RATING SNACKS FROM A DUTCH GROCERY STORE (americans try dutch snacks)

In this episode, Michelle and Alex rate popular snacks from Dutch grocery stores, choosing their favorite and least favorite from a selection of items like Chocomel, drop, Hero Cassis (black currant) soda, and the exclusive Lay's potato chip flavor in the Netherlands: joppiesaus (joppie sauce).
Episode 73 · Filmed on July 7, 2023 · Dordrecht, the Netherlands
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0:00 Introduction
1:02 Chocomel
1:48 Good Noodles
2:58 Lipton sparkling iced tea
3:50 Tony's Chocolonely
4:51 Hero Cassis soda
5:48 Red Band drop (fruit gummy candy)
6:30 Katja zure matjes (sour gummy candy)
7:16 Duyvis borrel nootjes
8:14 Hopjes coffee candy
9:38 Peijnenburg ontbijtkoek (breakfast cake)
10:54 Venco honingdrop (honey black licorice candy)
12:25 Fristi yogurt drink
13:49 Koffiewafel
14:43 Lay's patatje joppie potato chips
15:47 Final ranking and what surprised us
16:38 Wrap up
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[@tubularap]

The "ontbijtkoek" is usually eaten with a (thick) layer of butter. That makes the taste more balanced, and the cake less dry.

[@mver191]

I've worked in Apeldoorn in an electronics store and one of the regular customers was a man belonging to the Peijnenburg family that owned the brand back in the day and they sold it for quite a bit of money. The guy had millions but lived very simple and he would ride his bicycle around Apeldoorn just to see if there was anything to do and have fun. Every day he made tons of pictures (he still had an analogue camera) and then brought it to our store to develop. Sometimes he would open up the envelop with the pictures in the store and would tell the best stories about what he photographed. He was a really nice older guy. I haven't seen him in like 10 years, I hope he's ok and still enjoying life.

[@jeroenberkenbosch7072]

if you havent seen him in 10 years ? well , you can hope at least ! but pensioners usualy dont stop what they enjoy without a damn good health reason .... !

[@dutchdykefinger]

@@jeroenberkenbosch7072true, usually the passion doesn't just stop when you're that deep into it. let's hope he just moved abroad to enjoy his old days and looking for places to make pictures with a digital camera :D

[@jeroenberkenbosch7072]

@@dutchdykefinger again , just hope .. if your interested in the person more you know his passion ...... so showing his disabled wife his pictures . passionate ! health ? most likely ... if we all reach a pensioner age ? we are counted lucky still this day and age ! stress , war and main supporter still gives a bit of an issue for long life . i have seen no balance in work or life .... taxes vs income , income vs input ( physical or mental AKA studies and diploma`s ...... 2 ways to get on in life ! ) . so i am still positive about the world , but also a realist .. life and death are inevatable ! its how you make that life is the biggest thought ! work to live or live to work is the biggest question you must have .... and then imagine you have a million or more .. your set for life .. will you persue your dream and live , or make more out of that million ?

[@markvandermolen7181]

I never knew I needed a video of 2 grown ups tasting borrelnootjes like it’s an exotic snack in my life, but this was great hahaha

[@buncharted]

❤️❤️❤️ 😂

[@luk5464]

Note that the unrefrigerated milk (including Chocomel and Fristi) has been heated up to a very high temperature (sterilisation rather than pasteurisation) so they can be stored at room temp for a very long time (whilst unopened!), but that doesn’t mean you should drink it at room temp. It’s best drunk cold (or hot in the case of Chocomel) and you should definitely put it in the fridge after opening it. Once opened it also doesn’t stay good until the printed date. After all, bacteria and other things will have gotten in so your sterile milk product is no longer sterile. Go by smell, consistency and taste after opening

[@frankgeurts3912]

Shake the chocolate milk ,not sniff it😂

[@MTH64]

It did indeed seem too brown/watery. Shake well and it has a totally different consistency and colour. Which is much tastier.   Live vertaling

[@ralphvercauteren9267]

​@@MTH64 and was it volle or half volle chocomel

[@MTH64]

@@ralphvercauteren9267 vol!! Halfvol heeft geen blikjes.😅

[@ronaldroemer2423]

Exactly greetings from Amsterdam

[@arthurkroes4027]

Olso the fristy needs to be shaked

[@Hallodaarheyjijdaar]

Ontbijtkoek is indeed eaten with butter, and used as a snack when you feel like something small. Don't forget to drink First and Chocomel cold! Tastes way better that way. You should also put both in the fridge after opening :)

[@SnakeNL24]

I mostly eat it (when we have it at home) with cheese or peanut butter.

