SNACK CRATE NETHERLANDS REVIEW | DUTCH SNACK REVIEW

Welcome back to Love and Junk...Today we are sharing our Snack Crate Netherlands review. This was a really fun box for us! The Netherlands looks so beautiful and the people seem so nice there. We very much enjoyed doing this Dutch Snack Review and look forward to trying more Netherlands snacks soon! #snackcratenetherlandsreview #netherlandssnackcratereview #dutchsnackreview
Welcome to our channel! Thanks for stopping by. We really love our subscriber family so PLEASE SUBSCRIBE while you are here and come say hello to us in the comments and let us know that you're here!
Our contact info
[e-mail]
Love and Junk
PO BOX 1611
Davenport Iowa 52809
USA

[@loveandjunkfood]

Hey there! Thank you so much for watching our video. What we meant by simpler life is that it just seems from everything that I have seen or read is that the work balance seems to be better there. That pollution and crime are less ( which adds to the stress here ) and that The Netherlands is beautiful and peaceful. The bike riding and the architecture there make us want to hop on a plane! Let us know what county you would like to see us try food from next or what other Dutch snacks we should look for!

[@petermaardananders6803]

The windmill cookies are speculaas koekjes, try dipping them in tea, coffee or hot-milk . Stroopwafels( oo=oa thus stroapwafels)are best warm, put em on top of a cup of hot tea/coffee for while. BUT fresh made stroopwafels from a market stall are the best, when you are in NL you must try it👍And there is so much Dutch snacks/food you still can try out . Poffertjes(small pancake-isch yumyumyummies) with f.e. Butter and powdered sugar oe witn Nutella. Bitterballen, a fried savoury thing filled with ragout (all kinds from meat to vegan). Rookworst(smoked sausage) good on it own, but in comby with sourcrout and mashed potatoes and gravy the Dutch classic Zuurkool met worst. Oliebolle(oily balls) met krenten (with raisins), a dougnut-ish deep fried typical dec.holydays treat with powdered sugar on top. Patatje oorlog (frtites war), 'French' frites with mayonaise , sateh sauce and chopped frech onions. Hollandse Appeltaart, so much better than regular Applepie. Tompouche, Limburgse vlaai, Bosche-bollen. Vla(custard- ish desert) from vanilla to chocolade to' hopjes' flavoured. Paprika chips. Boterbabbelaars(butterblabbermouthhs) Werther's orignals . And so, so much more. Come to the Netherlands and bring a healthy appetite with you 👍🤣

[@petermaardananders6803]

Btw your snack box is a mix of some Dutch snacks, but there is so much more and it all depends on personal preferences.

[@Henny1972nl]

Hi, all the snacks in the box are well known(and liked) here in The Netherlands. When you order a coffee anywhere here, there's a very good chance it gets served with a windmill cookie. The Kaneelstok (cinnamon stick) or Kermis stok(carnival stick) is popular with children who visit a fair/carnival with parents or grandparents(too keep them kids quiet lol). The Peijnenburg ginger bread, we call it ontbijtkoek (breakfast cake) or peperkoek (pepper cake), you can find it in every household. The one-sclice pack is to take it to school or work. I like it with real butter, some people also put chocolate sprinkles on it. Stroopwafels are awesome en very popular here, u can find them in any vendingmachine, gas station, trainstations, stores or like in Amsterdam (and other big city's) they make them on the spot for you, warm and deliscious.. All three chips are also popular, like you, I like Wokkels the most. The coffee candy is a tradition here. The fruit candies are nice because they use real fruit extract for taste and color, no artificial stuff. And ofcourse the licorice is very much liked here, the Venco Muntendrop( coin licorice) is (I think) the most popular in The Netherlands. The colored licorice in different shapes you mentioned, we call it Engelse Drop (English Licorice), I think you call it Liquorice allsorts. But yeah great video, I love to watch people from abroad trying our snacks and Licorice :P Thanks!

[@loveandjunkfood]

Seriously, thank you so much for this information. We loved this box! I think we are both wishing we had more of those windmill cookies!

[@maartjevanstiphout3302]

I really liked your video ! 🙂 I love black licorice but then again I am Dutch 🇳🇱 Couldn't live without it. There's a whole assortment of black licorice.

[@loveandjunkfood]

Hi! Thank you so very much!

[@NeoOnyx]

Just to let you know: we (In the Netherlands) do not lead a ‘simpler’ life than in the U.S., only happier 😉 The Netherlands is an advanced country you should read a bit about or watch the video about the Netherlands from the Geography Now channel.

[@loveandjunkfood]

Thank you! Everything I have seen and heard just makes it sound like it's a place we need to visit! It seems people there are just getting the work/life balance right, less pollution and crime etc. Thank you for watching!

