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- First time trying Dutch snacks from The Netherlands Sinterklaas candy.
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Little tip: You can also enter those Dutch words inside google translate and let the computer pronounce it for you ;)
Yes you can but even googletranslate is not right specialy when you try to translate to dutch
Trust me i know i am dutch
Yes but the pronouncing is also not always right
Just get an dutch person
Im dutch
"Sorry guys we're amateurs" I happen to like that haha. It makes it so much more genuine. This was awesome to watch. Seeing you guys being so happy about the presents you got. Like kids on "Pakjesavond"
Yeaaaaaa😁
"present evening" or "gift evening" would be the translation?
@@PerfectAlibi1 Yes, on December the 5th or 6th, we all gather together and wait for Sinterklaas to bring us presents. As a kid this was probably the most exciting and anticipated evening of the year. 🤩
@@milamar7777
Ja dat weet ik...
@@PerfectAlibi1 Oh I know what the English translation is, I just thought it was funny to use the Dutch word since he is trying to learn Dutch words etc.
There is no longest Dutch word: we can just keep slapping other words at the end. For example, a factory that makes toffees is a toffeefabriek. The manager of that factory would be the toffeefabrieksmanager. He sits off course on his toffeefabrieksmanagerstoel. That chair has a velvet sitting area: the toffeefabrieksmanagerstoelfluweel. And off course, that velvet is made in another factory. The toffeefabrieksmanagerstoelfluweelfabriek. Which has a roof off course: the toffeefabrieksmanagerstoelfluweelfabrieksdak. And, a person is needed to put that roof there, the toffeefabrieksmanagerstoelfluweelfabrieksdaklegger. Who wears pants. toffeefabrieksmanagerstoelfluweelfabrieksdakleggersbroek. We can go on for hours like this if we want, lol.
Hahaha
haha lol
Geweldig!!!
Geen daklegger, maar een dakdekker! But you made your point!
Or hottentottententententoonstelling
I am from the netherlands. It is true that in the dutch language words that enhancing each other are written as one word.
So for example:
Christmas tree in dutch is written as kerstboom and is therefore actualy one unique word. Where kerst = christmas and boom = tree. In this example christmas enhances the word tree by giving the word tree a more spesific meaning.
Fun fact: Due to more and more english terms used in combination with dutch it is a common mistake to write words like kerstboom as two seperate words. This is called "The english disease".
Samengestelde woorden are called "compound words" in English.
Every comment here is from a Dutchy! 😂
@@Loesters Belgium here, muahaha!
Nederland
Dordrecht
ik kom ook uit nederland
Hello dutchie here, I enjoy your vids a lot. Your wife pronounced the word lekkernijen close enough!
I can't add much more than what my fellow Dutchies have added, but for a total decadent breakfast, get some thin speculaas (the ones you got were like, chunks), you get some good white bread (without sugar...), cover that in a generous helping of unsalted real butter, then put speculaas on that. Yeah, it's a thing. Speculaas sandwich :D
Yesterday I even put some leftover ”kruidnoten” on my slice of fresh Dutch bread with butter…hmmmmm
Love that! Brings back memories..
Ja, lekker - Yeah, delicious.
@@cynthiamolenaar770 schuddebuikjes
In Haarlem they have a bread called "duivekater" which contains anise. Traditionally you would eat that with butter and speculaas on top.
"Hema" is the name of a Dutch chain store, and some of the products they sell are made in their own factories, hence the Hema logo on those products. He got those chocolate coins from there apparently.
Ik krijg een tweede hema waarom
Some basic Dutch words:
Gevuld = filled
Kruiden = spices
Speculaas = cookie with spices
Sinterklaas basically is a precessor of Santa Claus. He brought candies, little presents and money (now chocolate coins)
Lekkernijen = delicacies , sweets
Haribo = German
A German here: your examples show our languages belong to one language family. Hilarious!
lekkernijen = Leckereien
gevult = gefüllt
Kruiden = Kräuter
Speculaas = Spekulatius
@@groppermilk das ist ja klar!
The more kruidnoten you eat the better they seem to taste
I have that every year....
@@JaapGinder ikr xD
Remember as kids we ate them from the floor😋
The fact that they both said they didnt like them that much yet kept grabbing more tells enough about kruitnoten. Once you start you cant stop
The man got it. I have the same with drop.
