GENERAL TOPICS: What's with the Salty Licorice?
The strong, intense flavor of some licorice makes for two strongly divided camps of lovers and haters. Salted licorice is even weirder and more intense—and it finds even fewer devotees than regular licorice, even among those who really want to like it. Licorice comes in unsalted, salted, and even double-salted varieties.
What’s with the salt? It certainly heightens the licorice flavor, says MMRuth, a licorice-lover. Her favorites are double-salted Dutch licorice and licorice toffee from England. If you can, try just a bit before you invest in a whole jar, she says—it’s a very unusual taste, and you might not like it, even if you really want to. rockycat, another licorice-lover, received a gift of imported licorice from her devoted husband. Unfortunately, it was of the double-salted variety, and though she really wanted to like it, she found it inedible.
rHairing, who is half Danish, particularly favors Konsul Salmiak Pastillen salt licorice. “My sister craved it during her first pregnancy,” says rHairing. “I am wondering now if it helped with queasiness. To this day, though, my friends who have been brave enough to try it, immediately spit it out.”
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Salted licorice was one of my favorite things about my stay in Sweden. The way it makes your mouth water, and the resulting spread of salty goodness is a little overwhelming at first, but when you're walking along a breezy cobblestone street in Gamla Stan ("old town" in Stockholm), it really starts to grow on you.
As an afterthought, Ikea sells small $3-4 bags of "Swedish Fish" shaped saltad lakrits for those curious.
If you crave the original salty Dutch stuff, there's an abundance of Dutch stores stateside.
My NYC favorite (fast shipping and affordable) is this one:
http://www.kaasnco.com/
(direct link to the licorice, aka 'dropjes' http://kaasnco.com/catalog/index.php?... )
PS: no, I'm not the owner or family, just a fan. If you need a reference elsewhere in the USA lemme know
If you crave the original salty Dutch stuff, there's an abundance of Dutch stores stateside.
My NYC favorite (fast shipping and affordable) is this one:
http://www.kaasnco.com/
(direct link to the licorice, aka 'dropjes' http://kaasnco.com/catalog/index.php?... )
PS: no, I'm not the owner or family, just a fan. If you need a reference elsewhere in the USA lemme know
I found dutch licorice in MANHATTAN!! After much searching, Myzel's Chocolate Shop on 150 W. 55th Street between 6th and 7th avenue has a bunch of the authentic ones!!!
The largestlicorice selection that I have seen is at www.marinamarket.com
all of the licorice they have is real licorice if any of it is raspberry, strawberry, black cherry etc it all still contains black licorice extract. Here is a link to the licorice page
http://www.marinamarket.com/istar.asp...