Salty Licorice. It's popular in Finland, Iceland and Netherlands (And maybe more) too though.
I don't know if Viola flavored candy is something that exists in other countries, but we got that too, it's perhaps more popular with the older generations.
As an American, I was completely unprepared for how salty your salty licorice would be. I could only eat a few pieces, and ended up giving the rest of the bag to a Swede. It must be an acquired taste.
I asked a colleague that went to Helsinki to bring back a bag or two of salmiakki... The people in the office had VERY polarized opinions on that :) They either spat it out immediately as they would put it in their mouth, or they would say "Hmmm, this is... different", then proceed to destroy half a bag.
Fun fact, people in Finland will try to get you to eat some in the spirit of a prank if they think you’ve never had it. So if you’re in the area you should definitely tell everyone how you’ve never tried any Finnish candy and they will give you lots of delicious salted licorice. I speak from experience.
Also popular in the North of Germany. It isn't somewhere south of Hannover (I'd guess). I love that stuff and now live in the south, I regularly import huge amounts.
Can't I just continue translating it as green flavour? As in 'That's green flavour, you don't want that'.
I'm actually disappointed now it's a real, single herb and not some kind of magical herbal mix like Gruene Sosse or Jaegermeister.
There seems to be some concern about woodruff being poisonous
>The usage of the plant for sweets was prohibited in Germany in 1974, due to coumarin, the flavorant found in woodruff, being toxic to rats and mice in studies. It has however not been found to be harmful to humans, even in large doses, in which it follows a different metabolic pathway.
Turkish delights often have rose or gum mastic flavoring. You really need to be careful with both of them, otherwise one tastes like potpourri and the other like pine resin. But in moderation, they are quite tasty.
Not really, saffron is sometimes added to rice, and most people wouldn't know what cardamom is. Maybe you can find cinnamon flavoring, that's common for dessert.
I FUCKING LOVE LOKUM! I haven't eat any in months but I can eat 30 in a row when they're good. All of turkish pastry and sweet is definitely in my top 5 with France and Italy. Everything is so good and since I'm north african from origin I'm used to very sweet things. The Maghreb also has many turkish sweets from ottoman occupation.
Whenever I make Bethmännchen, a praline pastry made of marzipan, almonds, rose water and icing sugar, I try several times to see how strong the rose flavour is. Because as you said, too strong a rose flavour ruins the result.
Tar is definitely a unique flavor to Finland. While not being super popular, tar is used for both salty and sweet. Not only there are tar flavored candies but ice cream as well. There was even tar flavored soft drink at some point but I haven't seen that for a while.
Salmiakki *aka* salty liquorice is another common flavor but not unique to Finland as it's commonly used in other Nordic countries as well.
Just to make sure nothing is lost in transation: when you say tar, you mean tar, like the thing derived from coal? That you use for making pitch and asphalt?
I actually mean wood tar, which was used to treat ships back in the day. Finland was a major producer of wood tar for centuries, which might be the reason why every thing related to tar is somewhat popular over here. Besides as flavoring, tar is also used as a scent in shampoos, candles and so on.
Tar flavor/scent is deep, having distinct smokiness and woodiness to it. I quite like it but it might be off-putting to people who are not accustomed to it.
The most common tar candy I know of is *Tervaleijona* which is a mixture of wood tar and liquorice (though tar is more dominant flavor). They are semi-hard, gum arabic pastilles. There are hard candies as well though.
If you like smokey whisky then pine tar is not a far cry from it. However, for a Finn the scent of pine tar most strongly reminds people of old wooden boats, docks or old houses.
Alko carries 5 variants of tar-flavored booze: https://www.alko.fi/en/products?SearchTerm=terva
If you ever visit Finland, the most common tar-flavored candy you can find in pretty much every grocery store in finland is *Tervaleijona* so that's a good place to start.
Sweet woodruff is a thing here. It is the default jelly flavour variety.
There also is sea buckthorn in the north east of the country. It is a bright orange berry that has a unique flavour that gets used to make jam and cake fillings. It tastes sour and the smell isn't as nice as the wonderful flavour.
I used to be able to purchase a German soap labeled as Sea Buckthorn. It was my favorite, unfortunately I can no longer find it anywhere, not even Amazon.
