What's the best Finnish candy?
Those green lime & chocolate things don't look half bad...! Have you ever tasted/spotted the Marianne variety that's not red & white but red & orange? Might have been called Annemari actually... anyway as you might guess they've got an orange-flavoured covering on the chocolate instead of the mint. Haven't seen them anywhere for ages but I haven't really looked tbh.sinikala wrote:Probably my favourite too... who knows, one day they may even progress as far as the...MagicJ wrote:I quite partial to those red and white striped sweets (Marianne???) hard and minty on the outside, chocolate in the middle. Genius!
I rarely buy candy but if pressed for a favourite, it would be the polar-bear wrapped "Island" from the Fazerin Parhain bag
Now I get thinking about it, that is something I miss a bit... a decent selection of boiled sweets... Last week I polished off a pack of Everton mints that came in the Red Cross parcel I got a while back.sammy wrote:Those green lime & chocolate things don't look half bad...! Have you ever tasted/spotted the Marianne variety that's not red & white but red & orange? Might have been called Annemari actually... anyway as you might guess they've got an orange-flavoured covering on the chocolate instead of the mint. Haven't seen them anywhere for ages but I haven't really looked tbh.sinikala wrote:Probably my favourite too... who knows, one day they may even progress as far as the...MagicJ wrote:I quite partial to those red and white striped sweets (Marianne???) hard and minty on the outside, chocolate in the middle. Genius!
I rarely buy candy but if pressed for a favourite, it would be the polar-bear wrapped "Island" from the Fazerin Parhain bag
I didn't used to eat them that often, but there was such a variety in our local newsagent (100 jars?) that you could have a quarter (4oz) of a different type every week for a couple of years. Something like this.
If you want non-salmiakki boiled sweets here you have that Fazer selection bag ... some of which are quite nice, the long thin polar bear you mentioned and the long thin kissa-kiss are the nicest. But some of them are rank.
Marianne - I have from time to time tried the other flavours... I think you get them on ferries... there is a mix that has at least blue and white. not mint flavour and toffee in the centre instead of chocolate... I leave them to the missus.
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Actually they are chocolate coated wafers, (vohvelikeksi) but that's not important right now.karen wrote:Those are cookies/biscuits/keksia.Initial_C wrote:FANI PALA! FANI PALA! FANI PALA!!
I used to love them, so much so that I sent in a pack to be reviewed at
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
Told Fazer what I'd done, Fazer (now LU) in return sent me a crate of Fasu Pala, which took several months to demolish. I was so sick of them that I haven't eaten once since!
We've found the official Hammer Horror wafers?!?sinikala wrote:Actually they are chocolate coated wafers, (vohvelikeksi) but that's not important right now.
I used to love them, so much so that I sent in a pack to be reviewed at
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/
Told Fazer what I'd done, Fazer (now LU) in return sent me a crate of Fasu Pala, which took several months to demolish. I was so sick of them that I haven't eaten once since!
'Mad liquorice chocolate covered wafers'
nice, that one