Prior to seeing people outside of Finland taste salmiakki, it never occurred to me to even associate the taste of salmiakki with "salty". To me, it was always just a distinct flavor. But yeah, I suppose it's "salty" as it has ammonium chloride.
yeah, it is a salt of ammonia and chloride so it is salty de facto :P but Have you tried pure salmiakki powder so you dont taste any liqourice and get the pure salmiakki flavour? I have and I would probably say it is salty by the sensation and maybe partly by taste, but on the other hand it tastes very different (better) from table salt (NaCl) at least to me.
I had a similar experience like I never even thought that salmiakki was salty until I saw someone outside Finland testing it and describing it so. I just thought it was candy that tasted different
I have never seen anyone put milk in mämmi. It is either cream or vanilla sauce. Some people add sugar, which I find strange because it already tastes very sweet.
Fazer Blue is the standard chocolate, it is the benchmark of "just chocolate". So, basic, everyday chocolate. It just happens to be at the right spot of everything, not too sweet but still very sweet... it is perfect but that also makes it quite underwhelming if you expect something that is "wow"... When you crave chocolate, it hits the spot better than any other.
Take 200gr bar Fazer Blue, chop it to small pieces with knife on cutting board, then take 2 dl of thick fatty cream heated it in pan and add the chocolate stir until the chocolate is melted and mixed. Take several glasses, add frozen berries, lingon berrries or cranberries work best to those glasses and then cover with cream and chocolate mix, then let them cool in fridge. Serve as dessert and enjoy!
One thing about Fazer blue: First of all, lately the formula has been diluted due to cost savings. Second, the smaller proportion you take, the more surface coatings you get per mouthful. The absolute worst Fazer blue are the candy sized ones. The second worst are the candy bars. The best version is the full bar. But as I said, it's been ruined, it's nothing like the original Swiss recipe where it started from.
Story time on long drink. It was originally created for the Helsinki olympics for something to give to tourists and athletes coming to Finland. It was meant to be served only during the games, but it was so popular among Finns that it just became our little thing. I personally have had enough of it. Used to drink plenty, but now I just can't. Goes to the same pile as cider, I'm not big on sugary alcohol drinks. Salmiakki is definitely an acquired taste. I remember hating it as a kid, but my for my dad it was the only candy he ate (and thus had in his car), so I just eventually learned to love it. I was living in central Europe for a year and I brought like ten bags of salmiakki candy with me because I knew that I couldn't take a whole year without it. Literally I would not have made the year. I promise you that if you weaned yourself **onto** salmiakki, it would eventually be your favorite candy. I promise you! I fully respect how you went all in and really ate the stuff and not just spit it out immediately! Tyrkisk Peber has salmiakki inside it. Those rye snacks are really supposed to be dipped into something. They are fine like that, but with some salsa or something those things are delish! Mämmi really is supposed to be be eaten with cream, milk or something along with it. Plain mämmi is fine, but like a vanilla cream on it is the bomb!
Along the long drink they also made a "Golden Longdrink", but that was actually considered to be "too drinkable, and attractive to young ppl" so they banned the sales of it. You can make it yourself buy mixing Jaloviina (one star) and Pommac -lemonade.
You nailed it on everything else except there's really no way I can really enjoy mämmi. I know many can but it's not like salty liquorice (=salmiakki=ammonium chloride). You can't learn to like it IMO.
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Hi, native here! I liked that you really tried those all, not even every finn eats salmiakki and mämmi. Those have always divided people, but for a foreigner it's a propably more suprising thing for sure. Mämmi is eaten on the spring time and usually with heavy or mild cream or milk and sugar on top of it. And with a cup of coffee with it. I never eat it straight without any milk product atleast. It changes the flavor so much and sweetens it. Good testing after all and I like that you are honest and don't like everything just because it's foreign.
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13:40 You actually got it spot on, my grandma would never have any sodas around and my grandpa would scoff at me drinking coca cola and would always remark that I should drink Piimä instead! 😂
I always drink piimä when i'm in Finland. Mämmi is a kind of malted, sweetened ryeporridge often eaten with sugar and milk or cream. It's seasonal, eaten during Easter.
Refreshing to see someone actually loving the salmiakki ice cream instead of spitting it out. That one is my favorite ice cream! I love the candies as well but I understand if they are a bit too much lol
"Pantteri" (panther) candies are great for beginners (and great with beer). Soft-ish liquorice candies with just slight twist of "salmiakki" and sugar coating. These are from 1961, and in my own personal bubble, they are the best overall combination of texture, chewiness and flavor. Salmiakki is a salt formed by hydrochloric acid and ammonia, and as a salt it isn't recommended for those with high blood pressure. Liquorice apparently is even stronger in that sense. High blood pressure = no black candy, at least not often and in moderation.
