Hands down, this is probably the best "Americans try danish snacks" i have seen here on youtube. I feel like you actually give a genuine experience that Americans wanting to visit Denmark can use. I would like to see more of this 👍
I agree. The Kim's Chips ones are processed. Many stores (SPAR, Coop etc.) have their own straight from the butcher (I think they're even called "Slagterens Flæskesvær - Butchers Pork rind or something). Crunchy skin and fat. However, either way they Will leave an aftertaste for quite some time lol
Oh yes. Store-bought pork rinds are nothing like home made, christmassy flæskesvær. It's like the difference between freshly-made french fries and a bag of potato chips. There's no comparison, really.
these guys are so much more open to try new taste and embrace danish food. the Lakrids thing is a really aquired taste, but there are sooooo many versions of lakrids that if you try enough of them, you will find one you like... i know a lot of my american family did when they were in denmark i love the guy who knows about Æbleskiver, we want him here in denmark, he has the right attitude ;)
@@MissMilly321 I think it's the same thing, but it's a Danish dish (if I'm not wrong). Denmark and Sweden share a lot of things culturally and such tho. :)
Funny that the english speakers actually pronounce the scandinavian letter Ø in words and names like: First, Burger, Burt, yoghurt, depending on where in the US they are from mixture do have the same pronunciation in the mixTURE etc. BUT when english speakers try to pronounce the Ø in danish words, its hard, i really find that weird, yes i know other than the Ø is hard, but the Ø. kina funny
Omg, I watched this video and noticed all the people were a "certain style"... I thought to myself "Hmm, I wonder if they're embassy people" ~ then saw the channel name: US EMBASSY in Denmark!! Nailed it! lol They're such special breed. lol
As a Dane, not liking chocolate and licorice together really makes one feel like an outsider 😂 but then I usually go “ The Bible says Adam and Eve, not chocolate, and licorice”
Next time invite them over to try holiday foods instead of treats, i am sure they would love it :D. Maybe like some roast duck, stuff with gravy (maybe Persillesovs). And other traditional goodies.
We had an American exchange student staying at the dorm I used to live in. We gave her an æbelskivepande as a goodbye present. Æbælskiver is apparently hard to come by in New York.
@@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 Yeah.... We know not to eat 250 gram of super piratos a week. Sweet licorice are different. We have sweet black to super salty black. But we know not to eat that much salty, as it is a general knowledge in our culture. There were some stupid American, just gobbeling down the black stuff a kilo each day. He died.
one of the best thing getting a box from home, was the lakrids...i could have it all to my self🤣🤣the worse was the chocolate. Everyone wanted to eat that
00:50 Black liquorice hiding in them? Are you giving them Lakrids by Bülow? 😂 Try the nr 3, that's what we call american liquorice at the factory (i work there 😅)
@@BigAndTall666 Well, yes and no. It a bit complicated. They originated from an chemical company in S'Heerenberg (Dutch, but very close to the German border), that started making licorice using a recipe they got from a Sizilian pharmacists. After the death of the founder the company was split up between the two sons, one of which moved his part of the production to the neighbouring german town of Emmerich (only about 6 kms/4 miles away). This part, the Katjes Fassin Gmbh, grew much larger than it's Durch counterpart (Royal Dutch Fassin B.V.). So the Katjes you know today are made by this German company, which has some Dutch roots and an originally Italian recipe...
To all US-Americans in DK. "Finsk Sød Lakrids", I think everybody can eat it. Mild and Sweet. The tough one, is Piratos. It can be used as a "Hate gift", even for many Danes. It is very strong. Too strong for many.
Where do you find Non-Us Americans? xD I truely agree with that statement about Finsk sød lakrids Altho there is a lot of variants of them some better than others and the same with the company production line.
@@inceneration It was a show about forensics, were someone fell dead on a construction site in NYC. He were a former heroin addict, that had tried to replace heroine with salty licorice. Some specific mineral or something, related to a vital body function were washed out and blocked by the licorice.
