American Tries Strange European Drinks/Snacks & HALVA

[@Crimerenegade]

10:23 Polo Cockta is in no way conected to Slovenian Cockta. Polo Cockta was originally creation of "Społem" company (Społem was a huge conglomerate of multiple food production and distribution companies, under communist government of Poland. The company directly resposible for Poloc Cockta was in fact one of Społem branches - "Warsowin" Warszawskich Stołeczny Zakłada Winiarsko-Spożywczych/Warsaw Capital Wine and Food Plant ) to counteract Coca-Cola, entering communist Poland in 1972, as the original Coca-Cola was viewed by communist government of Poland as symbol of american imperialism. But at the same time there was huge social demand for this kind of drink. The current form of Polo Cockta from "Zbyszko" is on a market since 2007 as "Zbyszko" purchased rights to the drink from now defunct "Społem". Also Polo Cockta was a part of a plot of popular Polish Comedy from the end of 80's, the name of the movie was "KingSajz" (so "Polishfide" King Size) about leprechauns, who thanks to a magic potion are able to live in contemporary Poland. Polo Cockta was in that movie one of the ways the leprechauns were able to maintain the size of normal people. 19:20 Przysnacki is a Polish Brand Original Halva is made out of ground sesame seeds mixed with caramel

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Need to lo0ok in the recycling bag but I think I've just drunk a bottle of that, raspberry and mint fizzy drink and it was glorious. Will be buying more.

[@Diveyl]

also worth to mentioning that original Polo Cockta included actual cocaine, in a bit more quantity then original Cola, and it was available to all, even small children. ... yeah

[@Bronek.Konarski]

Yeah, what the guy said 🙂

[@djs98blue]

Who else was half hoping he wouldn’t spot the instructions to dilute the Ribena ? 😂

[@Rusty9017]

"Hmmm this tastes strangely american!"

[@chrisperyagh]

I saw the bottle of Ribena in the thumbnail so had to check just to be sure! Only gorillas drink neat squash straight from the bottle - look up Kumbuka the silverback who escaped and downed 5 litres of neat blackcurrant cordial. That's enough to kill any human!

[@timmermansj1300]

LoL yes! 😂

[@Roberternst72]

Ribena even has that typical syrup bottle shape…

[@djs98blue]

@@Roberternst72 yes they really should starting selling it in cans to make things more entertaining for reactors!

[@whybenorman]

Greetings from Greece! There are actually two very different types of Halva. The one you tried is made from "Tahini' which is a sesame seed paste, mixed with honey, sugar etc. It is quite healthy, albeit fattening. You can find several varieties, with Cocoa, nuts, etc. The other type of Halva is made from semolina, and looks & tastes very different. To my knowledge you cannot package the semolina Halva, so it might be hard to find in the States... Keep up the taste tests, we love them ❤

[@klarasee806]

I love Greek Halva. Greetings from Germany!

[@yaonyaon9460]

In Greece do you snack the Tahini Halva directly or on buttered bread? I personally prefer the latter. Greetings from Bulgaria.

[@liveforever141]

There are also sunflower seed halva too. Mostly eaten in Eastern Europe.

[@readordienn]

​@@liveforever141Thats only from Ukraine towards east. 99% Polish halvas is sesame.

[@whybenorman]

​@yaonyaon9460 Some like the Halva on its own (like me), and others like it with bread...also just plain Tahini spread on bread is quite popular 😊❤

[@Phiyedough]

As a kid in England one of my chores was picking blackcurrants for mum to make jam. We also used to pick blackberries from the hedgerows for blackberry and apple pie. We had a cooking apple tree in the garden, as well as blackcurrant, raspberry and gooseberry bushes.

[@101steel4]

Same 😊

[@TreeTrunku]

Here in Sweden black currant is normal. I love the homemade black currant juice you mix with water, nothing beats it.

[@mikahonkanen7595]

hälsingar från finlamd

[@Bioshyn]

elder flower syrup with sparkling water beats it imho

[@petrihakkinen2336]

And heat it if get cold

[@OlegIsaev785]

I know that blackcurrants are very tasty and healthy. But I hate picking small seeds out of my teeth. That's why I don't eat them often. P.S. Blackcurrants are a very common berry in Ukraine. People buy them fresh, as well as in the form of juices, compotes and jams. Blackcurrants are also used in cakes, pies, etc.

[@rain_1_3]

@@OlegIsaev785 currants are a very common in eu. not only black , but red and yellow too

[@petebeatminister]

If I remember correctly, Black Currant (the plant) was banned in the US in the 1930s. It carried a plant desease that could infect some other plants. The ban was lifted in recent years, but it had a great impact on the polularity of Black Current products in the US.

[@FinlayMacintyre-ti9li]

I think the crop vulnerable to infection was trees, so blackcurrants were banned to save the timber industry

[@Lazmanarus]

Blackcurrant carries a mould that attacks white pine trees, that was the reason for the ban.