The thing with salmiakki is that first it's salty and then your saliva kicks in and it gets sweet(er). Salmiakki itself is just ammonium chloride (ammonium salt, sal ammoniac), but it pairs really well with liquorice, which is extract from the root of the liquorice plant. Like the word liquorice, the word salmiakki describes both the candy and the main ingredient.
What i do with the rye chips is i make a dip with creime fraiche, chopped shrimps, onions and herbs to make a toast skagen style paste, but i dunk the chips in it. Great if you have friends over or something.
Mämmi and Piimä usually are, you like it or you hate it. And actually dipping mämmi to piimä is something my grandpa used to do. :D (normally you pour vanilla sauce on it)
Salmiakki is a dangerous candy. You'll most likely have to develop a taste for it, but then you'll never want to eat candy without it. It's a perfect combo with sweet candy, and you'll always miss it if you've got the taste.
Salmiakki powder inside of Tyrkisk peber ("Turkin pippuri" in Finnish) is so good. You can get salmiakki powder on its own as well. Most famous one is "Hockey pulveri" (hockey powder). The packaging is like a hockey puck and inside of it is just salmiakki powder. Usually you eat it on its own or you mix it with vodka. Tyrkisk Pebers are also good when you mix it in vodka 😅
Mämmi is essentially beer pudding with rye and malt. I have to say, I never thought about mixing Mämmi with sour milk, but it might not be too bad of a replacement for cream. :D
There might be a reason why we have coronary artery disease as the most common cause of death in Finland :D I could eat liquorice all day all night, but I still have a bit of survival instinct left and I'm still alive at 36.
The thing is, Salmiakki does not really have anything to do with liquorice - it is just commonly put into liquirice. It actually is an ammonia salt (ammonium chloride). It's a very strong tasting pure white powder.
You missed candy called "Hopeatoffee" (silver red and black stripes in the bag). It's like mixture of salted liquorice and fudge. Another well known candy is called "Noitapilli" which is very salty filled black liquirice. I like it a lot but the taste is quite strong.
Great video. I wish you tried the regular tyrkisk pepper (turkinpippuri) aka three flame one which is blue. Buying one is a treat and it is probably the most bought one. Maybe a part 2 could be possible :D? Have a nice stay in Finland
Salmiakki is NH4Cl, ammonium chloride. I think that in Finland we use more of this in candy than any other. You can make pure Salmiakki if you have strong Ammonia NH3 (base) and Hydrochloric acid HCl. Those create volatile gases and you can mix those together and after chemical reaction you get white powder which is pure salmiakki. That has salty taste.
19:20 It seems that you picked hot & sour variant of Tyrkisk Peber. The bag that has the word "Original" wouldn't have sour taste but it burns even hotter.
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I've never tasted the salmiakki ice cream. I like them separately, but I guess I just judged it as a silly marketing idea that wouldn't succeed and fade away. After seeing this, I need to try it.
You have to try that bread cheese whit cloud berry jam (Leipä juusto and lakka hillo) it is very popular combination to eat and many finnish people like it
I can't think of any better snack than letting those nacho cheese balls sit in room temperature for like 2 days. They get a slightly firmer texture, overall the texture just gets 10 times more pleasing
This is the first time I have seen the concept of using piimä as a palate cleanser. I laughed so hard when you pulled out the piimä instead of water! :D
I have introduced my friends to Salmiakki with "Aakkoset Sirkus", It is milder taste, Half Fruit Gummies half Salmiakki, Also Haribo has some Halloween edition that is with bats shape and similar.
I remember trying coffee and beer for the first time and tought how can anyone drink this volunterely but u get used to it and before u know it u start liking it, same with salmiakki i guess.