[@astridr8076]

We have less crime at the netherlands then in the vs

[@esravanoosterhout8663]

Amen! Its not that simple you think 🤣🙈

[@marcblokpoel]

With the chips, i'm glad they send the Croky Bolognese, that one is way better than the Lay's one. Patatje Joppie is ok in my mind, i'd go for the Cheese-Onion by Lays. But the wokkels paprika, yes, iconic and almost everyone here likes or loves them.

[@jennyvoorhaar9547]

The stroopwafel did not melt. You should eat it as is, two wafels with stroop between them. And the windmill cookies are named speculaas (just in case you want to order them online) 😁

[@svengoris6468]

cheese on bread with mustard.. so goood :p - and yes there where mustard chips but not so popular in Belgium/Netherlands. The bolognese taste for me is too subtle , from any brand. Twisting a fruittelle in 2 small bits...?!! the horror!

[@nourahnielson6204]

Everything you have is very well known in the Netherlands. The Paprika Wokkels is my favourite snack. It is from bell pepper.

[@thernymous]

The 'kaneelstok' vs 'kermisstok' on the packaging: the traditional place to find these sticks for sale is at a candy vendor at a 'kermis', which is Dutch for (traveling) carnival / funfair.

[@FacelessJanus]

The black licorice you got, has to be that hard. Some forms should be soft, others more salty but muntendrop (coin licorice) needs to be hard.

[@loveandjunkfood]

Ok thank you!

[@martindejong3974]

@@loveandjunkfood its for sucking on, not chewing.

[@kevartje1295]

You should try the gingerbread with butter the next time! it's the best! there's also gingerbread like that but with actual ginger or little sugar balls in them.

[@foetsie85]

The gingerbread or peijnenburg we eat it in the morning with a thick layer of butter on top..also common is (hagelslag) chocolate sprinkels on bread

[@nikkiekuipers5891]

The yellow wrapper on the fruitella candy is actually pear

[@loveandjunkfood]

Oh! Good to know! Thank you so much!

[@ronaldvanderstam8662]

The chips are rather local flavour. The gingerbread we like to eat with (full cream) butter when to dry. Cinnamon stick is really a carnival treat like corndogs in USA. Windmill cookies are available in severale variations (thick/thin). Stroopwafel best enjoined fresh but can be warmed up over your cup of coffe/choc...

[@kevartje1295]

The cinnamonstick isn't the only flavor, every year at the carnival/fair there's a stand with hundreds of diffrent kinds of sticks in all flavors. I Really like the cinnamon ones too so I got one last year thats 20 inches tall and 2 inches thick. And you can keep them for over a year before they go bad! (they get really hard over time tho, so watch your teeth or put it in a towel and smash it with a hammer for easy eating)

[@gijsbertuslaurensvandevooren]

There is a place in the US called Holland with Dutch stores. My favorite chips is paprika.

[@fvefve8284]

I'm From the Netherlands and i love the review i Think we have the best snacks and candy in the world

[@loveandjunkfood]

Thank you so much! We can't wait to try more!

[@biancawichard2421]

the i love vegetables on the zure matjes revere to the fact that this candy isnt made with animal gelatine but vegetable gelatine/pectine

[@lbergen001]

Hi, I stumbled on your video and I loved it. Specially because you toasted/cheersed to each other with every treat, so cute to see. Here is some background information for you. These products are all very populair, where speculaas (the windmil cookie), stroopwafel and dropjes (licorice) are added to the dutch genes, so to say. Other products like the special chip flavour are modern. The stroopwafel tastes even beter if you lay it on your hot cup of coffee or tea for a minute to let the caramel melt. The drop (or individual: dropjes) was original ment to eat/suck when you have a cold. It eases your painful throat and opens up your noise. Today there are a lot of new varieties of drop, like combinations with fruit gummy or coated in sugar, but I stick to the original ones, because of their distinct deep flavour.

[@annemieverhoeven2566]

On the peperkoek there needs to be sone butter,sooooooooooo yummy

[@patrickhendrikskingston9303]

The company which makes the gingerbread is 130 yrs old.. Peynenburg

[@beccasmama63]

I use to buy Fruitella all the time from the tuck shop at school. LOL We still have it in the stores I think. The purple on here was black current. I think the yellow one was banana. I prefer lime over green apple.

[@loveandjunkfood]

Agree with the lime comment so much! Black current is a flavor that we dont see much of but we both really like it!