[@wbrenne]

Cultivation, sale, transport and import of blackcurrant plants, fruits, and products was banned in 1911 by the federal government after heavy lobbying from the timber industry, fearing white pine blister rust, and all cultivated plants were systematically destroyed. Although the federal ban was lifted in 1966, many states maintained their own bans until 2003 after fungicudes and resistant white pine cultivars were developed. Blackcurrant is now cultivated on very small scale in the USA, but they are still unknown to most US citizens and thus hard to sell.

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

Such a shame, black currant jam is hands down the best of all jams, also black currant vodka is better than all other vodkas... Okay, there's one berry that might be able to compete with black currant, and that's the Nordic wild blueberry... if your fingers and lips are not purple/blue after eating blueberries... they're not the Nordic kind... American blueberries are blue on the outside but very white inside. Edit: dilute ribena with sparkling water to have an experience that the US totally missed.

[@johnleonard9090]

@@BenjaminVestergaard, we’ve got a limited edition version of Ribena in the UK at the moment called winter spice which is designed as a hot drink.

[@leecollison7527]

So glad you noticed the part on the bottle of Ribena that said to dilute with water. Seen many videos in the past of Americans trying it neat from the bottle and thinking we were nuts for drinking it.

[@101steel4]

Haha seen it too. No wonder they didn't like it 😂 Also seen them try steamed puddings. Cold.

[@revenant1911]

In Ukraine , Russia and Eastern Europe almost all salty snacks have bacon flavored one i`d say one of the most popular one Bon Chance are from Lithuania Flint in Ukraine are cheap alternative to potato chips(such as Lays and Lux(Люкс)) popular with beer and among children(price) but flavorers are intense and not very healthy for stomach(may cause heartburn) Flavors are Bacon, jellied minced meat(Cholodez) with horseradish, cheese, sour cream and herbs, red caviar, salami, crab, BBQ sausages with ketchup sauce and shrimps with tar-tar sauce. Halva is Middle East confectionery most popular are Sesame( Popular in Middle East, Poland and Balkans), Sunflower( Popular in former Soviets countries) The primary ingredients in this confection are sesame butter or paste (tahini), and sugar, glucose or honey. Sunflower one contains roasted ground sunflower seeds instead of sesame.

[@Zambodje]

Hi. "Bon Chance" is from Lithuania.

[@loganleborgne420]

🤔 so why using an incorrect French sentence? It's : bonne chance!" as chance or luck is feminine

[@stevqtalent]

@@loganleborgne420 looks nicer, so probably a design choice. or they didn't know, but i think you'd look it up before using it as your brand name.

[@Glotttis]

@@stevqtalent Haha they probably didn't know. Here in Lithuania branding and marketing is still in its infancy. Many CEOs in food industry are older men who grew up in soviet union and can barely say a few words in English, let alone French.

[@PUTDEVICE]

Blackcurrant is good when you have a cold, then you mix it a little stronger and drink it warm, so warm that you have to sip it at first. Lots of vitamin C and it soothes the throat. was common in Scandinavia in the past.

[@LessThanThree76]

”In the past?!” Wtf, that made me feel OLD! 😂😂 I love blackcurrant flavoured things.

[@PUTDEVICE]

@@LessThanThree76 Now I don't know where in the world you live. Blackcurrants are not that common in the USA. Currant cultivation was banned in the USA in the 19th century. It was believed that currants spread a disease on the trees. When the timber industry was important, a cultivation ban was imposed. Nowadays, each state decides for itself whether or not currant cultivation is allowed. And if they now have blackcurrant concentrate in the USA, you can only hope that it is real and not artificial flavors like in many of their other drinks.

[@LessThanThree76]

@@PUTDEVICE Ah. Wow! Thanks for all the information. Very interesting! Well, I live in Northern Europe, so maybe that’s why then. Thank you for making me feel less old. Haha. Seems you guys got ”everything” grape flavored instead over there - which is VERY rarely found over here. (Makes sense though, since Scandinavia haven’t got the best climate to grow grapes.)

[@jantimmerby]

Your recipe is missing rum.

[@Kraakesolv]

Norwegian here and that's absolutely how I grew up. Also was my favourite in the army on cold days.

[@lydia5232]

You are correct! Polo-Cockta is a Polish cola drink introduced in the 1970s. Polo-Cockta was introduced as a substitute for the original Coca-Cola, which was unavailable in Polish shops due to limits on exports from the US to soviet bloc countries. At first it was based on Cockta, a very popular drink from Slovenia (then SFR Yugoslavia). Polo-Cockta was discontinued in the 1980s, but was revived for a few years by the private company Zbyszko, which acquired all rights to the trademark and responded to the growing popular demand for stylized products. The taste of Polo-Cockta is sometimes described as a mixture of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

[@g4ymt]

Blackcurrants were banned in the United States in 1911 to protect white pine forests from a fungus called white pine blister rust. The federal ban was lifted in 1966, but many states continued to have their own bans. Most states lifted their bans by 2003, and blackcurrants are now grown commercially in some areas of the United States.