[@renebosch5917]

Liquorice is an acquired taste. If you haven't tasted it from infancy it's hard to get to appreciate it in later life. Which explains why we Dutch like it and the rest of the world predominantly does not. Telling is the story of a British colleague I once had who was on assigment in Holland for a few years. He hated liquorice like every non-dutch person, but his kids - very young when in Holland - learned to love it. When he was back in the UK I occasionally sent some Dutch liquorice to him for his kids as you can't get it in the UK. Nowadays he seems to order it for them on the internet.

[@calliopemuse6724]

They definitely sell a variety of licorice candy in the UK & the US. So some non-Dutch people must like it. 😂 The Italians sell a no-sugar-added hard licorice candy. Licorice is also a flavor element in root beer.

[@JanBinnendijk]

If you are into Coffee Flavoured things.. Try "Cafe Noir Bicuits.. these are biscuits with a "Coffee Glazing" on one side... they're awesome!

[@Alex_G_M]

I’ve just gotten into your channel and am loving it! I’m a Dutchman living in Norway so your snacktests give me little doses of nostalgia! Hero’s blackcurrants are grown especially for them in Zeeland. The clay ground and sea air is supposedly very important. Yes, Hero Cassis sweet, but it has a sharpness other brands’ versions lack. The Fanta version especially just tastes sweet in an industrial sort of way…

[@yamuis]

Bags like the Duyvis nootjes have a notch at the top, about an inch from the side. There it's easy to rip a corner of the bag, creating a perfect opening. This notch is common for all these kinds of bags.

[@Mesmancer]

Borrel used to mean a certain alcoholic drink, mostly graanjenever. But these days it almost always means a cozy drink with colleagues or friends. For work there is a word for it. De Vrijmibo. Aka de vrijdagmiddagborrel. :)

[@sanderhavelte]

tigernuts are better

[@nemobramisgestoptmetyoutub3355]

Try all the Johma salades on (Melba) toast, thats for sure big-time Dutch snack Food 🎉

[@_maghetweten]

After zure matten: try apekoppen, katjes, haringdrop from Katja. Try chocomel dark. Eat ontbijtkoek with plenty of butter or try the kandijkoek. Try a bossche bol, negerzoen, gevulde koek, krakeling. And for borrel vibes: go and try mini loempia, vlammetjes, bitterbal, bami schijf! Plenty of snacks to try out

[@Nanteos]

Gevulde koek are amazing. I ate so many last time I was visiting NL.

[@dutchy1121]

Katje Biggetjes! My favorite.

[@MultiPsycho2]

But then the real bossche bun from Jan de Groot and not from the supermarket, those are not bossche buns but chocolate buns even though it says bossche bol. You have to get the real one in 's-Hertogenbosch at the station.

[@casperrozenboom6408]

Tip: shake the chocolatemilk can before opening and try Tijgernootjes, they are the best!

[@royvankan2723]

And .... not to forget, the Lays Ovenbaked (BBQ or Paprika) flavour. My favourite snacks.

[@qazatqazah]

There are probably still a lot of (traditional) cookies that you never tried. I will mention a few: krakelingen, kletskoppen, jodenkoeken, gevulde koeken -- but there are so many more kinds to try.

[@Andre-xu3pq]

oja zeker gevulde koek heerlijk,

[@Hallodaarheyjijdaar]

And go to Vlaardingen to get ijzerkoekjes!

[@EdwinMartin]

Also, bitterkoekjes are a must try.

[@dukejohn2898]

En speculaas of amandel speculaas hmm met een bak koffie of thee en soppen maar.

[@Wintertalent]

Lipton is British/Dutch, originally started in Scotland, then bought by Unilever. You're not eating the ontbijtkoek wrong, by the way. That's how we eat it. You could make it even better by putting some butter on it. Fristi is drinking yoghurt, hence the flavour. We have many different brands of drinking yoghurt. We really love that stuff.