You're telling her facts about the Netherlands and she's like "yeah sure, talk all you want, I'm here for the candy."
Someone should send you a box with all kinds of drop (licorice), just saying :)
Yeah, just send them all the "oldtimers" they're really good
She kinda looks like she doesn't wanna be there at all, not interested 🤣😂🤣
@@dustylong Yeah I thought that too but didn't wanna be that harsh XD
And the mark is Haribo... A German mark 😂
@@douweroest1003 you mean brand instead of mark I guess?
Hema stands for "Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam" Translated: Dutch Uniform Prices Company Amsterdam. It was the first country wide retailer that had the same prices for the same articles everywhere in the Netherlands. And on the Euro coins. The front end is uniform all over the Eurozone. The back end is free for any country coining the coins. Of course the amount that is allowed to coin is prescribed by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Fun fact: The Dutch Euro coins have "God be with us" on the side. The Dutch are the only ones to put something on the side. Ironically, we are not really religious at all. But it is the same text as was on the side of the Guilder. It caused some upheaval, but it was determined to be a "gray area" and thus allowed. Fun fact number 2. The Germans use the same phrase, but not on their money but on the soldier's belt buckle. Two peoples, two preferences....
Less than Normal salted Haribo is all sweet version. You've got salted double salted etc that's salt but yours was at the sweeter side. Real fun to see you both experience all the stuff and you quite know a lot about the Netherlands. This video is like you're both on a worldtrip. Good job done!
So Euro coins are different per country, with their own head of state (or whatever they want really), but regardless of what is on the coin, it is accepted all across Europe.
For the banknotes, they are the same across Europe, figuring fictional bridges, because they didn't one to favor one country or the other...
However, a Dutch architect actually built small versions of them in the Netherlands. (Tom Scott did a great video on that)
You two are very brave with the Dutch licorice!! A lot of non-dutch people puke over it. We loooooove it.
But the haribo licorice is disgusting. They should taste real dutch licorice
@@2910karlijn maybe Haribo made it easier for them 🤣
Same with us Scandinavians, we love salty licorice/salmiak, the saltier the better.
Okay here is food background information:
First of the chocolate letter, S stands for Sint, which means saint. The chocolate used for that is usually low-mid tier quality, but for the price its more than its value.
Second is Speculaasbrokken. Which roughly translates to Speculaas chunks. Speculaas being the cinnamon flavor we dutch use a lot during colder times.
third: You had a Gevulde koek met Amandel. Which is filled cookie with almond spices. Including amandel shaves on top. Another winter food.
4th Kruidnoten, They are tiny cinnamon cookies. They are already made nowadays 3-4 months ahead in stores. But usually they were made long ago for the kids and visiting of the saint. As for the evenings when kids sang a song they be stuffed their shoes in nights by parents with cookies and such.
The rest you can manage to figure out yourself.
Kleine sidenote though: speculaas is meer dan alleen kaneel, het is een mix van kruiden, zoals kaneel, kardemom, peper, nootmuskaat, kruidnagel etc wat het de specifieke smaak geeft. Verder goede samenvatting:)
Nope, he had gevulde speculaas, that's not the same as gevulde koek. Totally different 🙄
26:10 The M&M type stuff are probably Smarties. Most likely off-brand in this case. Smarties come in boxes like the one in the video, sometimes they come in a hexatube. They're pretty much the same thing except Smarties don't come in other variations like M&M's with peanuts or the crunchy stuff. Smarties are also older than M&M's.
