Americans Trying Scandinavian Candy - Fazer, Marabou & More! | Sponsored by Sweetish Candy and Goods 

The blue ones had 0% licorice in them, it's just gelatin and tiny pralines.

Oh really? Thanks for letting us know that.

From Marabou I like the chocolate bars Daim, Japp and Coco. Also the chocolate cakes with mint or orange crisps, Daim, Japp and Frukt och mandel (fruit and almond). From Fazer...almost everything. Try the Marianne candys, Dumle and Fazer mint (chokolate bites with mint creme inside). Another thing you should look out for of nordic sweets is Peps. I don't remember who's making them.

Marabou daim and Marabou polka.

You should really try "Malaco Salt Sill" Licorice candy (Im addicted to those! on any of my birthdays if people asked me if i wanted something expensive ive always been like "No just buy me some "Lakrits fiskar" which is a reference to those) google search link ---> www.google.se/search?q=Malaco+Salt+Sill&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=NMdBqQNh62icZM%252CWiZTLoCvf0_36M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTGdY0Sr2afkPOXRcNxhfwAtO2gUw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVx6js86ftAhWkmIsKHYa6ASYQ9QF6BAgMECs#imgrc=NMdBqQNh62icZM

That’s a lot of great background on Fazer, Marabou, and Hershey’s. Not sure if we’ve ever seen Hershey’s skor bar! If it’s sold in the US, we would definitely see it around where we live because Hershey, PA isn’t far from us. Thanks for explaining how to properly pronounce Fazer!!

@fordhouse8b But the Marabou/Freia Dajm/Daim bar is based off the American 'Dime' bar, that cost a dime to buy, originally. Personally, I've never seen a pic of it, or looked it up, because it's what I always heard, ergo "knew". So don't attack me if that's wrong, but rather those who put out that false information, if that's the case.

That's the first thing I noticed lol

We recognized Bassetts as a British brand, but what was interesting is that the bag had a Swedish manufacturing address so we didn’t think twice about it. Lol. Guess this is there version/recipe??

We’ll have to see if we can get our hands on that mix and give it a try!

@LordOfMalice I love both the brittish liqourice all sorts and the Bridge mix (the early one, not the later)...but I'm nearly 50...a kind of dinosaur. :-)

@@FromtheHobbitHole Compared to what the Bridge mix used to be, the today version is overrated.

😂😅 it is very close sounding, and out of laziness we probably just say it the same 😜

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We’ll definitely look into the Moomin books! They might be ones we want in our daughter’s collection. 😉 Thank you for enjoying what we do! 💚💛

The books were originally written in Swedish. Tove's mother was Swedish and her father Finnish-Swedish. It was from the summer house in Blidö (in the Stockholm archipelago where she spent her summers) and the area surrounding it that Tove drew her inspiration for Moominvalley and the Moominhouse. (Stockholm is of course the capital of Sweden, but I guess you already knew that.)

@@johanribaeus My illustration teacher a bunch of years ago was a friend of Tove, and told me a hilarious anecdote about when the Japanese got the rights to an animated Moomin show. Tove had resisted adaptations from the US and Japan for a *long* time due to the disrespect they always showed source material, but after long negotiations all of a sudden she allowed an animated show by them. When my teacher called to ask wth had happened, Tove just answered in her usual surly way: "At least I got them to drop the f***ing samurai."

...and we were those people that got it wrong. 😅 We has no idea that dropping Finland from the list changes the name from Nordic to Scandinavian!

No one cares! Seriously!

@@FromtheHobbitHole Iceland is also a part of the Nordics.

@@FromtheHobbitHole The Nordic countries contains Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Scandinavia is the Scandinavian half island and contains Sweden, Norway and Denmark. If you look at the map it will make sence.

Well a part of Finland is Scandinavian

Grab yourself some mint matchmakers the next time you are out! ...or whatever chocolate/mint thing you like. 😉 You are too kind! We feel like you are a friend too. We love that you comment on pretty much every video!

Thank you and thank you!! 💚💛

Thanks!! We’d love to try more of their chocolate! These two chocolate bars were a tease!!

