What is the worst candy you've ever tasted?
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Original question by @[email protected]
Salted liquorice.
I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.
Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.
I was wrong. So very wrong.
This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It's not salt either, it's freaking ammonium chloride.
To paraphrase the Wikipedia:
The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
And Scandi's put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.
I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.
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Allsorts, we call em. They taste of chalk and disappointment.
Twinnings did an Allsorts flavoured Earl Grey at one point that was the best thing I ever drank.
I'm one of those that rather like Allsorts though, the bobbly jelly ones particularly. I wouldn't really call Allsorts liquorice though, liquorice flavoured maybe.
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Turkish delights tend to be terrible. Insanely chewy and sticky, floral and just unpleasant. I also tried some sweet "goat cheese and spice lollipop" candy from mexico i didn't care for much.
Black licorice fucks though. I'll stand with the swedes on this one.
You actually like salmiak? Or just black liquorice?
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Original question by @[email protected]
Black Death. Tastes like I’d expect a chemical burn to taste.
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Salted liquorice.
I had a Norwegian friend who waxed lyrical about this stuff. So when I saw it for the first time in a shop, I grabbed a packet to nibble on while waiting for my train.
Plain black liquorice is delicious and salt makes everything taste better, and the Norwegian seemed like a nice, relatively normal person who enjoyed other things I liked. This was a low risk choice of mid morning snack, I thought to myself.
I was wrong. So very wrong.
This stuff tastes like it was peeled off the bottom of a shoe after walking through the city all day. It's not salt either, it's freaking ammonium chloride.
To paraphrase the Wikipedia:
The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensation of coal-derived gases. It is also found around some types of volcanic vents. It is a product of the reaction of hydrochloric acid and ammonia.
And Scandi's put this on liquorice and like it. Even the kids. Madness. It took my all not to heave into a bin after trying it and like six cups of black tea to get the taste out of my mouth.
I gave the Norwegian the rest of the packet and he laughed at me while I watched him eat it because I looked so horrified.
Swede here, that Norwegian shit is weak. This is what we like.
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Original question by @[email protected]
First of all, licorice is good actually, though black jelly beans are trash.
One time I bought olive flavored gummies from the Asian market because I love olives and I was curious. Absolutely horrible, didn't even finish one.
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You actually like salmiak? Or just black liquorice?
Yes to both, although i've only had the salted licorice a couple of times. I'm betting some brands would kick my ass, but so far so good.
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Swede here, that Norwegian shit is weak. This is what we like.
It hurts, but it's delicious. Svenskjävlar! is the world's saltiest licorice.
Lmao, you all are built different or something. How many can you eat before it starts melting your tongue?
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Black licorice.
I firmly believe candy should be sweet; not bitter.
Bitter? You must have had some weird fake crap. I've never had any liquorice that bitter, and I'm Swedish and love liquorice.
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Original question by @[email protected]
American candy. Not American brand candy which different outside the US, but actuall American candy. It's all so bad quality and vile that it would never sell outside the US and not even be legal to do so in many places.
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There's fake black licorice, and there's the real stuff. Two very different experiences!
Both trash.
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Original question by @[email protected]
If I had to choose between leather belt flavoured licorice and vomit flavoured Hershey's. Licorice wins everytime.
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It hurts, but it's delicious. Svenskjävlar! is the world's saltiest licorice.
Lmao, you all are built different or something. How many can you eat before it starts melting your tongue?
I mean, yeah, I've been salty liquorice all my life. But this is not something you binge on, it will eat up the roof of your mouth after just a few.
My go to is a combination of a sweet liquorice and a salmiak and chocolate covered almond. Pop one of each and munch away. Usually drink milk to save my stomach lining...
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If I had to choose between leather belt flavoured licorice and vomit flavoured Hershey's. Licorice wins everytime.
Ever had Dutch licorice? All the salt of a thousand oceans in one little bite.
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Hersheys "chocolate". I spit it out, and a bit embarrassed, asked "could it gone bad during the flight?"
Well, obviously this stuff does taste like vomit, and Americans seem to be OK with that. Explains a lot about American behavior. If chocolate here would taste like that, we probably would have more mass shootings, too.
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American candy. Not American brand candy which different outside the US, but actuall American candy. It's all so bad quality and vile that it would never sell outside the US and not even be legal to do so in many places.
I went to America once and tried an American coke. It left this weird film in my mouth. I don't understand how they drink it.
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We once did a side-by-side comparison of KitKats (we live right on the border) and the difference was stunning.
Bad comparison on that one. KitKat brand in the USA is an entirely different company that the rest of the world. So they aren't even the pretending to be the same recipe.
At least the US KitKats aren't Nestle.
I won't say I'm boycotting Nestle per se, but I try to avoid their stuff. There's a bag of strawberry cheesecake KitKats from Japan on my desk, lol. They're pretty good.
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I tried some matcha mochi once. It didn't really taste good, but the worst thing about it was that it was just boring.
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I tried to like the Aldi chocolate bars but they leave this strange fatty coating in my mouth after eating them. I don't experience that with other brands.
We usually get things like the chocolate covered cashews or sea salt caramels. They occasionally have some peanut butter or maybe cashew butter cups and those I remember being really good.
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Hersheys "chocolate". I spit it out, and a bit embarrassed, asked "could it gone bad during the flight?"
Well, obviously this stuff does taste like vomit, and Americans seem to be OK with that. Explains a lot about American behavior. If chocolate here would taste like that, we probably would have more mass shootings, too.
I'm allergic the something they put in mass produced milk chocolate over here I think. Idk what it is, I've no allergies I know of. But if I have a Hershey Kiss, my throat burns a little after, feels painful.
This doesnt happen when I have good dark chocolate, it's only the garbage mass produced chocolate.
US chocolate wasn't always this shitty, but it sure as fuck is now. I doubt there is much actual cocoa in it these days
