Ze mystery of ze elusive German zweets

freakinacage

Well-known member
Originally posted by Ritual
Lebkuchen are great! I also like a sort of fruit cake called Stollen (I think? ???).

yay stollen - got my first one last year. nice but it had peel in it. hate that stuff. and mosch - why are you asking us?

on a side note i have a finnish ex who had these \'sweets\'. they were like salty licourice. quite possibly the most disgusting thing i have ever tasted - you guys got them?
 

Ritual

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@freakinacage
Do you mean just salty liquorice or that stuff that is salty and tastes like tar? Anyway, I love all of it! :D
 

marineboy

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Salty licorice rules!
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freakinacage

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if by tar you mean consistancy - then no. they were just like normal lumps o\' licorice but saltier. i wasn\'t paying that much attention as i spat it out. she made me try it even though i don\'t like licorice anyway. evil woman!
 

Modderrhu

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If those tar-balls are anything like the Olbas Pastilles, I promise my taste buds to give them a very, very wide berth.
 

Ritual

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I don\'t know the Olbas Pastilles, but these Finnish ones, called Tervää, taste like salt, liquorice and asphalt! :D And... it is actually GOOD!
 

Ratcals

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Originally posted by Ritual
I don\'t know the Olbas Pastilles, but these Finnish ones, called Tervää, taste like salt, liquorice and asphalt! :D And... it is actually GOOD!

And why wouldn\'t they taste good? Afterall you have three classic flavors together at last, salt, licorice and tar. Mmm, mmm good.

Next time I change my tires I just might try to sell them to that very same candy manufaturer.
 

Modderrhu

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Originally posted by Ratcals
Next time I change my tires I just might try to sell them to that very same candy manufaturer.
lol Precisely, my lord! lol Makes one good for another 50,000km\'s.
 

freakinacage

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@ritual - name kinda rings a bell. they were in a yellow and black packet and there was a tiger on the front
 

Ratcals

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The real question here is how do you know what asphalt tastes like. I could understand if we were talking about lead paint but not asphalt.

Seriously though I\'d like to try some. I really like licorice but a search on the net for Tervää didn\'t yield anything useful.
 

Ritual

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@freak
Yes, they are... Maybe you didn\'t keep them in your mouth long enough to feel the tar taste? lol

@ratcals
Have you ever walked past a road construction site? Smelt the hot asphalt as they pour it on? That\'s sort of what they taste like with a lot of salt and mixed with liquorice.
 

freakinacage

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sorry - the sweet dodn\'t stay in my mouth for long enough i guess. the only flavours i got were a cocktail of horribleness!
 
Actually, the Werther\'s Original (or Werther\'s Echte, as they used to call it till a couple of years ago), has a nice little text on the back: In the year of 18something (?), Mr. something of the little town of Werther invented a new kind of creamy caramel bonbon... and so on... I always reckoned them to be a German \"thing\".
Stollen is great... goes as a Christmas-season specialty around here. Which, of course, means you can get it as soon as October... :D
 
M

Marmoset

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In Norway you get lovely salty liquorice stuff in lots of varieties lol My favourite is IFA salt-pastiller, and Troll-Gott. They are lovely... it makes me so sad that they aren\'t available in England :( , but there is a weakling sort of salty herring liquorice sold in Ikea, it isn\'t nearly as strong, or indeed as tasty. There was also a sort called Pulver Padder, Powered Toads, that were in the shape of toads. it\'s worth going on holiday to Norway just for these sweets, honestly! ;)

Happy painting

Bill
 

Ritual

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Some great liquorice you can get here in Sweden are Djungelvrål, which are EXTREMELY salty, and Turkish Pepper which are salty liquorice drops filled with a pepper sauce. Really great stuff! :)
 
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