The curious candy flavors of other countries

What do candies and sodas and other tweets taste like in other countries? Are they all fruit flavored, or something else?
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[@fringeflix]

Maybe the real fruits were the friends we made along the way

[@hillaryclintondidnothingwrong]

I think JJ himself is a fruit

[@jamesmacinnes8397]

lmao

[@aneurysm1991]

@@hillaryclintondidnothingwrong you stole my joke. Damn you.

[@rapscallionrobby]

That is beautiful

[@nargal123]

In my country we have candy flavored like the friends we made along the way!

[@Claro1993]

Fun fact: The purple skittle was originally blackcurrant flavour, but was switched to grape flavour when Skittles were introduced to America.

[@howdoipickaname9815]

I have no idea what blackcurrant tastes like, but I'd imagine I'd like it more than grape

[@MTRHayHay]

@@howdoipickaname9815 its good thats all you need to know

[@Jake-Pederson]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3fCkoupetSlaNU blackcurrant history/candymaking

[@ggkproductions1632]

Skittles aren't American?

[@DewDewMegaDeeDee]

@@howdoipickaname9815 my favorite Old Spice flavor has Blackcurrant

[@alamfernandoayilestrella4667]

I'm from Mexico and I didn't even know that "chamoy" was a fruit, it's presence in candy it's so omnipresent here that it overshadowed it's origin as a fruit

[@gamermapper]

I can't find the info about it as a fruit, only as a sauce, what do you mean?

[@alamfernandoayilestrella4667]

@@gamermapper the guy in the vid said so, but I also looked it up later and couldn't find anything about it, although I did found that it originally was a kind of berry in Japan or something like that

[@sqrcorp]

@@alamfernandoayilestrella4667 yeah, JJ said it comes from sour plums in Asia (probably Japan), in Mexico it's made from dried apricots and tamarind, if memory serves me correctly.

[@ChocolateFantasies]

So interesting, here in the Philippines we have kiamoy! From what I've seen on google, it's basically chamoy but without the spice

[@Pradapussy]

this made me crave jicama with chamoy

[@mikelewicki1557]

I feel like the American equivalent of “red fruits” is fruit punch flavor which I would say is fairly common as being our vague red berry flavored candy.

[@tomfrazier1103]

In Hawaii fruit punch, red, is a pretty common soft drink, beside carbonated ones, "Tahitian Treat", made by one of the Big Soda companies.

[@MasterGeekMX]

Mexican here. The spicy and salty candies are mostly modern, industrialized treats. Traditional mexican candies are in fact really sweet, full of sugar cane and honey: candied fruit, clumps of coco shred, peanut mazapán, merengue...

[@sophroniel]

Sweden is the reverse! Modern candies are sweet, but old-fashioned liquorice is salty or has this chemical on it that is kind of sour (dont know what the english word is) but you're seen as old-fashioned if you like them

[@user-mc2qh4nv5g]

@@sophroniel i wanna say citric acid

[@syrialak101]

@@sophroniel Ammonium chloride?

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

meringue is mexican?? i thought it was french?

[@ratgr]

@@nurailidepaepe2783 Same name different sweet, loosely based on the french stuff

[@queenjohnbee3411]

I'm surprised that Raspberry was left unmentioned in these videos. Here in Europe,it definitely replaces lime/cherry as one of the big 5 flavours anyway.

[@rachelhansen2417]

It’s honestly fairly common in America, which may be why it was hardly mentioned.

[@ginichilders9619]

Plus in the US, we have Blue Raspberry to set raspberries apart from other red fruit

[@psyc8407]

In Finland, a widely popular candy flavour is tar. As in actual tar, the burned-wood residue. It’s used in liquorice, sweets, and ice cream.

[@tonaerio]

I would say in uk our big 5 would be Blackcurrant, Orange, Strawberry, Raspberry and Lime

[@b.w.22]

Raspberry is one of my favorite flavors in candies and I associate it most with these little tins of candies we’d get around Christmas. I think they were French “pastilles” and looked like the fruits they were flavored by.

[@josecarrillo5964]

As a Mexican, I once offered some candy I had on me to my classmates whom were French their reaction was:"this ain't sweet this is spicy, you give this to children???"

[@tylisirn]

I wonder what your friends would have thought of the bag of Finnish chili-salmiac candy I've got here on my desk... It's spicy *and* intensely salty. :P

[@jakel8627]

This made me laugh out loud

[@serenabussell8489]

I'm surprised that any French speaking person would use the word ain't 🤔

[@hannahjeon5087]

More about Korean candy: There’s definitely a lot of melon, milk, and peach flavored candy. Korea is very influenced by China, I think, so it makes sense that there are peach flavored candies in Korea. There’s also some green tea and coffee flavored candies. If you go to a Korea mart, you can find coffee flavored ice popsicles and green tea flavored Oreos. And there’s literally milk carbonated soda that is commonly found in Korean marts and just marts in general. Its called Milkis and doesn’t have much milk flavor, it tastes more like Asian yogurt though Im not sure if thats in every Asian country.

[@lightdreamer_]

I love Milkis! I'd describe it as a tangy yogurt or sour ice cream

[@cocoaorange1]

I live near a Southeast Asian American community in Chicago. I have eaten a lot of melon and tea flavored hard candies over the years.

[@eryalmario5299]

in the philippines mango, green mango, tamarind, and lime are popular but also milk and ube with cheese

[@jonlam855]

Its the same in Japan, with melon, milk, peach, strawberry, grape, green tea and red bean flavoured candy year round and the brands would rotate out seasonal/time limited flavours but I think its less of a chinese influence for them and more of a regional influence and familiarity as Japan's agricultural products are based primarily on melon, milk, peach, strawberry and grape. Certain regions in Japan would also sell special candy like banana floured pocky and you could also get sakura flavoured ice cream and sweets in late winter and early spring as well as lavender in the summer

[@TC-ry1jw]

I think milk candy is a lot less weird when you consider how common cream is as an ingredient in sweet food in north America. Wether candies, chocolates, or baked goods, we use sugary milk products all the time. Also, the recurring trend of fanta being available in local fruit flavors is intrinsic to the brand and tied to it's wartime inception. It might make a good video topic and it's super interesting regardless, I'd suggest you look into it.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

It sounds tasty to me. I think of it as the white on Kinder eggs, or the creme in Oreos

[@tomifost]

Along with milk, yogurt flavor is a thing. I dont have any idea what that means. Milky with a bit of tang?

[@satyakisil9711]

Well, in countries where majority of people are lactose intolerant the flavour ends up being a novelty.

[@ashaler__]

i never knew that fanta being in local flavours was a trend??? wh

[@tasmanmillen]

But in North America it's used much more as a base than a 'flavour' - so the Pocky stick might be cream flavoured but the chocolate dip is what is seen as the 'flavour'.

[@mattkuhn6634]

Actually, in Arabic and Farsi, the lack of a word for "lime" isn't because limes are rare there, but rather because they were originally developed and cultivated there. The lime is a lemon crossbreed, so they don't think of them as being different from lemons. That's why what most North Americans know as a lime is technically called a Persian lime. There are some others out there, key limes for example, but they are dwarfed in prominence by the Persian lime.

[@susear5939]

Well put. For similar reasons is why you rarely see a distinction of lime in India as well.

[@ellejendario97]

Like in Colombia, we generally don't use the word lime, it's always lemon

[@Brassroses]

An excellent point, most of the citrus we think of as common now are hybrids that came from a fairly limited amount of cultivars, like citron and pomelo

[@RSmyII]

In the Deep South peach as a flavor seems to be pretty common, of course not in terms of major commercial food items but in local restaurants, some smaller food brands, and home cooking the peach is commonly used.

