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Eating salmiakki sprinkles straight from the bottle and wondering where it all went so wrong.
WHAT THIS SHIT COMES IN SPRINKLE FORMAT WHAT OMG
Oh yeah. There are different brands, even. You can find it as a sauce too.
Or hard topping, if that’s what you’re into.
Ok this is the same hideous salty licorice thing the Norwegians eat, right? Salmak or Turkish Pepper? And it has ammonium chloride in it?
We bought some while there because nobody in the US believes us that it exists. But I’d only seen it as cough drop style hard candies or gummy candies and my mind is now blown.
Yep, this is it! It’s popular in all the Nordic countries and the Netherlands. The Swedish word for it is saltlakrits, but internationally it seems to be mostly referred to by its Finnish name, salmiakki.
You can get it as ice cream too.
Or as chocolate:
And as alcohol!
But the hard candies and gummies are the most common type.
I just scrolled down this post slowly for my dude’s benefit and both of us went “EWWWW” the whole way. We’re still working on the one souvenir tin of Turkish Pepper from this summer. He says, “I eat one occasionally, because I hate life.”
A lot of people say that it’s an acquired taste, but I think it’s more of a matter of either loving or hating it from the first bite. ;)
Although, I think for a beginner, the Marabou chocolate bar had probably been a better place to start, because the mild milk chocolate is nicely offset by the slightly salty licorice pieces. Turkish Pepper is for when you’ve decided that yes, this *is* my jam.
The Fazer bar I wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole, because it’s got a liquid salmiakki filling and I honestly think that’s pretty gross, especially coupled with chocolate. I don’t like the jelly candies with liquid fillings either. I’m not a monster!
By the by, have you successfully managed to trick any of your friends into trying the candy? :D :D :D
I have not, but he has, he brought it along as a souvenir when we first got back and was like “oh everyone you gotta try this it’s great!” and he sure did sucker some people. My cousin (Norwegian, resides in Bergen) actually developed sores in his mouth from over-eating the hard candies, though, and we didn’t believe him when he tried to explain that the active ingredient was ammonium chloride, and he was like “but see it cleans your breath it’s wonderful” and we’re like DON’T PUT AMMONIA IN YOUR FACE and he was eventually like, “yeah, okay, I should put LESS ammonia in my face”. I don’t hate it, but i don’t feel real great about myself when I eat it.I like it better than I like Vegemite, let’s put it that way. (I dated an Australian once.)
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gaffsie:
bomberqueen17:
gaffsie:
Eating salmiakki sprinkles straight from the bottle and wondering where it all went so wrong.
WHAT THIS SHIT COMES IN SPRINKLE FORMAT WHAT OMG
Oh yeah. There are different brands, even. You can find it as a sauce too.
Or hard topping, if that’s what you’re into.
Ok this is the same hideous salty licorice thing the Norwegians eat, right? Salmak or Turkish Pepper? And it has ammonium chloride in it?
We bought some while there because nobody in the US believes us that it exists. But I’d only seen it as cough drop style hard candies or gummy candies and my mind is now blown.
Yep, this is it! It’s popular in all the Nordic countries and the Netherlands. The Swedish word for it is saltlakrits, but internationally it seems to be mostly referred to by its Finnish name, salmiakki.
You can get it as ice cream too.
Or as chocolate:
And as alcohol!
But the hard candies and gummies are the most common type.
I just scrolled down this post slowly for my dude’s benefit and both of us went “EWWWW” the whole way. We’re still working on the one souvenir tin of Turkish Pepper from this summer. He says, “I eat one occasionally, because I hate life.”
A lot of people say that it’s an acquired taste, but I think it’s more of a matter of either loving or hating it from the first bite. ;)
Although, I think for a beginner, the Marabou chocolate bar had probably been a better place to start, because the mild milk chocolate is nicely offset by the slightly salty licorice pieces. Turkish Pepper is for when you’ve decided that yes, this *is* my jam.
The Fazer bar I wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole, because it’s got a liquid salmiakki filling and I honestly think that’s pretty gross, especially coupled with chocolate. I don’t like the jelly candies with liquid fillings either. I’m not a monster!
By the by, have you successfully managed to trick any of your friends into trying the candy? :D :D :D
I have not, but he has, he brought it along as a souvenir when we first got back and was like “oh everyone you gotta try this it’s great!” and he sure did sucker some people. My cousin (Norwegian, resides in Bergen) actually developed sores in his mouth from over-eating the hard candies, though, and we didn’t believe him when he tried to explain that the active ingredient was ammonium chloride, and he was like “but see it cleans your breath it’s wonderful” and we’re like DON’T PUT AMMONIA IN YOUR FACE and he was eventually like, “yeah, okay, I should put LESS ammonia in my face”. I don’t hate it, but i don’t feel real great about myself when I eat it.I like it better than I like Vegemite, let’s put it that way. (I dated an Australian once.)
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Date: 2016-03-03 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-03-03 01:48 am (UTC)I managed Marmite. Marmite on toast. It was okay. I didn't like it but I could see the appeal.
Vegemite made me recoil in visceral horror.
I was, gosh, not twenty yet. Maybe I could try it again.
I sort of, I dunno.
This licorice-containing substance, though-- it doesn't actually taste of licorice at all? It's... ammonium chloride salts? It has no notable anise component to its flavor. So maybe don't write it off.
I mean, do.
But not because of that.
It's just terrible.
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Date: 2016-03-03 05:14 am (UTC)I am curious what ammonium chloride tastes like, but not enough to try it. If I need to hurt my mouth, I'll stick with citric acid; last time I ate half a bag of Chewy SweeTarts, I couldn't eat anything else for a day. :) (And it was worth it.)