🤣😂🤣 we had too many good thumbnail options for this video!

Sooooo good!!!!

One sitting...three different outfits...and very shaky at the end! 🤪 Japan really loves their characters. Especially other countries characters it seems!

Thank you! So moonin was also a kids tv show?

@@FromtheHobbitHole Yes, a 2D cartoon, but I think there was a stop-motion/puppet version too, but I'm not 100 % sure on that. Let me know if you want me to drop you a link, but just search mumintrollet or mummitrollet in the search bar on RU-vid, and plenty of results will pop up.

It’s a really good peppermint! Too bad that it’s been classified as more of an “old person candy.”

I never heard that it should be specifically " an old peoples" choice of chocolate,and I lived in Sweden in 49 years now. It was one of my late mothers favorite chocolates,and it is pretty good..

Marmalade spheres? Now that sounds interesting!

Finlandia is the name of them (had to google, I just recognize the package). Around here, I can only find them in one of the Swedish-owned retail chains and only around christmas. Found a US retailer: www.scandinaviangoods.us/products/fazer-finlandia-500g

Those looks so good! Thanks for getting us that link.

Thanks for letting us know! We should have done a little more research before naming this video.

So true.... So true... It is like saying that Mexico is part of south America.

sanon sitä natseriks enkä fatseriks eli fazer karkit on natseja

We’ll see about getting a Christmas selection of items together 😉

We’ll see if we can get our hands on those this Christmas season.

Thanks! 😁😊

Sounds like fun parties with lots of good eating! Those Aladdin boxes look absolutely delicious!!

Glad you enjoyed them all, James! We actually fell asleep decently well...bedtime must’ve lined up well with the sugar crash! 😂😝

Someone just told us that the blue ones have no licorice in them. Maybe that’s why the are the good ones? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️

@@FromtheHobbitHole take one apart and check for yourselves 😃😍

So the Mariannes are crispy mint covered chocolate? We would’ve never guessed they had chocolate inside the mint shell.

@@FromtheHobbitHole Yeah. But it's not the same chocolate that's in the bar you ate. Its darker and softer. Melts right away in your mouth. The mint crisp coating is thin enough, that if you suck on it for a while you can crush it with your tongue, and the chocolate will already kind of be melted by that point. sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_(godis)

They make fantastic chocolate! Yum!!

They make bread, too? We didn’t know that.

@@FromtheHobbitHole yup, but they are "more" famous for the candy, if you ever come to Finland, I recomend taking a tour in their candy factory, you get to taste almost all of their candys, and there is also a tax free shop where yoy can buy candy and merchandise 😊

That sounds awesome! Finland is on our list of countries we’d like to visit one day.

Really? That’s a bummer that their main office is in America. We like to see foreign brands stay in the country that they originated from.

@@FromtheHobbitHole yeah that would be best but not even Volvo are swedish anymore, Chinese Geely owns Volvo...or Kalles kaviar witch is Norwegian nowadays. Even the main office for IKEA are in the Netherlands. The world is upsidedown.

You got that right! 🙃

That’s a fun idea!! We will discuss this with them!

Thanks for letting us know! 😊

Yeah same in swedish but "fat-sær" will sound as "fat sir" in american ^^, they don't have the same pronounciation of "a" in certain words., so in american you could say as same as "father", so "fat-zehr", alittle bit of germanic sounding.

Wow! That’s a lot of vitamin C!

You’re most definitely right!

That’s awesome that the little guy has a name!

@@FromtheHobbitHole that was actually first line of the song, Good old Bertie Basset, Britain's favourite asset. as close as I can remember 🤔

Overall, Americans pallets are so accustomed to sweetness that super salty or bitter foods are not something that is enjoyed. There’s sugar of some sort in everything here!

A chocolate bar containing popcorn?! Now that sounds interesting! We’ve had chocolate cover popcorn but that’s typically only drizzle of chocolate.

It’s not common to see orange berries on a bush! Sounds like a beautiful shrub.