[@ashtonw.573]

I think you mostly see yellow peaches in southern US food and white peaches in Asian foods. I'm not sure what the difference is in taste honestly.

[@Gimme_bikelanes]

@@elainea7734 I wonder if that's why blueberry pancakes are so popular in North America.

[@hobojo153alt4]

I would say it's more common to simply see peaches used in things rather than peach flavor. Peach cobblers for example are a near constant around me, but the only time I think I've seen a "peach flavor" was as a Fanta option in a Coke Freestyle machine. (Which was pretty good for the record)

[@Victor1139]

This isn't candy, but when me and my family visited Peru, we got an ice cream bowl with different flavors for everyone to share (think of a banana split) and while it had the usual flavors that we know like chocolate, vanilla and strawberry; it had another one called "lúcuma" which we had never heard of before but we immediately fell in love with it. It has this sort of vanilla/hazelnut taste to it. I later came to find out that lúcuma is a fruit that is very popular in Peru and it's very common to have drinks and desserts made with it.

[@jayteegamble]

Sounds awesome. I can find it as a dried powder. Maybe i'll make some milk shakes!

[@nataliapersonalelecalice7571]

Chilean here. Lúcuma ice cream is so good. And yes, the flavor description is accurate, for those who are curious. Another fruit from here in Chile, and there in Perú is Chirimoya. Which is a juicy and a bit sweet fruit, from what I can remember. (I ate a Chirimoya once with my father) In Ice cream, there's the Chirimoya Alegre (translated as "Jolly Chirimoya") which have two flavors, chirimoya and orange. It's one of my favorite ice cream flavors. The combination of those flavors is so good. An example. Fruna, the beloved (yet controversial in the work aspect) Chilean candy producer, has a Chirimoya Alegre ice cream, and is a orange popsicle with chirimoya cream on the inside. It's pretty good, in my opinion.

[@paz1830]

Other things related flavors in Chile: in the 80s, for some reason "Cola" (Coca-cola flavor) flavor become very popular, thanks to a candy called Media Hora (Half Hour) who suddenly others tried to mimic, even doing a instant drink (in podwer) with a flavor of it. The craze down very soon. Yes, Lúcuma and Chirimoya are some of the most delicious options for ice cream, but other candy who is very popular in Chile, Argentina and Perú is Manjar/Dulce de Leche/Cajeta, who is made in slowly heated milk with sugar. Is very used for cakes and sweets, chocolate, ice creams and candies. Is everywhere. Personally, i have a faborite flavor who now is difficult to found: Violet, the flower i mean. Was my faborite candy in my childhood, but the brand dissapered and the only place where make the candies now is very far away where i live (are homemade...) looks like who these are a kinda popular candy in France, and now im thinking who goes with rose and lavander candies in origin. (i love perfume-like candy)

[@springyb0i693]

I think I've had it in Italy at some local gelato place called "La Pecora Nera" and NGL it was good for a nut flavour

[@springyb0i693]

@Me it wasn't just nut,

[@marcello7781]

If there's one thing I love the most of JJ's videos is how wholesome they can be. From flags to candies, it's nice to see how many differences and similarities we all have around the world.

[@JJMcCullough]

You are very kind my friend

[@someoneontheinternet9462]

@@JJMcCullough Wow Canadians really are hypocrite lol

[@howdoipickaname9815]

@@someoneontheinternet9462 how?

[@someoneontheinternet9462]

@@howdoipickaname9815 yeah-kinda assumed most people wouldn’t get it I mean that he Canadian so he is kind but he’s describing this guy as kind

[@disintegratesintobinary655]

@@someoneontheinternet9462 I don't think you understand what the word hypocrite means and should definitely search it up.

[@admechskitarii6967]

Just to add something here: Mango and green mango are completely different Ripe mango is sweet and soft, but when it is unripe it's actually crunchy and quite sour

[@JJMcCullough]

Which do you like best?

[@jaygandra]

@@JJMcCullough well you can’t really eat a mango when its super green well i mean you could but the experience isn’t the best. The skin is really tough then and it usually tastes awful. And the “fleshy part of the mango is a lot harder and less juicy. Most people, or at least my family, usually cuts of the green mango to avoid the skin and then put it other things. I guess for candies it is a but different but most people just kinda, wait for it to be properly ripe? Like avocados

[@anonymous-ez5br]

@@sohopedeco in south india we use raw mangoes for different curries like mamidikaya pulusu and for dishes like mango rice and we use raw mangoes for making different types of pickle which can be stored and eaten for long time with rice.

[@andre0baskin]

In Cambodia unripe mango is eaten with a mix of ground chillies and salt. It's is quite the mix of sour, salty and hot all at the same time.

[@admechskitarii6967]

@@JJMcCullough I suppose it depends on the mood, but you can be creative. In venezuela, for example, a common street food is green mango slices mixed with chicken broth concentrate

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Licorice deserves a video of its own. No two countries do it the same way. Swedish licorice is pretty hard core. I almost choked on one that had salt and pepper inside.

[@Silverpicker]

I loved this one. Brought me back to when I was 18 and my Swedish friend shared some of his candy with me. Boy was that a shock 😂

[@eminem2996]

You support BLM and you’re evil

[@formicidaeinc.8075]

@@eminem2996 very cool, eminem 👍

[@KetchupRocket]

@@eminem2996 very cool to out yourself as a racist there, Eminem 👍

[@MyBoomStick1]

Licorice?

[@bread5942]

Salmiak Salted Licorice I presume? I can't get enough of the stuff, would love to visit Sweden some time

[@siri3208]

Its also interesting to note that the nordic countries loooove licorice. To the point that in a bag of mixed fruit candies, licorice is usually part of the Apple, rasberry, lemon etc.-lineup

[@BobWitlox]

Licorice is also a major part of candy culture in the Netherlands. Both salty and sweet licorice, and salmiak. I'd say half of the candy section in a supermarket is devoted to licorice.

[@AnnaKaunitz]

@@BobWitlox The licorice in the Netherlands is bland and sweet compared to the real salty licorice and salmiak in Sweden and Finland. Even the Danish licorice is to sweet and bland for Swedes and Finns. And don’t get me started on sugar and popcorn, so weird.

[@BobWitlox]

I guess you've never tasted double-salty Dutch licorice

[@duffman18]

Licorice has always been super popular in the UK too. They still are today.

[@ethanielclyne5810]

My Danish friend has liquorice toothpaste

[@heftig0]

Apparently actual Waldmeister tastes nothing like the modern "Waldmeister" aroma mixture. The plant has also been banned from food use in Germany since 1974.

[@cannedeals]

I believe it is banned in children’s food. Adult foods (like beer) still have it in low level.

[@bastiaan4129]

I completely forgot about that green götter speise stuff, I used to love that as a child on holiday in Germany.

[@CaptainApathetic]

@@cannedeals it's the same in the US, if you look at where it says banned, it says its permitted for alcoholic beverages only

[@teaartist6455]

It does actually taste quite similar but you need fairly small amounts of the herb to get that distinct flavour, large amounts just give you a generic grassy flavour.

[@666rsrs]

We're i'm from it's tradition to make "maibowle" in spring, which is white wine infused with waldmeister and then filled up with champagne and it tastes pretty similar to the artificial flavor

[@Fish-is7mb]

As an Australian, i've never considered that musk flavoured candy isn't a thing in most other places. It isn't extremely popular here but it's far from uncommon, so it's strange to hear it talked about as some exotic thing. I can only really describe the flavour as super artificial, sweet and floral.

