshly made and still slightly warm. And 'pasta' is like 'paste' in english, not like the italian pasta. So yeah, its the stuff inside stroopwafels, in an easy to use form for spreading out. Zoethout is something to chew on, you don't actually eat it.. I hate the stuff ;-)
When you've made a mug of Tea/Coffee, you sit the Stroop Waffle on top of the mug. It warms up the Waffle and keeps your drink hot. I'm pretty sure the 'Sticks' are liquorice sticks, and you chew them. I tried some in the 70's here in the U.K. They are an aquired taste. The pink stick and the brown stick are called a Stick of Rock. You just chew on them. They are everywhere in the U.K. Seaside, Historical sites and special occasions. They have text writen all the way through them with the name of the place you bought them.
Those weird ram cards lwith the dual connectors reminds me of my old Dell Inspiron laptop from like 2000 that used that style of connector to add vram. But I’m going completely off memory as that laptop went away in like 2005.
The Dutch word pasta means paste. Nothing to do with macaroni or whatever. This kind of "pasta" you would put on home made stroopwafels, or you can put it on bread and eat it as a sandwich, I suppose. Never tried it. The stroopwafels say "karamel zeezout"; I've never seen those before (I've been in the USA for more than 20 years) but that probably means salt water taffee flavor. Not my thing I gotta say. Those "soldaatjes" cones are really old fashioned candy, from before they figured out how to make candy in specific shapes. They just rolled a cone from special paper and poured hot caramel in and cooled it down. Then you unwrap them (partially or your fingers will get sticky) and suck on them like a lolly pop, or chew on them if you're impatient like I am. My grandparents probably enjoyed those when they were kids too, and so did my parents, and so did I when I was little, but they're probably not very common anymore. Those big cinnamon and hard-candy sticks bring back some good memories; we used to get those at the fair, once a year or so because that was the only place where you used to be able to get them. Probably things have changed now and you can just order them online or buy them at the store. As a kid, it would take me a couple of days to eat one, because we'd take a bite or two and have enough of it for the day. I've seen them bigger than you got, by the way, up to like an inch in diameter and a foot long or so. Cutting them is as good as impossible, you just break off a piece with your teeth or suck on them. They're brittle too; I'm surprised only one of them broke in only one place. The Wilhelmina peppermints are available in the USA at places like World Market, usually in smaller packages though, and usually only with Queen Wilhelmina's portrait (or profile) on it. You're correct, she was the queen at the time of world war 2, and then we had Juliana until 1980, then Beatrix, then Willem-Alexander who coincidentally is celebrating his 55th birthday today, the 27th of April 2022. If you see someone in orange clothes going nuts today, wish them a happy King's Day haha. The "stokjes" are licorice root, from the looks of it. They are literally a root of a plant, I'm not kidding. It's what licorice is made of (by the way there's no such thing as "black licorice" or "red licorice", if it's not black it's not licorice). You eat it kinda like chew tobacco: you put the end of a stick in your mouth and chew it to release the sweet flavor (that's why we call it "sweet wood" - "zoethout") but you don't swallow the wood itself. When the flavor diminishes, you cut it down and chew on the next piece. It gets really messy and gross looking and you probably won't like it if you don't like licorice candy. It used to be something that I spent my allowance on when I was little, but I don't think they sell it anymore in candy stores. Judging from the map, the sender lives in Baarle-Hertog, an interesting little town that's an enclave of Belgium inside the Netherlands. The Dutch part of the town is called Baarle-Nassau. The town has Netherlands-Belgium border lines all over it, and some people live in the Netherlands while their neighbors live in Belgium. I think there may even be houses that have border running right though them so you can cross the border by going from the living room to the kitchen.
pasta ~ paste :) Also, don't break your teeth on those mini deer antlers - some people are going to tell you it's licorice root, but I think they're pulling your leg. Stroopwaffels are amazing - for anyone in Canada, I'm pretty sure you can get them (but a different brand) at most Loblaw-based supermarkets.
i live in portugal but i am dutch and i would kill someone right now for the good food you have there from my country sir!enjoy and thanks for this great video again mr adrian!greetings from alex in lisbon
Hello Adrian, those worden sticks are realiseren old dutch candy. Just chew on it, enjoy the vlavor, but dont eat the wood. Dump it when therse no more in it.
Those notchless RAM modules are used in my Gateway Handbook 386 and 486 computers, never had to chance to find a expansion which these computers could recognize…
Some years back I had a laptop (which locked up as it finished the POST) that used those notchless memory modules, which I think was a rebranded Chicony job with a Pentium MMX of some sort, very odd design, but I guess they needed more compact RAM back then...