[@royvankan2723]

Fristi is indeed very sweet. Try Optimel Drinkyoghurt, same flavour and I am for sure you don't want another brand.

[@hcjkruse]

Twinnings is our favourite British supermarket tea. Much better than Picknick. Lipton is a nice second.

[@MarcelL-DM]

Just like Unilever owns Ben&Jerry

[@megamusictuber6017]

Some of my favorites are, LU Scholiertje (cookie), Heksehyl Salmiakdrop (liquorice), Verkade Frou Frou vanille (cookie), Candyman Manna plofrijst (sweet puffed rice candy), Kanjers Chocowafels (cookie), Kaasvlinders (cheese flavored crunchy pastry cookies) to name a few. Tony's is the best. And you definitely need to put some (real) butter on the ontbijtkoek. Fun vid 👍

[@CakeboyRiP]

It would be great to see you taste different types of dutch cheese. There is so much variety besides standard Gouda. And even within the Gouda type of cheese there are loads of taste differences available

[@buncharted]

love this idea!

[@edoz8939]

@@buncharted yes, but go to a good cheese store, not from the supermarket

[@andyhorvath6630]

My cousin from Hungary always loads up his car with literally probably a hundred liters of Chocomel when going home. He loves it so much …

[@dutchdykefinger]

i think it deserves that praise, it's non-controverisal too, it's not like zoute drop or zure haring which are very out there chocomel is just nice and easy going ,and has configurable creamyness, if you prefer to have them not as creamy, you just don't shake up the thing before drinking it, and it will be more flat and pretty nice too, if you like a fat head of bulbbly cream, you jsut violently shake it, you can have the creamyness your way by how much you shake it, which gives it just that extra of a wider appeal you'd be hard pressed to find a foreigner that does not like it, especially americans, just like most of them are all over teh stroopwafel, but chocomel is evn more unobtrustive that's where i think it's greatness lies, they dialed in that shit perfect to be an easy drinker, and you'll find yourself drinking a liter of that shit in an hour without even meaning to, it happens all the time, every time ofcourse as a dutch native i'm a pretty heavy milk drinker, so a liter of that ain't shit, but it's getting pricy that way lol even though i don't drink it all that often, and opt for a milkshake instead when i really feel that itch because i so very much enjoy a good thick shake that actually hurts your neck muscles when trying to get it through a straw, i love them when they're on the verge of painful, so much value for money, so yeah i tend to gravitate toward the mcdonalds milkshake... give me half a liter of that shit and make it hurt please if/when i do have chocomel around, it is getting absolutely destroyed..... lol it's great stuff for it's at least an 8 for being so consistently well received, and it's not hard to imagine peopel taking a liking to it so much they would hoard it

[@irissupercoolsy]

I totally get that 🤣🤣

[@ilonkagootjes858]

The breakfast cake, is (was) a big deal in the old dutch game koekhappen. That's why the cake on the package is on a string. 😊

[@jackvandersluis1723]

Love this kind of video's! Great test team! 👍👍

[@ncscoobysnack]

Funny, we are Dutch and we are trying snacks in the US. We came across this video of you guys doing the same with dutch snacks. Btw, patatje joppie chips is only around since a taste contest in 2010. Maybe try the " tom poes " or " gevulde koek ". We like your "simply lemonade" and the "beef jerkey teri yaki".

[@buncharted]

mmm, we love tompouce 🩷 we do miss good beef jerky. we only recently started buying it in the US - from a gas station chain that makes their own and is a bit famous (or infamous? -- bucee's).

[@ncscoobysnack]

I made beef jerkey myself once, just bought a steak and sliced it to small pieces , put chili sauce on it and hung it from a rack in the oven at 100 degrees for I think it was an hour. It was quite good. I like your vids, have a great time in Dordrecht!

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

Nice to see your reactions to the difference snacks from here in the Netherlands and as always a nice video

[@GoliathAngelus]

The brand HERO was indeed from Switzerland but Riedel a Dutch company owned by Campina bought the rights. Campina is also the maker of Chocomel and Fristi. In the beginning, Nutricia was the maker of Chocomel but they switched to success too fully making baby milk and foods

[@sumhurabi]

Love this, thank you!

[@ceebee3867]

Ontbijtkoek with Nutella is actually a very good combination. Yum

[@laurenthoutappel7440]

Hero is a Dutch company from Breda but is has been merged with the Nestle company from Switzerland a few year. They make jams, snacks and drinks.

