@wrldonwill2 months agoYou mentioned that it tasted like "laundry", which makes sense because many commercial laundry detergents use synthetic musk bases as a fragrance enhancer. 4296
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@PsyopAgentProvocateur2 months agoAussie here, totally understand what you mean about the grandma vibe. A bit like getting a mouthful of a floral perfume or bathroom air freshener. Which sounds seriously revolting. I grew up on musk sticks, and these tiny cheap sweet individual discs that came in a pack of 8 or so. They are something that you’d need to try a couple of time later I think if you’re an adult, because your mind simply can’t register it as a flavour when you’ve never had anything like it before. I’m waiting for the musk and Vegemite icing in Anzac biscuits. ...2332
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@maddithemermaid62202 months agoI find that super interesting that musk and ambergris, now well known perfume ingredients, were once concidered edible. 1431
@realhorrorshow85472 months agoViewer advisory: Do NOT eat your grandma. 402
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@SwitchFeathers2 months agoGrowing up in australia I always loved these candies tbh, they fulfilled the fantasy of wanting to eat coloured chalk. 331
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@Inv1ns1bl2 months agoThe musk flavour is made using rose water, which im sure was quite popular as a perfume back when your grandma was younger. 100
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@whitewaterdave28012 months agoBack when we were dating, my Australian husband sent me some musk sticks in a care package. I thought they tasted like what a cheap perfume would taste like... 117
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@loganthompson52572 months agoThat face upon initial taste was priceless. 80
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@brooklynnchick2 months agoYour eyes were definitely yelling, “Help me!”, for a moment 😂 Thanks for creating this channel. I love cooking and history so your content makes me happy! ❤ 257
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@D4N1CU52 months agoI'm Australian and I associate musk lollies with grandma too but it's because my grandma always had musk lifesavers when I was a kid and would give them to me all the time. I understand the laundry relationship but I think you get closer if you mix a bit of rose with your laundry and grandma. ...94
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@mattbivi2 months agoI'm an Aussie living in Denmark. I just came back from visiting family and brought one of my favourite candy with me - musk sticks. I handed them out to my colleagues and without fail, every person I gave it to hated it. ...2
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@catherineallen60242 months agoYou need someone to send you Musk Sticks from Australia - they're even better than Lifesavers! And yes, they taste like pink grandma laundry :D 47
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@doctornefarious62712 months agoIt's got a very mellow floral sort of taste to it, which I find reminiscent of rosewater, but not quite as sharp & sweet. Like many of the other Aussies in the comments, I grew up on musk lollies/candies, & it's one of my favourite perfumes.. 😅😂❤ ...46
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@suddenpasta2 months agoI love musk lollies! I think they’re more like eating a rose or lavender flavoured lolly - lots of scent with a solid background of sugar 67
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@crowfaerymori2 months agoI grew up with musk sticks as my favourite candy, I am shocked to learn they're so Australia -specific! Although I don't disagree with the laundry detergent thing if you use a very floral perfumery detergent 😂 130
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@darrenskjoelsvold2 months agoLaundry and mothballs? I think we've solved the question of "why Tide pods?" 223
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@renaissancewoman37702 months agoI laughed so hard at the face you pulled once you realised what would be going on inside your mouth. I love musk sticks, always have but I'm Australian. 22
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@SarahMayor47472 months agoThis is like the Australian equivalent to vanilla from beaver glands 71
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@TroyYouTube2 months agoI would describe it as a slightly soapy floral flavour, a bit like Turkish Delight 4
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@JunYuki2 months agoI love musk flavoured anything. Hell yeah! Grew up on musk sticks! Cheap but effective candy! 18
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@SpankyMcKanky2 months agoI'm from Australia and it also reminds me of my grandma because she always had a jar of musk sticks in the lolly cupboard when we were growing up! Tastes of nostalgia to me. 15
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@lambert8012 months agoThe English word musk comes from Persian mushk. We Persians never used musk in foods and drinks (as far as I know), but we did use it as a perfume (and still do to some extent). The musk is traditionally considered the quintessential perfume in Persian culture. ...87
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@LawfullSpook2 months agoIf you ever get the chance you should try a British sweet/candy called Parma Violet. Its an old confectionery item that was releaed back in 1946 but the flavour itself has been around since the middle ages. Personally i love them but it give me the save feelings as Musk which is like grandmas laundy lol. ...15