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Honestly it's always fun to see foreigners try salmiakki, as I have eaten it my whole life it doesn't taste strong and it's super normal, so it's funny to see the shock upon eating it for the first time. I love finnish candy and honestly most candies from other countries aren't good to me (swedish candy and most chocolates excluded), they taste too prosessed or the texture is off for me
It’s really strange when probably every foreigner describes salmiakki as salty, when at least as a Finn myself I don't taste the saltiness 😄😄 great video!! I love these
Licorice is made from licorice root and salmiakki is ammonium chlorine. Either one can be sugared or salted. The original Turkish Pepper is the one in the dark blue bag. The ones you got are awful. :/
I'm so happy you liked the salmiakki ice cream so much! Usually people are so put off by the saltiness that they won't want another bite, but not only did you eat the whole bar, you immediately fell in love! That's so Finnish of you lol But it's also funny that the contrast to the actual candy was that strong! I thought you were good to go with salmiakki after trying the ice cream but apparently not haha
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Yeah, salmiakki candiy are usually black because of the liqourice, but pure salmiakki or ammonium chloride is actually a white powder. I love it as is, but sadly there's not many candies that are covered with the pure stuff without any added sugars or liqourice powders.
HAHA your description of grandma Piimä is spot on. I never liked it and this is definitely something "healthy" your grandma would make you drink possibly. I think Piimä is kinda acquired taste, not that many people drink it anymore I think.
Also from Mämmi, it is the same stuff in Romania or Latvia or one of these countrys dont remember which one, but once i saw a vid in YT where a woman from there was hyping so much she had discovered the same taste just by random here in Finland and said it is just almost the same they have. Rye malt and orange are most likely the ones which give it the unique flavour.
You had quite similar options as me even though I'm a Finn 😆 Don't really enjoy Salmiakki on its own but mixed with ice cream or chocolate it's amazing. And mämmi is only good in small amounts with plenty of cream and sugar or something to dilute the flavor. You got stuff nicely covered, but the Fazerina orange truffle chocolate is one more must try imo 😄
Long drink is perfect imo... I don't tend to like beer, and I don't like sweet drinks like cider either, so the less sweet lonkeros are perfect (although there are some really sweet flavours among them as well).
You should put some Custard in the Mämmi. With it it's not that bad. Mämmi is a flavor that needs some adjusting especially if your foreign. My cousins wife, who's from Thailand actually likes it.
That Hartwall original lonkero is a drink that was originally created for Helsinki olympics in 1952. There was also another alcohol product created for those games, but it kind of disappeared. Lonkero stayed popular.
I have eaten crazy amounts of Mämmi in my life. I like it with just milk as a breakfast. One mistake I have done with it few times is that I have had beer after eating it. Never had that much gas in my life and I have done that mistake a few times. Stay away from beer when you have eaten that is my recommendation, though I eat couple of plates of the stuff on one sitting.
Salmiakki is ammonium chloride. Different than licorice. Very often it's licorice combined with ammonium chloride. Ammonium chloride is a white powder and it is a salt. You can also buy almost pure ammonium chloride and it's pretty strong staff. You can get it from pharmacy and it tastes good on vanilla ice cream.
I remember as i were kid in 80s and small firm Sun Ice (it was located in our neibourgh city Pietarsaari) made pucket shaped ice creams and one of those were liquirice and had almost same taste as that you ate. It was black too and had vanilla ice cream inside and some frozen liguirice sause stripes (5) in the shape of star. That were my favourite until that company vanished (or were sold to some bigger company). In that round salmiakki one aroma in it is eukalyptus and that gives the unique taste. You can find those in bags (same size) and boxes (smaller size). It is called Super Salmiakki and is one of my favourite. That diamond shaped is just basic salmiakki. Pretty good but not my favourite. I wonder why there isn´t Pantteri (panther) in that bag too. It sure is one of the three Fazer classics and is the strongest one too. I really love it too. Lätkä liiga deffenetly is one of the classics and have been around as long as i remember. My uncles wife had small burger grill and she sold also candy there. I of course got candy for free, but those cost 10p for one so that would be 1,68 cent if i would convert that to euros 😄. Tyrkisk Peber or as we say turkinpippuri is originaly black salmiakki and little bit hot. Those "sour" fruit versions came later and ain´t so good as original. Then there were also liquirice version with salmiakki powder inside but it wasn´t hot either. Taste was very good, but i haven´t seen those in while. There is also other softer versions with different shapes and tastes. I like those too. Mämmi is always bad 😝. I would not eat it even with cream and sugar. But hey, there is some crazy Finns who love that stuff. So who am i to judge, eat the damn thing if you like it 😄.
Salty liquorice will grow on you. It surprises you at first, but after a while, you question if it was really that horrible. You try it a second and third time, and you're hooked!
