Sweden Highest Candy Consumption in the World

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ok I haven't tried any of the above, but I've tried *a lot* and Bilar are the s**t.

Aye, they are truly awesome, which their slogan "Sweden's Most Sold Car" shows.

Another good one is the slightly xenophobic Kinapuffar:

I'm in the UK, and when I was a kid we considered Saturday to be 'sweet day'. But that might have been just our family, not so much a cultural thing.

Can Sweden compete?

Sugar-free white chocolate? Does that taste good?

Yes, but you get tired of it quickly, you may have to take a break if you plan to eat a whole at once.

I absolutely LOVE the white chocolate, but it takes a few days to eat a whole plate..

I thing Germany is awesome at making those chocolates, they're called Ritter Sport, and the only one I like is the white one, it's filled with nuts<3

The swedish sweeties has an influence here too, I was visiting a local Europris shop, and it had the typical swedish candy layout;

My friend who's from Belarus got me hooked on Polish chocolates. He buys them from a supermarket not that far from his house that I've never been to. One time I came over, he let me try a few pieces, and they tasted great, almost better than Godiva. I couldn't read the labels (they were in Polish), but they did say "70% cocoa" and "90% cocoa". I thought it was a little strange that those chocolates didn't have that sweet taste I've come to expect from Hershey Special Dark, but honestly, they're probably better for you than that American stuff full of corn syrup.

If you have a craving for Swedish candy, just go to Ikea in your city. Most major cities in Europe and North America have them. The selection is kind of limited, but you will find at least one or two types of candy. Although personally, I'm more into Abba caviar that comes in squeeze tubes, as well as pickled herring in glass jars. (Needless to say, my friends joke a lot about my un-American tastes.)

There's an IKEA store just a few miles away, but I never get the little candies there... just the Marabou chocolate. It's really inexpensive More often though, I get the Abba "salmon pate" pålegg and put it on some crispbread and eat it with some sliced hard boiled eggs. It makes for a very convenient breakfast. I also have a tube of the shrimp flavored cheese in the squeeze tube from IKEA, but am still trying to find interesting uses for that, heh.

Do they typically put corn syrup in the standard Hershey's bars? I much prefer milk chocolate so I often go for Cadbury's, which is more prevalent here than Freia or Marabou but the taste is similar. Standard Hershey's bars taste more sugary than milk chocolatey to me, so I tend to avoid them. Good point about corn syrup though; a lot of American foods, not just candies, have it, and it's a lot more rare to see it in Europe, particularly in soda. Corn syrup is some seriously unhealthy stuff.

If you love chocolates, visit Germany, they own other countries at making them, although I go to Denmark, they have many varieties of kinder and white chocolates, but not as much as Germany<3

When I was working at a candy storage, I was able to procure a crapton of these Polish chocolates (they were 70% cocoa) for absolutely free. It was awesome.