Sea buckthorn is called “havtorn” in Swedish and something similar in many languages. It’s very delicious. Expensive as they have to be picked by hand. I’ve never heard anyone say “finnbär”, that’s likely a local dialectal word. The average Swede would not know if asked what that was.

@@AnnaKaunitz they have several names; törnbär, finnbär, stickelbär, havstörne, silverbuske and so on ... probably because they have been along longer than Carl Von Linné.

@@FromtheHobbitHole You can grow them in garden as well if you have a suny somewhat dry spot, the latin plantname is Hippophae rhamnoides. The shrub looks a bit like a large version of rosemary.

To get berries you need a male and a female species of them.

That’s some bitter chocolate!

We’d love to try it by itself because that sounds very interesting! Hopefully you can get your hands on it too!!

@@FromtheHobbitHole Sea buckthorn is quite a common shrub with narrow greyish leaves and orange berries.

Sounds really neat!

@@FromtheHobbitHole Not sure if the berries are edible

According to google they are

Yeahhhh….we realized we made that mistake with calling Finland “Scandinavian” after filming/making the video. 😬 Sorry about that! You are right, sometimes it is nice to have a good, plain chocolate that is tasty all on it own.

What’s interesting is that we had a panda licorice sent to us last year along with a bunch of other British sweets. So we had a Finnish licorice in with the British items and now a British licorice in with the Scandinavian sweets!

@sequri Well, Marabou/Freia is owned by a global entity now as well, Mondelēz, and it sucks. In the end, all companies that we used to know from our countries, will bought up by Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Mondelēz, and the like. And it's a shame, really. But I don't think there's much we can do about it, unfortunately.

@@JarodMoonchild1975 I’m not familiar with the Marabou and Freia products, but Mondelēz is the conglomerate to which I was referring. Unfortunately, you are completely correct in your assessment of confectionery and its manufacturing and distribution future in general. You could easily get me back on my hobby horse about capitalism, globalism etc. People are behaving like sheep and therefore will be treated like sheep. It’s all about the money now: “show me the moneyyy!!”. We no longer have a progressive society because of this. We have a conservative one. All the manufacturing sector is being turned into an investment vehicle for shareholders. The product and the customer are now completely secondary (if not outright ignored). Nothing is built to last, deliberately (by design). These confectionery items we all [used to at least] know and love are firmly part of industrial food production and therefore should be treated as such. There is no nutrient value whatsoever; it’s purely indulgence, but a poor choice of indulgence tbh. The power of marketing and distribution. I worked as a contractor in the 🍫 industry many years ago and if people saw the raw ingredients and the manufacturing processes involved in the production of such, they would probably think twice before ingesting any again. This is more than likely true of all industrial food production, which have many additives which are there for purposes such as colouration or to give long shelf life etc. The peas in a tin of peas are a lot greener and last a lot longer than the product that went into the process, for example. Stay away from any industrial food product (tin, packet, box etc) as much as you can; it has very little value and in some cases can actually be harmful (neurotoxins etc). This includes ALL processed (by definition) meats! Organic fresh fruit and vegetables etc should be the mainstay (proper nutrition). The reason why wealth is such a good indicator of longevity is because those with money and knowledge buy the right/best products and those with low incomes buy mainstream, off the shelf, junk foods which they know absolutely nothing about its provenance. I know of a senior manager at a major soft drinks manufacturer who will not let any of his kids touch any of their products! 😳

Yes they do!

Thanks for explaining that to us!

Also very similar with the i in Kirk or the e in versus.

Yeah...definitely could see the Star Trek TNG thing! 😂 Man with beard has his look for the purpose of cosplaying at the local Renaissance Faire every year 😉

I think you should try the Panda all natural raspberry liquorice bars and see what you think. You can buy a pack of 4 at Home Bargains for 69p. 👍

Licorice is definitely a love it or hate it thing!

Sequri, we’ve had a panda brand licorice before and we both enjoyed that one. The raspberry and licorice combo sounds very intriguing!