[@Jaikweer01]

Ok. snacks as a dutchman. As tou found out we love our coffeeflavoured cookies. Now try bokkepootjes, krakelingen, bastogne koek, maria biscuits or get an actual koekjestrommel. Usualy a blue tin with a wide selection of cookies but when found at grannies place always filled with sowing threads and needles. For sweets have a go at tum tum, apenkoppen, biggetjes, autodrop colored ones ofcourse as you do not like liqourish. And as you are already looking into borrelnootjes also try tijgernootjes and the cheap but popular snack box with 5 different snacks. Usualy square or round and always a red label.

[@InfiniteCyclus]

Your facial expressions are just so funny 😂😂 Fristi really is a kids drink. And after opening you should definitely put it in the refrigerator...

[@user-co9cr7js3w]

They should put it in the fridge before consuming. Room temperature fristi is gross.

[@WilliamsWorldView]

For the same reason that it's called Chocolonely, the shape of the pieces, when you break the chocolate bar, are uneven. So, when you do share it, no one gets the same amount of chocolate. Its to show how unfair the chocolate industry is towards the farmers To avoid the sharing issue, obviously you can eat a whole bar by yourself... (which is what I would do)

[@buncharted]

😂😂😂

[@Jonathansayshi]

I always get hungry when i see you guys enjoying snacks. 😋

[@Y0Da77]

I find eating the ontbijtkoek this way to be too dry, so I put butter on it and have a nice warm cup of coffee to go with it. ☕️😋

[@dutchdykefinger]

that's how i learned to eat it as a kid,about 1.5 to 2 centimeter thick slices with butter spread over teh top well actually, margarine to be exact, it was the late 80s orso, and margarine was like at the height of its popularity, so i explicitly am used to eating them with margarine to be spread on bread. nevr even tried them with real butter, but i think i may prefer the margarine, if only for nostalgia reasons i think it was mostly blue band at the time, they even started out as a margarine company, later a lot of others joined into the margarine business and shifted the market share, as is to be expected with a country that produces so much dairy lol when it blew up and it wasn't as one-sided anymore you can just stack them on top of each other wit the unbuttered side down, and the butter from the top, keeps every next piece glued to the tower a bit even if the cuts are a bit crooked and diagonal-ish, you just reorient the layer if it goes too crook one way like a jenga tower when they're particularly bad cuts, and after you can just start eating from the top of the stack down. the making and eating the tower part, was essential to the fun of it as a kid to me, half of the joy lol i find eating an entire ontbijtkoek regardless of the butter gives you a bad case of the farts because of the way higher concentration of gingerbread spices on the outer dark "rind"/rim, ginger tends to have some metabolic effects lol

[@JaapGinder]

The noodles is a not so common snack, it is more for lazy people to have lunch or dinner, or so. I never had it, I prefer the real noodles! Yep, ontbijtkoek with a thick butter layer on top. So tasty! For the borrelnootjes a hint: try those from Jumbo, the oriental taste. Blue packing. Thise are really spicey. And do not eat so much candy, so much sugar... 😜 The Venco honingdrop is the one I don't like, but that is that I don't like honey too, haha. Fristy is mostly drunk by kids. Sure it's sweet, haha. Better have the chocomel, that is for kids and adults! The koffiewafels is a good choice, great taste! My favorite snack? Milkchocolate bar with whole hazelnuts...

[@markjacobs1086]

The ontbijtkoek with chocolate pieces inside is absolutely magnificent as a treat once in a while. I love those with a nice bit of butter smeared on it.

[@buncharted]

that does sound very good actually

[@lindaraterink6451]

This kind of ontbijtkoek is better with butter, I have never heard of anyone heating it though. Some put it on a sandwich as a topping. It is more or less the Dutch version of gingerbread, but different. There are different kinds some have raisins or nuts, those seem to be less dry then the one you had and are more comfortable to eat without butter, but with is still better. Fristi is indeed a kids drink, adults hardly consume it. Mostly we buy it for the little ones at a restaurant when you don't want to drink or they do not like fizzy drinks. Because it is very sugary it is for most kids a treat, or at least it should be.