[@n0rmal953]

1:04 there’s actually a reason why black currant flavoring is rare in the US. Europeans tried to import it there but they came with an illness that native plant mostly white pines weren’t protected against. It killed a lot of trees before they decided to basically eradicate blackcurrents.

[@Tonyblack261]

Kids in the UK (when I was a kid) grew up on Ribena. It was a homegrown source of Vitamin C, and was important during WW2 when citrus fruits were hard to come by,

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Likewise Rise Hip Syrup which was sickly sweet. Diluted - it was often used in a tiny bulbous bottle with a 'teat' & offered to babes as a dummy (pacifier).

[@gisbrei]

Ribena is great as a hot drink in the wintertime, if you have a cold or a sore throat. I love blackcurrant jam on bread with a slice of mature cheese, or brie/camembert

[@tassosathanasopoulos4760]

The base for halva is sesame paste.

[@drak8281]

There is also sunflower seed Halva which is the more popular one here in Bulgaria (and other post-Soviet countries from what I read)

[@АндрійЩербина-ю3р]

@@drak8281 I can confirm. In Ukraine halva for 90% is made from sunflower seeds

[@baibabarkane9807]

There are peanut halva also. In my opinion - the best.

[@baumgrt]

15:03 those kind of puffy chips with peanut flavour are popular in various countries all over Europe (and in Israel as well apparently, as they were subject of a study about peanut allergies). It’s puzzling to see that they don’t exist in the USA because I would strongly associate peanuts with the USA.

[@drak8281]

It's funny because Lidl during American week will sell these XXL bags of peanut puffs and will have all sorts of US branding on them.

[@louisemiller3784]

Halva lovely if you slice it thinly or kind of scrape it and sprinkle it over vanilla ice cream

[@klarasee806]

During my first pregnancy I was addicted to blackcurrant jam. I love blackcurrant in every form and shape and we always have blackcurrant "juice" (I think it’s mainly water with only 20% juice or so) at home. Greetings from Germany!

[@OlegIsaev785]

I know that blackcurrants are very tasty and healthy. But I hate picking small seeds out of my teeth. That's why I don't eat them often. ))) P.S. Blackcurrants are a very common berry in Ukraine. People buy them fresh, as well as in the form of juices, compotes and jams. Blackcurrants are also used in cakes, pies, etc.

[@XandeDerExilant]

Ian fighting with a "Buegelverschluss" is really fun to watch. Like.. "Oh, I can't twist this cap, what am I going to do? I'm probably going to die from dehydration in front of a full bottle of soda." Meanwhile a 16 years old in Germany: "Hold my beer. Yes, that one with a Buegelverschluss!"

[@conda7774]

Polo Cockta was supposed to be a "Polish Coca Cola". It was introduced in 1960ties, in communist era. Back then, Coca Cola was considered a representative of 'rotten capitalism', and besides was very expensive (behind iron curtain).

[@GdzieJestNemo]

first and foremost it was expensive and symbol of status. "rotten capitalism" argument is irrelevant

[@KoRbA2310]

11:00 You can find Polish products all around Eastern Europe, also Lidl is selling a lot of Polish products. Fun fact: Zbyszko factory is located in my home town of Radom, Radom is also known for Archer gun factory (Circle 11).

[@aleksandrac9335]

My biggest city flex is Lubella 😂😂😂😂😂

[@wykydytron]

Radom is also known for being one corner of polish Bermuda Triangle. It's funny we live so close to each other yet we met in comment section of American trying foods 🤣

[@CUFC247]

Ribena is a cordial or what we call squash in the UK and needs to be diluted with water, well done Ian in spotting that at the last moment, seen so many Americans try it neat 😂

[@MLWJ1993]

I've already seen 1 too many unfamiliar with these, drink concentrated syrup straight up 😂 Granted, you only do that once!

[@Driftjp]

Halva basically is sesame paste made into a thick consistency so it can be spooned or cut its a traditional style dessert of the balkans and turkey

[@TheChroniclesOfMen]

Halva the main ingredients are oil, flour, sugar. Butter and nut-based: This type of halva is crumbly and usually made with Tahini (sesame paste) or other types of nut butter, such as sunflower seed butter. The main ingredients are nut butter and sugar.

[@klarasee806]

16:30 The bread chips are from Lithuania.

[@donce161]

Pochui visiem

[@justfive7645]

Homemade jam from blackcurrant or jelly from red currant is really good addition in cakes and pastries, it gives punch and balance overall sweetnes in them. First sour then sweet, my beloved combo! ❤

[@afiiik1]

Yes! I love peeled and cored half of an apple with a teaspoon of black currant jam in the center wrapped in puff pastry. It's so good😊

[@liveforever141]

Black, white and red currants are common in Lithuania. Every grandparent garden has at least two or three bushes of them. We make Kompotas (you already tried this, Armenian drink with cherries, but Kompotas can be made from almost any fruit or berry) and Uogienė (jam) with them, great with milk and long loaf (local white bread variety). Bon chance is Lithuanian brand. We love our fried bread here.