[@blinkachu5275]

Licorice is a weird subject because there's not one flavor of licorice. You got sweet licorice, salty licorice, licorice that's combined with gummy so it has a combo flavor, there's honey licorice, there's hard and soft versions of either, there's super salty ones (like your face will contort due to how salty they are haha), there's even chocolate/licorice combos, tho those aren't my favorites It's weird tho because I've loved it all my life and associate the taste of pretty much all licorice versions with something that tastes good, and pretty much all my US based friends spit it out as if it's the worst taste they've ever had xD Makes me wonder what differs from the taste palette from a US person compared to an EU person (because licorice is not just popular in NL, other countries like Denmark/Sweden and such love it as well) to make it such an appalling taste (though you were quite reasonable in your review ^^) I do wonder if there is a version of licorice you would like, due to the many different flavors there are

[@lindaraterink6451]

I would catogorize the 'hopjes' in the oldfashion kind candy. I don't know anyone that goes to the store and says: "Let me buy some hopjes today.: It is more a candy like a mint you can get in restaurants at the counter. To me at least. It says Netherlands for sure, but I don't think it would be a first choice for many to pick. The cinamon stick or kermis stok (there are different variaties and all called kermisstok) are comonly found on out door fairs or special candy stores. But it is something we associate with outdoor fairs and probably only buy it there, and is also a very old concept. Licorice I would personaly not reconmend muntendrop for the box. We have also different variaties in the drop department. There are better choices. Theres hard and soft licorice. salty or sweet. Coated with a mint layer or salmiac powder combined with fruitgummies or sugarcoated many many more.

[@iamnewhYbrid]

I guess they're populair here but I havent had any of them in years. And havent seen anyone else have them for years, except stroopwafels

[@Disfixional]

Bit, late, but alright. I don't know if you have an Aldi or Trader Joe's anywhere near you (Aldi owns both), you can probably find the windmill cookies (speculaas). So my girlfriend from Illinois tells me at least. As for the range of snacks you received I'd say it's a fairly good representation of what's popular and 'typically Dutch'. I mean obviously it's hard to pack an entire culture into a small box, so of course there's things I'd recommend (Koggetjes, any Cote D'Or chocolate, Pretmix, Pickwick Caramelized Pear tea... just off the top of my head). Overall I'd say there's a fair amount of overlap between the US and the Netherlands... although I would LOVE to see some Jolly Ranchers, Junior Mints, Andes Mints, etc make their way over here. If you're truly interested in the Netherlands, might be worth checking out the Geography Now video on this little speck of a country: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGW3noR7j9-mm8U&ab_channel=GeographyNow ...and now I've turned into one of those people just shoving random information into people's faces by means of a way too long comment. I swore I'd never be that person, but here we are!

[@ronaldvanderstam8662]

Liquorice is an aquired taste.z'n.. in holland we love it... there are multiple flavoures. Like honey, bayleaf... miced gruot with liqourice. .. was surprised to get it from a stsnd based from southern Italy... had more annisseed flavour though.

[@loveandjunkfood]

WOAH! I have never heard of all of those flavors! Wow!!! We are going to have to see if we can order some. That sounds so interesting. Thank you for sharing that!

[@ronaldvanderstam8662]

@@loveandjunkfood Sorry about the spelling mistake(s).....miced gruot....should have been mixed fruit. And once I was in Italy and bought liquorice on a stand there. Bought enough to last me 4 months while I was on board as a captain...which is my profession. I was so suprised they sold it there...outside of the netherlands.

[@laurareynolds3861]

I would love to visit the Netherlands one day

[@loveandjunkfood]

Us too

[@henryhuijbers3158]

Not for just one day, I hope.😄. Anyway, you’re welcome.

[@beccasmama63]

The channel This With Them are from England and they send out candy boxes if you wanted to order one from them.

[@loveandjunkfood]

We love their channel!!! And that is something that we have talked about! Thank you for the reminder!

[@mymum4965]

Would love to go to the Netherlands

[@loveandjunkfood]

We would too! It looks gorgeous there!

[@jonnoblelaw]

Amazing snacks! I would love to visit the Netherlands too!

[@loveandjunkfood]

Us too!

[@littlemissxtra756]

the gingerbread is even better with a bit of butter

[@loveandjunkfood]

Oh my gosh! I would have never thought of that but it makes sense and sounds so good!

[@littlemissxtra756]

@@loveandjunkfood it is 😃

[@mrfluffynl7915]

The 'Zure Matten' say "I love Veggie" because there's no gelatin in them. No animal based products, so vegetarians can eat them too! And I love the patatje joppiesaus chips as well. They don't contain mustard though. It's probably because the recipe for joppiesaus is a secret one and just some of the ingredients are known, that they would guess what's in it. But the description they gave is incorrect. If you order 'Patatje joppie' in a 'snackbar' you'll get fries with joppiesauce. Patatje means 'portion of fries'. It originates from that. Just like Mayo or other sauces. for fries or on snacks like a hamburger or 'frikandel'.