Ah the good old Lätkäliiga, my go to drinking munchies 😍 I rarely drink alcohol but when I do just give me a case of beer, a bag of Lätkäliiga-candies and let the kalsarikännit comence 😄 Also I have to shout out your bravery of eating mämmi straight up, not even many Finns do so not that I know of: the trick usually is to cover it with so much condiment of your preference it completely covers the taste of the mämmi itself 😄 I prefer mine with vanilla cusdard.
Ive heard this from many ppl, but salmiakki is defo something you just learn to love. I remember as a kid i hated it and thought why would anyone ever enjoy it, but as im older now i actually really enjoy it.
Mämmi is (like everything else) made by many manufacturers and there truly are flavor differences. Here's what you do: go to a store and buy a box of KYMPPIMÄMMI (kymppi = 10) from the freezer section. It's sold frozen. Let it melt over night in the fridge. Put 2-3 big table spoons of mämmi in to a deep plate and sprinkle half a small teaspoon of white sugar on top. Then pour 1-2 desilitres (4-7 oz) of heavy cream ("kuohukerma") on top. Enjoy with a big spoon where you should always have half mämmi and half cream.
Prior to seeing people outside of Finland taste salmiakki, it never occurred to me to even associate the taste of salmiakki with "salty". To me, it was always just a distinct flavor. But yeah, I suppose it's "salty" as it has ammonium chloride.
yeah, it is a salt of ammonia and chloride so it is salty de facto :P but Have you tried pure salmiakki powder so you dont taste any liqourice and get the pure salmiakki flavour? I have and I would probably say it is salty by the sensation and maybe partly by taste, but on the other hand it tastes very different (better) from table salt (NaCl) at least to me.
I had a similar experience like I never even thought that salmiakki was salty until I saw someone outside Finland testing it and describing it so. I just thought it was candy that tasted different
Same for me. Never thought that salmiakki is salty, it´s just good.
Except those sweidish ones with that powder. That’s salty.
@@kala1780 pure ammonium chloride still tastes like salmiakki to me, cause the chemical is what i really like in salmiakki :D
The comment about grandma only having piimä was spot on 😂😂
True
Mämmi is basically rye porridge sweetened with fermentation and you normally eat it with either cream or vanilla sauce not by it self.
Lots of sugar and cream for me. So good!
Some people also use milk
Usually eaten with cream or sugar. Not everyone's favourite.
It really divides people. I don't hate it but it's not my favourite either.
Definitely needs the cream or vanilla sauce. Combined with those mämmi is quite tasty. :)
You usually put some milk / cream with Mämmi. Maybe a bit of sugar on top. It's usually eaten only during Easter time.
I have never seen anyone put milk in mämmi. It is either cream or vanilla sauce. Some people add sugar, which I find strange because it already tastes very sweet.
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Plain vanilla ice cream is good choice with mämmi (more ice cream than mämmi).
@@FinnGamble Lots of people put milk on it, milk and sugar. Depends where in Finland you live
Sugar is for the weak, cream or milk is fine but have you tasted how good raw scoops of mämmi taste like
Long drink in Finland is called Lonkero, which translates to "a tentacle". I've always thought it's funny 🐙
Yes, Lonkero (= a tentacle)! Thats the funny Finnish nickname of it, derived from the Eglish word "long". 😊❤
@@KristinaWes It's just Finglish from long drink.
There are plenty of nicknames, lonkku, kero, betoni, a few off the top of my head.
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There is nothing like watching foreigners enjoy salmiakki. 😅
Yeah I'm actually very surprised. I know many foreigners and perhaps only one of them liked salmiakki...
Fazer Blue is the standard chocolate, it is the benchmark of "just chocolate". So, basic, everyday chocolate. It just happens to be at the right spot of everything, not too sweet but still very sweet... it is perfect but that also makes it quite underwhelming if you expect something that is "wow"... When you crave chocolate, it hits the spot better than any other.
I think Fazer blue is the best chocolate in the world
Take 200gr bar Fazer Blue, chop it to small pieces with knife on cutting board, then take 2 dl of thick fatty cream heated it in pan and add the chocolate stir until the chocolate is melted and mixed. Take several glasses, add frozen berries, lingon berrries or cranberries work best to those glasses and then cover with cream and chocolate mix, then let them cool in fridge. Serve as dessert and enjoy!
One thing about Fazer blue: First of all, lately the formula has been diluted due to cost savings. Second, the smaller proportion you take, the more surface coatings you get per mouthful. The absolute worst Fazer blue are the candy sized ones. The second worst are the candy bars. The best version is the full bar. But as I said, it's been ruined, it's nothing like the original Swiss recipe where it started from.