It’s actually a popular tradition for parents to give kids a the first letter in their name as a chocolate letter for Sinterklaas. Usually kids wake up to find it in their shoe when they wake up
Its fun that you didnt even taste the most salty liquorice or in dutch drop i think out of that candy bag is one of the sweetest we have
That is funny, Amy Rose pronounced Lekkernij (the singular of lekkernijen) almost correctly. The ij combination is used as one letter in Dutch and kind of replaces the y. the sound is that of the i in knife. 5 Sinterklaas Lekkernijen = 5 Santa Claus (themed) treats
The Chocolate S: During the Sinterklaas time, kids will put there shoe in front of the fireplace filled with a carrot and some hay. The carrot and hay are for Amerigo which is the name of the horse of Sinterklaas. The traditional gift for the kids will be a chocolate letter, of course many adults will give eachother a letter as well. When for some reason names aren't known or a particular letter is sold out, the S will be the generic one given (and yes, S for Sint)
Gevulde Speculaas: Filled Speculaas. S[eculaas is a cookie type that comes in 3 varieties. Normal speculaas which you might know as "windmill cookies" a brittle, biscuit type cookie often in the shape of a windmill, the "Speculaas brokken" (Chunky Speculaas, the big one you retrieved from the box last) , similar to the windmill cookie but much thicker and harder and tis filled version which is more cake like and is filled with almond paste between the layers of cookie. just to be clear. Speculaas and Speculoos are not the same thing. We do not have ginger snaps
Chocolate Money: the person on the coin is King Willem Alexander. Every EU country will have their own design on one side but that is just a visual, they are valid in any country that accepts the Euro. Chocolate money is not really a Sinterklaas thing but you will see it more often during that time than in other times of the year. HEMA is a Dutch store chain, most famous for their "rookworst" (smoked sausage) but they sell all sorts of things, from clothing to food to kitchen ware and everything in between. The chocolate in these things tend to be lower quaality chocolate (like say.. herseys :P )
Kruidnoten and Pepernoten: (Spice nuts and peppernuts) Officially they are two seperate things but in general people will call them all Pepernoten. Kruidnoten as you have their are basically little blobs of Speculaas cookie, Pepper nuts are bigger, irregular shaped and are made with honey and anis as flavourings. the melkchocoladekruidnootjes simply is them being coated in mik chocolate. To each their own but Herseys is NOT beter. BLASPHEMY. As for "traditionally eaten with Christmas time... no.. we might have some left from Sinterklaas but that is all.
The burlap sack: Traditionally the story goes that Sinterklaas comes to the Netherlands from Spain with his steam ship. He comes with his helper, the controversial Black Pete (please fellow Dutchies... no discussion here, this is an explenation, nothing more) and the story goes that good children will get presents and candy but the bad kids will be put in the sack and brought back to Sspain as punishment (why being brought to a nce mediteranian country is punishment beats me)
the contents of your bag are just generic candies tha have nothing to do with Sinterklaas
It is impossible to translate Lekker(nij) into English. Lekker is a Dutch word that basically means tasty (lekkernij stands therefor for tasty treat) but it is used in many ways, everything can be lekker. Food can be lekker (tasty), athe weather can be lekker (nice), a girl can be lekker (hot) etc,
Ozosnel is the name of his current horse, after Amerigo retired ;)
I love how you tell/told her a lot of information and details about our little country when you're off-camera, it really shows how invested you are and that you really find it very interesting.
You need to visit The Netherlands ASAP!
PS... You know you could just Google Translate almost every words right? Haha
You both did great!
Love that you tried to do the research before eating.
All the stuff you got is Sinterklaas themed, most of that stuff kids only eat around Dec. 5th/6th
The salty Haribo drop you ate is indeed the base line (kid version)
Original carrots were indeed purple and white, the Dutch made them Orange
Fun video!
Doing a great job dude! Such a revelation to see an American with sincere interest in other cultures. Kudos! You have my respect! 🙌 Greetings from Utrecht, The Netherlands
hello from Belgium and we celebrate Sinterklaas on december 6 and the Nederlands on december 5 and speculaas is here speculoos HEMA is a dutch store
Sinterklaas birthday is 6 december and 5 december is pakjesavond
@@okidoki878 KLOPT maar pakjesavond is enkel in Nederland in België wordt dat niet gevierd ook geen supprise vooral kinderen krijgen een cadeau op 6 december
Gevuld means filled. Its telling you what its filled with. The cookie was filled with almond paste.
THANKS DANIEL, held!
So HEMA, is a store here in the Netherlands where you could buy anything from basic clothing to office supplies and foods. They also drop in on all the seasons and holiday's as so to sell the treats in those times.
The little sack you have is called a 'juten zak' or jute? Or sack cloth? Its the bag Sinterklaas uses.
The difference between pepernoten, and kruidnoten is that kruidnoten are almost the same as your gingersnaps while pepernoten are bigger and a bit softer, they contain anise.
Awesome to see this content mann 👊🏼💯
Hema is a store from the netherlands. You can buy all kinds of products for your home and some food.
Great video, it was fun to watch. We Dutchies need to send you guys more items, like stroopwafels and rookworst and some real drop 😋
Customs will not let rookworst through. Its perashable (dont know the spelling).