[@xavierbrown4051]

As a New Zealander, we don't have that here. 😆 I've never ever heard of it, and I've been a lot of different places in NZ. It sounds rather bad, no offense. I like the cinnamon pink candy tho.

[@lztx]

Musk flavour can't be too difficult because even the supermarket brands sell it, along with a few others. The first time I heard that Musk was Australian only was on one of those lists of "disgusting foods from around the world". Australia's entries were Vegemite (of course), witchetty grubs (which is really just "bush tucker" and not commercialised at all) and musk sticks.

[@squkyshoes]

I'm here imagining it's a variant of the artificial tasting "bubblegum" flavor we have in the US. (Don't know if it's a thing elsewhere)

[@lztx]

@@squkyshoes Musk is distinct from bubblegum. I would generally describe the flavour of bubblegum as "blue" while musk is "pink", though I know that doesn't make any sense outside my own culture!

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Yeah, kind of miss it having moved to the UK. But as for floral flavour, you could compare it to parma violets I suppose.

[@b.w.22]

They seem to be no more, but my all-time favorite candies were these French “pastillines” that came in a metal tin. There was mixed lemon, orange, and raspberry though you could get single flavors that would be the shape of the fruit. A Christmas tradition I’m gutted are no longer available.

[@dharmani_youtube]

I always am fascinated on how Mexican and Indian cuisines are so similar in preferences to tastes and ingredients. Except Beef understandably but a segment of India does enjoy that as well.

[@Ray_Vun]

i understand brazil having similarities, because portugal invaded india back in the day, so some of the culture transferred. but spain never colonized india, so the hispanic countries must've had some type of transfer in culture through their closeness with portugal and brazil

[@EnigmaticLucas]

@@Ray_Vun Or it could Spain and Portugal themselves being close and that just being inherited by colonies

[@Ray_Vun]

@@EnigmaticLucas that's literally what i said. the closeness of the hispanic countries with portugal and brazil caused the cultural transfer

[@boygenius538_8]

Lol I’m Indian and can’t live without beef. Though I live in America so that helps.

[@SlavicCelery]

Mexican food is the polar opposite of many Chinese foods. Stuff that is cooked in one country is served raw in the other.

[@TheSnakebite10153]

As someone who grew up in Southern California, I went to school with a lot of Mexican kids and they would always have all their spicy candies. It's interesting looking back because it felt like there was always a kind of candy culture clash between what children in school preferred. As someone who probably has the biggest sweet tooth of anyone I know, I always considered spicy candy blasphemy lol

[@erwinneopiano]

As a mexican that hates spicy flavours I can share the opinion that putting chili on everything is insane. And I mean they put chili in EVERYTHING

[@LeJunny]

@@erwinneopiano I try to sustain my chili addiction but sometimes I find myself putting Valentina on pretty much most meals I eat. my GF however takes it to another level, during breakfast she’ll eat her sausage, bacon, hash brown, and eggs with Cholula

[@alfredo9850]

@@LeJunny I flavor my water with chamoy and chili 😩😩

[@Khorne_of_the_Hill]

I fucking love all the chili/mango candies

[@Katie08822]

@@erwinneopiano I’m not a huge fan of spicy or sour foods, but more than anything I find it bizarre that they completely eclipse sweet and salty foods here in Mexico. The idea of eating mango, potato chips, tacos, etc., without adding chili or lime (or more often both) is incomprehensible to some people. People end up with cracked tongues and gastritis from the sheer amount of irritating spice and acid they consume. I feel like an alien for liking buttered popcorn and “plain” watermelon.

[@Bouzhe]

There are quite a few flower flavored candies in France: violet, rose, red poppy, lavender, acacia… but these are traditional candies, not hard to find but not as easy as the fruit flavored ones

[@reviewiaid6432]

As an Indonesian, im so baffled on how similar the flavor between Indonesian food to Mexican’s. A snack consisting of young sour mango with chili and salt is a regular thing here. Also guava, tamarind, and mango candies. We also have ginger candy, and durian candy. Their Chili Colorado is really similar to Indonesian Rendang. We also have a dish called Panada (filled with spicy fish flakes) thats actually found in Argentina as Empanada. I dont even know the history on how these foods and flavors collide being on the other side of the world!

[@ma_junia]

Spain?? Also many of the same fruits being grown in both places

[@hndrwn]

Tamales also similiar with nasi bungkus/bakar

[@jr3753]

Chilis are indigenous to the Americas

[@nathanielkingsbury6355]

Quick note: when you talked about anise seeds, you showed an image of star anise, which is actually a different spice. Anise and Start Anise have very similar flavors (though I'd argue that there are some subtle differences between the background notes of each), so not a big deal, but botanically they are completely distinct.

[@jannetteberends8730]

For me they are complete different. I like anise, don’t like star anise.

[@the_changerang]

Those Chinese guava candies are a staple to every Chinese child's upbringing. However, none of us know where they come from, they either appear at restaurants as post-meal treats or they magically appear in our grandparents' bags. For some reason we always have a hard time finding them at grocery stores so we just assume that once you open a restaurant or start having grandkids they just start magically appearing :)

[@stacie1595]

In East Asia, like in Japan and Korea at least, red bean is also a popular flavor. While it's not really reduced to a "flavor" that's added to lollipops, it is present in a lot of sweets and street foods. Also, the grape flavor is completely different here. Western candy tends to take the flavor of concord grapes and it ends up being really tart and almost medicinal where as grape flavor in Korea and Japan takes its cues from the "shine muscat" or these really big, really sweet green grapes and the flavor is way better! Another thing I've noticed is that Koreans tend to think of garlic, cheese, and potatoes as sweet flavors. Garlic bread will have sugar on it and be eaten as a treat or desert and potato chips can come in sweet flavors as well as salty flavors. Cheese flavored things also tend to be on the sweet side like cheese flavored ice cream.

[@nickiadams8244]

Hey JJ!! Thank you for this interesting video!! You just did a guest lecture in my university class a few weeks ago but I was sick and missed the class! I have been watching your videos for a while now and I just wanted to say thank you for coming to my class and sharing your experiences with youtube with us!! I'm so sad I missed you but learning about your creative process was super exciting and interesting watching the recorded zoom class! :) Thanks again!!

[@gerardacronin334]

That was fun! I’m sure JJ enjoyed doing all those fruity graphics. For the next cultural foodie odyssey, I nominate Carbohydrates Of The World.

[@marcello7781]

Pasta and Pizza ❤️

[@gerardacronin334]

@@marcello7781 And Potatoes and Rice, and….

[@stickjohnny]

@@sohopedeco Bread, specifically, would be am interesting one to dive into.

[@ldelgg]

[@De1n1ol]

@@tetuben2879 many nations I guess. We belarusians are often stereotyped as potato eaters among other post soviet countries

[@TurtleMarcus]

I'm reminded of "kamferdrops" ("camphor lozenges") here in Norway, which are yellow or browish-yellow hard candies flavoured with camphor. It is associated with old people, so much so that it has become a cultural shorthand for being old. Every grandma has a bag of "kamferdrops" in her purse. Like so many sweets and drinks, they were originally made and sold in pharmacies, and they are an example of "brystkarameller" ("chest candies"), sweets spiked with flavours believed to alleviate coughs and soreness in the mouth and throat. The history of sweets seems to have a lot in common with the history of pharmacies and medicine, which is a topic I'd like to explore further.