@@theunexaminedlife2170 Used to be. Now it's diluted due to cost of cocoa powder and doesn't taste as special as it used to.
Story time on long drink. It was originally created for the Helsinki olympics for something to give to tourists and athletes coming to Finland. It was meant to be served only during the games, but it was so popular among Finns that it just became our little thing. I personally have had enough of it. Used to drink plenty, but now I just can't. Goes to the same pile as cider, I'm not big on sugary alcohol drinks.
Salmiakki is definitely an acquired taste. I remember hating it as a kid, but my for my dad it was the only candy he ate (and thus had in his car), so I just eventually learned to love it. I was living in central Europe for a year and I brought like ten bags of salmiakki candy with me because I knew that I couldn't take a whole year without it. Literally I would not have made the year. I promise you that if you weaned yourself **onto** salmiakki, it would eventually be your favorite candy. I promise you! I fully respect how you went all in and really ate the stuff and not just spit it out immediately!
Tyrkisk Peber has salmiakki inside it.
Those rye snacks are really supposed to be dipped into something. They are fine like that, but with some salsa or something those things are delish!
Mämmi really is supposed to be be eaten with cream, milk or something along with it. Plain mämmi is fine, but like a vanilla cream on it is the bomb!
Along the long drink they also made a "Golden Longdrink", but that was actually considered to be "too drinkable, and attractive to young ppl" so they banned the sales of it. You can make it yourself buy mixing Jaloviina (one star) and Pommac -lemonade.
You nailed it on everything else except there's really no way I can really enjoy mämmi. I know many can but it's not like salty liquorice (=salmiakki=ammonium chloride). You can't learn to like it IMO.
I saw the 'mämmi' at intro and instantly thought; "Oh, dear, I asked them to avoid it at all cost."
This mämmi tasting is really getting old
mämmi is good, not all finish people cant be wrong
@@lapaluuhun Well there's no one more Finnish than me and I hate it 😂
Loved your reaction to the ice-cream 😂
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Hi, native here! I liked that you really tried those all, not even every finn eats salmiakki and mämmi. Those have always divided people, but for a foreigner it's a propably more suprising thing for sure. Mämmi is eaten on the spring time and usually with heavy or mild cream or milk and sugar on top of it. And with a cup of coffee with it. I never eat it straight without any milk product atleast. It changes the flavor so much and sweetens it. Good testing after all and I like that you are honest and don't like everything just because it's foreign.
You're right about the Piimä and the Grandma! It's mostly an older generation favorite. Pretty healthy though, and weirdly refreshing
Someone has said that Finns don't eat cheese but have milk. In old days I think milk was meant for children.
@@soilimahlanen7947Finn’s definitely eat cheese I would know since I am one.
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I love how accurate the description of your grandma only having piimä is lol.
Finland has the best candy in the world. Endless options of delicious treats in every grocery store.
Salmiakki and black licorice are different. Licorice is plant but salmiakki is ammonium chloride, originally in form of white powder
"Panda lakupala" is also unsalted liquorice and you can get it with different flavours in them such as strawberry or coffee ☕
It just makes me smile you enjoying Salmiakki ice cream. 😂 I love it so much. ❤
13:40 You actually got it spot on, my grandma would never have any sodas around and my grandpa would scoff at me drinking coca cola and would always remark that I should drink Piimä instead! 😂
your grandma is wise and based xD
It's great to see other people appreciate the superiority of salmiakki ice cream :D
I always drink piimä when i'm in Finland. Mämmi is a kind of malted, sweetened ryeporridge often eaten with sugar and milk or cream. It's seasonal, eaten during Easter.
Long drink aka Lonkero was invented for the Helsinki Olympic games
Refreshing to see someone actually loving the salmiakki ice cream instead of spitting it out. That one is my favorite ice cream! I love the candies as well but I understand if they are a bit too much lol
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"Pantteri" (panther) candies are great for beginners (and great with beer). Soft-ish liquorice candies with just slight twist of "salmiakki" and sugar coating. These are from 1961, and in my own personal bubble, they are the best overall combination of texture, chewiness and flavor.
Salmiakki is a salt formed by hydrochloric acid and ammonia, and as a salt it isn't recommended for those with high blood pressure. Liquorice apparently is even stronger in that sense. High blood pressure = no black candy, at least not often and in moderation.
The thing with salmiakki is that first it's salty and then your saliva kicks in and it gets sweet(er).
