Special WTF Edition: Fan Mail Candies!

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It’s a Super-special-with-extra-cheese-and-sprinkles-double-dipped-chocolate-waffle-cone-special-McSpecialson Wonder Treasure Find episode!!! We’ve been getting a lot of amazing letters and packages from EYK fans around the world (and we’ve been saving all our letters and notes in a special folder so we can hover around them on those cold winter nights and feel warmer…hahahah does that sound weird? WELL I DON’T CARE!!! *runs away to find letters*)

I digress.

Some of the fan mail we’ve received is candy from all around the world, but truthfully, we didn’t know what the candy would be like, so we decided to do taste the candy for the first time on camera. I can’t think of anything more of a wonderful treasure find than trying candy!!! Unless it’s Korean ginseng candy…which my (Martina) first vice principal used to always give me like a caring grandpa and wait around smiling until I opened it and ate it. I would smile kindly and happily eat it, but as soon as he left the room I would spilt it out into a paper and bury it in my trashcan like a squirrel burying a nut. He actually looked like my dad (if my dad was Korean) and he was the nicest guy who took care of me SO WELL, but that ginseng candy was like punishment…I mean, it’s GINSENG! Fresh ginseng, although really healthy for you, tastes the way a farm smells, and now you’ve decided to turn it into CANDY!? Who planned that?! Who needs to wash out their mouth with soap when you have that candy? It’s like, “EAT IT! EAAAAAAT IT!” “I don’t wanna, I’m sorry!!!! I’m so sorry! WAHHHHHH *gurrglee chew chew gurgle gag* WAHHHHH”

I digress. Again. How much coffee did I drink today? *bounces in chair, swings legs under table*

The point is we tried a bunch of interesting European candies that we had never seen before in our lives, and some of it was super delicious and some was like punishment, and we can’t decide if it was planned, like “Hahah Simon and Martina! No one in my country actually likes this, but this is payback for mocking my fav kpop band!” or if it was like, “This is a national love, and I wanted to share it.” If it is the later, then we’re really sorry for not liking all the candy, but we seriously love adventure and surprises, so it was AWESOME to try it all. It’s kind of like the time someone sent us Vegemite. It was….yeast-y…but EXCITING TO TRY!!! I think it is definitely made for a selective palate. Like coffee, wine, or ginseng candy. *shudders*

So, we’d LOVE LOVE to hear if you guise know these candies and what your reactions were to eating them. Did we eat them wrong? Should we have dissolved it in a glass of something first or eat it only on a full moon? Tell us a story!!!

And on that note, here are this week’s Bloopers, though it feels like everything we did was a blooper, and drawing the line between what makes the final cut and what doesn’t is a realllllly difficult choice.

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http://taemun.livejournal.com/ Andra

And by the way most children eat salmiakki too, it’s not for adults
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000748040143 Aleksandra Łata

You were right Simon about “Polka”, it is a Polish women and Polska means Poland About Polish candies it is difficult to say..but pierogi are the best! Kartofle and ziemniaki and pyry are all names for potatos^^ btw. greetings from Poland:)
Anonymous

Reese’s!!! <3 Hopefully they also sent the crunchy bar!
http://twitter.com/MUNzy21 мuŋиiε ⋩▽⋨

god! i would love to send you some Thai Desserts
but most of the good ones won’t last very long lol
http://www.facebook.com/people/Holly-Walker/1432810124 Holly Walker

i think you need to try marmite….
http://twitter.com/yellow0102 Paulina 폴리나

Simon you are right! Polka is a Polish woman/girl, Polska is Poland, kartofle (or ziemniaki) are potatoes and pierogi are the best! But regarding to candies/sweets – I think ptasie mleczko and pierniki are the most worthy to be called national polish sweets And krówki, too! ^^ I’ve actually sent some of great polish sweets to Alex (of Clazziquai) back this summer for his birthday, which was on September, but he still hadn’t received it (I asked him on twitter and he replied me, yay~!). When he gets it you can ask him to share some with you ^^

http://twitter.com/yellow0102 Paulina 폴리나

Alex got my package yesterday! I’m extremely happy, because he made big pic spam on twitter and it seems he likes polish sweets and snacks ^^ I will send similar package to you when I save some money, you need to try polish sweets, which are delicious!

http://twitter.com/_chocomint Jessamine Kurnia

kartoffeln does mean potato O_O
http://www.facebook.com/claudia.belanger2 Claudia Bélanger

Kartoffeln (not sure of the way I’m suposed to write this XD) is potato in German…isn,t it? XD

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1475340023 Michael Arc

in polish as well

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002402106027 Rika Chan

I SEE A MORDNEY PRESENT NAMED BOX THEREEEE :O
http://twitter.com/_Nacchan Nadine Michel

HahaXD
Marzipan Kartoffeln are from Germany.
It’s sold while the christmas season^^
I loved how Simon tried to read what’s written on the backXD
But great, that you liked it^^
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=638485364 Lucie Dvorakova

I accidentally brought salmiak flavoured mints in Germany (Fisherman’s brand). They were disgusting, but I ate them as punishment for getting the wrong ones. -.- I think it’s something like a salt.

And Marzipan is made out of almonds. Yum.
Eun Fox

You were probably already told by now but when I looked online, it says that Salmiakki is in fact licorice, but they add ammonium chloride to give it a salty taste, and while some people like it, they said it can cause a “tongue numbing” or “stinging” sensation. They said if you aren’t used to this chemical, then it can be over whelming, and that they also use this salty licorice in ice cream, as well as in alcohol.

Why would you want to make candy that can be painful to some people?
http://www.facebook.com/Emily.Luneng Emily Luneng

I LOVE PEANUTT BUTTER CUPS!!! Nom Nom Nom! haha
http://www.facebook.com/people/Karis-Amano/19510813 Karis Amano

i only know that kartoffel means potato in german so im sure simon isnt making it up! =)
Jessica Laub

Yayyy! Marzipan Kartoffeln <3 <3 Its from germany guys! And its pure marzipan covered in cinnamon. You only get it during christmastime though…
Crusti Croc is also german XD
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maron-Hime/100002213796199 Maron Hime

Benatová tyčinka we have it in Slovakia
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1653610624 Mackenzie Foster

the entire time my eyes kept going back to the Mordney Present count chocula puffs box thing xD
http://twitter.com/KingMoria Daniel Odd Thomas

I know it’s kinda late, but Moomin was originally not a kind of candy.
The reason people would freak out about Moomin was that Moomin used to be a popular cartoon in scandinavia. It’s like every scandinavian’s childhood memory.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Henriikka-Kumpula/657418167 Henriikka Kumpula

When you eat salmiakki, you are supposed to keep moving it in your mouth, so you get the flavor, not the burning. (I don’t even feel burning, but it’s probably because I’ve eaten those for my whole life.) Though super salmiakki is not my favourite, normal fazer salmiakki is.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1430124557 Jasmine Wong

I want to send fan mail but I don’t have their address =_____=