@@swollenaor Oh thats a shame 😢
True! And it also be cool to send some coins;)
@@charlotte89726 They will gain at least 30 pounds if we keep sending them dutch "candy"!
I was about to comment on the difference between Hershey chocolate and European chocolates. It is true that Americans are used to extra sugar in their food and products while here in Europe we have a range of variety for chocolate and other food products. I really hope you guys can come visit Europe, or at least the Netherlands, soon so that you can taste more varied products. We're serious about the amount of unhealthy sugar here in Europe. Even our fries are different than yours (we don't add stuff to make it look more golden).
You're correct about the gingerbread snaps: speculaas, pepernoten and kruidnoten are the original, taken by European immigrants to the USA. Tip: drink (warm) milk or tea, or chocolate milk while eating them!
Also North American choclate has bromide in it, because of the vast distances the milk has to be brought to make it to the factories. Bromide has a bitter almost vomit taste to it.
@@TomaszDK Wait, what? Really!?! Because pure chocolate is already bitter hence why most people don't like dark chocolate (I love with with hazelnuts). I did hear that the percentage of chocolate is tlower in American chocolate bars and bonbons.
@@myafelicia You should check out Adam Ragusea (food RUclipsr) he has a video on the subject. ruclips.net/video/J44svaQc5WY/видео.html
@@forkless Thank you. I will check it out later this evening!!!
As a Dutchie, I love your pronounciation. Great video again! Loved your reaction to our "lekkernijen" (=treats).
American living in Netherlands here. I must say the audacity of SPECULAAS 🤣🤣🤭 and drop. Out of all the things to send. 🤣🤣🤣
Love watching this as a Dutchie! Keep up the good work, love to watch more videos about the Netherlands!
It's especially nice that you guys recorded this on the actually birthday of Sint Nicolaas, December 5th. :) ( 12:23 shows your date in the taskbar)
De black gummy candy is indeed “drop” in English it’s called liquorice. They come in many different tastes, sweet, salty or extra salty or honey.
They also come in different textures, some are easy to chew others are harder to chew. Greets from the Netherlands, keep it up with introducing our country to the rest of the world!
The one that you showed is normal salty drop.
Just put a bowl of kruidnoten on your kitchen table and see what happens! Once they grow on you, they grow on you and before you know it you'll be finding your hand in the bowl more than a couple of times a day.. :) Great video again guys!
I’ve been waiting for this forever! As a dutchie i love seeing all of your video’s on my country
All those speculaas and kruidnoten should be enjoyed with a cup of coffee or black tea. That enhances the taste and makes them far more enjoyable.
Oh Charlie, this time you made me laugh zo laud. I first was only listening to you speaking. But now i am also looking at te video. You are so serios trying to understand what it is. And i admire you both for trying and tasting.
Gevuld = Stuffed
Brokken is not broken but = chunks
And man i love stuffed speculaas. Once a package is open i can't resist and have to eat the whole thing.
Haribo is indeed a brand. Salino is pretty salty, but in the netherlands there are more salty drop like from the brand Venco you got DZ ( Dubbel Zout = Double Salt). We dutch indeed love our Salty liquorice. I like it, but you get very thirsty from it :P
haribo is danish..
we have special eu rules in scandinavia that allow much stronger licorice then the rest of eu
they was afraid we would not join eu if we could not get real strong licorice and real salmiak licorice
the bag just have to say its for adult use
the dutch licorice is very sweet, like winegums
@@Hansen710 Haribo is German not Danish
@@Hansen710 Never knew that. "The more you know" :)
@@Hansen710 Ehmmm btw I found out that Haribo is originally founded in Germany by Hans Riegel in Bonn at 13th december 1920. and liquorice originally comes from south of Italy in the year 1731. The soft and sweet liquorice we know now was orignally used as medicine and sold in England at certain farmecies around 1760. So I'm sorry to say but Haribo isn't Danish
@@Hansen710 Not all dutch licorice is sweet 🙄
Gevulde Speculaas is definitely one of the best things the Dutch invented.
You should really make a video together with a Dutch person. As a dutchie, when watching your videos I wanna explain so many things! Love the vids
I'm from the Netherlands and watched a lot of your video's about the Netherlands ;) Furthermore I even learned something new about the role of the Dutch during the American Revolution. Keep up those great video's!
