July 30, 2014

Remi Mint


Remi Mint is mint flavoured, dark chocolate biscuits from Swedish cookie manufacturer Göteborgs Kex.


The biscuits are very delicate and coated by a thin layer of dark chocolate. The mint flavour is intense and puts the dark chocolate a bit in the background. It's like a After Eight-biscuit with a more powerful mint flavour. Quite yummy. They come in 12 pieces per 100 g package.

RATING: 3

Brand: Göteborgs Kex
Size: 100 g
Price: 20 kr | £1,70 | $2,90
Purchased: Sweden

July 29, 2014

Faygo Grape


Faygo Grape is a grape soda from the Detroit-based soda pop producer with the same name, Faygo.


Grape sodas is not very easy to come by in Sweden and the only reference of another grape soda I've tasted is Fanta's (I imported Faygo from the UK by the way). Even if the grape soda flavour in both Fanta and Faygo is artificial off course, the grape flavour in Faygo tasted more of grape flavoured jelly gums than any reminiscence of natural grape flavour.It was too artificial for me and overly sweet (not uncommon for American sodas though). What I remember Fanta's grape version was better.

RATING: 1

Brand: Faygo
Size: 710 ml (24 oz)
Price: 12 kr | £1,00 | $1,70
Purchased: American Fizz

July 28, 2014

Dumle Snacks

Dumle Snacks is another Dumle variety. Chewy toffee covered with puffed rice and milk chocolate.




Even though the puffed rice gives another dimension and makes the toffee chewier, it's doesn't improve the chocolate bits, and I do like the original Dumle better. I wouldn't understand why the sugar content in Dumle Snacks is higher but it tastes sweeter and it got me thirsty. I got tired of the taste pretty quickly.
 
RATING: 2

Brand: Fazer
Size: 200 g
Price: 23 kr | £2,00 | $3,35
Purchased: Sweden

July 27, 2014

Yankie


Yankie, also known as Yankie Bar, is Denmark's most famous chocolate bar with nougat and caramel covered in milk chocolate. A Danish version of Mars so to speak.

It's made by Danish chocolate manufacturer Toms and according to Wikipedia, Toms was contacted after WW2 by the United States high command in Germany to produce a candy bar with a cocoa content similar to American candy bars (like Mars) so the American troops in Germany could get their beloved candy bars instead of the US having to import them to Europe.

This is an interesting fact because it explains why (I think) Yankie tastes inferior to other Danish chocolates (which generally holds a high quality); it has lower cocoa content like many American chocolate bars.


The lower cocoa content makes the bar taste overly sweet. There seems to be no difference between the chocolate and the nougat, it just a sugar tasting mash. The caramel flavour stands out but it can't save the bar. A real disaster, my lowest rating so far.

RATING: 1

Brand: Toms
Size: 50 g
Price: 7 kr | £0,60 | $1,00
Purchased: Sweden

July 26, 2014

Djungelvrål


Djungelvrål, meaning jungle roars in Swedish, is a supersalty liquorice.


The hard liquorice bits are covered with salt but when the salt is licked off they have a sweeter, caramelesque liquorice taste and they get softer the more you chew. After a few you get thirsty so I glass of milk is a good companion to Djungelvrål. If you try them be prepared they are REALLY salty and if you're not use to salty liquorice it may take some time to get acquired to the taste.

RATING: 3

Brand: Malaco
Size: 80 g
Price: 8 kr | £0,70 | $1,15
Purchased: Sweden

July 18, 2014

Leopolds Magnifika Chocolate Chip Cookies


Leopolds Magnifika Chocolate Chip Cookies is a new variety of (big) chocolate chip cookies dipped in milk chocolate. They're produced by Sweden's largest cookie manufacturer, Göteborgs Kex, and the name Leopold is after the company's founder. He was Belgian so according to the package the chocolate is also from Belgium. Magnifika meaning magnificent in English has in this context probarbly a double meaning because of the Swedish word for coffee break, fika.



The cookie has big chunks of chocolate chip in them and they're both chewy and firm at the same time. Also the chocolate rim elevate the cookie even higher (also good to dip in tea/coffee). These chocolate chip cookies is hands down the best I've tasted apart from the American Keebler Chocolate Chips.

There are 8 cookies per package (200 g) and they also comes in a mini cookie variety and a blueberry and chocolate chip variety.


