Received this as a gift from a group of lovely swedish guests who visited our place. The note stated that “everyone in Sweden likes this”. Wow, it tastes bad!!

by ApikuniFalls

26 comments

  1. Haha, that is created by God! The most amazing candy, and I understand that many people think it’s bad because the taste is really really special haha

  2. It’s a popular thing to give to non-swedes. But we’re also divided about licorice. Those that don’t like it really don’t like it.

  3. it’s an aquired taste for sure. I do like salt licorice, but I’d only give it to an unprepared foreigner as a prank

  8. I’m Swedish but I work part-time as a instructor teaching programming courses. I was recently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, teaching and brought all my students “Djungelvrål”, which is similar to what you have. I have a video of pretty much every one of my 32 participants grimacing when trying Djungelvrål. Not one of them liked the candy.

  10. Like with all things some people do and some people don’t. I for example am not a fan of that kind of liquorice. I do however like the hard ones you can just suck on forever… take that for what you will.

  14. Australia has vegemite and Sweden has this. I never tried vegemite but i tried this abomination to the candy. And as some Australian streamer said, you either like it or hate it.

  15. I’ll eat it if you don’t. lol these are like the sour warheads of sweden

  16. I think you’ll have to learn to like it, might even take years (the older I get the more I enjoy licorice, and it fits well with drinks like rum or whiskey)

  21. I as a German love it. Had a girl from Finland give me one as a prank, she couldnt believe i liked it. told her we have the same thing here in Germany as well.

  22. It’s seems to be Stockholm-syndrome. 1 year ago we have been in Sweden and bring a pack of that with myself to Hungary to my collagues. My idiot boss said to me “you have to bring to home, it’s terrible”. I have been ate it all. XD
    My wife said you have a strange sense of taste. XD

    Whenever we go to IKEA, I buy a bag of these, but that is sweet not salty.

  23. Had a work event with yanks, scandinavians, and germans. I put all the break-candy licorice in separate bowls and putup a warning sign.

    The germans approved of this as they had heard of the “abomination candy”. And the yanks immediately dared each other to eat them.

  25. Plenty people like it. I absolute hate it; one of the few readily available things here that I simply cannot swallow. Every few years I’m giving it a try to see if my tastebuds will allow it and nope! Utterly vile.

  26. You should start by eating the sweet licorice at first, so you get used to it. Then slowly go up in Salammoniac levels.

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