From the Hobbit Hole The Panda brand, unfortunately, is not widely found in the UK. I used to get it in Holland & Barrett's or Grape Tree, which are health food stores, and charge a premium (still worth it though). I was delighted to find a limited selection in one of the discount stores (the aforementioned Home Bargains) at a quarter of the price! Not to be sniffed at (ha ha), just eaten - all too quickly! 😉👍

From the Hobbit Hole It would appear so, but I think a lot of people don't persevere once they have a bad experience. Liquorice, like nuts, coffee, chocolate, fruits etc covers an extremely wide gamut. If someone rules out chocolate because they tried a cheap dark chocolate from the local gas station when they were a kid, then they would be missing out on Galaxy, Dairy Milk, Terry's, Fry's, Caramac and umpteen Belgian and Swiss chocolatiers, for example. Likewise, don't eat pistachios or hazelnuts because they didn't like walnuts, or any of Costa Coffee's latest and greatest because they had a cheap instant once. 😋👌

Wow! 100 years!!! That’s incredible! We recognized Bassetts as a British brand, but what was interesting is that the bag had a Swedish manufacturing address so we didn’t think twice about it. Lol. Guess this is there version/recipe??

@@FromtheHobbitHole Very much enjoyed the trio of videos anyway

It seems to happen to us where another country’s sweet sneaks into our tasting video. We’ve had Finnish things intrude on our British tasting videos in the past! 😅

@@FromtheHobbitHole Maybe I'll have to put together some Welsh treats for one of these days

That would be most enjoyable! 😊

Seems like you can’t go wrong with either.

They must have a manufacturing plant in Sweden because the bag had a Swedish manufacturing address on it.

Okay, so you’ll have to tell us what OLW and Estrella are...we are not familiar with those two! 😅

@@FromtheHobbitHole They're brands of snacks (chips, cheese puffs, popcorn, etc). There are, of course, other brands as well but they're the two most well-known in Sweden. Since the U.S. has a long history of snacks I figured it'd be a fun watch to see you dig in and compare them. 🙂

We’ll have to check with Sweetish and see if they carry those brands or are planning to carry them in the future!

Estrella is the best. Hope you can get some of their snacks.

Supposedly the all-sorts are very popular in Sweden. So much so that the bag we ate from was manufactured in a candy plant in Sweden...at least that’s what we are figuring according to the address on the bag 😉

Bassetts, both licorice and the wine gums are and have been very popular in Sweden for decades! 60s, maybe 50s. Or more. I ate those as a small kid in the 60s. The wine gums are the best! 😁

We don't recognize the loss of Finland in 1809😜

Swedes generally know that Fazer is Finnish, not sure where you got this information.

Alot of us Swedes knows that Fazer are Finnish.🖖

Easily confused since the text on the wrappers are in both swedish and finnish and last I checked there was a factory in Malmö. A lot of people still think Volvo is swedish, not everyone follows the money.

Volvo is Swedish though, most of the production is made in Sweden and those who make the design are Swedish. Just because it's owned by another company that is from another country doesn't mean that it's not Swedish anymore.

This video was a combo of Finnish and Swedish items.

also not to be an @ss , but Finland is not a part of scandinavia , scandinavia is Norway , Denmark and Sweden. There are 2 diffrent unions here , u have scandinavia and the nordic countries.How ever there are something called fennoscandia , but no longer applies since finland left swedish rule and become an country on its own.

We were not aware of all that when we made this video and titled it, so our apologies for that mistake!

No harm , no faul, . but if i may i suggest you to ask for stratos made by nidar or choclat from Freia , there is a diffrence between milk choclat from sweden and the ones from norway , swedish one is milk based but from norway they are cream based.

Thanks for the information. We will try this more when it comes to tasting chocolates.

*isn't, *swedish, *finnish, *english, *Bassett's... 🤣🤣🤣

Not surprising. They are now part of the world’s largest plastic snacks group.

Wrong😉! Licorice is the next best kind of candy, after chocolate🥰 Salty licorice, with the not so healthy salmiak, is the best. I know that most Americans hate it 😂!

Yeahhh…we are aware that we made that mistake 😬😅