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@TimKapow2 months agoWe have musk sweets in South Africa, I have always liked them but some people don't 4
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@alexandragrace81642 months agoMax! Musk is a very popular Australian candy flavour. ❤ It’s delightful! 6
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@zach55392 months agoI'm from Australia and it's genuinely one of my favourite flavours. It's not too sweet, it's kind of fruity. Musk sticks are alot better than the lifesavers imo. Another flavour you should try that I think not many people are aware of is malt, specifically malt milk. ...7
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@em55222 months agoThis is why I subscribe to you, Max. You test taste things I'd probably never try myself but really want to know the taste of. 18
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@sharonfarlow63792 months agoHello from Australia 🦘🐨 Just started to binge watch your channel, have been noticing your back drop decor for each episode.. yes we take notice.😊. Grew up on musk stick candies ,,the soft musk sticks just melt in your mouth❤ ...8
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@christaverduren6902 months agoLike when I have foreign friends try Horehound!! They hate rootbeer, but love licorice so their minds are blown with the two mixed.... "I don't like this, I don't hate this..... I don't know what to do with this!!!!!" ...7
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@katjackson55972 months agoHi Max! Aussie transplant here. You may also enjoy trying Chowards Violet Pastilles for a similarly Victorian vibe 9
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@alexcallahan19792 months agoI’m an Aussie and I love musk flavour, but I truly couldn’t tell you why! 😂 2
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@DoraG992 months agoOmg that’s so interesting that it’s not commonly used outside Australia omg. I’m Aussie and have never been much of a fan of musk flavour myself - anyone else used to get the musk sticks in party bags? I used to eat them first so they’d be gone and I wouldn’t have to worry about eating them at the end ahaha ...6
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@Agentcoolguy12 months agoMusk Lifesavers are delicious, easily the best flavour of Lifesaver! 6
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@OofusTwillip2 months agoIn Canada, we have Thrills chewing gum, invented at O-Pee-Chee in the 1930s. Though the current packaging claims "It still tastes like soap", its flavour is actually musk, with notes of cloves and rose. I was a very foul-mouthed child, so I can tell you it absolutely does NOT taste like soap. ...4
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@CB-sx8xh2 months agoWhen I lived in the US I would pick up snacks and lollies on visits back to Australia. The musk sticks were probably the most divisive thing (even more so than Vegemite...), I had someone tell me it was like eating perfume. I love them :) ...1
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@ILoveYou-rv3pd2 months agoI kinda want to try it. It sounds like it might be good in the way that floral flavors are good, and I like rose and lavender flavored drinks. 5
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@meganjones11842 months agoNew Zealander here, we love musk too. The life savers and lollies called smokers. There's a slightly floral taste to it. But I had no idea they used to use real musk!!! 1
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@wiederganger19592 months agoMy guy seriously went from "it reminds me of my grandma" straight to "I can see why people would eat this". 😳 4
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@anndownsouth50702 months agoAs a South African, I am also familiar with musk, and I truly enjoyed the play of emotions on your face. As a child, I loved, but now, not so much anymore. It is much better than the salted drop that the Dutch love. 22
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@jessicajones42902 months agoI love Musk sticks we had them growing up. It was our road trip treat! 7
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@Petitpois_moi2 months agoOmg. Aussie here.... we have many musk flavored things.... which I have been eating for 40 years, now that you say mothballs, laundry and grandma 😂 you are SO RIGHT. 😂 1
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@kyo7782 months agoAustralian here. You made me laugh. It's definitely a different flavour. It's quite synthetic and I bet it tastes not much like the original animal based product 22
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@hoshimochi57022 months ago"Tastes like laundry and mothballs" "i can see why people would eat this"😂 4
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@Finvaara2 months agosuper happy for this sequel. all thanks to whoever you got that from 9
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@maxinegautier33132 months agoI developed a taste for these when I was an exchange student in Australia (ahem... some decades ago). I brought a bunch back at the end of my year abroad and used to bring them to parties as a gag -- in general people did not have as positive a reaction as Max!😂 ...2
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@benr28622 months agoI really have to hand it to Max for his diligence and thoroughness in researching recipes in foreign languages and striving to recreate authentic dishes. He even goes to lengths to pronunciate difficult ingredients etc. , and bonus is the historical aspects of his channel. No wonder his is one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube. Bravo Mr. Miller! ...
