I like that you at least eat it without spitting it out like many Americans tends to do when trying it 😅 Also I love that you guys are making videos together. I watch both of your channels 👍🏻

Liquorice is flavoured and coloured with the extract of the roots of the black liquorice plant. In pure soft liquorice no sugar is added as the natural extract has a high content of glycyrrhizic acid, a natural sweetener, which tastes about 50 times sweeter than actual sugar. Gums and pastilles are usually made with sugar. Liquorice should not be confused with anise, which has a similar taste (found in Ouzo and Rakı). 'Red licorice', manufactured in the US, does not contain any liquorice at all. Liquorice has been used as a antitussive and expectorant medicine for a very long time. It is in fact still used in cough medicines and is regarded as a potent pharmaceutical substance. Glycyrrhizin affects the adrenal glands and changes the balance between cortisol and cortisone, which might explain the stress-reducing effect describe by some people. It also seems to reduce inflammatory responses as it is a COX2 inhibitor. Liquorice does have negative effects too. Most of them are harmless, but some might be problematic. It is a laxative, which might not always be desirable. Regular intake of large amounts tend to cause hypertension. It also seems to gradually reduce testosterone levels, which might cause problems for men. There are rare but regularly occurring cases of severe adverse reactions, usually caused by excessive consumption over long time. There are almost no completely harmless food substances, too much of anything may cause problems. Average daily intake in the Nordic countries is no more than four grammes. According to the Swedish National Food Agency, exceeding five grammes per day for longer periods of time should be avoided. Consuming more than 50 grammes per day is considered as potentially harmful. The liquorice plant is related to peanuts. As cross reactions do occur, people with a severe peanut allergy should avoid liquorice. Salty liquorice is flavoured with salmiac, (sal ammoniac) = ammonium chloride, which is otherwise mostly used as a fertilizer and in some batteries. The practice seems to originate from The Netherlands and northern Germany, probably during the late 1800's or early 1900's, and quite soon got a strong foothold in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. It was originally intended for medicinal use, primarily indigestion. Many pharmacies made their own pastilles and they soon became popular as a 'healthy' sweet. It caught the attention of some of the larger confectionery manufacturers during the late 1930's, and by the 1950's they had largely taken over the production. Natural sweet liquorice became sweets for children, salty liquorice became the grown up version. Salmiac is not toxic, but excessive consumption may cause temporary confusion and irregular hearth rhythm. In Germany, salty liquorice must be labelled as 'Erwachsenenlakritz - kein Kinderlakritz' (Liquorice for grown ups - not children's liquorice).

Have a go at tjärpastillar. A Finnish item but big in Sweden historically. It literally translates to "tar" as the flavor is tar.

You should try "svenskdjävlar" (swedish devils) they are even "stronger" then djungelvrål. There are also some Icelandic licorice that are so "salty" thath I think you would faint just by looking at them. He he. Love your videos by the way.

Reflections; What about Tyrkisk Peber?? The best of them all! I can eat a bag in one night, and the day after I wonder why my mouth feels strange... Come on - get with it! It is not all that bad... Soon you will love it! It is like olives...or something... Hahahaha... @Stefanthyron: Piteå!!! :-) My hometown... So happy for this! It is great - I hope the weather is with you!

Always thought licorice (drop) was a Dutch thing, turns out Scandinavia and the North of Germany likes it to. Will be in Norway this summer so surely will try me some of that Scandinavian black gold.

This was wo much fun seeing the two of you together! Made my day.

They did a test some years ago with candy, and the result was ; asia liked sweet'n'sour , most of Europe and US liked sweet and norden Europe liked lakritc . One theorie is that we stored our food (fish, meat etc) in salt during the winter.

hehe. Lovely seeing you guys doing a video together!

Fun video. I’ve been watching Stefan for a while so it was fun seeing you doing a video together!

The reasoning at the end is literally why I as a kid loved both licorice and sour candies. The horrible and shocking experience, was the fun of it.. if that makes sense. It was like a dare of finding the worst thing - and at the end of it, it just... turned into love.

Wow really cool to see you guys in the same video. American from MD living in Uppsala and I’m subscribed to both channels!! Let’s go!

I can already see Stefan going through the transformation phase lol. Give it a few more tries and some time and he will crave it as much as myself

Love the video, fun to see you both in a video.

