in our office kitchen and came up with a level for lakrisol of ph 5.92. that s somewhere between urine and coffee on the ph scale. this stuff is amazing. when chris came on the show last month, we found out weirdly he feeds one of the ingredients, the ammonium chloride to his goats. also he agreed to personally tried it on camera in our green room. he was a really good sport about it. i think he liked. today weigh tried to make our own lakrisol and it tasted awful but very much like the real thing. it s incredible how so few ingredients can make such a terrible, terrible flavor that apparently swedish people and goats enjoy. we have not been able to figure out why it tastes so awful to us. excuse me. ah.
this summer, the rachel maddow show staff was introduced to something called lakrisal, a swedish licorice delicacy. she introduced it to us as if it was candy. ha! we tried it, and it tasted flipping awful. bitter in an extremely salty way, like a gagatorium in the office when everybody tried it. so then naturally we wanted to know why it s like that. we went to the chemist who we keep on retainer around here doesn t everybody do that? to investigate the three main ingredients in lakrisal. licorice, ammonium chloride and sugar. we asked him to tell us why it was so freaking bitter. we tested its acidity in a not very scientific lab experiment in our office kitchen and came up with a level for lakrisal of ph 5.92.
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