[@DoctorCyan]

Soda as well!

[@nellutterback]

we call those Cough Drops in America

[@wotchermuch]

Camphor!! That is used in australia in moth balls to repel moths! I think I had also seen it once in a cold sore ointment so the pharmaceutical origin does make sense to me.

[@bockskarr6626]

Yes this would be a great JJ topic to cover cuz I have little experience but there's tons out there. My dad was or is into those nasty little drops 🤣🤣 I can't handle them 🤢

[@tiannahanson4545]

@@wotchermuch I live in the Caribbean and same here

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

One of my favorite "candies" ever was Tama Roca, which my ex who lives in CDMX used to send to me. It's dried tamarind covered in chili powder and salt. Given tamarind's unique flavor profile, it hits all 4 basic tastes at once. You have to watch out for the seeds, though, because I am pretty sure it is dried whole fruit.

[@memaybeyou6276]

6:04 You talked about this font in a prior episode named Fauxthenticity. You said it was not only cringy but racist. I love your channel by the way. I just found it on the 5th of Dec 2021, and I can't stop binging your content.

[@snqoqo]

As an Austrian, I love the flavor "waldmeister" I really love it and it basically tastes like the colour green and a forest in my opinion

[@TrubelTrixi]

and it absolutely does not taste like cinnamon as he said

[@darksunrise957]

This kind of makes me think of spearmint, but not "minty", if that makes any sense? Is that on the right track?

[@Dariaosu]

Yes it's like mint but better suited for candy and fizzy drinks.

[@vaiyt]

green flavor!

[@snqoqo]

@@vaiyt *Y E S, THE OBJECTIVELY BEST FLAVOR*

[@EmperorofImorta]

I would be interested to see a video on traditional wedding foods around the world. I know it might be more of a niche thing since everyone does their own thing, but perhaps there are general trends?

[@tamaraschmeling7361]

In my experience butter mints are usally at weddings in the US(Midwest). Homemade ones are usally shaped as leaves or roses and they tend to have a sugary outside coating with a soft inside. Otherwise there are pre-made butter mints that are used. I'm not sure how the tradition started however.

[@mrcharisma]

I discovered your channel today in the morning and I already freaking love you, man! A subject that some would think random and dull becomes so interesting, engaging and thrilling to hear about in your videos! Your sound editing, visual aids and, most importantly, your demeanor and engaging voice make all of this awesome food culture even more pleasant to listen to and learn about. Cheers from an ESL Teacher who's going to use your videos for lessons a lot!!!

[@StudioNama]

Love hearing about how food just, "is", in other countries. It's just another way to see what makes a culture unique, and I live for that!

[@qocari21]

Actually, I would say that one of the most confusing subjects for me while I was learning english was learning that the green ones that here in Mexico we call "Limón" are "Lime" in english, and the yellow ones we call "Lima" are "Lemon" in english. I would also like to add that here in Mexico, limes are so normal, that you can even find them in the smallest of stores, or at least that's my experience. We put lime in all food, especially to the "antojitos" which is how we call Traditional Mexican food you would usually find in the street markets (aka Mercaditos)

[@jerryborjon]

Yeah, I was also REALLY confused about the Lemon VS Lime thing. Are Yellow Lemons actually called Limes in Mexico though? I could’ve sworn I’ve seen the Green Lemon flavor be called “Lima Limón,” but I guess that could have been both flavors mixed.

[@ratgr]

@@jerryborjon Nope, Yellow Lemons are called like that Limon Amarillo, Limon Real or Limon americano are close to what americans call a lemon, while the fruit we call Lime is not even available in the US, and is kind of a bitter Lemon

[@vinicius_teodoro]

That's interesting. In Brazil we also refer to lime as "limão" but we only use the word "lima" to refer to a variety of sweet oranges which we call "laranja-lima".

[@jerryborjon]

@@ratgr - You know what? I never realized that there were multiple types of Limes. Apparently the small limes are called “Key Limes.” I always thought they were just smaller limes of the same species. This is way more confusing than I thought, and I already knew it was confusing.

[@milipin7113]

I think that's confusing to us as well, in Argentina the yellow ones are lemon, the green one lime, and we don't really use lime in anything besides some drinks

[@CarbonSpire]

I feel like green apple was culturally introduced to the US by jolly ranchers in the 90s. I think it's interesting that grape/banana candy flavors are so far out of the cultural zeitgeist now when they were extremely prominent when I was a kid. It's pretty difficult to actually find either of these flavors in conventional stores where they used to be quite prominent.

[@jakefelty]

I only remember banana laffy taffy with that flavor

[@CarbonSpire]

Another banana stand out was banana runts. I may be wrong, but I think the chemical in circus peanuts is very similar to the more distinctive fake banana flavor today. Sometimes I see banana flavored milk at the stores these days.. Lol. I assume Bubbaloo is similar to Bubbliscious in the US... But their grape gum is impossible to find these days and the best fake grape ever made! Lol

[@shawna620]

One of the 5 flavors of Wacky Wafers is banana. It was always my favorite.

[@esmereldapinchon1422]

Used to love grape and cherry Fun Dip candy. 70s US childhood

[@biponacci]

Banana’s still a pretty popular flavour in NZ, same with watermelon. Just in general.

[@frostyguy1989]

I'm from New Zealand, and I've never seen musk-flavoured lollies. We're mostly the same as the US and Western Europe in lolly flavours, but we do have milk bottle lollies, kiwifruit flavours, guarana, and the perfection that is the pineapple lump. I do miss snifters, a kind of hard lolly with a chocolate shell and minty core that we stopped making.

[@TakenOutAndShod]

On a hunch I did some googling, and you might have some across the flavour as Pink Smokers. They get described as having an "aniseed and clove flavour", but honestly I encountered the little medicinal looking things before the actual spices.

[@HarleyPJane]

Aw man, I wish you were my teacher back in high school, you make learning fun, I'm aussie and never have left Australia, yet I find myself watching even your videos about Canadian politics which I don't even think I should care about, its just fun when you explain it, underrated channel, thanks JJ, your like my online teacher

[@shroomyesc]

Some level of similiarity when it comes to "spicy candy" like in Mexico is here in Finland (the rest of the Nordics and apparently the netherlands too) salmiak liquorice is king, which is a variety of liquorice flavour laced with ammonium chloride. It was probably originally a cough medicine, but it's one of the ubiquitous flavours when it comes to basically anything. A lot of fruit candy also includes salmiak flavour in it as well to make the fruit flavour savoury.

[@duffman18]

We have a fair amount of spicy sweets (candy) in the UK too. I suppose because we all grow up eating a lot more spice than the average American does. It's a daily part of our diet. So I remember as a kid always finding sweets in shops where the spiceness was the main advertising schtick it had. Like the logo would have a cartoon character with a mushroom cloud coming out of his head. That sort of thing. We'd dare each other to try to eat it. I seem to remember Atomic Fireballs/Fireblast being the most popular ones when I was growing up in the 90s And these days you can buy spicy skittles in the UK. Yeah, really. I don't think they're very nice to be honest. I prefer the sour skittles. I associate spiciness with dinner dishes. Like curries. Even though curries, even British ones like tikka masala, are very very sweet anyway, they're still a "savoury" dish in my mind. I wouldn't wanna eat spicy sweets. But yeah, I have found and bought spicy skittles in the UK. It's very weird to me, lol.