Hi, you partner was so close with the "lekkernijen" . The ij is indeed like the i in Englisch. Lekker = delicious/yummy. So lekkernijen = delicious treats in one word :)
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱🌷
Yes, we have very long 'compound nouns' as they are called, try this one: 'arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringsmaatschappijmedewerker', and this can be made even longer but then it becomes unpractical. There's no limit on them. Like this it's really used. It's not regional by the way, it's an inherent feature of the Dutch language. I am from the Netherlands.
(HEMA is the name of the shops where you can buy stuff like this and much more. It has its own brand).
Euro's are used in the whole of Europe, they are basically the same but the backside is different for each country. They can be used in every European country though.
The 'ui' in 'kruidnoten' is a difficult sound for English speakers to pronounce. And you didn't have really salty drop, these were very sweet ones! Dutch licorice can be very salty, you should try the brand Venco!
Nice video!
You can very much create infinitely long words. For example hottentottententententoonstelingstentententoonstellingstentententoonstelling....
@@arne_mh Yes but this one is really nonsensical
@@mariadebake5483 it does actually make sense up to: hottentottententententoonstellingstenten, these are the tents that are used to display the hottentottententen
@@arne_mh I know very well what it means!
Pepernoten and kruidnoten are different. You had kruidnoten, in the bag and on the chocolate S. Pepernoten are soft, bread like, and spicy with kinda the same taste as pepernoten. pepernoten are sort of sinterklaas candy form the old days. The Kruidnoten are also called pepernoten cuz people tend to get confused on which is which.
We don't put Pepernoten in the shoes, you can buy them in the store in a bag. Children don't see them as a typical Sinterklaas treat cuz it's rare to get pepernoten in your shoe. The Kruidnoten are used for throwing by black pete and to put in shoes.
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I don't think I've ever seen such a cute reaction to that barely salted liquorice. If you're ever offered Dubbel Zout, you might not want to get near it
I’m from the Netherlands! We have gevulde speculaas, pepernoten and chocolade letters in our food cabinet right now hahahha
Next season we will send you the "Bolletje Pepernoten" and "Chocolate Pepernoten", those are the best.
Throw in some other weird stuff we have aswell such as the Stroopwafels.
Whenever we have international people over they always buy like 4 packs of stroopwafels from the store.
I am enjoying your vids a lot, keep it going!
Lot's of fun! Each EU country has there own coins but they are the same when it comes to size value and color, only the engravings are different. I think you have coins from at least two different countries in your bag. In the beginning when the euro was introduced you would have mainly coins from your own country in your wallet, but when time goes by you would get more and more foreign coins, especially from the larger countries like germany and france. We do have cents. The coins 5, 10, 20 and 50 (half a euro) are cents. And de 1 and 2 are euro's.
No they are not cent
Opps - PRESSED RELY BEFOR I HAD FINISHED -
NO they are not centS - they are cent- check out each coin - it cleary states 5 10 20 50 CENT
Same as the 5, 10, 20 EURO not EUROS .Continentals always seen to pronounce them wrong, (Also when you spelt euro's it was wrong as its not a possive noun, it should be euros.)
@@annfrancoole34 language purist in tha house!
I miss the sweetest of sweetest candy: Marsepein. Should be in the box. But not in my mouth. Greetings from The Netherlands.
Actually, spijs is just like marsepein made of sugar and almonds.
@@hansdevreught5459 Marsepein is more refined.
Those speculaasbrokken are great dunkt in coffee (in my opinion😁) or even on a slice of bread with butter eaten directly or leave it in the fridge over night. My mom made that for me when i went to school when i was a kid, she made them the night before. You could do that with te pepernoten also makes em soft.
So funny to see something so normal for us being something so special for you and you can even make a 35 minute video of unpacking that stuff ;-)
Great video. Like the collab, keep it up!
The longest Dutch word I can think of is probably; Arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringspremieafdracht.
I am from the netherlands and it is very exiting to see you react to this country :) Been loving these video's great content!!!!
Finally you got your wish. Thank you Daniël for this opportunity for him.