[@buncharted]

funnily enough, over the weekend, i saw an adult drinking a canned fristi - i thought i was wrong about it being for kids! 😅

[@lindaraterink6451]

@@buncharted There are exceptions to the rule I suppose 😁It is good when it is cooled on a hot day have to admit myself.

[@rikkyrixt]

@@buncharted Fristi was my pregnancy craving 😅 drank 3-4 cartons a week 😂

[@fredspekvet5875]

guys i noticed you just pour stuff in glasses 'n stuff. you need to shake chocomel. and fristi. shake well before use. counts for pretty much anything like that it will also say it on the can / package

[@anouk6644]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has trouble with opening the borrelnootjes pack 😅😂 The Peijnenburg ontbijtkoek is very dry. Try the fresh ontbijtkoek at a bakery (or the one at Albert Heijn bakery section) with some real roomboter.

[@JustMe-sh8nd]

There is no such thing as real roomboter.. it is butter or halverine/margarine

[@anouk6644]

@@JustMe-sh8nd You’re right… I wanted to write real butter with roomboter between brackets. Thanks for correcting me.

[@thernymous]

I'll reply this here so buncharted will know what this is all about: in the Netherlands colloquially roomboter, margarine (can be used for baking and frying) and halvarine (a lower fat margarine only suitable for 'buttering' bread) are all called 'boter'. Of those three only roomboter is actually butter, hence packages of roomboter being labeled 'echte boter', real butter.

[@JustMe-sh8nd]

@@thernymous And by law there is only 1 butter, we all call it rommboter but everything else is actually not butter

[@CroweDharmaReloaded]

Some more tips for the next video we all know is coming one day😊: Schoolkrijt by Venco Apenkoppen by Katja (or the Farm mix)

[@Forkliftdude2]

Hey guys. I see the channel is doing great. Congrats. I love the expression on your face when you eat drop. Haha classic.😂 And yeah, butter the ontbijtkoek. You can even put cheese or sugar on it. Fun to watch your vids. 👍🏻

[@WhoStoleMyAlias]

Drinks and candy don't usually qualify as 'snacks' around here. We tend to reserve the term for savoury bites though it also includes sweet food like candied peanuts (suikerpinda's) and chocolate covered raisins (chocolade rozijnen), and of course deep fried bites that you will find in the freezer section of the supermarket (bitterballen, kaassoufflés, vlammetjes, kipnuggets, etc). BTW I don't think I've ever before seen someone with an allergy towards peperkoek. The spice mix they use is a variation of that used in pepernoten en kruidnootjes, or for you Americans ginger bread cookies. Most notably this includes cardamom, anise and of course ginger.

[@evafemme8674]

At around 4 in the afternoon when you're at work and want a tea or coffee slice up an ontbijtkoek, put butter on it and give all your colleagues a slice. They will love you for it. That is how you eat it as a snack. Kind of a teatime thing.

[@jeffafa3096]

"Borrel" snacks are my favourite. Things like bitterballen, kaasblokjes (cheese cubes), different types of nuts (like cashews, almonds, peanuts, walnuts or a nut mix) and dried sausage. Also things like toast (the small crackers) with brie or a spread. You should try having a "borrelplank" with some wine or beer on a "terrasje" (outdoor seating area at a cafe or restaurant). That's the best!

[@JulesStoop]

12:10 It’s definitely an acquired (atired?) taste. Generally acquired at a very young age in the Netherlands 😂

[@NLJeffEU]

Wtf, i didnt know carbonated ice T wasnt a thing outside the Netherlands. Wird 😂

[@spoenk7448]

In the US they even have unsweetened iced tea. Actually quite nice.

[@NLJeffEU]

@@spoenk7448 that does sound nice. But is it catbonated or just normal?

[@valeryklumper]

Hi Michelle and Alex! Firstly, my compliments on how you pronounce Dutch words that either start with a "G" or have a "G" in it. It quite spot on. About the Fristi, it is indeed a yoghurt drink and it is best when you drink it cold. It won't be as sweet as when you drink it at room temperature. On the Lipton Sparkling Iced tea.......we also have a flat version. Then the ontbijtkoek (Peijenburg), it is indeed a breakfast cake and I personally put butter and have a glass of cold milk with it.

[@buncharted]

strangely, we have the flat version in the US too. the sparkling one is unique!