Oooh, I really like the idea of licorice latte! 😍😍😍 I’ll have to try that. ☕️

I love liquorice. We have some that is even more salty. Svenskjävlar. So good 😍

I´m salivating like crazy here!! Salty licorice is the ultimate candy!!

Whaaaat! Nice colab! 💪🇸🇪

When i saw this i got a really bad craving for Djungelvrål so tomorrow i definitely will go and purchase a bag. Cheers from Eksjö! 😎

All of those you tried i absolutely love, except the powder one! Heja Sverige, vi kan vårat Lakrits! ;)

You guys should really try the Icelandic Sterkar Djupur. It’s a sweet licorice covered by chocolate which is again covered in a very thin layer of salmiak. Really tasty. Can be bought at Lakritsroten and other more well-assorted stores. Not in most stores though. Its one of those licorice candies that can actually be nice even to non-licorice lovers.

First time here , but i follow Stefan ....Loved this one, as a Dane this was so funny to watch " underdeveloped American palates" :-) all of the nordic countries love "lakrids" and not all of it is Salt lakrids.. salmiak flavor is also eaten alot... and one thing, besides even tackling the licorice stuff, is that you didnt like a ton of Americans would do, just spit it out

You should try vanilla icecream with some cloudberry jam (hjortron sylt) next time. The berries are yellow/orange in colour, in texture it is similar to blackberry, or rasberry, but tastes completely different. It is very popular in the North of Sweden. I remember I did'nt liking it as a child, when my relatives in Norrland took me for a walk on the mires for picking some cloudberry, today I like it quite a lot. It is a berry for the grown-ups I guess. 😉

Haha, you're drawn to the extremes. If it's not this God awful shrimp cheese it's licorice. I avoid both like the plague and I'm swedish. Great to see you both collaborating. Love both of you!

Sometimes you get a jungelvrål that is softer, i think they age rapidly. Keep a bag of jungelvrål in a cabinet where you live and if you get the craving for sweets you eat one of them. Then maybee you will start to like them or you wont eat wery much candy at all. So a win win :D

Those are so meek, You should try Svensk Jävlar from Haupt.

there is an hell of an difference between sweet and salty lakris

Haribo is German and Bassetts is English. Without really knowing, I guess that powder was Ammonium Chloride. During Chemistry lessons in school, we sometimes sneaked out into the room where all the chemicals were stored, and eat a few spoonfuls from the Ammonium Chloride jar. We thought it was sooo delicious! I actually tried Djungelvrål a few weeks ago. Soo disappointed, it only tasted salty on the outside, and it was a bit too hard to be really chewy. Oh, and try a bottle of Turkish pepper shot. I can arrange a bottle for you or Stefan anytime in Stockholm.

Reminds me of growing up. All the grandparents loved licorice for some reason, lol.

Well I get my licorices fix from my municipality of Haninge just south of Stockholm city, there is this small factory here named Haupet Lakris. There most famous salt licorice "Svenskjävlar" make "Djungelvrål" look like amateur hour.

Hello. Great video. Thank you.

How nice to see two of my favvo US-Swedes in the same video.

that basset licorice blend is the one i never eat, love everyother licorice candy but not those ones :) and why i love licorice is probably the taste + the tinglefeeling in your mouth you must try Turkisk peppar candy!

love the licorice in Sweden. have you tried the panda licorice from Finland? we can buy it in Iowa very easily. very good too!

Hello! It's really fun to see you Americans, what your life in Sweden looks like and to know how you experience Sweden with everything from big to small. Now this episode is about licorice, but I came to think of things I've seen before, both from you and others, regarding Swedish food. Everyone talks only about Swedish meatballs and (God forbid) sour strömming). But have you tried Kålpudding med lingon, Raggmunk, Kroppkakor, Palt? They are also typical Swedish (good) dishes! Surströmming is really not something everyone eats, it's so horrible and only a small (insane) percentage of Swedes eat this disgusting fish.

"the're gonna think we're drugging them" Such a Swedish thought. Welcome to the nation!

haha. so fun, licorice is my favourite candy

We do have a root in Scandinavia that's very popular. In Norwegian, it's called sisselrot and it does taste a bit like licorice. I learned to pick them from my grandparents, who probably learned it from theirs, so I think it's a good hypothesis.