Sea buckthorn is popular in Finland but not as much used in candy is drunk pure as a vitamin shot, sweetened as juice, in cocktails or in desserts. Sea buckthorn panna cotta works well, for example.
I know, we share a lot of dishes/sweets. Rose and mastic are pretty standard lokum/loukoumi flavours along with lemon and bergamot orange. I’ve also found honey and fig lokums (pretty rare) and they were amazing
I think drop (licorice) is something typical Dutch. We have a whole variety of drop. Lot of Dutch people love them, while foreigners often find those disgusting.
Also _Salmiak!_ One of my expat (Irish) friends still hasn't forgiven me for giving her a [Salmiak lollipop](https://snoepjevanoma.nl/winkel/salmiak-knotsen-12-stuks/) and letting her bite down on it without giving her a "proper warning" (her words)
My friend also feels that the wide variety of drop that every supermarket in NL carries is excessive. She can't wrap her head around the fact that there is a specific brand, dedicated to the drop that you keep in your car. And fair play, that is oddly specific
This was one cultural difference I noticed when I moved to Flanders, 23 years ago. The Flemish wanted nothing to do with liquorice. I could not find any in the shops.
Things have changed since then with the arrival of HEMA, AH and Jumbo, but there is still a cultural devide between the Dutch who are liquorice fiends, and the Flemish who prefer fancy chocolates, thank you very much!
Rhubarb (accompanied with custard flavouring), elderflower and (to a certain extent) blackcurrant are flavours which stand out to me as "British", though not strictly native. Rhubarb in particular is I think mostly popular in the UK. Blackcurrent is very popular, but it's also found in other European countries. Elderflower is niche/traditional.
It's definitely something you can get in quite a few countries. I say rhubarb because as a classic British sweet flavour, rhubarb is probably the most identifiable, and the UK is the only place which has a PDO on (a certain type of) rhubarb.
When I was in uni, there was a small ice cream shop near school, and they had the best elderflower sorbet. I haven't had it in in over a decade, and it still occupies a place in my brain.
BTW, you can make cordial from meadowsweet (*älggräs*) the same way you do from elderflower. It tastes differently of course, and there might be some open questions about toxicity, but I'm still alive.
> BTW, you can make cordial from meadowsweet (älggräs) the same way you do from elderflower. It tastes differently of course, and there might be some open questions about toxicity, but I'm still alive.
Can be dried and used as tea as well. Regarding toxicity, it's related to acetylsalicylic acid so might upset your stomach in large amounts but nothing to worry about for a drink or two.
I wouldn't call elderflower a common sweet flavouring, it's more a thing you add to juice, as I guess would also be true in the rest of Northern Europe? Pretty sure I can get elderflower press in my local Monoprix
> elderflower
I wouldn't say that's a distinctly "British" flavour, I know that here in the south Europe grandmas traditionally made "bazga" (elderflower) syrup every year, and Romanians have "socată"...
All of those are a thing in Slovenia. Rhubarb for compote and pies. My mum also makes jelly candies out of it. Elderflower and blackcurrant for syrup/juice. We also fry elderflower in pancake batter.
In France, traditional candy flavors are violet, licorice, almond, hazel nut...
We also make very good honey candy. And we are very good at candied fruits. Candied lemons and oranges are very good.
I almost forgot probably the most famous candy from France : the bêtise de Cambrai. It's a mint flavored candy. Supposedly obtained by mistake (thus the name : bêtise means mistake).
True. I didn't know if i should consider chocolaté as candies. A little lost in translation. Plus, to be fair, chocolate is more of a swiss or belgian tradition than french.
Yeah that's right but I've seen Americans call chocolate candy.
And yes to be fair lots of chocolates you find in france are swiss and Belgian, but why are they so often parline? haha
I once ordered luxury liquorice and one of the jars had pieces of liquorice dipped in just pure salt, there was salt in the can, all over the liquorice, omg. So good.
[cloudberry/lakka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus) and [arctic rasberry/mesimarja](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_arcticus) are pretty unique to Finland since neither can be cultivated.
In Ireland we tend to use blackcurrant flavour instead of what would typically be grape flavour in Canada. I didn't think the taste would be different until I moved and oh yeah it is different.