[@nahometesfay1112]

@@duffman18 Actually cinnamon and ginger candy is quite common in America with a boatload of nameless hard candies, fireballs, and hot tamales (they're like mike 'n ikes but spicy (if you don't know mike 'n ikes they're kinda like jelly beans))

[@Gibusnipu]

Yeah can confirm when it comes to Finns liking that variety of liquorice. We even have basically vodka that's flavored with salmiak

[@zipbangcrash]

@@duffman18 Oh yes, atomic fireballs were some of my absolute favorites in the 90s here in the US as well! We had a lot of the quote/unquote spicy flavors then and still do, based on cinnamon or ginger flavors almost exclusively though, with the exception of the contents of the international aisle. I'm particularly fond of ripping hot ginger stuff myself still! We've got a pretty good panoply of soft drinks that fall into the ginger beer category - not ginger ales, which I would argue don't taste of ginger at all! But some ginger beers here (Q, Cock n Bull, Fever Tree) that can leave your lips good and numb with their tasty, sweet, cold, sparkling fire! But you're right, I think spicy might be a lot more ubiquitous than described in this vid, although Mexican spicy is a wholly different experience since those are mainly derived from chiles. As someone who loves spice, but is allergic to capsaicin, I gotta get my kicks from ginger. 😝🔥

[@creepermat]

Nice video! Here in Uruguay we don't grow Guaraná, but having Guaraná Soda from Brazil is pretty common and it's actually my favourite soda. I never knew how they looked, so thanks you for showing me that! jaja Also, a tip for saying names that contain "tildes" (áéíóú) is that the "tilde" indicates where you have to put the accent in the word. For exaple you said guarAna (which would have been written as Guarána), Guaraná is said guaranA. The vowel that contains the "tilde" is the one that sounds the "loudest"!

[@joshuablaylock6113]

Enjoyed having my understanding of taste preferences expanded by these videos. Good work.

[@thoroughlyjordan]

4:45 Here in Texas I have found a Haribo product with Blackcurrant as a flavor: Twin Snakes. The purple snakes are blackcurrant flavored, and the green snakes are apple flavored.

[@luke_cohen1]

Here’s an idea: America is famous for its burger, a high calorie, simple sandwich that people slap together quickly so people can get back to work as soon as possible during lunch. Mexico has a similar relationship to the taco and both are incredibly exportable to other nations. Do other countries have a similar dish in their country’s cuisine? Edit: Also, I didn't have my notifications turned on for this comment so sorry if I didn't respond. Now that I have, I'm quite surprised that this blew up. It turns out that this is truly a topic worth covering since the diets of the laborer and schoolchildren are often overlooked by the public. Either way, thanks for the support and i hope life has been going well for all of you since this comment was originally published 2 months ago.

[@clement9782]

Croque Monsieurs for us french people :)

[@clement9782]

@theLundLs Isn't Döner something far more turkish than german ?? In France we have kebab places everywhere and we say "eating a turk' " to say having a döner kebab

[@clement9782]

@theLundLs Maybe not when invented, but now it's widespread in multiple countries, including Turkey ! They also use a type of flatbread (Naan/Bazlama) and use kebab meat along multiple toppings and sauce. It's everywhere in turkey now, so i'm mitigated as it's not only a german thing and isn't really part of German heritage, but it was invented and popularized in germany so .. i don't know

[@fede1324ee]

In Argentina we have "milanesa" which is kinda like shnitzel. You have them freezed, and just put them on the oven and you have lunch. Also "empanadas" have a similar function

[@thighmeat6034]

onigiri in Japan, and spring rolls in Thailand/Vietnam? And buns in general i think, some have a good range of things stuffed in

[@JcRichard]

You should talk about the fun categories of fruits. Like how a grape is a berry, but a cherry is not a berry. An avocado is a berry, but a raspberry is a rose. It is a serious rabbit hole if you go down it.

[@ChrisNahrgang]

The botanical vs culinary categories for most foods is insanely confusing. A chef would call an eggplant a vegetable and a raspberry a berry, but a botanist would say fruit and rose.

[@Ray_Vun]

strawberries aren't berries, but bananas are. it makes your brain hurt thinking about it

[@ravenlord4]

Also tomatoes are fruits. but the various melons are veggies (gourds). Go figure.

[@kaiyodei]

botany is crazy isn't it?

[@ravenlord4]

@@kaiyodei Indeed, and domestication has a lot to do with that. We would recognize neither sight nor taste of most versions of these in the wild. There is a great read and images at Business Insider about that.

[@wakakabravo7998]

From my experience as malaysian, the most common candy flavour that i found as a kid is coffe, chocolate, milk, rose, mint, peanut and sugar candy. I remember my grandmother said that during ww 2, the japanese soldier will often give the milk candy for the kid. In some place in malaysia especially in north state, they still call candy as coklat which come from the word chocolate because chocolote have been common candy flavour in the past. Only when im at high school that i started to see more fruit candy flavour. Before that fruit flavour are mostly associate with soda flavour. Beside the common fruit flavour, in malaysia we also have coconut, durian and tamarind flavour.

[@GM-vn2lg]

I LOVE these month long themes that tie subsequent videos. Keeps me thinking about it

[@mapleflake1586]

You forgot one country that has one of the most Identifiable flavor of that country, maple flavored candies as well as cookies, it is mostly uniquely Canadian.

[@lightdreamer_]

I can't live without a bag of maple candies in my purse. Another flavor I think is rare elsewhere is the flavor of pink peppermints. I'm unable to find the translation in english, but the flavor is called "thé des bois" in french. It's mostly associated with pink candy.

[@tomfrazier1103]

I saw them as a kid in the States in the '70s-'80s, but have not found them lately, and have looked.

[@SYVZS]

@@lightdreamer_ do you mean what we in the US call wintergreen?

[@kingchuckfinley]

@@tomfrazier1103 they’re all over the place in ny north country

[@lhaviland8602]

One of the oldest candies as well. Native Americans made them by boiling maple sap past the syrup phase until it was tacky/solid, which is actually still how it's made.

[@sagethemage941]

This made me realize how different fruit-flavored candy culture is from fruit salad culture here in the us (Im not sure if fruit salads are a thing elsewhere but its basically a variety of types of fruit chopped up and mixed together). I feel like most store-bought fruit salads i see have cantaloupe, honeydew, grapes, blueberries, and sometimes watermelon, pineapple, and strawberries (at least here on the west coast). Its interesting how americans seem to have a different "fruit canon" depending on how they eat their fruit

[@jackyex]

@@sohopedeco I didn't see many fruit salad with apples in Brazil most people think they are bland, but Papaya and Mango are very common oranges too

[@Ray_Vun]

in portugal i grew up eating fruit salads with apple, pear, banana, kiwi, maybe some pineapple

[@harshilpatel684]

We put milk in our fruit salads

[@k.umquat8604]

Fruit salads are moderately common in Turkey and the most common fruits are apples,oranges, bananas,strawberries,pears and honeydews.

[@loraecox2568]

this was a fun video! thank you for sharing your knowledge and making me smarter!!

[@anni1667]

Almost all finnish fruit candy bags have salmiakki aka salty liqorice in them. Stores also like to seperate fruit candy and salmiakki/liqorice to their own small sections. You can buy a whole bag of only salmiakki and I love it. One of the most popular ones is turkin pippuri, which is a spicy salmiakki hard candy. Salmiakki is also popular in alcohol and ice cream and you can also find chocolate covered salmiakki. Also also I'd say our big 5 fruit flavoures are lemon, orange, pear, strawberry and raspberry. Pineapple and apple sometimes replace lemon and pear.

[@bubski6981]

Can't we just all agree that Mango is fruit candy-flavor masterclass?