Id never noticed before, but now that I have it really stands out, and that is that your voice is quite similar to Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry. Different dynamic in how you speak, but the core voice is similar enough that if you both read the same script and I wasnt looking at the screen I wouldnt think twice if I was told he was you or vice versa. I almost wish Id not noticed because its going to be a distraction when watching either of you for the next little while :) Also, I understand the intention is good, but always found it odd to be gifted with massive volumes of calories and a potential case of diabetes. :) If I ever pull my thumb out and start my youtube channel, and people are kind enough to send me these sorts of gifts I'd feel awkward about it. Would absolutely appreciate it, and would be rapt that people can be so kind, but most of us arent spring chickens anymore and it gets harder and harder to stay in good shape as time goes on and I don't keep that sort of stuff in the house, because its so easy to eat and takes a week or so to burn off those excess calories.
In the 1980s, Queen Beatrix was invited to Germany for a state visit. Of course, in a posh hotel, fine food should be served. But minutes before the real Queen of the Netherlands arrived, a black Mercedes pulled up and a comedian in disguise claimed he was the Queen. He almost managed to take the place of the queen, but the chief of protocol knew the real queen and quickly got the prankster aside.
The cinnamon stick you should suck on those (cinnamon and sugar) don't know about the pink stick. (guess it's about strawberry/ raspberry and sugar) very sweet indeed.
11:58 I don't know Dutch, but the word in French looks similar enough to the word in my language to know that it says 100% liquorice, so it may be unprocessed liquorice.
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Zoethout stokjes are litterally sweet wood sticks. You chew on them. They're not a common candy anymore but i used to get these as a child. Also "pasta" in Dutch also means "paste", so that's a speculaas paste like peanut butter but with speculaas. Enjoy! Was fun to see these Dutch candies on your bench!
Gewoon te koop bij AH hoor 😀
The pasta is stroopwafel pasta made of the stropwafel biscuit mixed with the sugary syrup contained in the regular stroop wafels.
@@ericpp that's correct.
Smerig spul, al die 'splinters' in je mond.
@@doctordapp used to have these when I was a child, loved them.
The little module from Toshiba is actually a normally open solid-state relay. It can switch up to 1A at 120VAC and takes a 5V control input.
(ie do not put 120v AC across those terminals 😂)
Thing to note about those solid state relays: the switched side has a minimum voltage that they will work with.
This don't know but can't work here 250ac here so send to him
These "stokjes" seem to be Liquorice, you can chew them, and the caramel waffels taste very good when warmed over a fresh and hot cup of coffee or tea
Licourice root, just chew
Yes they are licorice sticks... "100% licorice root"
The stokjes are real liquorice root. You just chew on it.
Also: Pasta = Paste = Spread
Yes this for on bread (you toast some bread and put this on Yummmmm)
Thanks Adrian all most a food taste channel cheers
As a dutchman: You can spread a slice of bread with pasta. This is a special kind of spread. Regular kinds of spread are peanutbutter and 'chocoladepasta'.
The 'stokjes' are called 'zoethout' which literally means 'sweetwood'. I remember these sticks from my childhood. I think you're supposed to just chew on them.
@7:45 if I remember correctly, this type of memory used to be manufactured in Mexico and named
Buenas Notchless.
I'm half dutch, and as others have said, the stroopwafels are best when you make a cup of hot tea or coffee (or even hot chocolate if you'd want) and you put the stroopwafel over the mug. It's a bit of a game to know when to lift it off before it becomes too soft to flip it over and let the other side get warm.
Also, those sticks are anise or licorice sticks, I believe, they are meant to just be chewed on, if I remember what my mother has said.
Like a few other people mentioned here: The "zoethout" are licorice root, literally the root of the licorice plant. Really like those, but I guess you don't as you also don't really like licorice. The "Duimdrop" is a kind of sweet(er) licorice, "duim" translates as "thumb" and "drop" translates as "licorice". The idea is that you stick the licorice on your thumb and than suck on it. Never tried that to be honest. The "pasta" translates as "paste", you can put it on a sandwich. Never had this "stroopwafel pasta", seems tasty. The "kaneelstok" is a cinnamon stick, it's really sweet. The pink stick is even sweeter. Really like your videos, keep up the nice work :)
The woody items are “liquorice root”. Used to have them in England in 50’s and 60’s. Peter
Single Inline Pin Package (SIPP). If memory serves, you can also get stroopwaffels at ALDI.
