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I recently moved to Finland, and briefly considered setting up an online shop to export Salmiakki to the UK, as lots of people there seem to love it and beg me to bring it when I returned.

I'm amused you're from Finland, but instead are importing Japanese candy! (In the end I decided I couldn't be bothered with the hassle. I just make sure every time I do return to the UK I pack my suitcase with 10-40 boxes of candy.)



What are the odds - we have a tiny bottle on our shelf that some visiting Finlanders gave use about five years ago!

Is... is Slamiakki still safe to drink after five years? There's a lot of weird looking condensation on the bottom. If we gently shake the bottle, it looks like something from X-Files is reaching out to drink us.


Drink? It's licorice...


There is also a branded "liquor" with the same name. I enjoy both the drink and the licorice.


Oh. Then we apparently have licorice liqueur.


Yup, widely available. Here's a random shot of a bottle I have at home:

https://i.imgur.com/Wy34Uui.jpg

The more common version comes in a black bottle, but there are a couple of varieties out there.

99% of the time when people talk about Salmiakki they mean the candy/licorice, but the remaining time they mean the drink.


There's other liquorice liquor available throughout the world as well. A brand I know from The Netherlands is called "drop shot" [1] (drop is the Dutch word for liquorice).

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dropshot+liquor&iax=images&ia=imag...


Ours is smaller. Might try it tonight, since the kid is in daycare tomorrow and if we die it'll inconvenience her less.


It's likely to be a tricky one as there's a ton of competition on Amazon that sells not just Finnish salty licorice but from the rest of the Nordic countries and the Netherlands as well. They're overall expensive, but the selection is fairly wide.


Please import me some proper rye bread, karjalanpiirakka and lakkahillo every week. There are no such things here in Berlin.


I think this store can send these things to you: https://www.suomikauppa.fi/index.php?language=en


We got rye bread here in The Netherlands. I was in Berlin a few weeks ago. German bread is amazing. So tasty. The jams I had were insane as well. Loads of fruit, sugar not so much. Again, very taste.




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