Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120804:01:56:00
This summer, the rachel maddow's 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 gag antorium 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 to investigate the three main greens in lakrisol. lish rish, ammonium chloride and sugar. we asked him to tell us why it was so freaking bitter. we tested its acidy in a not very scientifi...