Comment on shoutout to finland
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
i sent my canadian sibling a bag of [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrkisk_peber](turkisk peppar) as part of a care package and they thought it was a prank. then when i wisited i ate all of it myself. love me some salmiak
I had a Turkish exchange student at my uni in Norway, and when he saw a bag in of “Turkish Pepper” he was like WTF is this?
End of story he did not appreciate the delicious treats named for his people.
We talk about the vodka belt and potato Europe, but what should we name Nordic/north German and Dutch areas that like salty licorice?
Türkisch Pfeffer is literally so good tho!!! I havent eaten any since I was a kid n now I want some lol
Crush it up and mix with vodka, now you’ve got “sorte svin” which gets you delightfully drunk without tasting too bad.
Directly translated sorte svin becomes “black pigs” but “black bastards” would be more accurate.
This is the way
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I just want to know what madman took a look at some fertilizer and thought “hey… what if we put this stuff in candy?”
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
i think the food use is older, it’s been used at least since roman times.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Well, then what madman thought “we should take this candymaking ingredient and spread it on our fields to improve plant growth”?
Major “Brawndo, it’s what plants crave” vibes.
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
probably a finn
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I remember reading that ammonium chloride / “sal ammoniac” / salmiakki was probably first discovered by ancient egyptians. They found natural deposits of it condensed in a ceiling of a cave or something similar. And naturally someone just had to taste it.