![]() ![]() This marshmellowy Tomte (Santa) is eaten by everyone in Sweden at Christmas. With a crunchy shell and a milky filling it tastes like childhood. You could easily miss this itty bitty candy while scouring the vast Pick ‘n’ Mix wall, but it’s one of my favourites. Don’t expect to be doing much talking for a while after eating it – you’ll be picking your teeth for a good half hour. This is another toffee, albeit with hazelnuts. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that they’re a good, solid, decent candy. These German caramel candies are exceptionally popular in Sweden (as they are in England and pretty much everywhere else in Europe.) They’re always at the Pick ‘n’ Mix wall. Milk chocolate with a crunchy hazelnut filling. This is actually a Finnish creation, but it’s a Swedish favourite. It comes in a mind-boggling amount of varieties including licorice, strawberry and Oreo, though my favourite is the regular you see here, or the dark variety. You’ll see stacks of the stuff is every supermarket. We always have a bar of this in the house, and if we don’t, there’s mass hysteria. Probably one of the most substantial praline chocolates you’ll find in Pick ‘n’ Mix. They do it in licorice flavour too, surprise, surprise. Same as the above but chocolate flavoured. (You’ll find ‘weird’ is a word that often comes up when people are describing Swedish food stuffs.) A must try. This Swedish toffee is uber rich, and, while it’s delicious, it’s also a bit weird tasting. ![]() Even though it’s made up of a perfect combo – milk chocolate and soft caramel – it’s mediocre. While it has one of the most unfortunate names for a chocolate bar, Plopp is a huge hit in Sweden. It’s mostly chocolate A: because I’m a chocolate fiend and B: I was in a rush as I was verging on having a full-blown panic attack. But even though most Swedes do eat their candy on a Saturday, they still manage to beat every other country in the world in terms of consumption.ĭown below you’ll find some godis I picked up the other day (once I’d managed to shoulder my way through the gaggle of grownups desperate for their Saturday candy fix). The tradition of Lördagsgodis stems back from the 50’s when the Swedish Medical board advised parents to limit their children’s sweet eating to one day a week. In my opinion, less is more, and a binge every other month or so does me just fine. I’ve lost count of the amount of times that, in some kind of creepy trance, I’ve picked up a paper bag and a little plastic shovel and have half filled my bag, before shaking my head and abandoning my loot like it was on fire. ![]() I’ve tried to blend in, to become ‘one of the Swedes.’ But, after gorging on one too many bags, I’ve lost the will to have Lördagsgodis every single week. And now, three years on, I can still find it overwhelming when hordes of people, predominately adults, swarm the Pick ‘n’ Mix wall in our local ICA on a Saturday to bag up kilos (this isn’t an exaggeration) of the stuff. Before moving to Sweden, I was blissfully unaware of the country’s obsession with godis (candy), or more specifically Lördagsgodis (Saturday candy). ![]()
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