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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9568547" data-attributes="member: 6796661">I kept a jar of Swedish Bastards (<a href="https://www.lakrits.com/en/svenskjavlar" target="_blank">Svenskjävlar! (Swedish Bastards)</a>) on my desk for a while. Also challenged my extended family to try it on Christmas. Salmiak is an acquired taste, that many people say tastes like window cleaner. It is made with ammonia chloride after all, though how so many people know what window cleaner tastes like I choose not to ponder upon. <a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-sixth-sense-of-taste-salty-licorice/" target="_blank">Some scientists want to classify salmiak as a sixth sense of taste</a>, which is as good a reason as any to at least try it once. Do you want your life to pass by without out experiencing one of the six fundamental flavor profiles? (Well, yes, many of you probably will wish you had if you try it.). Anyway, Lakrits Svenskjavlar (Swedish Bastards) go crazy on the salmiak coating. It is quite intense. Most Americans I've had try it end up spitting it out as soon as they put it in their mouths. It also has the distinction to be featured in the <a href="https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/" target="_blank">Disgusting Foods Museum</a> in Malmo. An aside on the Museum, some of the 80 foods featured I don't think belong there. &quot;Century Eggs&quot; is one. I've always seen them translated as &quot;thousand‑year old eggs&quot;, shrug, neither are direct translations of 皮蛋 (pídàn) [&quot;skin egg&quot;]. While they may look unappetizing to people not used to seeing green eggs, they don't have a very strong taste or strange texture and what American who grew up with Dr. Seuss wouldn't want to try green eggs? Another is Chou Dofu (stinky tofu), which is awesome. It smells like sewage but tastes great! When I first tried it in a street market, I didn't know the smell came from the tofu. And by the time I knew the connection I already enjoyed it that the stinky smell just makes me say &quot;yum!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9568547, member: 6796661"] I kept a jar of Swedish Bastards ([URL="https://www.lakrits.com/en/svenskjavlar"]Svenskjävlar! (Swedish Bastards)[/URL]) on my desk for a while. Also challenged my extended family to try it on Christmas. Salmiak is an acquired taste, that many people say tastes like window cleaner. It is made with ammonia chloride after all, though how so many people know what window cleaner tastes like I choose not to ponder upon. [URL='https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/a-sixth-sense-of-taste-salty-licorice/']Some scientists want to classify salmiak as a sixth sense of taste[/URL], which is as good a reason as any to at least try it once. Do you want your life to pass by without out experiencing one of the six fundamental flavor profiles? (Well, yes, many of you probably will wish you had if you try it.). Anyway, Lakrits Svenskjavlar (Swedish Bastards) go crazy on the salmiak coating. It is quite intense. Most Americans I've had try it end up spitting it out as soon as they put it in their mouths. It also has the distinction to be featured in the [URL='https://disgustingfoodmuseum.com/']Disgusting Foods Museum[/URL] in Malmo. An aside on the Museum, some of the 80 foods featured I don't think belong there. "Century Eggs" is one. I've always seen them translated as "thousand‑year old eggs", shrug, neither are direct translations of 皮蛋 (pídàn) ["skin egg"]. While they may look unappetizing to people not used to seeing green eggs, they don't have a very strong taste or strange texture and what American who grew up with Dr. Seuss wouldn't want to try green eggs? Another is Chou Dofu (stinky tofu), which is awesome. It smells like sewage but tastes great! When I first tried it in a street market, I didn't know the smell came from the tofu. And by the time I knew the connection I already enjoyed it that the stinky smell just makes me say "yum!" [/QUOTE]

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