Bro you always wanted it. Now you got the box. Enjoy. Do the next time a bigger box. There is mutch more to taste from the Netherlands. By the way.... If you have a drop in your hands and there is an ZZ on it. That's the extra salty
* DZ
the extra salty liquorice is very nice when you have a cough
It's always nice 😋 🤣😂🤣
Can't wait for you're reaction from more Dutch food. Have a good day🇳🇱
In the Netherlands smarties are the little chocolates that were in the box with the horse on it
We have dubbel gezoute drop, double salted liquorice. And then one above that which actually feels acidic if you rest it on your tongue with the amount of salt in them. As a kid id pop 5 of those at once and just let it burn... Ah good times
They put the treats in the shoe. That's true. What happened this week was very funny, I visited an elderly lady and I left my boots in front of her door because they were dirty (just walked my dogs in the forest). When I went out, someone had put a treat in my boot, lol. No idea who did it (well "Sinterklaas' of course, lol) but it was nice, lol.
that's so nice and funny.
The salino is on the low end salted ones. Maybe someone will send you a variety of drop. There are also what we would call sweet versions, but they would probly taste salty to you too.
dude i found you on a whim , dnk who you are, but i do like you somehow , so keep it up dude :D Cheers from Croatia
This was the best reaction so far! Liked how you were like 'ohh I saw that somewhere' and just being happy to have it irl.
If you'd like to have a zoom class on how to pronounce these words I'd like to help! I can give you some back ground info on how sounds (generally) are made in your mouth :D cool stuff.
Keep being amateurs!
I'm from The Netherlands✌, and I love to watch your video's❤😍😊
HEMA is a well-known chain store in the Netherlands.
The most salty licorice we have is double salt. The treats are small cubes with the letters DZ on them. They are worth a challenge.
The M&M kind of candy you ate is actually called Smarties. They came before M&M's. We have both here in the Netherlands. Smarties are more directed towards children and contain less sugar I think. They are also cheaper. The liquerish you had is non salted drop. You have a type that is coated in salt. Hard to miss.
Your wife's Dutch pronounciation is actually pretty good for someone who does not speak the language, maybe you should take some basic lessons together for when you come to the Netherlands !
The little fluffy things are something we call "schuimpjes" or "spekkies". Translates literally into "foamies". They are a bit like marshmallows but we don't heat them up though. The Haribo's are German treats to be honnest :)
It was amazingly fun to try and figure out what you got from your pronunciation xD
He's getting a Dutch Farmers accent already xD Kruudnoten
Fun fact: we call the inner soft almond layer in the gevulde speculaas 'spijs' which is pronounced exactly as 'spice'. We like it so much that we eat it the whole year through in the shape of gevulde koeken. 'Gevuld' means 'Filled'. We don't even need to specify with which the cookie is filled. If it's filled it's filled with SPIJS!
This also teaches you that 'ij' is pronounced as 'i' and doesn't involve making the 'itch' sound as you americans like to do ;)
Gevulde koeken do have the spijs in it, but not the speculaas flavour though, like gevulde speculaas does.
Licorice is very popular in many European countries...especially the nordic countries. And you can get it in so many different flavors besides sweet and salty.
Hey love your channel.
I am from the Netherlands.
I just wanted to remind you then you propebly know that if you type a dutch word like SINTERKLAASLEKKERNIJEN in google translate you can have google also pronounce it in Dutch.
Hope you keep going with you're videos and have a great Christmas and new year..
Greatings Bert
We have waaaaay saltier drop than the ones you tried
Yeah, this one almost can't be called salted
I love how I just *know* a bunch of things, either by sight or by description. Like, you went "tiny M&Ms", and I immediately knew exactly what they were. Smarties, by the way. They're sold in larger bags that contain a bunch of those tiny boxes, which is convenient for handing out to a bunch of kids.
Greetings back from Alblasserdam, the Netherlands.. (close to Rotterdam)
Aboout "drop" you had the baseline. Salty drop has "zout" printed on it. The very, very salty (I like most) has "DZ" printed on them. Stands for "Dubbel Zout" (Double Salt). You could also try a delcious powder, called "Zwart-Wit" (Black-White). They come in two variants: Sweet and Salty. Traditionally you consume that by wetting your finger and stick it into the "Zwart Wit" and lick it off your finger.
Awesome video! I am from the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands. It’s the provincial/state capital of North Holland. The city lies 20 kilometers west of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.
I am from the Netherlands! I love watching your video's!
By the way ”gevulde” means ”filled”. The two layers of speculaas are ”filled” wit almond paste” ad upposed normal unfilled speculaas, then you have only the cookie.