[@spaceman7402]

Mango or strawberry are the top

[@eryalmario5299]

Mango and tamarind is top tier

[@bockskarr6626]

@@spaceman7402 i agree mango and strawberry . . . I really love black currant but yeah America yay 😁 i can still make black currant ejuice

[@cheekylovelycockatiels2058]

For me it somehow smells like carrots

[@edmundolastra3279]

I would love to see a vidoe on "curry" or the cultural concept of it. You've got indian, thai and japanese curry already to start with. I've often describeed mexican "mole" (mole-eh) as mexican curry to my non-mexcian friends. There's also an interesting historical aspect to look in to fore the difference betwen british curry and indian cury. Loved this video by the way, thanks!

[@samridsdale4484]

Great video! As a New Zealander I can safely say I have never heard or even come across musk flavoured anything! I would say we don't really have any particularly unique flavors when it comes to lollies (candy). I think we have more unique flavors when it comes to chocolate with companies like Whittakers making flavors such plum and almond or pear and honey.

[@nostaldec4705]

Hearing the Thomas theme song at 5:15 made my day. Thanks, J. J.!

[@vfsdm]

When you first described Musk flavor, the first thing that came to mind was tutti-frutti ( all fruits in Italian), which is what Brazilians call the flavor gum ball has

[@mrgoldengraham027]

Oh my god, it all makes sense now. Tutti frutties (they were called "tooty frooties" here though) are sweets and a flavour here in the UK. When I taste it, I would think "oh yeah tutti-frutti flavour". I never considered it to mean all fruits, I thought it was just a flavour or something.

[@EmperorJake]

Musk is nothing like tutti frutti, I've tried both

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Tutti-frutti exists in the US (and yes, it's called the same thing), but it's not that common

[@scavalcanti]

I came here to say this. I was mind blown when I found out as a kid that tutti frutti wasnt as actual fruit.

[@nikitahichoii482]

Yeaaah, I dont know how musk tastes but sounds similar to "tutti frutti" flavored gum (which ironically doesnt taste really like any fruit)

[@___Nobody__]

You should talk about the invention of artificial candy/food flavors we think are real. Like blue raspberry as example

[@erikjohnson9223]

It is supposedly based on Rubus leucodermis (the black raspberry variant native west of the Rockies). However I have only eaten Rubus occidentalis (Eastern/Midwestern black raspberry) so "blue raspberry" tends to taste fake/chemical to me.

[@mustardgiraffe187]

Honorable mention for an underrated gem...Rhubarb! It is one of my favourite flavours. It is really good in drinks, candy, cakes etc. I also really like violet flavour candy, it has a very deep, mellow taste. Elderflower is fantastic in everything too!

[@feihan9813]

Chinese hawberry flavors are also hugely popular (and traditional) in China. What's interesting is that in East Asia, especially among young people, flavored cigarettes are getting more and more popular (especially with Korean tobacco companies), some popular flavors are mint, lemon, orange, strawberry, mango, as well as other ones like melon, coffee, yogurt, popcorn, grapes. My favorite ones are Lucky Strike's lemon and mint as well as Marlboro's dried citrus (which are both ironically American brands).

[@maxherman8383]

One of the fruity things that shocked me when I was outside of Canada was the first time I had seen "squash" in an Irish grocery store. We had little things that could squirt flavored syrup into your water at home, but I was a bit taken aback when there they were selling huge bottles of it. I thought it was just some kind of artificial fruit juice at first. It was shocking to say the least to drink it straight for the first time, especially in blackcurrant flavor (which I hadn't been used to).

[@JJMcCullough]

Oh yes I have seen those in other countries too… it is weird isn’t it?

[@freddiesimmons1394]

Squash... the vegetable?

[@poankiyu7664]

@@freddiesimmons1394 Nah it's like super strong dilutable orange or blackcurrant juice usually. Pretty common down in Ireland. MiWadi is the only brand I've ever seen sell the stuff but it's a big thing over here all the same.

[@rainy916]

Very common in the UK too, a popular brand would be Robinsons

[@freddiesimmons1394]

@@sohopedeco so it has sort of a tangy, racquetbally taste?

[@jinjysbro]

I grew up in Los Angeles so it is not that hard to get ahold of Mexican candy. I once bought some from the store as a kid, and I was PISSED on how spicy it was 😂😂

[@tomifost]

They have alot of that in OK too. I had some tamarind candy that was salty and spicy and it was like drinking orange juice when you thought you had milk.

[@landonboomstra3410]

I had the exact same experience growing up in DFW, kid me was enraged lmaooo

[@EthanPerales.]

Weak

[@duffman18]

We have a fair amount of spicy sweets (candy) in the UK too. I suppose because we all grow up eating a lot more spice than the average American does. It's a daily part of our diet. So I remember as a kid always finding sweets in shops where the spiceness was the main advertising schtick it had. Like the logo would have a cartoon character with a mushroom cloud coming out of his head. That sort of thing. We'd dare each other to try to eat it. I seem to remember Atomic Fireballs/Fireblast being the most popular ones when I was growing up in the 90s And these days you can buy spicy skittles in the UK. Yeah, really. I don't think they're very nice to be honest. I prefer the sour skittles. I associate spiciness with dinner dishes. Like curries. Even though curries, even British ones like tikka masala, are very very sweet anyway, they're still a "savoury" dish in my mind. I wouldn't wanna eat spicy sweets. But yeah, I have found and bought spicy skittles in the UK. It's very weird to me, lol.

[@DepressedLuigi92]

Since the holidays are coming up, i was wondering if you can do a video about holiday snacks/treats Like Christmas pudding, gingerbread, candy/peppermint canes, eggnog, etc, and when/where they were created.

[@Arsenik17]

I appreciate the amount of foods u purchased for demonstration purposes.

[@pounamutaniwha8881]

i'm from New Zealand and i ave never seen musk flavoured candy, what i do reckon is that its hard to escape pineapple and kiwifruit flavor in NZ and if your looking at ice cream one of the most popular flavors is boysenberry.

[@roskill2345]

Yeah, I've never seen musk favoured anything

[@idk-zj4cz]

Same here. I hadn't even heard of musk candy before watching this.

[@Elitist20]

I'm from Australia and grew up with musk sticks, but haven't seen them lately. I also miss Fruit Tingles!

[@vinny.montgomery]

Both kiwi birds and kiwifruits? Man, your country really likes everything with the word kiwi

[@kippen64]

Have you seriously never had musk sticks? I am Australian and in my fifties.