[@mavadelo]

Ontbijtkoek: Don't heat it up but DO put butter on it... a fair amount... roomboter, not margarine (well... you can do margarine but roomboter is 10x better) Fristi: the drink is called "drinkyoghurt" in the Netherlands with a reason :) And yes, it is mainly marketed to children but I enjoy it once in a while as well and I am 55.

[@lorrefl7072]

I'm from Belgium and until recently I had no idea the sparkling version of Lipton Ice Tea was unique to this part of Europe (Netherlands, Belgium, and pretty sure they have it in France too). The "Peijnenburg breakfast cake" is a brand of "Peperkoek" and used to be very popular in Belgium too when I was a kid (born in 1972) but I don't think they are still popular now. In Belgium it wasn't eaten much as a breakfast but as a snack after school. And you don't eat it dry but with a nice layer of real butter and sometimes also chocolat sprinkles on top of the butter. I personally hated Perperkoek because I don't like the taste of cloves (one of the spices in there) and it also has cinnamon which gives me an upset stomach. Drop isn't as much a thing in Belgium as in The Netherlands but you can find it here (especially in the Dutch store chains) and it is truelly repulsive. Fristi smells like yoghurt because it's a yoghourt drink. It is more of a kids drink. Never seen an adult drink it.

[@AimeeTio]

I learned about the uniqueness of our Ice Tea when I went to England and ordered an Ice Tea. They looked at me funny and came back with literal tea with ice cubes in it. It was horrible. Edit: try Fristi when you’re hungover, it’s great haha

[@JenstonMcgreen]

peijnenburg goes best with butter on it ... then it is not only a morning snack, but it can be eaten all day long ... You can also put it on your bread ... You can also cook with it in a dish. ..or with an old Dutch game, eating a cake.

[@HerrieBe]

De ontbijtkoek in Belgium is called 'peperkoek' and there are two diferent flavours with of without sugar on top. You can eat it dry, with butter or you can make it fancy with smoked salmon and herb cheese.

[@pel666]

I would love for you guys to do a FEBO review...the ultimate snack and famous around the world. Be sure to try at least the Kaas soufflé, the Grill burger and the Kalfsvleeskroket! Runner ups are the Rundvleeskroket, Bami/Nasi schijf and the Frikandel. Fresh snacks out of a vending machine, amazing :D

[@peterf1]

That's a great idea.

[@yowo6105]

After I entered high school or something (~2016) they made fristi a lot sweeter, it used to be a lot less sweet!!! I also kinda hate it now. A good alternative with more flavor options is Optimel, less sweet but a lot more refreshing!

[@mr83961]

Oooh, haagse hopjes, very nice :). You should also try werthers echte, and chocotoff ❤

[@sentokigames151]

"peperkoek" you actually make it better with a little butter. Because it's dry, kind of like peanutbutter, when you add some jelly to it to make it more "moist" or whatever you would call it.Lys used to be called Smith's and if ask me it tasted way better when it was Smith's

[@bingbong6066]

My favorite snacks are the dutch savory cheese cookies from the bakery. And then the whole ordeal you get on a birthday. The ones with amandelen, krakelingen, maanzaad etc.

[@InfiniteCyclus]

😂😂 Your faces when you tried the 'ontbijtkoek'. Eating it like that is way too dry. I don't eat it much now, but as a child a ate it regularly. You have to put butter or margarine on it. Lots of it!! Then it's great!

[@rikjebarnwell415]

Hi Michelle and Alex!! I'm from Apeldoorn, but live in West Australia. My husband and I follow you on KZbin. Today I saw you try to eat ' ontbijtkoek'! 🤣🤣 Very dry on it's own. I put butter or margarine on mine and we even put it on bread.. like we Dutch people do. Everything goes on bread! You can buy fresh ontbijtkoek' at good bakeries. Some have sultanas in them, or kandijkoek, which has lumps of sugar on it!! Delicious!!!! Enjoy !

[@jeroencote5212]

You should be eating ontbijtkoek (peijnenburg) with a bit of butter on top (it taste better) another cookie tip is 'langetjes' it has a great sweet flavour and it is perfect with a cup of tea

[@StartPlayFinish]

Ontbijtkoek can be dry, especially if its older. Butter is good for taste and also makes it less dry. Goes well with a slice of cheese on it as well.

