One of my friends brought this Finnish hard candy licorice into our office today; it's called
Tyrkisk Peber which is Danish for Turkish Pepper. The candy used to be produced in Denmark but the candy maker, Perelly, was bought out by the Finnish company Fazer. The candy is flavored with ammonium chloride and pepper. For the record ammonium choloride, among other things, is used to clean the tips of soldering irons and used in solder as flux - and they put this in candy!?
In my humble opinion, it was disgusting! Honestly, this candy made me nauseous. Apparently this candy is extremely popular in Scandanavia - haven't they ever heard of
Twizzlers?! I got rid of the taste by eating a piece of Lindt dark chocolate and drinking a pint of water!
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Thanks for the heads up...definitely a good choice in getting rid of the tastes. Thanks again for the tips!
ReplyDeleteThe picture of candy that looks liek charchol briquettes didn't tip you off? LOL! Good thing you had some Lindt around.
ReplyDeleteHi Jennifer, you're welcome!
ReplyDeleteHi Maggie, I'm telling you, Scandinavians love this crap! I work with a lot of Swedes and when one of them came into my office, saw the bag on my co-workers desk, and grabbed a few all excited. I don't get the draw
Im norwegian and we love that stuff. Its the one thing I buy and bring back with me to the states after visiting. Its delicious. I guess its a norwegian thing.
ReplyDeleteHi Anon, my scandanavian colleagues love the stuff!
ReplyDeleteTry it together with vodka! Put turkish Pepper in a strong blender together with vodka, you will get something called Små grå (Danish) (an allusion to the small gray matter in the brain), or sorte svin (Danish) (Black Pigs!) But don´t drink too much, or only if you've'v got a sore throat
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