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@floramew2 months agoI tried something liechi flavored once, because I know I like the sweetened canned kind. The soda was... Reminiscent? My best description was that it tasted like soap, but in a good way, kinda similar to your reaction I think. Folks gave me strange looks, both about soap but good (which, valid,) but also "how does that taste like soap to you????" I felt so vindicated when I found out another name for liechi fruit is "soap berries" ...18
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@phthisis2 months agoSounds like a Violet candy: flavor of lavender (and IMO soap). 6
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@MrsAndyClemmensen1242 months agoAustralian here, Musk candies are one of my favourites, all through childhood and even as an adult I love a good musk stick or the life saver musks! Definitely perfume fragrance vibes but it’s like something with rose water, same vibes 😂 ...1
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@mildlycornfield2 months agoI have never tasted musk either, but I can taste it from here. I will certainly make a note to try it if I get the chance! 2
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@jnaeraespano44682 months agoA friend of mine who introduced me to them after a World Con, said shampoo, it tastes like shampoo. I LOVE them. I have whole box of them. 😋 3
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@Ayanami2513792 months agoIn Namibia we used to get a lot of musk flavored sweets. It's something I miss a lot. 2
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@jvinson4181last monthYour face was priceless!😂 Thank you for being so brave in what you sample, so we can partake in the experience without the disgust. I get absolutely traumatized by eating gross foods, I don't know how you do it!
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@lindawisner35252 months agoThank you for trying that and saving us from that experience 😂 3
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@jademirror2 months agoI prefer the musk sticks, which are bright pink and delightful squishy texture. I hate perfumes, but eating perfume seems fine for some reason? 4
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@Jcremo2 months agoAs Aussies it reminds us of our grandmas too. 🥲 1
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@Dinki-Di2 months agoMusk sticks were one of our favourite lollies (candy) as Aussie school kids. Rather heavily perfumed and sugary. 2
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@WantedVisual2 months agoSomeone send this man sweet woodruff flavored candy. 3
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@nightlymusings2 months agoYou've tasted laundry and mothballs before? 14
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@BubsyMupsy2 months ago"It reminds me of my grandma... I don't hate it! "😂😂😂 2
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@NinePillar2 months ago"Tastes like laundry" 😂 Never heard that flavor discriptor before. 1
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@RangeGleasry2 months agoLoool “i don’t hate it (gags visibly)” That’s wild! Australians you wild so-and-sos and your insane domestic products 😂 (Post edit: I’m not American) 20
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@stephenhicks60542 months agoSo probably tastes better than root beer which i despise to my core. 3
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@Mote.2 months agoI've never even heard of or seen a musk deer. They look cool 1
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@superjonboy8732 months agoOk, I have to ask, why was this flavor ever tried to begin with? Who was inspired to make candy from a deer's musk glad? 5
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@BowserTheSecond2 months agoAs an Australian I honestly don't know why we have musk as a flavour. 7
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@vix.00.2 months agoI couldn't help but laugh out loud when you said Grandma... my brain just heard "Grandma flavored" 🤣😂🤣😂
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@cdawg92182 months agoLove musk sticks and musk lifesavers. We sometimes get them in NZ too 😋 Pink smokers are kind of similar. 1
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@danielsantiagourtado34302 months agoLove these shorts max! You're the Best 😊😊😊❤❤❤ 5