The word liquorice, have way different meaning around the globe. I bet the US name and perception of what it is are rooted in liqour. Exactly like we say vingummi. Vin and gummi. Were as in USA it is just named gummy. We say vingummi bamser, they say gummy bears. Winegum, are an English thing, and not American. And that is the cultural differences, in wich the things are percieved and bound. I other words. If you translate terms directly, the meaning are lost to translation.
@@brostenen You can take it with Chips also. What we call potato chips in Denmark is called Crisps in the UK but also called Chips in the US. Mainly the fundamentals of the snack is there but the word is just different :D
@@inceneration I know. Crisps in England, chips in USA. Chips in England, are french fries in USA. We call them pommes fritter. Actually why I laughed at the add, were they try and sell crisps with a fake british accent, and call it chips. Lots of footage from London though. 🙂
Hmm why give crappy pork rinds (Flæskesvær)? They where all airbubbles. Where all the christmas stuff homemade? Cos there is a huge difference between storebought and homemade
6:42 Brother looks like hes about to throw up 💀 I find them very tasty but in all honesty; If youre not used to the taste of "lakrids" - having a liquorice ball that is covered with chocoloate and liquorice dust on top is such a weird experience. Not for everyone
I am an adult, and I eat these puffed ones with the same delight, as when I eat the one on flæskesteg. All flæskesvær, equally awesomme, just different. Translated... I am not the picky eater.
American diplomacy has such a Grace to it. While our Danish embasies in places like Estonia make irrelevant quasi bragging of Danish cykling culture or Danish dishes or pictures of sports stars and what not. Things entirely irrelevant to the people they are supposed to represent us to - you sit here with this simple setup and actually consider your audience with something that is relevant and relatable to us Danish people: julemad.
03:43 It is not sodium salt which is on the licorice/lakrids, it is Ammonium Chloride NH₄Cl. Eat a lot if you have a hard stomach it helps with loose stools. It contains no carbon so you don't get fat of it. It taste good. They were lucky that they didn't tasted Super Piratos. It is only for Danes.
i like the the idea of the video and is a nice video, but really need to get diffrent microphones that does not pick up the chewing and the swallong sounds, that is not pleasent, and ruin the video for me.
Chocolate and liqorice is not danish. As far as I know its from Iceland. They are called "Djupur" in Iceland and some have sugarcoating too. I ate them long before they were introduced and popularised in Denmark. LakridsBülow boosted the liqorice industry.
Definately Bulow is inspired by Icelandic candy...tyen again: The grave of Tut Ank Amon had both cocoa and liquorice.. Lakrids has been here for literally ages. Its a Nordic treat, that has been in Denmark since before the nation state. The root, is as old as civilisation. Its in the graves of phararos and Chinese emporers. Roman troops chewed the roots, before Iceland was an ocean floor volcano.... Claiming heritage is hard in a world so deeply interconnected. We used to be one Kingdom, back when liquorice production started so does it even matter?
@@its0KagemanxD Im talking liqorice and chocolate together. And no, it doesnt matter. Just pointed out that that particular snack isnt very danish or that common a snack here.
Chocolate and licorice goes really well together. Especially salty licorice. Most caramel and chocolate combinations is salty caramel. In general salt is a very underutilized in dessert - in homes - not in restaurants where they understand flavor combinations.
@@dyseskytten1 Its an acquired taste. Not everyone likes it, i for one do not like it because of the weird salty combination. I can eat chocolate alone and liqurice alone, but if you mix them i will spit it out :( But everyone has a different taste bud :)
Are all of these Americans working for the US Embassy in Denmark? And they act as if the Danish language is the the most foreign language they've ever encountered. Shameful. Imagine Danish people working at the Danish embassy in the USA not speaking a word of English.
Look at these nice Americans being challenged with Danish treats! Oh, and thank you for your work helping blow up our core European energy infrastructure!
Point's for trying hard - and it's defiantly not all Danes. that loves Lakrids! - that varies just as much, as there's different variants of lakrids!! And real/good 'fried/popped porkskin' ..they need to be bought from the real butcher-shop - Don't eat that cheap industrial crap, you can find in the grocery stores ..they're just utterly bad!