The stroopwafels are a special kind (caramel seasalt). The sticks are “sweetwoodsticks”. You chew on the tip. This will turn in “fibers” and will give a kind of sweet taste. You don’t eat the fibers but suck on it until its taste is lost. My father used to buy the kaneelstokken and the zuurstokken at the local yearly fair and buy my mother oliebollen at the oliebollenkraam at the same fair.
From wikipedia
Dried sticks of the liquorice root are also a traditional confectionery in their own right in the Netherlands as were they once in Britain although their popularity has waned in recent decades. They were sold simply as sticks of zoethout ('sweet wood') to chew on as a candy. Through chewing and suckling, the intensely sweet flavour is released. The sweetness is 30 to 50 times as strong as sucrose, without causing damage to teeth. Since about the 1970s, zoethout has become rarer and been replaced by easier to consume candies (including 'drop').
The notchless ram is probably 72pin sodimms. And the ones with the pair of white push on pin connectors looks like 386/486 era laptop ram (compaq?) or perhaps a classic powerbook.
Always nice to see some strange new things that I think are edible.
When I get Stroopwafels I warm them a little bit on a fresh hot cup of coffee. Oh, they are so hard to find here in southern Germany.
I think "Pasta" in this case would equate to "Paste (consistancy)" or "Butter (liken to Peanut Butter)"
Never been this early before. Well wishes from Colorado.
The wood sticks are root of licorice. It is supposed to be chewed and sucked to get the juice. Loved it as a kid.
"Notchless" ram sticks are SoDimm EDO for laptops, older than the EDO SoDimm with the notch in the middle, like the DDR3
I have also seen these types of ram used in laser printers as memory expansion my HP laserjet printer has a slot for one stick of ram that looks similar to those sodimms that he has.
The memory module at 7:32 could also be from the 486/Pentium/early MMX era of laptops. I installed plenty of those modules in laptops circa 1995-1997. Toshiba, Compaq, HP, and TI all had some variation of that memory before the widespread implementation of SODIMMs. And while they looked similar, each brand had its own proprietary interface.
Stokjes is liquorice root, you chew it, very popular in the UK in the 60's & 70's, also, place a stroop waffle on top of a mug of coffee then eat it after a few minutes.
I am a big fan of your videos. There is no Power Supply in 6:06 - this is a solid state relay, capable of switching 120VAC at 1A. Greetings from Germany.
6:30 this is not a power supply. This is an isolated solid state relay for AC. I am sure.
There is also a PDF online. 5 volt input DC. Output triac switches AC with zero detection.
Based on whatever printing was on that wireless card, it claims itself to be a Eumitcom WL11000 which is a HFA3841 based device, it's a chipset primarily targeted for Windows 98 machines. Supposedly, the Belkin F5D6020 v1 is a rebrand of this card, so their driver should work and is available on the official site for 98 to XP.
The plug-in modules are for a Pentium 1 HP Omnibook 2000 and 5700 series. I have both laptops. They are either 16or 32 MB EDO modules.
Nice video as always. Coincidently i live 3 miles from the belgian border.
Greetings from Weert. (City underneath Eindhoven) in the netherlands
IIRC the modules with the two little white connectors maybe might possibly be for clamshell-style Pocket PC devices from the early 2000's. It looks similar to the one in my NEC MobilePro.
Duimdrop is a sticky liquorice, you take a small piece of it, put it in your mouth and wet it, then press it on your thumb nail. So you can taste the liquorice by putting your thumb in your mouth without the need to have the liquorice in your mouth all the time so it lasts longer. Duim is the Dutch word for thumb and drop for liquorice, hence duimdrop.
Pasta is likely paste ;)
Love your vids Adrian. Greetings from UK
Pasta. From my VERY basic Flemish is equivalent to 'paste' , so ground up stroopwaffels. Spread it on bread for a sandwich!
And the stroopwafels have sea-salt in them!
That 3 set of mini sims look like what I remember the ram for my SGI 540 looking like. You had to install them in sets of 3. And I remember them being VERY finicky about installation.
The laptop RAM is most likely 66mhz and would have been installed in some of the first portable computers which would have been considered laptops. The strange plug-in modules are likely for a video card as a RAM expansion for video memory. The ones that you suspect are cache are exactly that. They were most likely pared with an Intel Xeon in a slot-1 p3 or pentium 2. Not as old as some things you work on but still good tech.