[@lachesarborisov9531]

Oh yeah, I agree as a European that the forest fruit (as we call them in Bulgarian: горски плодове) taste is definitely a thing not only in candies, but also in things like cold tea, I've always found it a very nice flavor actually

[@Nol41]

In Austria we also have forest berry yoghurt.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

Здравей, най-после, да открия друг българин! Съгласен съм. По-рано написах коментар за вкусове в България, ще го paste-на тук, в случай, че искаш да добавиш нещо: " I am Bulgarian, but born and raised in England, so not the best person to ask for an extensive explanation on what the flavour canon here, but I can give it a shot... -The fruits are typically the same in sweets, I'd say lime is more popular in adult drinks, and is seen more like a lemon, but green, however it is gaining popularity. In soft (non-alcoholic) drinks, there are two flavours which beat all: peach and "вишна /vishna" (which is basically cherry, but sour). I find it ironic, as peach is a common juice flavour in Bulgaria (served commonly in glass bottles for kids at bars and restaurants, but also as a carton in shops), but I find it's extremely rare in England, where I've only seen Peach juice in foreign-stock shops. Vishna is basically cherry, but sour. We differentiate vishna as a different fruit from cherries, and I believe they are popular here, as they are found commonly (in fact I have a vishna tree outside my house, in Bulgaria). -A very popular flavour is "gorski plodove", basically the forest beriies/fruits from the video. -Another interesting fruit, which I don's see anywhere else is "dyula" (Google translates it as "quince,", whatever that word is). I don't think I've ever seen dyula as a sweet/candy flavour (not sure for juice flavours, though), but I wanted to share it. I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere else, but it's a common flavour for compots (a non-alcoholic drink made from and drunk with fruit), and it's really sweet and tasty. The fruit itself looks like a pear, but I'd say the flavour is more peach-y, but not really. -A unique flavour common in Bulgaria, primarily in Lokums (Turkish delight, but Bulgarian) is Rose flavour, which we are proud of, as Bulgaria is famous for their roses. -A weird flavour I've found is whipped creme flavour, but that was only once, in Lokums, and I've never seen it before, so just placing it here. That's pretty much it, most sweets/candy share the same flavour as that of America, I don't have much else to say, so bye. Also, once again, although I often visit Bulgaria, I was raised in England, so there might be a world of flavours I've missed, but I've covered what I know. "

[@Ray_Vun]

yeah, in europe, if something is red it tends to either be strawberry or generic berry flavor. you can get it in candy, yoghurts, drinks, etc

[@kacpergalik609]

Poland as well.

[@mdmenzel]

I think the popularity of tisanes in continental Europe, particularly Germany, might be an offshoot of this.

[@funkycows345]

I feel like ube and taro, two flavors I grew up with in the Philippines, are both very uniquely southeast Asian tastes and are not very well known or popular here in the states. Specifically in the Philippines, though, it’s also very common to see sweet rice cakes and pastries topped with sweet “American style” cheese, or sweet cheese flavored ice cream. My boyfriend thought it was very weird when I showed him how popular of a flavor it was over there!

[@G1nger11702]

I love these videos. Always an unexpected topic

[@robertdbarge]

1. In Australia there's a green flavour called "Coola" which is kind of its own thing until you learn that it's a type of lime flavour. 2. Worth mentioning the chinotto citrus fruit that only Italians seem to use as a flavour. That's mostly used for a soft drink though. 3. Durian is a popular green fruit flavour among the Chinese diaspora

[@nick012000]

"In Australia there's a green flavour called "Coola" which is kind of its own thing until you learn that it's a type of lime flavour." That must be a regional thing, but I've definitely had brown cola-flavored candies that are flavored to taste like off-brand Coke.

[@shmonder5040]

@@nick012000 I’ve had lime coola which is that common lime flavoured cordial. But I always thought that “coola” was the brand.

[@Buugipopuu]

I've been repeatedly annoyed that San Pellegrino is available in the UK in basically every flavour they make except the Chinotto flavour, which is clearly the best.

[@cru_bii]

ube and pandan are quite popular flavors for traditional Filipino desserts. ube has become popular now even in the states so it's become even more popular here too (ex: ube pandesal trend in 2020)

[@davidrodrigueztoro6512]

I love this channel. Keep up the good work!!!!!

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

The comments to views ratio is what makes this channel awesome... So much learning directly from other cultures.

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

Still, a bit sad no African countries were mentioned or that people from Africa reply a lot less.

[@salty7631]

This video makes me want there to be an international fruit smoothie store where you could sample flavors other than the typical "local" fare

[@midoabolila9532]

Here in Egypt mint flavored candy is very popular, watermelon and banana flavours are also pretty popular

[@dharmani_youtube]

Had a chance to try those few months back! Mint melts my heart despite its coolness if it makes any sense haha

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

Iam now enemy with the egyptian people. In my eternal crusade against mint.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Watermelon makes sense, that's where it was domesticated.

[@draum8103]

I've still never tried the 'chamoy pickle + candy dust/juice' thing but want to. I also want to try this weird 'Waldmeister' flavour which nobody can seem to agree on. Some people say it takes like lime, others vanilla, others like herbs. Here in France until maybe three years ago there used to be these slightly spicy gummi candies in the supermarket with weird flavours like vanilla, popcorn, jalapeño, they were so good!

[@xr9790]

I was waiting for Chmoy to pop up, it’s such a specific thing to Mexico and kinda texas. Or at least where I’m from (we were only a couple of hours from the border and the area I’m from is like 60-70% Mexican). It’s also called Lucas (Loo-Caas), but I think that’s just a specific brand. I didn’t know that some of it was tamarind flavored though, that was new to me. As far as flavor goes- I would say it definitely is sour (it’s also very acidic and messes with your teeth like no other candy on the planet) but there are types that are sweeter or almost savory

[@FrankJames]

petition for JJ to wear the Mr Mattress shirt in every video from here on out

[@Writer_Productions_Map]

Bro just got only 25 likes in 1 year bruh 💀💀💀

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@Writer_Productions_Map yeah

[@ShinchokuShogunate]

Wait, Frank James?! WTF you doing here? I thought you were suppose to be an MBTI Channel!

[@chrisowens8430]

As an American, this explains then like why whenever my family and I went over to Wales and England for vacations, like why the purple skittles always tasted like coughdrop medicine lol

[@KayleyWhalen]

I'm Guatemalan-American, and having lived in Thailand I often am struck by how similar their confectionery flavors are. Ubiquitous in Thailand is "five spiced tamarind" which may have lime, chili, salt, and sugar. Green mango with chili is also popular. There's even mango flavored Tamarind. And one unique Thai flavor is Pandan, used in custard filling for buns and sweet sticky rice. It's as popular for its fragrance as its taste, with pandan leaf fragrance sometimes called "Thai vanilla"

[@slebetman]

Also, as someone who grew up drinking Ribena (my wife had a huge Ribena craving with our second child) the Roselle flower tastes a lot like Ribena when boiled and served with a lot of sugar. So if you can't grow blackcurrant you can try roselle. The color is different though. Roselle is red instead of purple.

[@10zeldafan]

You've gotta do a video about the food culture of the Philippines. I lived there as a missionary for several years, and the Eastern vs. Western smashup of flavor influence is super interesting!

[@marodriba]

All I know is that you’re MY favorite fruit JJ.

[@jacques-aimedurand945]

That's fruity.

[@JimsKitschKitchen]

Ha ha- love that

[@kartierglory]

This made me giggle 😂

[@MrExtraordinaire16]

Can I blend that,I'm much more of a smoothie guy

[@marodriba]

@@jacques-aimedurand945 that’s the point 🍉

[@iheartotown]

Love this channel! Great content and personality. Bummed I've been sleeping on it this long, but now I've got a whole channel to burn through when I'm killing time!

[@KatVeritas]

Ooh can you make a video about the different kinds of spice around the world? Living in China, I've discovered so many different kinds of chillies and spice profiles that are different from the kinds of spice I'd had in the US - things like Sichaun Pepper (hua jiao) and Qing Jiao (almost like an Anaheim pepper). Then there's the kind of spice that's in Indian cuisine, which has an altogether different feeling and heat to it. I'd love to hear about the kinds of chillies and different ways to add heat to a meal around the world.

[@jakefelty]

I always thought grape was part of the American flavor canon, I was surprised lime made the cut

[@kated442]

I love English blackcurrant candies but they're very hard to find in the USA. Mexican flavors are very good - watermelon, mango, tamarind, especially with salt and chili. And Hawaiian li hing mui.

