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Post by whollygoats on Dec 11, 2015 0:37:14 GMT
So...Somebody at the office brought in a cup full of indeterminate small brownish cubes with the letters DZ molded in the items. Although solid, the small cubes were not 'hard', or 'brittle', but could be indented with a fingernail. I tenatively identified them as candy, but had no idea what flavor. So, I tried one.
YEEEEEEEEECK!
That was disgusting. I think I tried a salted licorice piece. It was in my mouth for all of ten seconds, if not much less. I spit it out it was so disgusting.
I like black licorice, in moderation. I like salt, way too much. This flavor was awful.
Is it really all the rage in the Nether regions?
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Post by JoeP on Dec 11, 2015 12:30:32 GMT
And in Finnish regions. They salt it with ammonium chloride and call it salmiakki. Or Turkish pepper (Turkinpippuri). There are vodka versions.
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Post by jayme on Dec 11, 2015 22:03:08 GMT
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Post by Moose on Dec 11, 2015 22:10:53 GMT
They look like fisherman's friends .. truly the most vile thing I've ever had in my mouth and that includes the time I accidentally ate cat food.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 12, 2015 1:01:33 GMT
Now, see...I can deal with Fisherman's Friend, barely. But I could not deal with that.
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Post by Kye on Dec 12, 2015 1:37:52 GMT
I like all kinds of licorice, including the salty kind. But I prefer soft and sweet (licorice).
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Post by Moose on Dec 12, 2015 2:01:07 GMT
If it was worse than Fisherman's Friends I don't want to know
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 10:09:51 GMT
I'm not a big fan of licorice. I'm alright with it in small ammounts, but I wouldn't buy it for myself. Frank got some salted licorice from someone in summer and I tried one piece, but it wasn't really my thing.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 12, 2015 13:39:35 GMT
If it was worse than Fisherman's Friends I don't want to know It's all subjective, Moose. Evidently, in some places in Europe, salted licorice is all the rage. You might like it.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 12, 2015 14:06:13 GMT
If it was worse than Fisherman's Friends I don't want to know It's all subjective, Moose. Evidently, in some places in Europe, salted licorice is all the rage. You might like it.
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Post by JoeP on Dec 12, 2015 14:20:47 GMT
Miisa informs me that salted licorice is a different thing from salmiakki - it's salted with normal salt, sodium chloride.
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Post by Miisa on Dec 12, 2015 14:27:47 GMT
I don't know what is used for what, but fans of the stuff differentiate between liquorice, "fake" salty liquorice and real salmiakki.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 7, 2016 20:01:21 GMT
I've recently noticed salted chocolate, which seems odd to me, too!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2016 9:20:21 GMT
We tried chocolate with crackers which was surprisingly nice.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 10, 2016 7:00:44 GMT
I think salted licorice is gross! In the Netherlands they have salted and double salted licorice!
On the other hand, salted chocolate is quite nice. Lindt does a dark salted choc and it seems to bring out the flavour, a very pleasant experience.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 10, 2016 7:01:51 GMT
DG likes the stuff. When we first met he sent me a bag full of different types of licorice including the salted kind. He ended up eating most of it when he came to Oz a month or so later.
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Post by ceptimus on Jan 11, 2016 1:15:08 GMT
When I was a kid you could still occasionally buy what I think was raw unprocessed liquorice. It was in the form of twigs such as you would cut from a tree or large bush. You chewed the sticks to get the unsweetened and unsalted liquorice taste - you had to spit out or otherwise dispose of the chewed wood pulp - not something you would want to swallow.
Obviously this would be pretty disgusting indoors or in a built up area which is probably why it's not sold like that now - but when we were playing in fields or on river banks it didn't seem so bad.
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Post by ceptimus on Jan 11, 2016 1:20:24 GMT
We used to eat a form of liquorice called 'Pontefract cakes' (not sure of spelling). They were quite nice but I've not eaten or even seen any recently.
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Post by tangent on Jan 11, 2016 1:38:13 GMT
I remember Pontefract cakes. They were about the size of a shilling but a bit thicker.
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Post by JoeP on Jan 11, 2016 18:19:19 GMT
I remember those licorice sticks ... now that you mention them ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 12, 2016 23:21:37 GMT
I saw Pontefract Cakes in a shop the other day... or at least some knock-off equivalents.
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