[@loveandjunkfood]

Ahhhh thank you so much for this info! We love learning about the things that we are trying!

[@endthisnonsense7202]

Stroopwafels, you should leave them on top of a central heating conveyor for some time before eating them. Windemill cooky? Never came across them in 53 years of being Dutch, they look like speculaas, it is just a brand for tourists? Liquorice, yes, Dutch, it's a shame they send you this bag, you should get a bag with a sample of the dozens of varieties. These indeed are hard, it's not they took to long to reach you. But there are soft varieties, savoury and sweet, just dozens. They might have sent you "Droptella" instead of Fruitella, the liquoruice variety, they are good! Btw you should be happy not to have tasted laurierdrop (laurel - liquorice) very old fashioned, and extreme... Kaneelstokken? Yes, carnaval candy! Just like the similar "zuurstokken" which are like pink and taste sweet with a bit of sourness. I'm missing "Spekjes" they should definitely be included in this box.

[@loveandjunkfood]

What is a central heating conveyor? Thank you for the information! We love learning about other countries and cultures.

[@endthisnonsense7202]

@@loveandjunkfood Doesn''t matter what I meant with the conveyor, it just needs to be slightly warm, melting the syrup a bit.

[@loveandjunkfood]

We were just wondering because we don't have such things in our homes in the US. Good talk...🙄😂

[@almanoor-bakker5964]

@@loveandjunkfood we don't have central heat and air in our homes as common as in the US, most homes are heated by metal contraptions on the wall with hot water flowing through it, that's what they meant. About the windmill cookies: they are not called like that here, it's speculaas. They are shaped mostly with a windmill on top, so i guess they were called windmill cookies here for export reasons, LOL.

[@beccasmama63]

Licorice Allsorts. I love those. LOL But I don't like the Dutch salty ones.

[@gijsbertuslaurensvandevooren]

Try Brown Liqorice softer in taste

[@irmabresser9218]

Put some butter on the gingerbread. The cookie soak it in your Coffee or tea. Gross to this dutch girl is the cinnamonstick, the venco centendrop which are always hard. Ow and the joppie chips i dont like either.

[@Pasunsoprano]

Please say stroapwaffle. At least that sounds close to okay. And why does the Dutch gingerbread smell like the holidays? Because it was the Dutch who brought all those holiday spices from the far East in the first place. A kaneelstok is probably called a kermisstok (fair stick) here because they are sold at fairs. But nobody ever calls it a kermisstok. Never heard of it even. It's a kaneelstok because kaneel means cinnamon. Fruitella is from the same candy factory that invented mentos. Veggie in Dutch is used as short for vegetarian. So no gelatin.

[@kevartje1295]

I actually feel bad that they gave you that kind of licorice, the coins are known for taking forever to chew, they could've started you on something easier....

[@ChrisRedfield--]

the gingerbread does need a royal amount of butter and coffee or tea.

[@littlemissxtra756]

it's so funny I have never seen an American who likes licorice

[@loveandjunkfood]

hahaha, yeah that is pretty common. Never thought about it until now. However, BOTH of my ( Laura's ) parents loved it. It was my Dad's absolute favorite! x

[@upload2137]

thats like 3 euro worth lol

[@jannekekarst2678]

Het zijn niet allemaal mijn favorieten, zure matjes, bolognese chips en de kaneelstok zou ik echt niet (weer) eten. De rest vind ik echt geweldig. Maar ja ik ben Nederlandse dus ja dat is mijn excuus

[@loveandjunkfood]

Wat is jouw favoriete Hollandse lekkernij?

[@jannekekarst2678]

@@loveandjunkfood Er zijn veel dingen die ik lekker vind in Nederland. Maar de meeste dingen zijn ook provincie gerelateerd.Zo hebben we hier in Drenthe droge worst. Maar rond de kerstdagen en sinterklaas hebben we ook veel dingen die jullie niet kennen maar wel heel erg lekker zijn. zoals roomboter amandelstaaf met sinterklaas maar ook met kerst, dan heb je pepernoten en taai taai. maar ook speculaas of fondant. Zo kan ik nog wel even doorgaan. Maar wat ik absoluut het einde vind is bisaltdrop of laurier drop. Over de top licorice. bisalt is erg heel erg zout en ja laurier is wat jullie bay leaf noemen. Maar drop in het algemeen vind ik erg lekker. Maar dat komt ook omdat we er mee opgroeien. Maar mochten jullie ooit op bezoek komen in Nederland zeg het me en dan zijn jullie van harte uitgenodigd. En dan kook ik voor jullie mijn specialiteit. Snert of te wel erwtensoep met varkenspoten, veel vlees en roggebrood