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@danielsantiagourtado34302 months agoAww! It reminds You of your nana? That's SO sweet! SO a candy elderly people would enjoy then? 4
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@maijstralkazuki8960last monthGot six of these sold as a pack. They do have quite a unique flavor. They taste quite floral to me. Not bad tho. Certainly a throwback to old times/candy from grandma’s purse days. Nostalgic. 👍🏼😌
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@jcortese33002 months agoThe second you said laundry and mothballs, my mind went "Grandmom's closet." >-D 2
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@StuSaville2 months agoThey taste like how cheap perfume smells 16
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@eddieohearn172 months agoI’ve tried Vegemite in Australia no thank you probably the same. Our taste are different. 5
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@FrackingHandle2 months agoI love musk sticks!!!! Soft, sweet and they smell divine 1
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@druidriley31632 months agoLOL. The look on Max's face. It looked like he would be spitting it out if he wasn't on camera. 1
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@jk27822 months agoIt's like a cross between flowers and powder in flavour, yeah. It's something you grow up with, like a delicacy. 1
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@sophroniel2 months agoOhhh I just looked it up and realised that smokers (pink, round, hard lollies that turn into powdery stuff) here in NZ are musk flavoured too! Idk if they still make them but I loved them as a kid! 2
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@parchalama2 months agoWhen I was a kid my family exchanged boxes of snacks with someone from Australia and this was one of the candies we got. Now I wanna eat them again. 1
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@BlueSpiritFire12 months agoYesssss musk lollies! Musk sticks are a classic 👌 Glad you got to try it Max!
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@billbrasky75402 months agoWhat color would Life Savers even use for a musk flavored LS? I would imagine brown lol Makes me think of the musk ad from Ren & Stimpy, where Mr. Ed the horse was acting as Santa Claus (or a Santa-like figure), and he shaves in your sink and leaves his "shaving musk" behind, wbich is as you'd assume, spent shaving cream littered eith shaved hair that sticks to the sink (the kinda stuff wives and gf's hate seeing lol), but Ren and his pal Stimpy are ecstatic to see/recieve the gift haha ...
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@andreagriffiths35122 months agoAussie here and the musk lollies are def a thing and a unique flavour profile. Funnily, a friend of mine who’s in Hawaii sent me some violet mints candy - for me that was the same experience as you got from our musk lollies. I might even have worn your expression too. ...
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@kaktees2 months agoI tried it in Australia and it kinda tastes like bandung, a milky rose drink sold in Malaysia and Singapore. 2
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@williamrobinson74352 months agoHere in UK we have LOADS of sweets that taste like various detergents. Delicious! 😋🌟👍 1
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@Kazoid13372 months agoI LOVE musk. In Australia Musk Sticks are a very common lolly lmao. And for some reason pink is associated wih musk 1
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@leehaseley21642 months agoGreat shave, DK! All in all this soap sounds like an absolute winner. Have a fantastic weekend, brother 🍻🍻
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@twilightsmum242 months agoHi from Australia, those are my favorite Lifesaver, although I don't have them often, I don't really have a sweet tooth. 1
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@NeighborhoodOfBluelast monthI love watching your face as you experience new flavors.
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@steveadonislast monthI grew up in Australia and didn’t realise this was an Australian specific flavour. But yes! We have a few different musk flavoured sweets. I think the flavour is similar to what you described, laundry! It is floral, but not like perfume, more like rose water. I haven’t had one in years but I’m definitely getting some. ...
