Drop

We shared our 3 night cruise in Turkey with 11 dutchmen. We discovered (painfully) the Dutch obsession with Drop - foul-tasting dutch licorice.

It comes in a variety of forms - from soft to hard and sweet to insanely salty. The soft, sweetish variety is tolerable (but not good). The hard and salty types are beyond bad.

Amazingly enough, among the 11 dutch people on a 1 week holiday they had brought 5 varieties of Drop with them (to make it through those long turkish nights). They were keen to ensure that we tasted all 5 varieties.

Luckily I have a strong stomach and I kept them all down and luckily M is good with people so she avoided the worst few types. The turkish couple on the cruise had neither defence - they were struggling to spit it out before it was too late.