We had Dunkin Dinuts here for like 5 years but they pulled out of Sweden during the pandemic. Here the ice coffe was Not sweetened which I actually was expecting it to be. The number of Starbucks locations also shrunk during the pandemic. We do have Cinnabon though talking about sugar. 😁

Bassets is British sweet licorice - not really licorice flavored.

Licorice is a category of candy of their own. Salt but candy :) My favorite licorice are the Bassett ones :) And chocolate and licorice mixed is a favorite too!

The collab we're all been waiting for.

Sweden gets more beautiful the further north you come/go!

My favourite liquorice is 'salta balkar' (salt beams). It'll be interesting to see your reaction to how much less sweet our food is in general.

Nice vid! I think lot of liquorice are mixed or fused with other components to enhance taste markers. Like anise, sal amoniak, tar, different syrups etc. The salt is ammoniumcloride and is supposed to contribute with a 'kick'. I am a huge liquorice fan, both sweet and saltish, althought I dont like all sorts.

I love licorice and my absolute favourite licorice is from Haupt Lakrits, they are a small company who really makes top quality licorice 10/10 would recommend

Here in finland! I love licourice! Pantteri, Tyrkisk beber,….

If I remember correctly, the spirit is also flavored with anise, star anise and fennel that tastes like licorice. So warning for these if you do not like licorice. I eat licorice but can not say that I choose it myself but it is when you buy a bag Gott & Blandat as it comes with the bag. But I think it smells good. 🙂

Oh! Just remembered. There is also famous licorice from Holland / The Netherlands. Zouiten. It’s mostly common in Sweden on the Finland ferry’s in tax free. The cans have both black and orange licorice. Panda and Fazer are Finnish brands and Malachi is a Swedish one. Malachi has a candy bag called Salt och blandat that has black orange AND red licorice in it. You should have tried that one here.

Nice video!!

try turish peber and kicks (the red ones) - the peber one is strong and the kicks are sweet soft toffelike, or the seaman pipe (also sweet, in the shape of a corn pipe).

Im norwegian and have loved lakris my whole life. So it must be a nordic thing 😂😎

Try salt licorice on a hot summer day when you have drunk a lot of water and need both salt and sugar, then it tastes different

Eating more than 57g (2 ounces) of black liquorice a day for at least 2 weeks could lead to potentially serious health problems, such as an increase in blood pressure and an irregular heart rhythm.

Kimberly is spot on! Vrål means roar and djungel is jungle

You really need to try "Kryptoniter". They are sooo good.

My (Swedish) daughter of ten months loved "salta nappar" (the one that looked like pacifiers). Now she's ten years and I still get her to take bad tasting medicine by offering her that particular liquorice as a reward.

Gott och Blandat lakrits is my go to. But Jungleroar was a staple in my youth 😁

Try Marabou with licorice and raspberry I think, that one is good!

A lot of European licorice doesn't use "regular" sodium chloride salt. It uses ammonium chloride. This is basically what it sounds like; a salt based on ammonia. And if you have ever smelled ammonia, you will understand why this salt is not only extremely powerful taste wise, but also very rarely used in food.

I have always liked salty liquorice, even as a kid. None of my friends like it. But if we have candy (Gott & Blandat) at work the liquorice dissappears first.

Hey, and when you visited Piteå, did you try Pitepalt Stefan? Typical for that part of Sweden

Lakrits is life!

Bassets is ENGLISH sweet licorice. Not Swedish. Otherwise it is about the salt. Give me the salt. And salted moose. My grandpa was a hunter, so I grew up on moose. It built this great body! And please do not mix up salt, salmiak and licorice. Totally different stuff. If you want to go, try out "Turkish pepper shots". Most often homemade stuff, but nowadays you can get it in basically ever bar. And you didn´t even try out Turkish pepper or some of the really good stuff! :D

Licorice is the best 😉 Love it 😋

i wonder if the liquirice powder would work as pasta water seasoning and then eat it with sea food. cause aniseed type flavour works well with that

I agree to the comments below. I'm born in Sweden, and my parents are born in Finland. I truly LOVE salty liquorice, if there's one candy left on this planet, I vote for salty liquorice!! I dare you to go to Willy's and get the Haribo Salty Sea! Oh my... It's so good! ❤️

Hmm. This time I don’t know the history of licorice, but it is a root of a plant so it’s not far fetched it started as some sort of remedy/medicine. Then turned into candy. I AM a fan though. I love when KZfaqrs I follow do collabs like this! 😁. Salty licorice and Salmiak seem to be very Nordic. It does exist in Norway and Denmark too. But even more I’m Finland and Sweden. 🇸🇪

Junglevrål is my jam, when ever I buy a bag it will go down faster then any other candy ^^ Give it a few more years of learning how to love salt more =D

I heard that there was a kid that opens a can of surströmming in the hallway in a school and all the kids and the staff had to leave early that day due to the bad smell. In other words DON'T open a can of surströmming inside the house. ALWAYS open the can outdoors. Unless you want the entire house to smell like fermented fish. Because surströmming is fermented fish.