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@mir26892 months agoAussie here, I freaking love anything musk flavour. There's even musk flavoured vodka seltzer, which is super refreshing. A lot of the younger people I work with don't like musk, sadly I think it's becoming a flavour of the past. ...
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@ohrats7312 months agoAs soon as he said he couldn’t get musk flavor in the original video, I knew and Aussie would find a way to get him some 😂
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@mshbic77last monthAussie also: loved musk lifesavers as a kid haha. You need to try musk sticks for the combo of flavour and texture :D
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@shaynecarter-murray31272 months ago"Reminds me of grandma" hits different when said by the Tasting History dude 😂😂😂 1
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@lesliellama77792 months agoMusk sticks were my childhood favourite growing up in Australia. I don’t eat them now because they’re a little too sweet for me but the smell instantly transports me back to getting a paper bag full of them from the school tuck shop. ...
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@CPrs33942 months agoNice work trying them out! They do taste a little grandma’s perfume. I think for Americans it’s like only encountering lemon scent through dishwashing liquid and then tasting it for the first time, it’s going to fuck with your head. Or if your only exposure to mint was through toothpaste and you hate the flavour based on that (these people exist!). Also I’d say musk sticks are the classic musk lolly, they are kind of a hard nougat texture and about the size of a crayon ...1
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@justineg21212 weeks agoLaundry and my grandma. I love it. I’ve grown up with musk flavoured lollies and don’t mind them - but I get that description 😂
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@FaultAndDakranon2 months agoLavender is one of those flavours too. 😊 Sometimes it is laundry, sometimes it is food.
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@markfergerson21452 months agoThis reminds me of eating menthol or eucalyptus flavored throat lozenges like candy as a kid growing up in the US. Again, not a flavor you’d ordinarily associate with candy. But then some places consider the taste of licorice to be medicinal, and then there’s Finnish “Turkish Pepper” candy… ...1
مقاطع الفيديو ذات الصلة على I finally got to try musk flavored candy.:
A bit like getting a mouthful of a floral perfume or bathroom air freshener. Which sounds seriously revolting.
I grew up on musk sticks, and these tiny cheap sweet individual discs that came in a pack of 8 or so.
They are something that you’d need to try a couple of time later I think if you’re an adult, because your mind simply can’t register it as a flavour when you’ve never had anything like it before.
I’m waiting for the musk and Vegemite icing in Anzac biscuits. ... 2332
Thanks for creating this channel. I love cooking and history so your content makes me happy! ❤ 257
Another flavour you should try that I think not many people are aware of is malt, specifically malt milk. ... 7
Just started to binge watch your channel, have been noticing your back drop decor for each episode.. yes we take notice.😊. Grew up on musk stick candies ,,the soft musk sticks just melt in your mouth❤ ... 8
I was a very foul-mouthed child, so I can tell you it absolutely does NOT taste like soap. ... 4
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I felt so vindicated when I found out another name for liechi fruit is "soap berries" ... 18
That’s wild! Australians you wild so-and-sos and your insane domestic products 😂
(Post edit: I’m not American) 20
Pink smokers are kind of similar. 1
Makes me think of the musk ad from Ren & Stimpy, where Mr. Ed the horse was acting as Santa Claus (or a Santa-like figure), and he shaves in your sink and leaves his "shaving musk" behind, wbich is as you'd assume, spent shaving cream littered eith shaved hair that sticks to the sink (the kinda stuff wives and gf's hate seeing lol), but Ren and his pal Stimpy are ecstatic to see/recieve the gift haha ...
All in all this soap sounds like an absolute winner. Have a fantastic weekend, brother 🍻🍻
Also I’d say musk sticks are the classic musk lolly, they are kind of a hard nougat texture and about the size of a crayon ... 1
But then some places consider the taste of licorice to be medicinal, and then there’s Finnish “Turkish Pepper” candy… ... 1