[@ramonamaramis]

i think i've just watched a new episode of the sitcom Buncharted 'to snack or not to snack'😂. The timing of your facial expressions whenever you have tried a snack is priceless😭. Btw: a cold Fristi is our life saviour when having a hangover. You should definately try😁

[@buncharted]

we needed a fristi this morning then 😂 (you'll see why on saturday...)

[@ramonamaramis]

Omg you guys, is down town Dordrecht still in one piece?! Cant wait for the hangover episode😅

[@annemieverhoeven2566]

Yes on the ontbijtkoek should be some butter...YUMMMMMY

[@luukf]

You should try the sweet/soft drop with a layer of sugar on the outside. For example "Krakelingen". Also, I think you'll like the "zeeuwse roomboter babbelaars" too.

[@buncharted]

we tried the babbelaars in our middelburg vlog - they were tasty!

[@highs_and_lows4665]

You get sparkling ice tea in Germany and Switzerland too. Also I recently had it in Spain..my kids are really into that stuff

[@fransdekort5756]

Butter on the peperkoek is the right call!

[@hcjkruse]

Transavia used to provide decent meals on charter flights in the 1990s! Just before they were rebranded to a low cost carrier. I remember potato mash with leek and Parisian carrots and chicken filet. Also standard were little bags of salted smoked almonds.

[@henkhemming6674]

yes,eat the peijnenburg with butter...or put 3 slices in a beefstew,great taste

[@davevanbeers6944]

The “peperkoek” eat it with “roomboter” I used eat it as a snack after school. 😊Not a big fan of drop myself. Not a fan of coffee taste so I usually buy the pennywafels if I have that craving. 😂 I would spit the drinks and snacks and that way the cassis can get to a tear. My guilty pleasure… the haribo Frogs. 😊

[@blinkachu5275]

Ontbijtkoek definitely is best with some margarine butter smeared on top ^^

[@hfwees]

Your nice people , taking the effort to inform.

[@frankgeurts3912]

Hopjes is the real old Dutch candy❤❤❤❤

[@evertjethoe]

Try Oldtimers autodrop has different flavors. I like the blue box and its salty flavor, also the Oldtimer Salmiak Klinkers grey box is my favorite 🤤😋

[@nyoko2926]

Michelle, your hair looks lovely. My favourite snack is boterbabbelaars from Zeeland (similar to hopjes but without coffee). My grandma used to give them to me. My second favourite would be fire-balls, sold exclusively on fairs and markets or candy shops: red, and hot.

[@buncharted]

the babbelaars were so good!

[@gedovanderzee1224]

Peijnenburg, the plain version you've had is very dry. But there are also some 'koeken' that look pretty similar but are more moist and flavourful. So check out Ontbijtkoek with nuts, Parelkandijkoek, gemberkoek, Deventerkoek of Groningerkoek,

[@Rose-vq1mw]

Pre sliced ontbijtkoek is dry, they do sell it in on piece too, those are much better, and with different toppings like ginger or little sugar balls or nuts and raisins. Its typically eaten with butter. As a quick breakfast or a snack or like a cookie with coffee or thee.

[@bearclaire]

I've heard people freezing the zurematte and loving it. Havent tried it myself though.

[@skiskibull]

Nice too see your dutch journey. I live in Zwijndrecht right next to Dord, and did some tourguide work in Dordrecht and lived there for 14 years. Maybe you take your bikes out to de Molentocht nearby to see all the old mills very nice bike ride (advice for your vid 2 weeks ago). Maybe after this video you would go to the Groenmarkt at the restaurant Knollen en Citroenen for some local Dutch cuisine as a video idea?

[@bertschalk1798]

My latest snack discovery is a spread from the AH or Jumbo etc. made by Johma, called oude kaas / pesto ! You can wake me up in the middle of the night for that stuff. Tastes great on bread (stokbrood) or little crackers (toast). Swallow down with some beer or wine 😜

[@buncharted]

oooooh yum!!

[@NoraKitties]

The Peijnenburg cake is often eaten just like that. 😅 Some eat it with butter on it. But we eat it plain haha.

[@paulthiel5145]

Definitely only coated with butter in my stomach 😂

[@miran4471]

Every day I eat the Peijnenburg ontbijtkoek (the volkoren ) with roomboter ,so good☺️🌷

[@Massuus]

9:38 you need to eat it with butter, I don’t really like butter personally but with ontbijtkoek it’s just perfect, also with young chess is great!

