Trying STRANGE Finnish snacks for the first time 😱 | some of them should be forbidden!

[@incollectio]

All of the Jenkki gums are flavored with xylitol. That is where the sweetness comes from, and it's good for your teeth (backed by many scientific studies). Xylitol gum was originally invented in Finland.

[@incollectio]

Salmiakki is a specific kind of liquorice that has been flavored with ammonium chloride. It's kind of "the" thing in Finland, but for some reason many foreigners dislike it. Must be an acquired taste. I'd give the Fazer salmiakki chocolate a solid 10/10. :D If a product only says "liquorice"/"lakritsi" on it, it's not salmiakki but only regular liquorice. :)

[@incollectio]

And the brown stuff in the middle of the Tyrkisk peber lollipop was ammonium chloride powder. Really good. ;)

[@KhyatiPuria]

Love the great input 😍🙏🏽

[@radikaali]

@@incollectio Mostly right but little correction to that "brown stuff", it's actually Licorice Powder mixed up with a TINY amount of ammonium chloride and sugar. Ammonium chloride is such a potent stuff that it's used in really small quantities ( It literally corrodes metal and concrete floor with time ). It's also used in "Salmiak sugar" which is small amount Ammonium chloride mixed up with sugar and that's the "salt" that coats the super salty Salmiakkis.

[@incollectio]

@@radikaali Oh, cool, didn't know that. You should update the English Tyrkisk peber Wikipedia page, as that is where I got my info. It appears the Finnish page gives more accurate info on this, in line with what you said.

[@incollectio]

The "Gifu" is actually "Sisu" just written in old fashioned letters. And I suppose the sweetness there also comes from xylitol. :)

[@Cerebatonify]

To elaborate on this, it's written in the german fraktur style that has fallen massively out of favor worldwide.

[@carakeshgupta5416]

Hey ! Planning to visit prague,vienna,budapest with my wife in may month ! Will it be good time to visit so ?

[@KhyatiPuria]

It’s the perfect time for city trips

[@moonliteX]

actually they are extremely popular, normal and usual in finland. so in finland they would be anything but weird.

[@joonaskola4793]

thats other candybox name is Sisu

[@tapanifriman331]

You should have test Fazer Blue Chocolate... it's the classic and the best of the best in the whole world

[@viljakytola5433]

You should try some of the finish chocolate bars

[@KhyatiPuria]

can you recommend any other brand? Except Frazer?

[@sveiniscute9101]

​@@KhyatiPuria Panda.

I hope there's no cat on the table because he eats everything what is on the table. :D

[@banditkfk1463]

Phazer like in Star trek😂

[@joonaskola4793]

selittäkääs heille ( ketkä muistaa mikä koivu on enkuks ) mikä on Xylitol eli koivusokeri

[@joonaskola4793]

Salmiakki ~= Salt liqruice

[@joonaskola4793]

no no no onion in the sup only senap maybe maybe yoyrs sister have own onion tradition in the peesup.