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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
That’s an easy one - Durian bonbons from China. Durian is also known as the “stink fruit”. You need many hours to get that taste out of your mouth
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?
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.
Licorice, that funny retro looking shit with the black and bright colors
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.
any American chocolate tastes like vomit
Only if you didn’t grow up with it. Also it’s just Hershey (and derivative brands, which is many)
At my place of work, one project we worked on involved a lot of contractors from a place based in China. (The project was an absolute cluster-fuck all the way from soup to nuts, but that’s a story for another day.) When the project concluded, they sent our office a thank-you gift box of various Chinese snacks.
One of the snacks was a… dried… meat… “candy”… I guess? The taste wasn’t “sweet” so much. It tasted like it had been dipped in perfume. And the texture of the meat was hard to describe. Not chewy like jerky, and it didn’t have that highly-processed Slim Jim sort of texture to it. Maybe it was sortof freeze-dried or something? I also couldn’t identify what animal the meat might have come from. (And I couldn’t read the text on the packaging.)
I’m not sure whether it was just an acquired taste or rather a practical joke by the folks at the Chinese company. Lol.
Sounds like meat floss. I’ve never had it, but several variations pop up pretty high when I sort snacks on Yami (Asian snack shopping site) by popularity.
Very likely! What I had was formed and individually wrapped in little wrappers like you might expect Werther’s caramels to come in, bu the texture does sound similar to that. Neat!
When I was a kid someone gave me a “buttered popcorn” flavored dum-dum sucker. It tasted so terrible that it gave me a taste aversion to real buttered popcorn for nearly 2 decades.
I was coming into this thread to mention buttered popcorn flavor jellybeans.
It was bad.
… Those are my favorite
I’m seeing a lot of black licorice mentions, but there’s a special hell for Läkerol’s menthol black licorice.
That sounds delicious what
I need to find this
:adds to shopping cart
Black licorice is just horrific. I try it every once in a while as I age thinking “Old people like this, maybe I’m old enough to like it myself, now”, but no. It’s still an instant headache/nausea combo at one taste. Ugh.
One Halloween as a kid we got gummy false teeth. It looked exactly like how you think it would look. I cant actually remember how it tasted, but it want good. Second was some sugar free sour patch kid clones, they mostly tasted like soap.
Black licorice. Or anything containing black licorice. It’s just fucking disgusting.