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Black & red currants are used in the UK to make black current 'jam'. 1 part red to 3 parts black because the red reputedly have a higher percentage of pectin which helps the jam to set.

[@Dany126PL]

They are also common in Poland. I still remember how my Grandma had all Black, White and Red currants in her garden and I loved to eat them!

[@Maccoye]

The Lorina you tested was made exclusivly for north american market, we don't have this flavour in France, only the limonade, water, sugar and CO²

[@loganleborgne420]

Salut! Il y a plusieurs parfums regarde mieux...j'ai jamais vu orange sanguine mais il y a pamplemousse grenadine citron avec des arômes naturels par contre et heureusement vu le prix ici! Mais bon je suis sur la côte d'Azur ou d'usure plutôt et c'est ici qu'ils testent les boissons en France avant de les vendre partout!

[@shinryohji]

On a tout a fait ce parfum en France ainsi que tout une gamme d'autres arômes.

[@Meemeec]

@@shinryohji Je n'ai jamais vu de parfum orange sanguine en france, d'ailleurs le site de Lorina ne le répertorie même pas.

[@GeoffKowalczyk-v4i]

Halva is available from many countries, Poland, Greece, Turkey and all around the Levant (Lebanon, Jordan and Israel). It's available in many flavours too, Vanilla, Almond, Chocolate and Strawberry amongst them.

[@srlebalesh]

You can also find halva in Bosnia, and I believe in Serbia, to.

[@aiziszizis2536]

@@srlebalesh In Romania too.

[@Escapee5931]

Blackcurrant cordial is often used in the UK as a mixer for alcoholic drinks such as lager or spirits.

[@Nika44]

Oh you can definitely find black currant drinks in Poland :I think they are all around Northern/ Central parts of Europe, not sure about Southern D Fruit itself is interesting tho. I like the fresh black currant, but I know many people who actually dislike it, because it is very unique. When it comes to PoloCocta, I like it, not a biggest fan tho - normal taste has mostly apple juice in it, so cherry my be funny too. PoloCocta is Polish, Cocta is from Slovenia but Polo Cocta was popular through PRL period because Coca Cola was not available. Honestly wasn't expecting you to like halva, but glad you like it. It is made from sesame seeds - as someone mentioned in the comments already - but it is very unique snack.

[@Transmodulator]

Halva is made from Tahini (Sesame-Paste), milk-powder and powdered sugar, it's a greek-turkish recipe and is also combinded with pistachios, chocolate and vanilla.

[@soso4169]

There is no milk or milk powder in Greek tahini and/or halva. Because of this it can be consumed during Lent.

[@afiiik1]

Halva, to me, is simultaneously off-putting and impossible to stop eating 😅 It's the beer of sweets together with liquorice😂

[@uncle_matula]

i have red currant & black currant in my garden, and goosberry, strawberry :D it is normal here in Hungary, you can find all kinds of berries in the forest

[@NK-bj8li]

Don’t know about anyone else but I think Ribena and other concentrate drinks taste better when you add water to the concentrate, rather then the other way.

[@jpdibongue6813]

I am French and I have never seen this drink and yet I travel a lot to different parts of France to see my family, only the bottle is familiar from Alsace

[@klarasee806]

Polo-Cockta is originally from Poland. In the beginning,,it was based on the original Slowenian Cockta.

[@NikolaBulj]

Peanut puffs are very popular all over former Yugoslavia, with original Smoki (made by Stark in Serbia) being the most popular and is even given to young kids as their first treat. Some people even made a theory that there's far less peanut allergies in these countries because of the kids trying this mild peanut early on. Pretty sure you can find some version of peanut puffs in Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia too... But are usually unexpected to foreigners trying Balkan foods, so you're not an exception.

[@ElMariachi1337]

In NL we have a blackcurrent soda that is pretty popular, it's called Cassis. Whenever you go to a party here or just visit some friends and are offered a drink the soda's that you can chose from most of the times are Cola, Fanta and Cassis. There is even a Fanta Cassis in NL, the most famous one would be Hero Cassis though and has been around since 1938.

[@MarcKloos]

In the profile of his channel you can find his address so you can send him a bottle 😄 Most blackcurrent used by Hero is found in Zeeland (Zuid Beveland).

[@chucku00]

Lorina is probably the best lemonade you can find in any French supermarket, but it's possible some local/artisanal (from microbreweries) might be better. If you like blackcurrantand want to try the oomph version I recommend you "crème de cassis", it a medium strength (30 to 36 proof) liquor from Burgundy that goes hand in hand with white wine (kir) or champagne (kir royal) or any sparkling white wine. It can also be used like a topping for ice cream (vanilla, caramel or pistachio flavored).

[@M3lk1n]

Halva is basically are mashed oily types of nuts, peanuts or seeds like sunflower, which is popular here in Ukraine.