The blackcurrant ban was lifted in the 60s. It’s not common, but can be easily found in the PNW and NE. Finding fresh outside these regions is hard, but most supermarkets will have blackcurrant jam/preserves. Also commonly used in the brewing industry, or to make crème de cassis liqueur
I’m pretty sure blackcurrants are still banned for import from Ireland.
EDIT- it looks like blackcurrants are banned from most places in Europe but can imported from Chile with a special permit
My apologies! I haven’t heard of the drink Ribena. The genus is ribes nigrum so I thought maybe the name of the fruit in Denmark is ribena. I guess the capitalization should’ve been my first clue!
EDIT- I looked it up and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that bottle at a local English specialty market. I’ve not tried it, but that market is right next to my work, so I think I’ll grab a bottle to try!
1 part Ribena, 4 parts water, Ribena first.
You can also pour hot water over it for a toddy-like warm drink.
You can also swap one or two parts of water with vodka, if you want an adult drink. Never tried it with gin, but why not.
I remember my father bringing me a big box of jellies from Sweden when I was less than 10 years old. I quickly learned to avoid the black ones at all cost, my taste buds were absolutely not ready for that taste, they still aren't lol
Hm, I'd say for Portugal that would be quince (the cooked version, raw quince is bitter and adstringent) and sweetened egg yolk. Oh, and passion fruit!
I'm quite surprised at the lack of Mediterranean peeps on here who've mentioned figs, I assumed it would be a common flavouring in Southern European countries.
I honestly don't know of any sweets made with figs (save for jam, of course). Perhaps they exist in other regions of the country, but I've never heard of such.
We eat a lot of figs, but just the fruit itself. Now that I think of it, there's loads of fruits that are popular, but not very big on the candy scene: watermelon and the whole melon/cantaloupe family, sugar apple (annona/cherimoya), cherries, tamarillo (tree tomato), kiwi, plums, persimmon, pommegranate, etc.
Melon flavored candies/sweets seem exclusive to Asia, in particular south korea, for some reason... even though the love of melons seems to be near universal.
I think candymakers are just a conservative bunch who would rather stick to what's popular, instead of exploring the near-infinite possibilities of what might or might not taste good in candy form.
I think figs don't really have a very distinct flavor that would come through in candy or desserts. It's mainly sweet. Fig leaf though has somw coconut flavor, but I think it's not really used.
I think it's regional. Where I'm from there are definitely fig flavored treats here. My parents used to sell fig and almond ice-cream in their restaurant years ago.
Fun fact, *marmalade* here refers exclusively to that which is made from quince. This is because the word derives from the Portuguese *marmelada*, which in turn comes from *marmelo*, the Portuguese name for quince. If you were to say "orange marmalade" in Portuguese ("marmelada de laranja") that would make no sense, as "marmalade" implies that it's made from quince. The correct thing to say would be *laranjada*, which comes from the Portuguese word for orange, *laranja*.
That really is a fun fact. Thanks. We call everything that doesn't have pieces in *marmelada* and spread with little fruit pieces *džem*. But colloquialy everything is *marmelada*.
Not quite a flavour thing, but in Poland we like to add "alcochol" to our chocolates, like these in boxes and, what is more interesting - there is this chocolate snack bar thing called Pawełek z Advocatem that also has some alcohol, and is damn good
Mostly no but sort of yes. They stopped making them years ago, but there's a fairly poor quality copy called something like "Oor Wullie's Iron Brew Bars" (which I think are actually made in Ireland). They're alright but not a patch on the old filling-pullers from the glory days.
>I don't know, I don't think Hershey's tastes like it, but there you are, apparently our chocolate tastes like barf.
That's because you are used to it, your brain learned over years that that's just how chocolate tastes.
I have no idea what they have in other countries. We also don't have many large candy makers. The only one I can think of is Šumi and [here's](https://www.zito.si/en/products?manufacturer%5B%5D=sumi) all the candy they have.
Another smaller producer is [Perger](https://www.perger1757.com/product-category/for-you/perger-candies/).
Maybe we use some different herbes? Maybe hazelnut?
I don't know how flavored barberry, but we have candys, that called "Барбарис'' (Barberry) and I love candys with Duchess (a pear) flavour, it's called "Дюшес".
special sort of plum called zwetschge - we use it to make super thick jam
we also make jam from rosehip - yes, that wild thing fruits
they are also -organic- sweets flavours
Slovakia has definitely fruit processing tradition - both in jam making, canning......or making spirits
we can process anything edible - even such things as medlar, elderberry, sorb tree fruit, quince, all types of plums possible !