Salmiakki itself is just ammonium chloride (ammonium salt, sal ammoniac), but it pairs really well with liquorice, which is extract from the root of the liquorice plant. Like the word liquorice, the word salmiakki describes both the candy and the main ingredient.
Good Lord cracked up when you had Mämmi with Piimä 😂
It’s actually pretty ok with a lot of cream & sugar
What i do with the rye chips is i make a dip with creime fraiche, chopped shrimps, onions and herbs to make a toast skagen style paste, but i dunk the chips in it. Great if you have friends over or something.
Mämmi and Piimä usually are, you like it or you hate it.
And actually dipping mämmi to piimä is something my grandpa used to do. :D (normally you pour vanilla sauce on it)
Salmiakki is a dangerous candy. You'll most likely have to develop a taste for it, but then you'll never want to eat candy without it. It's a perfect combo with sweet candy, and you'll always miss it if you've got the taste.
Salmiakki powder inside of Tyrkisk peber ("Turkin pippuri" in Finnish) is so good. You can get salmiakki powder on its own as well. Most famous one is "Hockey pulveri" (hockey powder). The packaging is like a hockey puck and inside of it is just salmiakki powder. Usually you eat it on its own or you mix it with vodka. Tyrkisk Pebers are also good when you mix it in vodka 😅
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Gin Long Drink is a pretty old drink. It was made for the foreign tourists of Helsinki Summer Olympics 1952. And it has become a hit since then.
Mämmi is essentially beer pudding with rye and malt.
I have to say, I never thought about mixing Mämmi with sour milk, but it might not be too bad of a replacement for cream. :D
This guy is so excited that i get excited. Havent been excited since 1986
There might be a reason why we have coronary artery disease as the most common cause of death in Finland :D I could eat liquorice all day all night, but I still have a bit of survival instinct left and I'm still alive at 36.
Never have i seen People trying out our buttermilk. You got some finnish tastebuds! 😂 Great video
This was fun to watch! 😂
Mämmi is usually served with coffee cream and sugar, Määmi is very fiber rich so it will make your stomach work really well :D
The thing is, Salmiakki does not really have anything to do with liquorice - it is just commonly put into liquirice. It actually is an ammonia salt (ammonium chloride). It's a very strong tasting pure white powder.
Drinking some "butterfly milk" while watching this😂
You missed candy called "Hopeatoffee" (silver red and black stripes in the bag). It's like mixture of salted liquorice and fudge.
Another well known candy is called "Noitapilli" which is very salty filled black liquirice. I like it a lot but the taste is quite strong.
respect that you gave salmiakki a real change. usually foreigners just spit it right away
Great video. I wish you tried the regular tyrkisk pepper (turkinpippuri) aka three flame one which is blue. Buying one is a treat and it is probably the most bought one. Maybe a part 2 could be possible :D? Have a nice stay in Finland
Salmiakki is NH4Cl, ammonium chloride. I think that in Finland we use more of this in candy than any other. You can make pure Salmiakki if you have strong Ammonia NH3 (base) and Hydrochloric acid HCl. Those create volatile gases and you can mix those together and after chemical reaction you get white powder which is pure salmiakki. That has salty taste.
32:20 You usually have some sweet vanilla sauce with Mämmi 😁 Or even milk with sugar. That's made from rye like the chips you liked 😀
19:20 It seems that you picked hot & sour variant of Tyrkisk Peber. The bag that has the word "Original" wouldn't have sour taste but it burns even hotter.
32:42 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 mämmi most definitely needs either milk or cream and sugar..
Almost literally, nobody in Finland eats it like that.. 😀😀😀.
Seeing someone call lätkäliiga candy "strong" is mind boggling to me 🤣
I was thinking the same thing. To me it is one of the milder ones. Or maybe I just remember the taste wrong. Haven't eaten in couple of years.
I highly recommend you Kartanon perunalastu tilli ja kermaviili (Kartanon chips dill and sour cream). Best chips in Finland.
A long drink is a sport drink. Finns invented the drink to Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952. The Coca Cola Company came to Finland the same year.
Mämmi is supposed to eat with vanilla cream/sauce btw
It can be enjoyed on its own or with milk or sugar as well but I do agree vanilla cream is the best
for future adventures. if rye bread is dry try something to spread, like fresh cheese and ham with cucumber or pickles, or some with cream cheese and Mettwurst slice.
I've never tasted the salmiakki ice cream. I like them separately, but I guess I just judged it as a silly marketing idea that wouldn't succeed and fade away. After seeing this, I need to try it.