[@sereniteretrouvee]

BON CHANCE is from Lithuania. No french speaking countries would write it like that because it is a spelling and grammatical error in french.

[@-WhiteWolf_]

Halvas is made of tahini (sesame), sunflower or semolina. The one you tried is most likely with tahini

[@chrispapa101]

23:08 Halva or halvas is tahini (sesame seed pulp, like peanut butter but from sesame seeds) boiled with hard crack syrup and they add coco powder for the chocolate flavor. Few people make it that home because you need big copper pans. There is also another version of halvas that greek homes make with by semolina in simple syrup or honey syrup (you can add cinnamon and other spices like nutmeg or cloves for flavor), thought the texture is completely different and very easy to make at home.

[@somer573]

we have sunflower seed halva.

[@trygvehadland9560]

Hi, in Norway blackcurrant drink is very popular... at least my favorite... I use it a lot on ski trips, preferably heated in a thermos.

[@backin80s]

Bon chance bread crisps are from Lithuania. You had the dark ones, there is a lighter version. And various flavors, cheese, spring onion, garlic. We Lithuanians love our rye bread. And these crisps are a good snack with beer.

[@radumanea2916]

Halva is a confectionery specialty that is native to India, Iran and Central Asia. Halvaua is also known in the Middle East, Southeast, Central and Eastern Europe. Although the ingredients differ from country to country, the base is generally a mousse of: seeds, vegetable oil and sugar or honey. By adding vanilla, cocoa, nuts, almonds or pistachios, the halva becomes refined or flavored.

[@sueq6]

In the UK we rate our drinks by how FEW additives there are and if there is real fruit in it

[@klau5z]

Polo-Cockta (sometimes written as Polo Cockta or Polo-Cocta) is a Polish cola drink introduced in the 1970s. Polo-Cockta was introduced as a substitute for the original Coca-Cola, which was unavailable in Polish shops due to limits on exports from the US to soviet bloc countries. At first it was based on Cockta, a very popular drink from Slovenia (then SFR Yugoslavia). Polo-Cockta was discontinued during the 1980s, but has been revived for a few years by a private company Zbyszko which acquired all the rights to the brand, reacting to the ever-popular demand for PRL-stylised products, an element of "PRL nostalgia". The taste of Polo-Cockta is sometimes described as a mixture of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. For a while Polo-Cockta was renamed Polo Cola, without change to the product. However, in 2016, Polo Cola was renamed back to Polo-Cockta. Polo-Cockta has made a significant appearance in the Polish film Kingsajz by Juliusz Machulski, where it was a major plot device.

[@petrirantavalli859]

As a funny side note lorina in Finnish is an onomatopoea for a lazy splashing sound that for example pouring water in to a cup makes or pissing in to toilet bowl.

[@zerozero5073]

11:06 Fun and interesting fact about that polish "cherry coke", it contains apple juice! Juice from concentrated apple juice is second on the list of ingredients, 18.99%, so right after water

[@Tarkain68]

Lorina is an old brand of artisanal lemonade, quite good but not one of my favorites. However, yes, this flavor is available on the French market, along with the traditional lemon-flavored lemonade and other flavors to discover

[@DivinePonies]

No way Clipsy got 3/10. Clipsy is S-tier snack. Taste is spot on, like a crispy well seasoned chicken roast. So good. Recently they introduced like XXL packaging with 'even more drums' because people were probably buying these so much.

[@jandex4838]

All Clipsy flavors are decidedly mid, and chicken flavor, in particular, is straight-up trash. They are far behind their competition in flavor.

[@pbhansen731]

Ribena is sooooo good my familie loves it ice cold in the summer ❤ it just do the trix and I remember drinking a lot of this stuf when I was in hospital giving birth to my children 😁 i also have a black curreent plant in my garden together with rasberry and blackberry and we eat them in the summer Happy new year from Copenhagen Danmark 🇩🇰🎉

[@Sine-gl9ly]

Here in the UK, blood oranges are seasonal imports (as are Seville oranges for marmalade makers). I love them and always buy them when they're in season! Some are 'bloodier' than others ... We also have many hybrid berries such as logan-, tay- and boysen berries, and others such as josta- and chuckle-berries. Many are not available commercially as fresh fruit, but are popular for otherwise, especially in home and allotment gardens. I want to buy some hybrid berry bushes for my garden, and a damson tree as well. I'll need to send away to a specialist supplier for the hybrid bushes.

[@videosforeveryone66]

@Sine-gl9ly I thought red oranges came from Sicily, I've seen some in the supermarket and on country of origin it said Sicily. We in Romania don't have citrus grown like in the south of Europe, we get them imported, mostly from Greece or Turkey. There are also red orange nectar juices (they say on the packaging it's nectar but I don't know what to say about this, if it's real or not). I didn't knew Spain had these kind of fruits. I mean this shouldn't surprise me since it's in the south of Spain. I just thought the original ones in Europe were from Sicily. 🙂 I tried them and they're pretty tasty.

