Your country's candy!

[Remis]

Today a kg costs maybe 40-50 SEK (45 SEK = $6.70, 5.10€) which is less than half of the nominal price 20-25 years ago when I was a kid. Strange, but food has generally become cheaper here since the early 90's since nominal prices are more or less the same while there's been some monetary inflation.

And that is why harryturer to Bohuslän are so popular among us Norwegians.

_{100 grams of loose sweets are generally 15NOK+ (17.61 kronor, £1.7, $2.6, 2€) in Norway, by the way.}

[dkatbena]

Sugarcane candy with peanuts (locally known as "Panutsa".)There is rice cake locally known as "Tilbok" is one of the exotic sweets in my province(Cavite). It is made of Glutineous rice, Flour of glutenous rice, yam, coconut milk, cow's milk, sugar, lemon juice,lemon peelings, anis leaves,(aroma) pandan leaves(aroma).Nowadays, it is no longer prepared by younger generations but at least i know how it is cooked.

[Spaigelploatje]

Same here, Jack, there are small shops specialised on sweets that sell them loose (which aren't terribly common), but supermarkets don't.

Außer den kleinen Süßwarengeschäften kann man hier, in den Niederlanden, auch in fast jeder Drogerie Süßigkeiten kaufen, auf der gleichen Weise wie Hunef uns gezeigt hat.

Yep, the cheapest I know is Kruidvat at I believe €0.75 per 100g?

The best stuff:
Absolute no.1


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[languagepotato]

since there are a lot of dutch people who posted stuff, i'll post moroccan things
sfouf is delicious


shebekiya tastes pretty good too


cookies we eat on eid (a religious holiday):

[md0]

Now, this is not a traditional sweet or anything, but do you guys have Oreo-filled chocolate in your country?

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

I've never seen it, but it looks tasty. But I'd never spend 1,70 for a bar of chocolate

[md0]

You are not going to get many chocolate here then

[JackFrost]

Not necessarily Oreo, but it tastes quite like one.

[mōdgethanc]

That looks disgusting, meidei. This is real chocolate.

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

You are not going to get many chocolate here then

That's a pity, because I love chocolate!

The one I buy mostly costs 33 cents...

[JackFrost]

This is real chocolate.

To get a bit under my thick skin, buying me the hazelnut kind will do rather well.

The one I buy mostly costs 33 cents...

Fuck. That's cheap. I could only get some for $0.80 (€0.60) at Dollarama and elsewhere, it's often twice more expensive.

[md0]

That looks disgusting, meidei. This is real chocolate.

I don't like chocolate
White "chocolate" is my upper limit.

[Hoogstwaarschijnlijk]

The one I buy mostly costs 33 cents...

Fuck. That's cheap. I could only get some for $0.80 at Dollarama and elsewhere, it's often twice more expensive.

Yes, it's Euroshopper and incredibly cheap. I doubt it has ever been around cacao, I guess it's mostly made from sugar.

[mōdgethanc]

To get a bit under my thick skin, buying me the hazelnut kind will do rather well.

So in order to ... break the ice, you mean? To ... defrost your cold exterior?

It's pretty fucking good, I agree.

[JackFrost]

More like, not to make Jack a dull boy. Yep.

[mōdgethanc]

I wouldn't want you to be all work and no play.

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[Hydrosoul]

Not a huge fan of American candy, but I admittedly love Hershey's.

I'm a bit jealous of Japan for having so much variety in their candies.

[Aleco]

But they dread purer chocolate. Hershey's was the only kind I could find, and coincidentally, it's also the only kind thus far that I cannot stand.

[ceid donn]

If there's one candy that says U S A to me it's Peeps--nothing fancy, appealing but gross at the same time, certain to help you on your way to type II diabetes.

I confess I have eaten my fair share of Peeps in my lifetime but now I'm at the age that I have to take my chances of getting diabetes seriously so I avoid them like the plague.

Hershey's is pretty awful as far as chocolate goes. If it's chocolate, I'd prefer Ghirardelli, easily the best US chocolate maker, or Terry's Chocolate Oranges, which I'll nominated as The Official Candy of the UK.

I do like Whoppers, which are made by Hershey's.

I actually prefer fruit-flavored or licorice candies to chocolate, and my fav is gummibears, real kind--from Germany. What sucks is in the US, most manistream shops sell Habiro candies that are made in their factories in Turkey or other countries and you have to go to speciality shops to get Habiro candies made in Germany. Beyond that if it's fruit- or licorice-flavored gummy candy, I'll probably like it.

Except I did have some Isreali gummy candy once and it was the worst candy I've ever had. I recall one of them was red and green, so I thought maybe it was watermelon-flavored, but it tasted more like bad bananas, and another one that was red and shaped like a strawberry--that one tasted like sweaty foot.

I love licorice but it's not as popular in the US as it was when I was a kid. It's hard to find good licorice, although I do like the Panda brand, which is available where I live. When I lived in Houston, I'd go up to Old Town Spring and buy imported licorice from a Dutch speciality store there. Miss that place.

Someone above mention Japanese candy: I used to be kind of friends with a guy who had a creepy Japanese fetish which I tried to not know much about out of fear that there was some even worse than creepy to it (if you follow me), and he always had all sorts of Japanese candy at his house. Some of it was pretty weird, like corn-flavored candy, which I just don't get. Not only am I allergic to corn, just plain old off-the-cob corn isn't really a flavor I want my candy to come in.

[Varislintu]

I was a little surprised at how bad the candy selection was in Italy. Do Italian adults eat candy? It all seemed to be targeted for children, cheap and colourful stuff like Haribo and not much else.

Italians also seem to like these white-white cookies and dry white sponge cake things that I can't appreciate myself.

But the gelato was pretty damn fine. I was pleasantly surprised at finding liquorice as a common flavour. There was also salty pistachio and an almost salty dark chocolate. Usually people seem to think Finns are weird for liking their sweet with a bit of salty, but maybe it's not so strange after all.