Hi Adrian!
I wonder if you ever heard of the adhoc mode the old b WLAN Cards most time were capable of. This mode allows you to connect exactly two machines to each other which could be useful to transfer data. Since the g+ standard however I think the adhoc mode is depreciated and so most people I know don't even know this mode existed....
Keep up the excellent work!
You can get the fiberglass pens at any auto paint store. Be very careful, however, and always use eye protection because of the fiberglass shards.
LOL - The sticks are actual liquorice roots. And yes, you chew on them for the flavour.
Instead of a baking pan... can also use a microwave for 10 seconds per stroopwafel (and after that, wait about a minute before trying to eat or you may burn your mouth).
Here in Wyoming you can find stroopwafels in the checkout line at Walmart.
the peppermints are called extra strong mints in the uk. the bits of wood are raw licorice, you suck on them and gently chew them, they are an acquired taste, if you chew too much you will taste it all day.
I visited Amsterdam just before the great plague, and went to the fair where The Stroop Waffle guy is, hot off the grill. ... Aw man. It completely _wrecked_ me.
Those wafers are pretty amazing warmed up.
The tree-stuff is licorice root. It was used as a kind of toothbrush for centuries. Just chef on them. A kind of chewing stick.
The sticks remind me of Slippery Elm and, to some extent, Horehound but both of these are more natural medications than sweets though Horehound is sometimes used as a flavoring in old fashioned hard candy lozenges.
You can put Stroopwaffels on top of a cup of coffee and you can warm them up that way.
[Sticks?]
You strip the bark off on the sticks and then chew on them. I used to do that when I was a kid... bit of a health food thing in the 80's
I think its also an ingredient in root beer... (racine).
Cheers,
that looks like a spliff lol :D
One of those modules might be an AIMM (AGP Inline Memory Module). I have an Abit 815 (maybe 815E) chipset board with 1MB built in video. The manual mentions an AIMM that can bring the graphics memory up to 4MB. I never had an AIMM and ended up running that motherboard with a Voodoo 2 SLI.
Stroopwafels - as made famous by the "Rich Rebuilds" UA-cam channel 😁
I am one of the guys how love old computer and candy
so i realy like these candy unboxing videos
"pasta" == "paste"
The English word "paste" comes the from the Romance (or late Latin) word "pasta" which meant paste or dough. The word "pasta" eventually came to mean noodles in addition to paste/dough, because pasta is made by extruding a dough through a die and then drying it.
In English the word "pasta" (with its original meaning) became "paste" over time, then we re-imported the word "pasta" into English again to mean noodles. French tends to drop the "s" after certain vowels; these words now usually have a circumflex accent over the vowel. Hence the modern French word "pâté" (pasta->paste->pâté) which is a different kind of edible paste. 😄
Plastos = Greek for molded or formed.
Pasta is a related word in Latin.
Pasta is our word 'paste'.
Pasta, paste, pastry, plaster, plastic...
you get the idea
Those stroopwaffels are my favourite, too. They are sometimes sold here in Hungary but hard to get them.
I saw on another tech channel that the Dutch are not calling their country Holland anymore, but just "The Netherlands" because Holland refers only to a particular region without that country.
I am curious as to how you get on with the fibreglass pens, and if there is a model that does not leave fibreglass splinters all over the place.
Stroop as in stroopwafels rhymes with rope. Source, I'm Dutch. Pasta == paste/spread in Dutch
I'm English but know how to pronounce it because I've been learning Dutch for a few years. There was an episode of The Great British Bake Off where they had to make stroopwafels, and the presenters mispronounced it every time they said it, like they'd not done even the most basic research. It annoyed the hell out of me.
Also being from 1984, I can identify with those CPUs. There's some days I feel like I can't work either. Unfortunately unlike those CPUs I can't just cease functioning, I have to drag myself out of bed and into the shower, then off to the office.
That WiFi card has a label indicating it uses a Prism chipset. I had an IBM T30 with a PCI variant of the card and I was able to find firmware versions which enabled WPA and WPA-2 under Linux. It was super neat but unfortunately the hard drive died two days later and I lost everything.
When I was working in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, I was taught to put my stroopwafel on top of the coffee to heat it up and make it super tasty. I guess it works for teas as well but either way an economical use of available materials.
Works with tea very well. I do this quite often and it tastes better then.
You can occasionally find stroopwaffles at Aldi.