[@Sine-gl9ly]

@videosforeveryone66 The last time I bought blood oranges in the UK, tbe bag said they were grown in Morocco, but I suspect they're also grown all around the Mediterranean. Seville oranges, though, are only grown widely in that one area of Spain and almost the entire crop of Seville oranges is sold to Britain, for making marmalade. Most of the citrus fruits we get in the UK come from Morocco and Spain - easy delivery routes direct by road to the Channel ports, over or under the Channel then a direct route to the storage and distribution facilities. Very efficient indeed.

[@videosforeveryone66]

The second one has a specific mechanism and you need to push the metal opening in front (the metal part around the neck of the bottle must be in front and you have to push it in front with your fingers - best use 2 fingers from each hand). That's how you open that bottle. 🙂 I like how this mechanism is made because it keeps the cap pretty tight. 🙂

[@ingvartorma9789]

Sweden, Norway and Finland have the best drinking water. Even if you have tasted soft drinks from other European countries, you would then taste the same brand of soft drink that is made in one of the above-mentioned countries. So these celebrities' soft drinks would taste better. Sweden makes the world's best Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite according to the Coca-Cola company in the USA.

[@maciejderose]

Polocockta and Zbyszko is Polish, true. Great vid, thanks!. Btw Przysnacki Bekonowe are from Poland too. ANd Bon chance is Lithuanian I guess, we have them in Poland as well.

[@nevarran]

There are different types of halva. This one looks like the one made from sunflower seeds or sesame. The traditional one is made with just the seeds, honey and vegetable oil. A little bit of vanilla or cocoa can be added for extra flavor. My grandma back in Bulgaria used to work in a place where they were making it. She was bringing us a lot of it, fresh, taken directly from the machine that was mixing the ingredients. And it was awesome. I've been ordering some every now and then from Bulgaria, but it's the commercial, "modern" stuff that's sold in the supermarkets, and it doesn't taste as good. Even the texture is different, chalky, like you described it. That one back, wow, 30+ years ago, was coming out in fibers when you pull it apart. Could be because it was very fresh, or childhood nostalgia :)

[@NEWLifeXs]

It's made from sesame, the one from the video. Tahini is amazing :) I also prefer the sesame version xD. The true question is... peanut butter or tahini lol

[@lydiakaraiskou1421]

​@@NEWLifeXsHave you tried whole grain tahini? To me it's ten times better than the one from hulled sesame, which is the most common.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

When I was at junior school in Westminster, my house mates were given 0.33 pint bottles of milk during elevenses each class day. As I was lactose intolerant, I was given a glass of Ribena instead. Now, 65 years later, I still like the stuff and have introduced it to my Aussie and Canuk grandsons. 😋

[@sandrap.3399]

You should try "Pom-Bär"... and what we also have a lot of in Austria are flavoured lentil-based, chickpea-based or sweet potato-based snacks, veggie snacks like dried beetroots, courgettes (maybe you call it zucchini in the US, as we do in middle Europe), carrots and much more

[@martinkasper197]

Peanut puffs are also called (Erdnuss)Flips in 🇩🇪... And they were introduced by Bahlsen 🇩🇪 in 1963...🤓

[@walkir2662]

Yeah, I've seen cheesy ones... but 95+% are peanut in Germany. Just liek standard chip flavor is Paprika.

[@ieva1805]

"Halva is a type of confectionery that is widely spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa, the Balkans, and South Asia. The name is used for a broad variety of recipes, generally a thick paste made from flour, butter, liquid oil, saffron, rosewater, milk, turmeric powder, and sweetened with sugar" (wikipedia). Personally me, I do not like halva at all, too sweet for my taste, but my parents loved it. Here in Latvia, we have black current (cassis) shrubs (and red current as well) in almost every garden, it is like a must have. The berries have very specific and intense taste, thus small children usually do not like them. The most common way to preserve them are in jams, as well as juice/syrup or just frozen in the freezer; this berry has very high contents of vitamine C so they are usually used when a person has caught cold (homemade remedy). But they are used in all kind of sweets like cakes or icecreams, or candies as well, or we have also alcohol beverages with black current. I love the taste of black current.

[@Brazauskas123]

Bon Chance are from Lithuania. The best flavor is with garlic, as we are mad for fried dark rye bread with garlic and salt (cheese is optional)!

[@ThisIsMynervis]

The main component of this type of halva (there are a few different types) is sesame paste combined with a unique ingredient to give it a different taste, ie coccoa, almonds etc. Ofc it has some oils and sweetening factors, vanilla extract etc.

[@nabuli_9337]

8:00 you open the bottle the wrong way. Grab the bottle on the neck, push the metal lever with your thumb and let it pop.

[@Jeni10]

Halva is delicious! We can buy it in our supermarkets and in delicatessens. “Halva, or halvah, is a Middle Eastern dessert very popular in Israel, Greece, Turkey, and many other countries. Made with tahini and honey or sugar, it's sweet, nutty, and has a crumbly yet soft texture. It is often served with coffee and makes a delicious afternoon snack!”