RATING: 5

Brand: Göteborgs Kex
Size: 200 g
Price: 25 kr | £2,15 | $3,60
Purchased: Sweden

July 9, 2014

Dumle Dark



Dumle is a chocolate candy with a chewy toffee filling popular in Sweden and Finland. The brand's newest edition is a dark variety, Dumle Dark.



The dark chocolate is very rich and it infuses with the chewy toffee making it a very chewy chocolate-intense experience. It's hard to stop eating these. I like the original Dumle but the dark chocolate really improves the candy.

RATING: 4

Brand: Fazer
Size: 200 g
Price: 23 kr | £2,00 | $3,35
Purchased: Sweden

July 7, 2014

Potatischips kryddade med parmesan (Crisps)


Potatischips kryddade med parmesan, crisps flavoured with parmesan cheese, is another crisp product from Swedish, artisan crisp manufacturer Rootfruit. The umami flavoured crisps from Rootfruit I tried last time was pretty tasteless. But the parmesan variety was the opposite and very tasteful.



You can clearly taste the parmesan with it's salty cheese taste and there is also hints of onions. They also smell of cheese.

RATING: 3

Brand: Rootfruit
Size: 90 g
Price: 20 kr | £1,70 | $2,90
Purchased: Sweden

July 6, 2014

Paolos Pizza Salsiccia


Paolos Pizza Salsiccia is a home-bake pizza with a tomato sauce base and topped with salsiccia, pecorino cheese and friarielli (a green leavy vegetable known in English as rabe). Swedish celebrity Paolo Roberto is the name behind the pizza. He's a former boxer nowadays mostly famous for his Italian cooking with numerous published cook books from his ancestral country and a product line of pasta, pasta sauces and pizzas. His pastas are very good but this pizza was a disappointment.


Like most Neapolitan style pizzas the crust was thin and even though I took it from the oven before time it was very hard. The tomato sauce had a deep and rich flavour which was a nice surprise and the salsiccia was tasteful, but the friarielli tasted of nothing and pecorino, which normally has a strong flavour, didn't come through at all. So overall the pizza tasted mostly of tomato sauce. It lacked flavours.

RATING: 2

Brand: Paolos
Size: 375 g
Price: 38 kr | £3,25 | $5,50
Purchased: Sweden

July 5, 2014

Punschrulle


Punschrulle, also known as dammsugare (meaning vacuum cleaner in Swedish haha), is one of Sweden's most popular pastries. The form is cylindrical and it's sort of a cookie crumble mash flavoured with arrack punch and covered in green coloured marzipan (and chocolate at the ends).

This one is made by Swedish pastry manufacturer Delicato. Even if the marzipan comes through it has a very heavy arrack punch flavour with some bitter notes. The flavour totally dominates the pastry.

Also if you look at the content there isn't any arrack punch or similar, just undefined "aromas" (not so appealing). I liked these much more before, maybe the changed the recipe? As always the best pastry is the one you buy fresh from a bakery shop.

RATING: 2

Brand: Delicato
Size: 48 g
Price: 5 kr | £0,45 | $0,75
Purchased: Sweden

July 4, 2014

Sportlunch Powerbreak 2


Sportlunch Powerbreak 2 has actually nothing to do with the original Sportlunch, it has just borrowed the name. SL Powerbreak 2 is described in English on the package (why I wonder?) as a chunky chocolate bar with chewy chocolate nougat and almonds. There is also a Powerbreak 1 I might add, which is more similar to the original Sportlunch with the chocolate and wafer content.

Anyway SL Powerbreak 2 is surprisingly good. I especially like how the chocolate nougat is both firm and chewy at the same time. At the first bite you think it's gonna be crumbly but it isn't. But I would like to notice the almond slivers a bit more.

RATING: 4

Brand: Cloetta
Size: 50 g
Price: 7 kr | £0,60 | $1,00
Purchased: Sweden

July 3, 2014

Japp


Japp is best described as a Swedish version of Mars. Chewy nougat and caramel covered in milk chocolate.


Compared to Mars it's lighter and the nougat is chewier. I actually prefer Japp to Mars because it's less sweet, so it doesn't become so overwhelmingly sugary with both chocolate, nougat and caramel.

It's usely sold in 60 g bars but this one was a extra large King Size bar at 82 g.

RATING: 4

Brand: Marabou
Size: 82 g
Price: 10 kr | £0,85 | $1,50
Purchased: Sweden