Ah- Eric lives in Baarle-Nassau, a place where borders are recursive: Netherlands encloses Belgium which encloses Netherlands which enclose Belgium - a really funny place. Houses that straddle the border have two entrances, one per country. Whichever country has the lower property tax, they unboard that door and board up the other.
Yes, I've drive through there - I used to live in Breda, about 20 km away in the Netherlands.
No Live Baarle-Hertog The Belgium part but I'm Dutch
The stroopwafel pasta is for putting on your bread like peanut butter!
If memory serves, Aldis is a split company. The northern version goes by the name Trader Joe's in the US. The southern version retains the Aldis name.
Those stroopwafels are heated on a plate in a microwave for some seconds. look through the window of the microwave at the stroopwafels if you see the stroop or caramel coming out they are done. Better before the caramel comes out turning off the microwave. They will taste even better.
@Eric E yea also possible, but, once we forgot that the wafel was on the cup and it became too soft and fell into the coffee.
The Klene Ademin has a strip of sticky tape on the back to close the bag with.
i googled stokjes and fittingly in english it's "little sticks"! LOL
I love how all the comments are telling you about the food, and very few about the tech :D
But "people don't like candy reviews on this channel" Mmm... a bunch of us do like them.
And next time you are in the Netherlands, we are going to meet up to get you some freshly made stroopwafels. Sure, the mass produced ones you can buy at the supermarket are nice, but they should be eaten when freshly made and still slightly warm.
And 'pasta' is like 'paste' in english, not like the italian pasta. So yeah, its the stuff inside stroopwafels, in an easy to use form for spreading out.
Zoethout is something to chew on, you don't actually eat it.. I hate the stuff ;-)
Pasta, in Dutch, means paste. It's like a sandwich spread. Enjoy!
When you've made a mug of Tea/Coffee, you sit the Stroop Waffle on top of the mug. It warms up the Waffle and keeps your drink hot.
I'm pretty sure the 'Sticks' are liquorice sticks, and you chew them. I tried some in the 70's here in the U.K. They are an aquired taste.
The pink stick and the brown stick are called a Stick of Rock. You just chew on them. They are everywhere in the U.K. Seaside, Historical sites and special occasions. They have text writen all the way through them with the name of the place you bought them.
I've had Licorice Root before but it was more Reddish.
Those weird ram cards lwith the dual connectors reminds me of my old Dell Inspiron laptop from like 2000 that used that style of connector to add vram. But I’m going completely off memory as that laptop went away in like 2005.
The Dutch word pasta means paste. Nothing to do with macaroni or whatever. This kind of "pasta" you would put on home made stroopwafels, or you can put it on bread and eat it as a sandwich, I suppose. Never tried it.
The stroopwafels say "karamel zeezout"; I've never seen those before (I've been in the USA for more than 20 years) but that probably means salt water taffee flavor. Not my thing I gotta say.
Those "soldaatjes" cones are really old fashioned candy, from before they figured out how to make candy in specific shapes. They just rolled a cone from special paper and poured hot caramel in and cooled it down. Then you unwrap them (partially or your fingers will get sticky) and suck on them like a lolly pop, or chew on them if you're impatient like I am. My grandparents probably enjoyed those when they were kids too, and so did my parents, and so did I when I was little, but they're probably not very common anymore.
Those big cinnamon and hard-candy sticks bring back some good memories; we used to get those at the fair, once a year or so because that was the only place where you used to be able to get them. Probably things have changed now and you can just order them online or buy them at the store. As a kid, it would take me a couple of days to eat one, because we'd take a bite or two and have enough of it for the day. I've seen them bigger than you got, by the way, up to like an inch in diameter and a foot long or so. Cutting them is as good as impossible, you just break off a piece with your teeth or suck on them. They're brittle too; I'm surprised only one of them broke in only one place.
The Wilhelmina peppermints are available in the USA at places like World Market, usually in smaller packages though, and usually only with Queen Wilhelmina's portrait (or profile) on it. You're correct, she was the queen at the time of world war 2, and then we had Juliana until 1980, then Beatrix, then Willem-Alexander who coincidentally is celebrating his 55th birthday today, the 27th of April 2022. If you see someone in orange clothes going nuts today, wish them a happy King's Day haha.
The "stokjes" are licorice root, from the looks of it. They are literally a root of a plant, I'm not kidding. It's what licorice is made of (by the way there's no such thing as "black licorice" or "red licorice", if it's not black it's not licorice). You eat it kinda like chew tobacco: you put the end of a stick in your mouth and chew it to release the sweet flavor (that's why we call it "sweet wood" - "zoethout") but you don't swallow the wood itself. When the flavor diminishes, you cut it down and chew on the next piece. It gets really messy and gross looking and you probably won't like it if you don't like licorice candy. It used to be something that I spent my allowance on when I was little, but I don't think they sell it anymore in candy stores.