You have to try that bread cheese whit cloud berry jam (Leipä juusto and lakka hillo) it is very popular combination to eat and many finnish people like it
I can't think of any better snack than letting those nacho cheese balls sit in room temperature for like 2 days. They get a slightly firmer texture, overall the texture just gets 10 times more pleasing
Great content, hello from Tampere/Finland 😎
This is the first time I have seen the concept of using piimä as a palate cleanser. I laughed so hard when you pulled out the piimä instead of water! :D
I have introduced my friends to Salmiakki with "Aakkoset Sirkus", It is milder taste, Half Fruit Gummies half Salmiakki, Also Haribo has some Halloween edition that is with bats shape and similar.
I remember trying coffee and beer for the first time and tought how can anyone drink this volunterely but u get used to it and before u know it u start liking it, same with salmiakki i guess.
It was nice to see you at the hockey game today! You choose the right team ;)
wish they tried some actual karelian made karelian pies.. not the ones factories make. (karelia is a region) topped with some munavoi (chopped boiled eggs and butter mixed)
Honestly it's always fun to see foreigners try salmiakki, as I have eaten it my whole life it doesn't taste strong and it's super normal, so it's funny to see the shock upon eating it for the first time. I love finnish candy and honestly most candies from other countries aren't good to me (swedish candy and most chocolates excluded), they taste too prosessed or the texture is off for me
Mämmi is like Guinness, but without alcohol and with actual taste ;)
It’s really strange when probably every foreigner describes salmiakki as salty, when at least as a Finn myself I don't taste the saltiness 😄😄 great video!! I love these
Amazing video as always! What country are you heading to next?
Piimä and proper Finnish sausageis a prime combo at least way back in time :)
Licorice is made from licorice root and salmiakki is ammonium chlorine. Either one can be sugared or salted. The original Turkish Pepper is the one in the dark blue bag. The ones you got are awful. :/
I'm so happy you liked the salmiakki ice cream so much! Usually people are so put off by the saltiness that they won't want another bite, but not only did you eat the whole bar, you immediately fell in love! That's so Finnish of you lol
But it's also funny that the contrast to the actual candy was that strong! I thought you were good to go with salmiakki after trying the ice cream but apparently not haha
just a minor note Fazer is pronouced more like fatser
sour milk among other fermented things is good for ur gut. healthy gut bacteria culture might play a big part in ur general mood. i recommend u try finnish beef jerky, kuivalihakundi is a great brand. my fave is mild habanero 🤤
Regular salt is sodium chloride, while salmiakki is ammonium chloride! So while both are salty, it's not the same thing as table salt
Salmiakki is an acquired taste. I think people who aren't used to it are taken aback because they assume it's gonna be sweet.
Yeah, salmiakki candiy are usually black because of the liqourice, but pure salmiakki or ammonium chloride is actually a white powder. I love it as is, but sadly there's not many candies that are covered with the pure stuff without any added sugars or liqourice powders.
HAHA your description of grandma Piimä is spot on. I never liked it and this is definitely something "healthy" your grandma would make you drink possibly. I think Piimä is kinda acquired taste, not that many people drink it anymore I think.
Also from Mämmi, it is the same stuff in Romania or Latvia or one of these countrys dont remember which one, but once i saw a vid in YT where a woman from there was hyping so much she had discovered the same taste just by random here in Finland and said it is just almost the same they have. Rye malt and orange are most likely the ones which give it the unique flavour.
mämmi is made with ryeflour, ryemalt and water and you put cream and sugar to it so it doesnt have that strong ryemalt flavour
Tyrkisk peber is Danish, but bought by Fazer several years ago.
I am from Finland and I liked all of these. Nacho cheese bals😍
You had quite similar options as me even though I'm a Finn 😆
Don't really enjoy Salmiakki on its own but mixed with ice cream or chocolate it's amazing. And mämmi is only good in small amounts with plenty of cream and sugar or something to dilute the flavor.
You got stuff nicely covered, but the Fazerina orange truffle chocolate is one more must try imo 😄
Long drink is perfect imo... I don't tend to like beer, and I don't like sweet drinks like cider either, so the less sweet lonkeros are perfect (although there are some really sweet flavours among them as well).
You should put some Custard in the Mämmi. With it it's not that bad. Mämmi is a flavor that needs some adjusting especially if your foreign. My cousins wife, who's from Thailand actually likes it.
That Hartwall original lonkero is a drink that was originally created for Helsinki olympics in 1952. There was also another alcohol product created for those games, but it kind of disappeared. Lonkero stayed popular.