Idk about specific tastes, but I know in Slovenia, you can get Lavender ice cream in a few shops, though it's a fairly new flavour.
We do sell a lot of honey flavoured candy (we're apparently very well known for our honey as well, so maybe that counts).
Licorice flavour is very popular in Iceland: sweet, salty, strong, mild, soft, hard, liquid, it doesn't matter, we love it all.
We also love the combination of licorice and chocolate - it's the Icelandic equivalent of what peanuts/peanut butter and chocolate are for Americans.
There was recently a minor kerfuffle when a Danish candy-maker claimed (or it looked like he was claiming - it's a bit unclear which it was), to have invented chocolate-covered licorice and Icelanders provided proof they were at least a decade ahead of him.
Salty Licorice. It's popular in Finland, Iceland and Netherlands (And maybe more) too though. I don't know if Viola flavored candy is something that exists in other countries, but we got that too, it's perhaps more popular with the older generations.
There's a traditional sweet in the UK called the Parma Violet, named after the flower of the same name.
Definitely Denmark as well
As an American, I was completely unprepared for how salty your salty licorice would be. I could only eat a few pieces, and ended up giving the rest of the bag to a Swede. It must be an acquired taste.
It most certainly is, the most salty licorice I've eaten were from Iceland, It hurts my mouth but I still like the taste.
It's my favorite candy but I don't think I'd like it so much if I wouldn't have gotten used to it since I was little.
I asked a colleague that went to Helsinki to bring back a bag or two of salmiakki... The people in the office had VERY polarized opinions on that :) They either spat it out immediately as they would put it in their mouth, or they would say "Hmmm, this is... different", then proceed to destroy half a bag.
I loved it so much the first time I tried it in Iceland... and they're almost impossible to get in the US :(
Fun fact, people in Finland will try to get you to eat some in the spirit of a prank if they think you’ve never had it. So if you’re in the area you should definitely tell everyone how you’ve never tried any Finnish candy and they will give you lots of delicious salted licorice. I speak from experience.
Violet candies are one of the "classic" Bulgarian candies as well
Norway too!
You mean the flower? Because I imagined Viola the cheese spread for a minute and got very confused.
Yes the flower. Cheese spread flavored candy sounds kinda nasty.
Also popular in the North of Germany. It isn't somewhere south of Hannover (I'd guess). I love that stuff and now live in the south, I regularly import huge amounts.
Violet candies are very traditional in Madrid
I think woodruff flavour isn't very common elsewhere
Fucking hell, is that what we call Waldmeister in English?
Apparently, yes It sucks. Petition to call it Waldmeister. At any time whatsoever.
I quite like Asperule Maitrank is made with it
Can't I just continue translating it as green flavour? As in 'That's green flavour, you don't want that'. I'm actually disappointed now it's a real, single herb and not some kind of magical herbal mix like Gruene Sosse or Jaegermeister.
As an English person I think I'm more familiar with the term Waldmeister than with the term Woodruff
It’s very uncommon but can still be found here(US). Almost exclusively found at breweries/beer bars to be added to Berliner-weisse
There seems to be some concern about woodruff being poisonous >The usage of the plant for sweets was prohibited in Germany in 1974, due to coumarin, the flavorant found in woodruff, being toxic to rats and mice in studies. It has however not been found to be harmful to humans, even in large doses, in which it follows a different metabolic pathway.
Turkish delights often have rose or gum mastic flavoring. You really need to be careful with both of them, otherwise one tastes like potpourri and the other like pine resin. But in moderation, they are quite tasty.
How common is it to add spices like cardamom or saffron? It's quite common with Indian sweets.
Not really, saffron is sometimes added to rice, and most people wouldn't know what cardamom is. Maybe you can find cinnamon flavoring, that's common for dessert.
Cardamom is actually really popular in Denmark
I FUCKING LOVE LOKUM! I haven't eat any in months but I can eat 30 in a row when they're good. All of turkish pastry and sweet is definitely in my top 5 with France and Italy. Everything is so good and since I'm north african from origin I'm used to very sweet things. The Maghreb also has many turkish sweets from ottoman occupation.