Judging from the map, the sender lives in Baarle-Hertog, an interesting little town that's an enclave of Belgium inside the Netherlands. The Dutch part of the town is called Baarle-Nassau. The town has Netherlands-Belgium border lines all over it, and some people live in the Netherlands while their neighbors live in Belgium. I think there may even be houses that have border running right though them so you can cross the border by going from the living room to the kitchen.
Stokjes are natural liquorice root, which though very tough and chewy is edible and tastes of..you guessed it - liquorice.
I want to taste one of those sticks - My son.
pasta ~ paste :) Also, don't break your teeth on those mini deer antlers - some people are going to tell you it's licorice root, but I think they're pulling your leg. Stroopwaffels are amazing - for anyone in Canada, I'm pretty sure you can get them (but a different brand) at most Loblaw-based supermarkets.
Loblaw? Like from Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog?
Plug in memory module looks like it might be add-on memory board for a sound card.
Its a stick made me laugh!
i live in portugal but i am dutch and i would kill someone right now for the good food you have there from my country sir!enjoy and thanks for this great video again mr adrian!greetings from alex in lisbon
I think the dutch word pasta means in german Paste which is in english paste.
Hello Adrian, those worden sticks are realiseren old dutch candy. Just chew on it, enjoy the vlavor, but dont eat the wood. Dump it when therse no more in it.
Those sticks are liquorice. ~50 times as sweet as sugar. You are supposed to chew them.
Those notchless RAM modules are used in my Gateway Handbook 386 and 486 computers, never had to chance to find a expansion which these computers could recognize…
Some years back I had a laptop (which locked up as it finished the POST) that used those notchless memory modules, which I think was a rebranded Chicony job with a Pentium MMX of some sort, very odd design, but I guess they needed more compact RAM back then...
Zoethout is licorice, and stokje is stick in Dutch.
They're liquorice root Adrian.
The notchless ram are laptop variant of 72pin ram, iirc. :)
Cool unboxing 😍
Stroopwafels are available on Amazon, but the Stroopwafel paste unfortunately isn't.
Stroopwafels jum!!!, I lay them on my freshly pored coffee (moccamaster) and let the heat of my coffee, heat them one side at a time.
Id never noticed before, but now that I have it really stands out, and that is that your voice is quite similar to Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry.
Different dynamic in how you speak, but the core voice is similar enough that if you both read the same script and I wasnt looking at the screen I wouldnt think twice if I was told he was you or vice versa.
I almost wish Id not noticed because its going to be a distraction when watching either of you for the next little while :)
Also, I understand the intention is good, but always found it odd to be gifted with massive volumes of calories and a potential case of diabetes. :)
If I ever pull my thumb out and start my youtube channel, and people are kind enough to send me these sorts of gifts I'd feel awkward about it. Would absolutely appreciate it, and would be rapt that people can be so kind, but most of us arent spring chickens anymore and it gets harder and harder to stay in good shape as time goes on and I don't keep that sort of stuff in the house, because its so easy to eat and takes a week or so to burn off those excess calories.
single inline pin package :D
In the 1980s, Queen Beatrix was invited to Germany for a state visit. Of course, in a posh hotel, fine food should be served.
But minutes before the real Queen of the Netherlands arrived, a black Mercedes pulled up and a comedian in disguise claimed he was the Queen.
He almost managed to take the place of the queen, but the chief of protocol knew the real queen and quickly got the prankster aside.
We use those notchless memory module in OCTAGON 5066 CPU card that has a AMD 5x86 133MHz cpu on it ( a 486 on steriods)
The cinnamon stick you should suck on those (cinnamon and sugar) don't know about the pink stick. (guess it's about strawberry/ raspberry and sugar) very sweet indeed.
looks like licorice root you chew them for the licorice flavor you dont eat as far as i remember not had since i was a child lol
spread the pasta on the waffle..... its like caramel nutella... just break the sticks of rock :D
11:58 I don't know Dutch, but the word in French looks similar enough to the word in my language to know that it says 100% liquorice, so it may be unprocessed liquorice.
Licorice Root Sticks
I think pasta means something like paste, at least in portuguese that makes sense. It is like a thick cream.
Pasta in the sense of "paste".