[@AndrewTSq]

black currant in sweden is "Svarta vinbär" which translates to "black wineberries" . Its got a nice taste, can not say I drink it a lot, but I like it. Worth noting is that stains from this can be hard to wash away.

[@afiiik1]

I like to combine the black currant with lavender in sirups. They are amazing. I hope our bushes don't freeze this time....

[@MazzaEliLi7406]

Oh yes!

[@yaonyaon9460]

I thought I'd never had black currant until I googled it, lol. Apparently, we call it Касис (Kasis) here in Bulgaria. Also known as Black French Grape.

[@Aszpirin72]

I am an ethnic Hungarian born in Transsylvania (Romania). In my childhood we had lots of red and black currant bushes in our garden. My mother cooked jams out of them (red and blackcurrants have totally different taste, so do the jams made of them), and we also ate the fresh red ones. But many people used the black currants to make wine, so the name "black wineberries" (which I've never ever heard so far) actually makes a lot of sense. The blackcurrant wine is very one of a kind, pretty good if you ask me.

[@glykazafeiridou7178]

Halva is made of tahini. A sesame paste. You can eat it with honey. They blend very nice as flavors. Love from Greece

[@johntomlinson4369]

Ribena is brilliant diluted with hot water if you have a sore throat. It's a British classic.

[@tonydaddario4706]

Indeed it's a British institution, not a health drink though despite the claims given all the added sugar and sweeteners.

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

or diluted with sparkling lemonade for a refreshing drink ( even better with a shot of vodka too)

[@tonydaddario4706]

@@AndrewwarrenAndrew I just a hand a flash back of drinking blackcurrant and black. Waste of good Guinness.

[@ItsDaElk]

I know Ribena only from my relatives in London. You can't get it in Germany. It's called "Rye Bee Nah"

[@midnightkitchen8379]

Thank you I will try that ^_^

[@DK_HAXX]

Apparently, I dunno if its true, but I was just taught about America, you can get Coka Cola with a yellow bottlecap and normal colouring on the rest (so its not a lemon/lime etc). Supposedly they say its a Kosher Coka Cola available in US, so it uses normal sugar instead of syrup.

[@RealConstructor]

At Aldi in The Netherlands (Trader Joe in the US) they have the peanut and the cheese flavored Stobi Flips of Aldi house brand.

[@rasmuswi]

Here in Sweden juices are very often sold as concentrates to be diluted 1:4, or in some cases even 1:7. The reasoning is that carrying home a gallon of water makes no sense when you have water in the faucet. Just bring a cup or two of concentrate home and add that gallon of water at home yourself! Fun fact: that puff you see when opening a bottle is caused by the air inside the bottle rapidly cooling when it decompresses. This cooling causes moisture in the air to flash freeze, and form microscopic ice crystals, which is the actual puff you see. Feather clouds that you can sometimes see in the sky are formed in the exact same way!

[@karstenburanaphim5009]

Ribena is Black Currant berry, there is also a Red Currant but that is mostly used fore jello, you put in the water with deerroast when you roast it in the oven, you also use it when you make Danish meatloaf.

[@AbeIJnst]

Blackcurrent (or 'cassis' as it's usually known over here) syrup is a staple in my house. I like to mix it with sparkling water.

[@101steel4]

Nice in pernod

[@FinlayMacintyre-ti9li]

​@101steel4 I completely forgot about Pernod and blackcurrant Popular with young people when I was in school

[@AbeIJnst]

@101steel4 Never tried that, interesting combination. I usually drink Pernod with sparkling water, too 😄

[@hajnalkabalogh9026]

Halva is made from ground sesame seeds and honey and a little cocoa

[@n0rmal953]

6:43 Lorina is a French “limonade” brand. So unlike the US it’s a lemon flavored sparkling drink. I often drink theirs it’s good! Never had the blood orange flavor though.

[@ZhekUA]

Halva is not actual snack, but sweets. It is Turkish it made of sunflower seeds, it is actually side product of sunflower oil.

[@yvindascanius6061]

Ribena originated in the UK in 1938, came to Denmark - my country - in 1948 and has been a stable in our family since the 60s. It's claimed to have a high vitamin C content and has that taste you never get tired of. If you can then try out the French syrup Teisseire, a very old brand from 1720 created by Mettheus Teisseire in an area with a lot of soft fruits.

[@cautahwork2466]

Try the blackcurrant syrup diluted with sparkling water in 1/5-6 ratio. Halva is mainly made with sunflower seeds (harder and litle bit moister) or sesame seeds (this is the dry, crumbly version). They are some very good and some weaker brands, they are not all the same.

[@randomnik70]

Fun fact: peanut-based puffs are something people regularly give to their kids from a young age. Peanut allergy is therefore quite rare when compared to countries that don't have those types of puffs.