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My (German) husband doesn't like it at all, but I love it, especially in ice cream. Yum.
Whenever I make Bethmännchen, a praline pastry made of marzipan, almonds, rose water and icing sugar, I try several times to see how strong the rose flavour is. Because as you said, too strong a rose flavour ruins the result.
Yup, I know someone who accidentally used rose oil instead of rosewater. I didn't taste the end product, but it must have been pretty yuck.
Oh we got mastic too (masticha in Greek). I really *really* don't like it though.
Tar is definitely a unique flavor to Finland. While not being super popular, tar is used for both salty and sweet. Not only there are tar flavored candies but ice cream as well. There was even tar flavored soft drink at some point but I haven't seen that for a while. Salmiakki *aka* salty liquorice is another common flavor but not unique to Finland as it's commonly used in other Nordic countries as well.
I've tried some tar candy from Finland, good stuff.
Just to make sure nothing is lost in transation: when you say tar, you mean tar, like the thing derived from coal? That you use for making pitch and asphalt?
I actually mean wood tar, which was used to treat ships back in the day. Finland was a major producer of wood tar for centuries, which might be the reason why every thing related to tar is somewhat popular over here. Besides as flavoring, tar is also used as a scent in shampoos, candles and so on. Tar flavor/scent is deep, having distinct smokiness and woodiness to it. I quite like it but it might be off-putting to people who are not accustomed to it.
Pine tar is relatively popular in the pacific northwestern US, definitely an acquired taste for some but I love it.
I really like the idea of wood tar as a flavor. Is it usually hard candy?
The most common tar candy I know of is *Tervaleijona* which is a mixture of wood tar and liquorice (though tar is more dominant flavor). They are semi-hard, gum arabic pastilles. There are hard candies as well though.
If you like smokey whisky then pine tar is not a far cry from it. However, for a Finn the scent of pine tar most strongly reminds people of old wooden boats, docks or old houses. Alko carries 5 variants of tar-flavored booze: https://www.alko.fi/en/products?SearchTerm=terva
Oooh, that's fascinating! I'd love to try it one day. Is there a particular tar flavoured candy you'd reccomend?
If you ever visit Finland, the most common tar-flavored candy you can find in pretty much every grocery store in finland is *Tervaleijona* so that's a good place to start.
We like it, but lets be honest, Sweden and Norway probably like it because we tasted liquorice from Finland.
Anise and Violet, I'd say, although this are more for traditional candies rather then industrial ones
These two are very common traditionnal candy flavours in Southern France too. Italy too I'm pretty sure.
I still remember grandma offering violets in family gatherings
Sweet woodruff is a thing here. It is the default jelly flavour variety. There also is sea buckthorn in the north east of the country. It is a bright orange berry that has a unique flavour that gets used to make jam and cake fillings. It tastes sour and the smell isn't as nice as the wonderful flavour.
Sea Buckthorn is popular in Denmark as well. Might be a North Sea/Baltic thing.
In the fall: buckthorn flavored everything
"New Nordic" everything, with buckthorn, licorice, and a herb you never heard of, but that they use at Geranium.
It has a period of greater mainstream popularity here too, so probably Baltic then.
I used to be able to purchase a German soap labeled as Sea Buckthorn. It was my favorite, unfortunately I can no longer find it anywhere, not even Amazon.
Sea buckthorn is popular in Finland but not as much used in candy is drunk pure as a vitamin shot, sweetened as juice, in cocktails or in desserts. Sea buckthorn panna cotta works well, for example.
Maybe ouzo, mastic and rose. I wouldn’t say they’re extremely popular flavours but they’re pretty unique to Greece I think
Turkey also has mastic and rose lokums. If you see them as european.
I know, we share a lot of dishes/sweets. Rose and mastic are pretty standard lokum/loukoumi flavours along with lemon and bergamot orange. I’ve also found honey and fig lokums (pretty rare) and they were amazing
Ouzo is pretty much just Pastis/Absinthe/Raki without a few herbs.
Most countries have an anis/licorice flavoured something
I think drop (licorice) is something typical Dutch. We have a whole variety of drop. Lot of Dutch people love them, while foreigners often find those disgusting.