You should taste Lakritsshots.. that's Great.

Bassets, I think it was the second can be quite nice if it's fresh. Then it was some I've never eaten, Djungelvrål is definitely an acquired taste.

In the military, all over Sweden, all soldiers were trained in Scania throughout Sweden for two years.

Bassetts is inglish.. but very nice candy,, it was my favorit as young,

Well, does Licorice grow in Sweden? As a matter of fact it does Lakrisrot is the Swedish name f the medical plant.

I’m actually salivating and I don’t even eat candy. 😂

Djugelvrål - my absolut favorit candy!

How fun! And disgusting. Lol. It’s nice for you to have a new American friend in Sweden!

you both need to try penguin liqurish can be bought on the cruse ships between sweden and finland

Licorice is the best candy I know 9 out of 10 times that is my goto. However I feel like saying that there are so many flavours that just eating one doesn't equal liking all licorice. Swedish licorice is usually not my favourite but I guess it is because I grew up in Denmark. In public school we would learn how to make the white powder you say is salt. It is ammonium chloride also called salmiak. Best flavour imo.

Time to try swedish sour candy.

Love ouzo, not surprised?

When u get used to djungelvrål you cannot stop😈😎

I think most Swedish kids don´t like licorice, BUT as you grow older, sugar doesn´t taste as good and licorice can become quite tasty. So have patience my friends, you might like more when you grow older. It´s like an "adult candy". One day you´ll both like it! I believe!

Lakrits is the best! There are other things more groce than that, like surströmming, and i really dont like peanutbutter. 🤣

Greetings from Finland (again) for both of you! Actualy Ouzo has anis flavor and that is horrible for my taste even thou i like liquorice and salted liquorice aka salmiakki. It is a bit similar taste but those are totaly different plants anis & liquorice. Salmiakki actualy is ammonium sodium and it is white powder. It is usualy combined with liquorice to get the black color to it. There is at least red Snören påsse in Sweden that is red liquorice and in lös gådis you can find some other red liquorices. I´ve bought both from Sweden (and Finland of course). Those black apes are not good at all. Texture is unpleasant and taste is bad. Even as a Finn i don´t like all those candies. I have to say that we have much more different varietes of salmiakki and liquorice as Sweden does. We also have alot of harder candies like Tyrkisk peber that you let slowly melt in your mouth. You two would propably hate most of them but those are more for my taste. That powder you have would be nice if you steard it into vodka. We (of course) have salmiakki vodka here in Finland. Actualy we have few different brands of it´s good. Very popular in Finnish bars as a shot called salmari.

my two favs..

Interesting fact: The ancient Egyptians liked licorice. Tutankhamun was buried with a lot of licorice.

You need to try the candy "Svenskjävlar"

Ni glömde testa tyrkisk peppar och patroner❣️

🙌🙌🙌

Why liquorice? Because it's soooo god of course! There's some looking like small wheels to and they are real good to. The Bassett is English candy! There's a little yellow box named Salmiakz it's really god, I can take the hole box at ones. Then it's a little tube called Lakritzal or something it's small tablets and it's good to.

Salty licorice is the best! Surströmming is, even though I live in the north, nothing for me.

Im from sweden alingsås and i love lakrits it my favorit godis

I'm currently eating vanilla ice cream with salt lakrits sås and salt lakris strössel..

Tyrkisk peber is the licorice you should try

Its like sauna or bastu as its called in Sweden, some one like it and some ones hate it.. You should test Turkish pepper and vodka, i think its a Swedish thing but called Turkish, dont know why..

When you talk about liquorice root it's not the same as jagermaster or ouzo both of them use anise seed to get the liquorice taste

😁😁😂 your faces

Lakris är bäst! Tyckte ni om kaffe första gången ni provade? Eller öl? Vissa saker måste man kanske vänja sig vid?