[@StormCrusher94]

There are a lot of these syrup types of drinks here in the Balkans. They are either a hit or a miss, usually can tell with the weird aftertaste that lingers, like you have a coating of something on your tongue. Them being healthy, I don't really know as they are usually filled with a lot of sugar so they preserve longer. A good thing though you can somewhat regulate the taste, with adding more or less water.

[@countdown4100]

Halva is typically half sugar, half crushed sunflower seeds or peanuts or some other seeds/nuts. I like the peanut kind the best but sunflower is the most common. I haven't tried the one you had but I was surprised that you found it good as chocolate is probably the hardest halva flavour to pull off without it tasting chalky.

[@JoriDiculous]

Black Currant is delicious. We (Norway) use it a lot for jam, juice(thick syrupy. You must add water to it its pretty much "concentrate" Kind of like that "Ribena" but thicker and darker in colour) and even some wine and beer (Not common at all). Tasty and lots of vitamins.

[@mavadelo]

The Black Current or Blackberry is part of the Ribes family of plants, it is not a "mix of a blue berry and a grape" obviously. In the Netherlands a popular drink made of Blackberries is called Cassis.

[@Lifebuoy7]

Send you and your family warm greetings here from Ukraine🇺🇦

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

In the UK, the word "Squash" means a liquid like the Ribena that you add to water. We have it in all flavours. Lemon, Orange, All the different berries etc. People tend to see it as a way to make drinking water easier and nicer. Whilst certainly being way better for you than fizzy drinks (pop). You may have seen the most famous brand "Robinsons" as one of the main sponsors of Wimbledon tennis. I guess the name literally comes from squashed concentrated fruit....

[@jeffree9015]

They sell those peanut puffs in the UK Lidl as an American product lol

[@101steel4]

And they're revolting 😂

[@lydiakaraiskou1421]

We have peanut puffs in Greece, too. They're usually ball shaped and, depending on the brand, some are made of both peanut and hazelnut paste. Exept the ones from Lidl, all the others I've tried aren't salty.

[@jduck1979]

If member serves me correct, Ribena was originally created by Beechams (later merged to from GlaxoSmithkline), before being sold off to Japanese drinks company Suntory. Blackcurrants in their natural form off the plant are extremely sharp, so benefit from being processed into Jam or Ribena type drinks. Ribena is also available in a strawberry flavour version

[@johnleonard9090]

There’s also Winter Spice Ribena, admittedly a limited edition that’s released in the colder months, meant to be had as a hot drink( it’s lush)

[@Duchess_of_Cadishead]

As a child in England, Ribena was always in our house. Mum would mix it with hot water in winter. It wasn’t available in Australia when we 😅first arrived (1963) but is readily available in supermarkets now. When I visited England in 1975/76 one of my cousins drank Ribena diluted with Guinness.

[@Steven.P.]

6:47 as a french, I have never seen this drink, even the label is for the USA (not in french, not for 100ml)

[@Specifically_Me]

i love ribena, its blackcurrant juice farmed by a handful of farmed in england as the story goes. You can also mix it with sparkling water over ice.. yummm. It also makes very nice ice blocks

[@afiiik1]

Black currant is the second most important fruit after apple😊.

[@anncarr6565]

Ribena was developed next to where I live (near Bristol in the UK). They also developed cider (hard cider in the USA) and the orchards were 2 minutes from my house. You can still buy (I think) the original recipe cider which is very strong so not recommend unless you are used to it. You can also put ribena with cider too although I prefer my cider undiluted!!

[@andrzejkrasnicki]

A short guide on how to drink from a bottle with a "European cap". When you unscrew it, the cap remains connected to the bottle by two plastic threads. If you break one of them by twisting it, the cap hanging by only one thread will not interfere with drinking straight from the bottle!

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

If you like Ribena [and I admit to being a huge fan myself, I love blackcurrants in jam and drinks] you might like something I buy in my local Polish supermarket. It is called Lowicz* and comes in raspberry, strawberry, cherry, apple, blackcurrant and applemint flavours. It consists of sugar, water, fruit juice & added vitamin C, and it is actually no more fattening than Ribena when diluted We always have both in the house along with a number of other Polish products - we are lucky enough to have a huge Polish supermarket in our rural town as well as another from Lithuania - and they have flavours you won't find in the mainly US owned companies like coca cola. *I've just had a good look at the label and underneath all the EU labelling it has a tiny panel saying US Nutrition Facts plus it includes fl. oz along with ml for the measurements. So it should be available in the US, & if you can find it it is well worth trying, properly diluted it is no sweeter to taste than - no more calories either - than Ribena and is probably a lot less sweet than many US drinks are. Happy new year to you and your family from Ireland.

[@WoodenViking]

Fun fact: blackcurrants are banned in the US that’s why you don’t see many product made with it

[@Driftjp]

Happy new year btw guys have fun can't wait for the next one

[@kathryn4002]

I remember drinking this as a kid. IYou can still buy it in supermarkets today. Ever tried Irn Bru from Scrotland, soda

[@timmermansj1300]

I drink tons of Irn Bru in Belgium. Sometimes hard to find