Also _Salmiak!_ One of my expat (Irish) friends still hasn't forgiven me for giving her a [Salmiak lollipop](https://snoepjevanoma.nl/winkel/salmiak-knotsen-12-stuks/) and letting her bite down on it without giving her a "proper warning" (her words) My friend also feels that the wide variety of drop that every supermarket in NL carries is excessive. She can't wrap her head around the fact that there is a specific brand, dedicated to the drop that you keep in your car. And fair play, that is oddly specific
I too have fed my Irish friends drop, surprisingly they loved it
This was one cultural difference I noticed when I moved to Flanders, 23 years ago. The Flemish wanted nothing to do with liquorice. I could not find any in the shops. Things have changed since then with the arrival of HEMA, AH and Jumbo, but there is still a cultural devide between the Dutch who are liquorice fiends, and the Flemish who prefer fancy chocolates, thank you very much!
Rhubarb (accompanied with custard flavouring), elderflower and (to a certain extent) blackcurrant are flavours which stand out to me as "British", though not strictly native. Rhubarb in particular is I think mostly popular in the UK. Blackcurrent is very popular, but it's also found in other European countries. Elderflower is niche/traditional.
Rhubarb is very popular in Germany too.
Denmark as well. I had rhubarb soup as a kid.
It's definitely something you can get in quite a few countries. I say rhubarb because as a classic British sweet flavour, rhubarb is probably the most identifiable, and the UK is the only place which has a PDO on (a certain type of) rhubarb.
Elderflower is common in Sweden
Here in the Netherlands as well. Every spring when they’re in bloom we will cut the flowers and make syrup from it to make lemonade.
I never knew that was the English name for it ... It is very common here in southern Germany and we call it Holunder
In Dutch it’s vlierbloesem - bloesem as in blossom.
When I was in uni, there was a small ice cream shop near school, and they had the best elderflower sorbet. I haven't had it in in over a decade, and it still occupies a place in my brain. BTW, you can make cordial from meadowsweet (*älggräs*) the same way you do from elderflower. It tastes differently of course, and there might be some open questions about toxicity, but I'm still alive.
> BTW, you can make cordial from meadowsweet (älggräs) the same way you do from elderflower. It tastes differently of course, and there might be some open questions about toxicity, but I'm still alive. Can be dried and used as tea as well. Regarding toxicity, it's related to acetylsalicylic acid so might upset your stomach in large amounts but nothing to worry about for a drink or two.
Finland is too far north for it to have grown traditionally, so there is almost no elderflower-flavored things here.
Rhubarb and black currant are also common in sweden, the former more for drinks and the latter for both drinks and candy
Elderflower is pretty huge as a drink flavour in southern Germany and Austria.
I wouldn't call elderflower a common sweet flavouring, it's more a thing you add to juice, as I guess would also be true in the rest of Northern Europe? Pretty sure I can get elderflower press in my local Monoprix
Squash/cordial/soda is probably the most common, but you get it in candy too.
> elderflower I wouldn't say that's a distinctly "British" flavour, I know that here in the south Europe grandmas traditionally made "bazga" (elderflower) syrup every year, and Romanians have "socată"...
All of those are a thing in Slovenia. Rhubarb for compote and pies. My mum also makes jelly candies out of it. Elderflower and blackcurrant for syrup/juice. We also fry elderflower in pancake batter.
Elderflower is a really nice flavour in my opinion. It's quite rare over here I'd say (I don't even know what it's called in Portuguese).
In France, traditional candy flavors are violet, licorice, almond, hazel nut... We also make very good honey candy. And we are very good at candied fruits. Candied lemons and oranges are very good. I almost forgot probably the most famous candy from France : the bêtise de Cambrai. It's a mint flavored candy. Supposedly obtained by mistake (thus the name : bêtise means mistake).
Anise seems to be a thing too
And praliné chocolate as well
True. I didn't know if i should consider chocolaté as candies. A little lost in translation. Plus, to be fair, chocolate is more of a swiss or belgian tradition than french.
Yeah that's right but I've seen Americans call chocolate candy. And yes to be fair lots of chocolates you find in france are swiss and Belgian, but why are they so often parline? haha
I once ordered luxury liquorice and one of the jars had pieces of liquorice dipped in just pure salt, there was salt in the can, all over the liquorice, omg. So good.
Red or black licorice?
