There Are Now Six Basic Tastes. And The Newest One Is A Nightmare For Some.

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The first time I went to Finland, I was given a salty black licorice candy called salmiakki. It was a brand called Sisu, which is an untranslatable Finnish word meaning something like stoic grit and resilience in the face of adversity. Eating the salty licorice for the first time, I believe I understood the essence of sisu.

Salty licorice is just not a …