You can eat mämmi with vanilla cream, milk, cream, almost with all mostly liquid milk products
I have eaten crazy amounts of Mämmi in my life. I like it with just milk as a breakfast.
One mistake I have done with it few times is that I have had beer after eating it. Never had that much gas in my life and I have done that mistake a few times. Stay away from beer when you have eaten that is my recommendation, though I eat couple of plates of the stuff on one sitting.
Salmiakki is ammonium chloride. Different than licorice. Very often it's licorice combined with ammonium chloride. Ammonium chloride is a white powder and it is a salt. You can also buy almost pure ammonium chloride and it's pretty strong staff. You can get it from pharmacy and it tastes good on vanilla ice cream.
Mämmi's taste changes thoroughly when you add a bit of sugar and enough cream. It actually becomes heavenly.
I remember as i were kid in 80s and small firm Sun Ice (it was located in our neibourgh city Pietarsaari) made pucket shaped ice creams and one of those were liquirice and had almost same taste as that you ate. It was black too and had vanilla ice cream inside and some frozen liguirice sause stripes (5) in the shape of star. That were my favourite until that company vanished (or were sold to some bigger company).
In that round salmiakki one aroma in it is eukalyptus and that gives the unique taste. You can find those in bags (same size) and boxes (smaller size). It is called Super Salmiakki and is one of my favourite. That diamond shaped is just basic salmiakki. Pretty good but not my favourite. I wonder why there isn´t Pantteri (panther) in that bag too. It sure is one of the three Fazer classics and is the strongest one too. I really love it too.
Lätkä liiga deffenetly is one of the classics and have been around as long as i remember. My uncles wife had small burger grill and she sold also candy there. I of course got candy for free, but those cost 10p for one so that would be 1,68 cent if i would convert that to euros 😄.
Tyrkisk Peber or as we say turkinpippuri is originaly black salmiakki and little bit hot. Those "sour" fruit versions came later and ain´t so good as original. Then there were also liquirice version with salmiakki powder inside but it wasn´t hot either. Taste was very good, but i haven´t seen those in while. There is also other softer versions with different shapes and tastes. I like those too.
Mämmi is always bad 😝. I would not eat it even with cream and sugar. But hey, there is some crazy Finns who love that stuff. So who am i to judge, eat the damn thing if you like it 😄.
im shocked... foreingers like salmiakki???
I'm not a huge fan of salmiakki itself but I do agree - that ice cream is fantastic!
It is exactly as you mentioned that finnish grandma's only have Piimä in their fridge and no coke😂😂
Salmiakki is based in chemical, ammonium chloride. It's not salt, but unique taste, which may feel similar.
Salmiakki is best candy in the world!
Salty liquorice will grow on you. It surprises you at first, but after a while, you question if it was really that horrible. You try it a second and third time, and you're hooked!
i sudently have a big urge for salmiakki
Ah the good old Lätkäliiga, my go to drinking munchies 😍 I rarely drink alcohol but when I do just give me a case of beer, a bag of Lätkäliiga-candies and let the kalsarikännit comence 😄
Also I have to shout out your bravery of eating mämmi straight up, not even many Finns do so not that I know of: the trick usually is to cover it with so much condiment of your preference it completely covers the taste of the mämmi itself 😄 I prefer mine with vanilla cusdard.
Mämmi is commonly eaten with heavy cream and some use sugar there as well.
Next time try salmiakki kossu.
If you Come by the easter, buy mignon chocolate eggs.
Mämmi eaten properly (with some sugar and heavy cream) is elite and I will literally eat a whole 700g tub in one go
Ive heard this from many ppl, but salmiakki is defo something you just learn to love. I remember as a kid i hated it and thought why would anyone ever enjoy it, but as im older now i actually really enjoy it.
Mämmi is (like everything else) made by many manufacturers and there truly are flavor differences. Here's what you do: go to a store and buy a box of KYMPPIMÄMMI (kymppi = 10) from the freezer section. It's sold frozen. Let it melt over night in the fridge. Put 2-3 big table spoons of mämmi in to a deep plate and sprinkle half a small teaspoon of white sugar on top. Then pour 1-2 desilitres (4-7 oz) of heavy cream ("kuohukerma") on top. Enjoy with a big spoon where you should always have half mämmi and half cream.
I eat mämmi with greacy milk, so good. It is then when the flavours make sense 😋
Mämmi is burnt rye porrige. I love it with cream .