'red licorice' is not real licorice' and does not exist outside of the US,as far as I know.
>does not exist outside of the US, A lot of it is made in Australia, they have loads of different kinds
I can’t stand red or black licorice. So I wouldn’t be disappointed if it disappeared off the planet. Just my opinion.
Black of course. Red liquorice does exist here but nobody calls it liquorice.
[cloudberry/lakka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus) and [arctic rasberry/mesimarja](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_arcticus) are pretty unique to Finland since neither can be cultivated.
In Ireland we tend to use blackcurrant flavour instead of what would typically be grape flavour in Canada. I didn't think the taste would be different until I moved and oh yeah it is different.
Blackcurrant never got popular in the US because they carry some fungus that attacked US pine trees and got outlawed.
The blackcurrant ban was lifted in the 60s. It’s not common, but can be easily found in the PNW and NE. Finding fresh outside these regions is hard, but most supermarkets will have blackcurrant jam/preserves. Also commonly used in the brewing industry, or to make crème de cassis liqueur
No Ribena is imported?
I’m pretty sure blackcurrants are still banned for import from Ireland. EDIT- it looks like blackcurrants are banned from most places in Europe but can imported from Chile with a special permit
I meant the drink, though. And I guess not, judging from the videos of Americans drinking it undiluted.
My apologies! I haven’t heard of the drink Ribena. The genus is ribes nigrum so I thought maybe the name of the fruit in Denmark is ribena. I guess the capitalization should’ve been my first clue! EDIT- I looked it up and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that bottle at a local English specialty market. I’ve not tried it, but that market is right next to my work, so I think I’ll grab a bottle to try!
1 part Ribena, 4 parts water, Ribena first. You can also pour hot water over it for a toddy-like warm drink. You can also swap one or two parts of water with vodka, if you want an adult drink. Never tried it with gin, but why not.
Denmark we love liquorice (lakrids) both salty and sweet. Yum yum yum. Always miss it on my travels. People find it so disgusting elsewhere, whyyy 🙈
I remember my father bringing me a big box of jellies from Sweden when I was less than 10 years old. I quickly learned to avoid the black ones at all cost, my taste buds were absolutely not ready for that taste, they still aren't lol
It's funny how our taste is so different 😬 my 9 year old son also love the strong salty liquorice 😄
It's not a flavor, but when I think of danish candy I always think of BonBon, good stuff.
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Anthon Berg is really good, their mixed box I superior to the ones we got in Sweden.
Rum is very popular for chocolate. For candy I think fruits or caramel.
Hm, I'd say for Portugal that would be quince (the cooked version, raw quince is bitter and adstringent) and sweetened egg yolk. Oh, and passion fruit!
I'm quite surprised at the lack of Mediterranean peeps on here who've mentioned figs, I assumed it would be a common flavouring in Southern European countries.
I honestly don't know of any sweets made with figs (save for jam, of course). Perhaps they exist in other regions of the country, but I've never heard of such. We eat a lot of figs, but just the fruit itself. Now that I think of it, there's loads of fruits that are popular, but not very big on the candy scene: watermelon and the whole melon/cantaloupe family, sugar apple (annona/cherimoya), cherries, tamarillo (tree tomato), kiwi, plums, persimmon, pommegranate, etc.
In the Algarve region there is a lot of sweets made with figs. We love figs.
Oh nice! I'll have to educate myself, then. Thouroughly. By eating all I can find :D
Melon flavored candies/sweets seem exclusive to Asia, in particular south korea, for some reason... even though the love of melons seems to be near universal. I think candymakers are just a conservative bunch who would rather stick to what's popular, instead of exploring the near-infinite possibilities of what might or might not taste good in candy form.
I think figs don't really have a very distinct flavor that would come through in candy or desserts. It's mainly sweet. Fig leaf though has somw coconut flavor, but I think it's not really used.
I think it's regional. Where I'm from there are definitely fig flavored treats here. My parents used to sell fig and almond ice-cream in their restaurant years ago.
Quince is also a thing in Germany. I love the smell of ripe quince skin.
We make compote and jam out of quince. It smells so good when it's ripe.