Gevulde speculaas is wonderful with coffee or thea. Enjoy.
So cute to watch you with your surpised reaction. I normally just open the bag and eat it (in 1 time). Lol
Hema is a Dutch brand founded in 1926 HEMA stands for: Dutch Unit Prices Company Amsterdam (Hollandse Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam)
The pronunciation of "ij" (and "ei") is like the english/american "i" and "y" . So when its something like " lekkernijen" it pronounced kind of like " lacker-ni-an" . Hope this helps ;).
I Love your video's! keep up the good work and stay safe, love from Groningen.
Bro the editing on this is top notch *zooms in* "SPEC-UUUUUUL-AAAAAAS BRRRRROKKKKKKKEN" im dead..... ohh and no that's not the baseline, that's the children's mix.
Raised in the Netherlands. I remember the days that Sinterklaas would arrive at our place of education. Giving the childhren pepernoten and the kids just not eating them. But just throwing them arround the classroom at other students / The teacher. Sinterklaas was all out war instead of a holiday at the school I went to.
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The HEMA is a store chain in the Netherlands, which sells lots of different products, mostly for your home, kitchen and also some food and clothing, kind of like a department store. The name is actually an abbreviation for Hollande Eenheidsprijzen Maatschappij Amsterdam, originally founded after the idea of the American Woolworths, with all 0.50 or 0.25 prices.
Nowadays I think they have stores in a lot more countries then just the Netherlands, but in the Netherlands its almost like cultural heritage :)
The dry speculaas cookies or speculaas brokken are lovely to dip into tea as well. Dip it in just for a sec and eat it a bit tea-soaked. Don't dip the "gevulde speculaas" though, but you could warm the filled speculaas up for a sec in the microwave.
Dude keep up the great video's. I'm always watching you when I'm bored at work you always keep me entertaint, keep up the good work!
Sinterklaas is on 5th of december in the netherlands and 6th of december in flanders(belgium)
Funfact: The idea of giving letters and sweets to children comes from the belief that letters make them smarter, while sugar makes kids sweeter.
The snacks you got are pretty basic for Sinterklaas, except for the chocolate letter. That's a fancier one.
We also have other sweets that we give children, like the replacement for the banned chocolate cigarettes, sugary foam candy, and one that's not every child's favourite: tangerines (the fruit, not a candy.)
Hema is a chain store that almost exclusively sells its own brand of products, and it's known for being affordable and having reasonable quality products.
So the snacks aren't the best there is, but they're decent.
If you ever come visit the Netherlands, you won't be able to miss the store itself, because it's in every city, and in many town across the country.
They're also known for their smoked sausage and tompouce, so don't be surprised by their... interesting merch XD
The marshmallow-y, pink-white things you ate are called 'spekjes'. It's a candy here in NL. And not every Dutch person likes drop, not at all haha. And this reminds me of my childhood..my grandma always bought us kids the chocolate coins in winter time when Sinterklaas was coming up.. die goeie ouwe tijd :)
Hey! Love your videos. When you do get to visit the Netherlands would love to show you around some.
Talking about sticking words together, I couldn't let you miss the wonderful "angstschreeuw". Some friends of mine once figured that this must be the most insane word in the world for having 9 consonants vs 4 vowels, 8 of which are in a row. It is the compound word of "angst" meaning fear in Dutch as well as German and "schreeuw" meaning a cry, so 'cry of fear'.
Funny fact about the cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, cloves and countless other spices that typical dutch treats are crammed full off. As you figured out yourself, it has been caused by the Dutch being the world's major transporter of spices in the Golden Age. Hauling so much of the stuff around led to the logical addition of them to many recipes.
I always like having the black liqorice gummies with the other ones because if I eat too much sweet it doesn’t taste that good anymore but the “saltiness” makes it so I enjoy the sweetness again
The Salino is far from being salty...that's rookie level...when you see dz (double salt) on it then you have the right stuff xD
The Chocolate letters normally go by first letter of your name. Mine is David, so I get the D. My sister was Esmeralda, she got the E.
Almost the entire alphabet you can find in letters at supermarkets with the Sinterklaas period. Of course some letters have "more" chocolate than others, but they try to balance them out as good as possible.
“The yellow one’s are mweh” haha Nailing the dutch head on. Pink ftw
Glad you like these typical Dutch treats 🙂👍🏻