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Ah Then purpose of the salty licorice with ammonium chloride must be to prevent people from consuming too much in one sitting. Usually I can only make it 2/3rd
by icedistilled 6y ago
Ah Then purpose of the salty licorice with ammonium chloride must be to prevent people from consuming too much in one sitting.
Usually I can only make it 2/3rd through a single piece before the ammonia flavor is too over powering.
- Wistar 6y agoThe licorice pipes were not the super-strong shiny black variety but the somewhat sweet, softer black licorice that, when torn, is a dark brown inside.
- djxfade 6y agoIt's so strange to me as a Scandinavian to read this. We love that stuff
- MisterBastahrd 6y agoCan't imagine why someone from the land of fermented shark flesh would like the flavor of ammonia.
- Dahoon 6y agoScandinavia isn't a country.
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- pfundstein 6y agoTBF ammonium chloride tastes as much like ammonia as sodium chloride tastes like chlorine.
- simongray 6y agoIn Denmark we mixed in some pepper with the salt, making salty licorice with pepper inside (Tyrkisk Peber). People love that stuff.
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- bemmu 6y agoGrowing up In Finland it was the only candy we would really want to eat, and if given a bag of mixed sweets would first fish out all the salmiakki (salty liquorice), and in the end reluctantly go on with the other, more lame sweets in the bag.
- WorldMaker 6y agoThe origin of salty licorice was as a throat lozenge (same reason a singer might gargle salt water ever so often to keep their throat healthy) in cold/freezing fishing waters. (The salt was the important bit, the licorice was just the flavor the fisherman really like to make it sweeter and easier to chew.) It wasn't invented to be an appetite suppressor, though for a lot of people it certainly is. (Not many people like salty licorice, given a choice.) (Also, ironically, salt in general is not an appetite suppressant and there are documentaries about why salt was added to so many foods to increase consumption.)
- neurostimulant 6y agoAs a person from a tropical country, I was puzzled with all those salty "candy" sold in the west. I ate one and thought who the hell would eat this horrible salty candy on purpose? So those are actually good for the throat on freezing climate?
- asiachick 6y agoWhat does being from a tropical country have to do with it? I know plenty of tropical country that like salt lassi to which I had the same reaction (who would drink this horrible thing on purpose). But they do. It's a staple.
- neurostimulant 6y agoThere might be some little bit salty and spicy drinks, but certainly there is no strong salty candies from where I come from. GP mentioned it might be beneficial in colder climate, which is probably why the culture around here never develops that kind of candies because there is no real need for it. Instead, we have no shortage of sour and spicy traditional candies and snack though.
- andyroid 6y agoFrom a Nordic country myself and have never experienced that effect, nor heard of anyone who would eat it for that. We just like it for the taste. Getting a little more cautious from reading all the comments here though!
- verst 6y agoI loved eating that stuff as a kid growing up in Germany. Still do, but can't easily find it in Seattle. It's a very acquired flavor... just like I absolutely cannot get used to the taste of IPAs.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago> It's a very acquired flavor... I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.
- moron4hire 6y agoI don't care for it, but I don't hate it. It's kind of "meh". Don't see what the fuss is, either way.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6y ago> I don't care for it, but I don't hate it. It's kind of "meh". Therefor, if there is a gene that makes one sensitive to the extreme pungency of liquorice in bad way, then you don't have it. You just fall somewhere on the range of preferences that you might find for any taste.
- gowld 6y agoHave you tried it more than 50 times?
- kbutler 6y agoIf you detested it the first 49 times, why keep eating it?
- ImprovedSilence 6y agofamiliarity breeds comfort. A common hack to get your kids to eat anything, is to force them to try it at least 10 different times. They always keep spitting it out or crying they don't like it. Eventually one time you feed it to them and they get used to it and like it, as if they never threw a fit with it before. Not everybody's parents did this. That's why there's grown adults that eat nothing but pizza or steak and potatoes... P.S. that being said, I still don't like broccoli.... Might be one of the only foods I've never liked in any shape or form... P.P.S. I've had that salty black licorice before when I visited Sweden. I enjoyed it in very small doses.