To support our never-ending quest for calories, CK suggested that we should pick up some Soft Ice (that’s DQ-style ice cream to you ‘mericans) from a nearby mall in Copenhagen. The procedure seemed familiar enough: we each selected our cones, flavor of ice cream, and style of sprinkles. Naively believing that all sprinkles have the same sugary flavor, I selected the most aesthetically pleasing sprinkles. The green and black sprinkles coated the Soft Ice so completely that no Soft Ice was visible until I took the first bite... The sprinkles instantly shocked my tongue with an extremely salty taste accompanied by a hint of bad licorice flavor. The taste was unpleasant enough that I thought that my taste-buds were deceiving me, but a second taste confirmed that I was eating the worst tasting sprinkles in the world. The sprinkles were flavored with saltlakrids, or “salty licorice.” Saltlakrids contains ammonium chloride (NH4Cl or sal ammoniac) in addition to the liquorice root extract, sugar, and starch or gum arabic that are typically found in liquorice. Apparently ammonium chloride does not kill you in small doses, but it does ruin perfectly good Soft Ice.-CW
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I hope Weber learned a valuable lesson: never try anything new when in another country. Just stick to McDonalds and food purchased in airports or train stations.
And when confronted with a language barrier, just speak more loudly in English. The waiter probably just couldn't hear you.
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