[@t_ylr]

I went to Kenya as a kid and they had Blackcurrant Fanta. It's the best flavor IMO. Of course the don't sell it here in the US 😥

[@siremilcrane]

I’ve lived 15+ years in Australia and New Zealand and I had never heard of musk, I did some research and discovered it’s usually sold in sticks, kind of like a tootsie roll but a little firmer. It tastes strawberryish, best way I can describe it. We also have milk candy here. Here in NZ we have a lot of raspberry flavoured things, it’s the default “red” flavour and is common as a drink flavour too, often mixed with coke.

[@angelr2404]

I learned a lot and laughed so hard. Thanks

[@Voltaire321]

Here in Houston, TX there's an italian ice vendor outside the Houston Zoo that sells italian ices with Chamoy and Tajin on top. Talk about a culture mashup!

[@ldelgg]

Man i wish i lived near mexico, i grew up with spicy mexican candy flavors but now live far from mexico, so their candy is expensive and rare here

[@ReddoLeoMeme2401]

Aniseed flavoured candies (and especially ice lollies) are quite common here in Italy, and they're always recognisable thanks to their twitter-esque shade of blue. Same story for milk candies, but that's all thanks to one brand called "galatine" and their extreme popularity all across the peninsula.

[@amerigocosta7452]

And "rossana", the ones that were memed they were always found at grandma's house. The filling is milk based. Not that it tastes particularly milky or anything. I don't know how popular these milk candies are tho, but they have been around forever. Galatine were marketed as being healthy and nutrient rather than sweet, that's why you could find in pharmacies at times. But if you really want an obscure Italian candy, there is barley (orzo). The brown, square shaped ones. I see them every once in a few years and the taste is puzzling, but they are incredibly still around. I bet they were marketed as digestives decades ago.

[@k.umquat8604]

Here in Turkey blue ice cream called "Italian cream" icecream is moderately common but is regarded as exotic. Nobody knows where the flavor comes from.

[@amerigocosta7452]

@@k.umquat8604 Interesting, because in Italy any blue coloured ice cream would be just considered a gimmick nobody really eats. In facts, I've seen them since the 80s in ice cream shops trays, usually labelled with names like "puffo" (smurf) or a certain famous blue coloured medicine that if named would make this comment to be automatically deleted by KZbin. No idea what they taste like, I always presumed it was just a crapload of food coloring.

[@goldenappel]

Outside of the big commercial brands, the UK has a lot of interesting flavours that are sold in traditional sweet stores where they're measured out of big jars and sold by weight. Some of them include: Rhubarb and Custard, Strawberry and Cream, Brandy, Pineapple, Clove, Butterscotch, Apple and Cinnamon, Chocolate and Lime, Aniseed, Pear (which is a lot stronger than it suggests), Sweet Peanut, Cherry Menthol, Raspberry and Kiwi

[@valeriansprite5819]

in the philippines, we also ube, which is a kind of sweet potato. pretty much any purple dessert is ube. green is usually for buko pandan, which is young coconut. theres a lot of veggies in our desserts

[@AnonymousPlayers100]

Just two little corrections on the Brazil part: First, both the Guaraná soda you showed and the Fanta one are technically the "same" soda, but from different brands, kinda like Coca-Cola and Pepsi are "the same". Also that thing you described as "ice cream with Guaraná" is not actually ice cream, it's a cream made of Açaí, which is another very common fruit in Brazil, that I think is starting to get more popularity around the world as well.

[@jackyex]

To be honest Açaí wasn't that popular outside the north until recently.

[@MultiKswift]

Pepsi and Coke are supposed to be the same? I mean, I guess they taste similar but you'd still be able to tell them apart blindfolded.

[@AnonymousPlayers100]

@@MultiKswift They're both Cola drinks, so yeah, they're kinda supposed to be the same. And yes, I see the difference. But, no, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart while blindfolded. I know that because I've already tried and failed haha ... Pepsi is still better tho

[@MultiKswift]

@@AnonymousPlayers100 Agreed. Coke sucks.

[@emilygrae]

@@AnonymousPlayers100 Pepsi has a slight citrus taste to it. How strong that is and if it's better or worse than Coke depends on location as well as if the bottler is using a corn or sugar cane based sweetener. To me anyway. Where I am now, I much prefer Coke.

[@lindsaymanning704]

Hey J.J, I just got your Canadian Pokémon book the other day and it totally exceeded my expectations! It actually gave me a new appreciation for the true north strong and free. I just hope more people will be able to get a copy someday soon. Anyway, thank you so much 😎🍁🇨🇦

[@JJMcCullough]

Thanks my friend!!

[@jezzuh9120]

In the Pacific Islands, ube is really popular in sweets, though its technically a vegetable rather than a fruit. But it's used to flavor things liked baked goods and ice cream and sometimes combined into confections or fillings. Also in the same region, coconut sweets are super popular.

[@HarleyQuinn_93]

Got my Canadamon book! It’s awesome JJ!!

[@rae4998]

What I remember of Filipino candies in the 1970s and 1980s is that they hailed from everywhere: Asia, the US, Europe, etc. From our Spanish heritage: yema, turrones (cashew or peanut brittle wrapped like cigarettes), and pastilyas (milk candy). Pastilyas could be plain or flavored with durian, jackfruit, or ube. A modern import from Spain: Chupa Chups. From our Asian roots: haw flakes (which we pretended were Holy Communion wafers), White Rabbit candy, angry red li hing mui (sweet, salty, but mostly sour dried plums), and ribbons of candied young coconut in bright colors (usually for new year). My grandmother used to keep tins of ribboned and pillowed hard candies that are now relegated to be sold in US pharmacies. She also kept German licorice on hand. Then there are local favorites whose origins are a mystery to me. There is a peanut-based candy similar to pastilyas called masareal. There was also sampalok (tamarind) candy. Sometimes they were still in the original shell. Other times they were wrapped in amber cellophane with sugared fruit and the small seeds within.

[@zipbangcrash]

What a dreamy combination of flavors from everywhere! I would have loved that as a kid!

[@skaarthehun8651]

ooh I love durian :)

[@martinmendl1399]

As a Czech, the fact that blackcurrent is unknown in America shocked me. It’s literally my favourite fruit. Red (more sour) and white variants are quite common as well.

[@bobbiobanion7706]

American here, we have candy called twin snakes. One snake is sweet, one is sour and my favorite snake is black currant. I wish we had more options of black currant, but a lot of people could like it here but don't take time to read the package. I liked twin snakes for a year before I realized I liked black currant.

[@theletters9623]

I'm american and I always associated the concept of the fruit currant with wild wax currants, which are entirely different fruit from blackcurrent but when I first heard europeans on the internet talk about currant flavored things I just sort of? assumed it was the same fruit or at least something that looked similar (like how blackberries and raspberries are just kinda the same fruit with different colors). And I was very wrong.

[@felonyx5123]

In America there is a tea company that has a blackcurrant flavor as one of their most popular teas, but we're talking tea in America here. This is a coffee country first and second and a lipton teabag country third, so loose leaf blackcurrant tea is a niche within a niche within a niche.

[@richardleimbach5060]

Stuff with Waldmeister flavour is pretty awesome, especially the jello and the syrup to make soda, mixing it with a bright beer gives a great summer drink that looks funny

[@KerrikkiLurgan]

Have you ever had cinnamon hearts candy around Feb 14th? I have a jar of them in my cupboard, so spicy candy is available in Canada . My favourite pocky is black sesame and green tea, but those are very hard to get in eastern Canada