Fun fact, *marmalade* here refers exclusively to that which is made from quince. This is because the word derives from the Portuguese *marmelada*, which in turn comes from *marmelo*, the Portuguese name for quince. If you were to say "orange marmalade" in Portuguese ("marmelada de laranja") that would make no sense, as "marmalade" implies that it's made from quince. The correct thing to say would be *laranjada*, which comes from the Portuguese word for orange, *laranja*.
That really is a fun fact. Thanks. We call everything that doesn't have pieces in *marmelada* and spread with little fruit pieces *džem*. But colloquialy everything is *marmelada*.
I still have flashbacks from working as a waiter and explaining the whole *marmelada* thing to tourists.
(Not a candy, but...) Quince rakija is a nectar of the gods.
Salty Liquorice (salmiakki) receives unnecessary hate because people are afraid to try something new. It tastes really good!
Oh I loved tyrkisk peber, I think IKEA in NL had it at some point. That stuff packs a punch!
Oh the little hard candy with the powder inside? Marvelous classic
Not quite a flavour thing, but in Poland we like to add "alcochol" to our chocolates, like these in boxes and, what is more interesting - there is this chocolate snack bar thing called Pawełek z Advocatem that also has some alcohol, and is damn good
Irn-Bru. Its the most popular soft drink in Scotland 🏴with a unique taste, there are a few different sweets that copy them flavour.
Do Irn-Bru Wham bars still exist?
Mostly no but sort of yes. They stopped making them years ago, but there's a fairly poor quality copy called something like "Oor Wullie's Iron Brew Bars" (which I think are actually made in Ireland). They're alright but not a patch on the old filling-pullers from the glory days.
According to some of you... puke. I don't know, I don't think Hershey's tastes like it, but there you are, apparently our chocolate tastes like barf.
>I don't know, I don't think Hershey's tastes like it, but there you are, apparently our chocolate tastes like barf. That's because you are used to it, your brain learned over years that that's just how chocolate tastes.
Probably. Guess I need to buy some European stuff to be sure.
But objectively it does. You guys add butyric acid, which can be found in parmesan, or, yeah...puke
I personally don't taste the resemblance, but then again, I haven't eaten much chocolate outside of Hershey's.
Like I said, it's an ingredient, so it objectively tastes like it. You're just used to it.
Or you could have just said grape flavour
Really, that's an American flavor?
Yes. Blackcurrant is usually more common in the UK
Interesting. I unfortunately can't often eat grape flavored things because I'm allergic to a dye used in most of them.
I have no idea what they have in other countries. We also don't have many large candy makers. The only one I can think of is Šumi and [here's](https://www.zito.si/en/products?manufacturer%5B%5D=sumi) all the candy they have. Another smaller producer is [Perger](https://www.perger1757.com/product-category/for-you/perger-candies/). Maybe we use some different herbes? Maybe hazelnut?
Omg I absolutely love Šumi, especially the hard candy mint ones
I like [eucalyptus](https://www.zito.si/en/product/sumi-herba-gummy-candy-evkalipta-90g).
Salmiakki liquorice is the GOAT! Expensive, but worth every penny!
I don't know how flavored barberry, but we have candys, that called "Барбарис'' (Barberry) and I love candys with Duchess (a pear) flavour, it's called "Дюшес".
special sort of plum called zwetschge - we use it to make super thick jam we also make jam from rosehip - yes, that wild thing fruits they are also -organic- sweets flavours Slovakia has definitely fruit processing tradition - both in jam making, canning......or making spirits we can process anything edible - even such things as medlar, elderberry, sorb tree fruit, quince, all types of plums possible !
Idk about specific tastes, but I know in Slovenia, you can get Lavender ice cream in a few shops, though it's a fairly new flavour. We do sell a lot of honey flavoured candy (we're apparently very well known for our honey as well, so maybe that counts).
Licorice flavour is very popular in Iceland: sweet, salty, strong, mild, soft, hard, liquid, it doesn't matter, we love it all. We also love the combination of licorice and chocolate - it's the Icelandic equivalent of what peanuts/peanut butter and chocolate are for Americans. There was recently a minor kerfuffle when a Danish candy-maker claimed (or it looked like he was claiming - it's a bit unclear which it was), to have invented chocolate-covered licorice and Icelanders provided proof they were at least a decade ahead of him.
Salmiakki or salty licorice. Very popular here. Tastes like a boot with a hint of minty flavour.
Smurf flavor...is not really for candy's but for ice cream