[@toprob20]

Try the ontbijtkoek with some butter (margerine) and cheese. It's nice for breakfast (hence ontbijtkoek)

[@andrekloer]

10:25 The 'Peijnenburg ontbijtkoek' should be eaten with butter, then they are pritty good

[@lennardramone5294]

Borrelnootjes are the greatest thing ever. That should get a quadruple S rating!

[@hammerspace8866]

Have you tried jumbo dip and nip? It's really good chocolate cookies I also like jumbo zwarte peper en zout chips. And katja kokindjes.

[@kayhoorn]

You need to try 'Look-O-Look zure matten' if you really like that Katja candy. But you should probably do a checkup at the dentist first haha

[@idiewiej]

I love Lays Pickles flavor, Dutch cheese, fuet with truffle, Mars icecream bars, Côte D'or chocolate and the diamond shaped marshmallows -spekjes- covered with white chocolate (they are TOO DIE FOR).

[@buncharted]

i have to find the white chocolate spekjes!!!

[@quirijndegreef]

Nice video again 👌

[@chayatarenskeen3064]

i am dutch and i love a good saucijzenbroodje, kroket ,paprikachips, sour worms

[@marcelmichorius2298]

Cold chocolate milk you drink from Chocomel. But when you want it hot? you do not use Chocomel. You use Droste (yes from the Droste effect!) cocoa powder, fresh milk, sugar, and a knife tip of butter. boil the milk, when it boils, put a few spoons (4-5 tablespoons (not the American measure but just the spoons you use to eat soup) for one liter of boiling milk as I can remember), of cocoa powder into your pan of boiling milk. put sugar in it, taste for the right amount of sweetness, and then put the butter in it for the creamy taste. A lot of the older Dutch people will know this (Boomers, generation X). This was given to me when the winters were cold and after skating and playing in the snow, by my mother. Sitting in front of the fireplace, with a runny nose and hot steaming cocoa in my hands. first spooning of the vel, I do not know how to say vel in English. It was a layer on the top. Not great to drink or even eat. And if you think a bit of Droste cocoa in your mouth is wonderful. No, it is not, as it is pure cocoa powder, it is even disgusting when taking it straight from the package.

[@gjalie]

Hero Cassis with some Peach Tree liquor 🍹😋

[@robertjag167]

I used to binge all of these at one point in my life. ESPECIALLY honingdrop 😂😂 Also, Unox has a cup variant of pasta carbonara that I ate like... everyday lol

[@buncharted]

omg that sounds so good!!! i'll have to look for it

[@TheSir2005]

Something else to try from Dutch groceries: Echte Enkhuizer glacé roze koeken, Roomboter gevulde koeken, Brabantse Eierkoeken, Verkade Café noir, Bokkenpootjes, Bastogne koekjes, Lotus Biscoff. And yes i like cookies/cake snacks.

[@buncharted]

delta serves biscoff cookies on their flights!

[@dutchorangelion8137]

eat the ontbijtkoek with butter, but we used it also in the stew.

[@Its.birdperson]

You guys should try Optimel! They have yoghurtdrinks (that arent super sweet) and nice flavoured yoghurts/quarks that also arent super sweet and pretty healthy actually :) I really like the strawberry quark & apple quark and the Vla is also pretty good :-)

[@johnalexander8682]

You indeed should put some roomboter (pure butter) on the Peijnenburg breakfastcake (ontbijtkoek)...

[@Kopazi]

Chocomel is my favourite chocolate milk brand! In Belgium, they call it Cécémel, same taste but French name instead lol.

[@prolapsje]

0:29 this is the first time i hear an american say "goedemiddag" the correct way.

[@flodder1234]

10:55 we also eat drop when we are have a sore throat 12:25 nice to know is the red color in fristi and other brands comes from lice blood it is an excipient E120 so not from fruit

[@guustflater8049]

Nice video! Kletskoppen! My favorite “koekje”

[@hcjkruse]

It is somewhat forbidden to grow black currants in the USA because there is. fungus that needs both currant and timber to prosper. The USA prioritised timber over currants. In Europe it is the other way around.

[@frankgeurts3912]

Red fruit fristi i have always in cans in home❤

[@cloudspecs3864]

Haha you guys are great.