What are some popular chocolates/chocolate products in your country?
March 24, 2025
What chocolates/chocolate products does your country have?
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In Finland anything and everything by the company Fazer. I guess salty licorice chocolate would be exotic for a lot foreigners.
I now live abroad and miss strong powdered chocolate from Spain. My favourite brand is Valor, but Paladín is a nice brand as well.
In Greece, Break by ION is a pretty popular chocolate.
Pralines from Leonidas, Daskalides, Neuhaus, Godiva, Marcolini,…
But even our regular “supermarket” chocolate taste better than most foreign luxury chocolate.
Guess the county.
For the outside world it is “Belgian Chocolates”. We call those pralines and would only buy them as a present or to celebrate a special occasion.
Us Belgians, we eat chocolate on almost everything. We eat chocolate bars in old kinds of tastes and sizes as a snack. They can be solid blocks or have fillings of all kinds. We have all kinds of chocolate to put on our sandwich. Not only spread, but also thin slices or sprinkles. We of course have excellent chocolate ice cream and chocolate drink as well, both cold and hot.
🇳🇱 De Ruijter – since 1860 (hagelslag: chocolate sprinkles for on bread
Droste chocolatepastilles – since 1863
Verkade – since 1886
Tony’s Chocolonely – 2005 (fairtrade and slafe free)
Chocolatemakers – 2011 (biologic and fairtrade)
Johnny Doodle – 2015 (different in taste and combinations)
Cadbury’s used to be good and very much the dominant chocolate brand, but it’s perceived as having declined in quality since it was bought by Kraft foods
Orange is a common flavour in chocolate, with chocolate oranges being common at Christmas and Jaffa cakes wildly popular all year round
Variety boxes with individually wrapped small chocolate bars are popular, the best is probably the Celebrations box which has miniature Mars, Twix, Snickers, etc bars. Nobody likes Bounty though. Cadbury’s make the Heroes box which is the same idea, loads of miniature versions of their chocolate bars
* Prince Polo: simple wafer bar with cocoa filling covered with good dark chocolate (popular in Iceland as well)
* Kasztanki (translate it as Chestnuts): dark chocolate candies with cocoa filling with crunchy pieces of wafers
* Michałki: dark chocolate candies with cocoa/peanut filling
* Mieszanka Krakowska: fruit jelly (not like Haribo, more delicate) covered in chocolate, it’s awesome (most classic versions are orange, lemon, raspberry and pineapple flavors)
* Wawel Miętowa and Wawel Pastylka Miętowa – chocolate + mint filling, Polish answer to After Eight; there are also newer orange versions, and I think cherry
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In Finland anything and everything by the company Fazer. I guess salty licorice chocolate would be exotic for a lot foreigners.
I now live abroad and miss strong powdered chocolate from Spain. My favourite brand is Valor, but Paladín is a nice brand as well.
In Greece, Break by ION is a pretty popular chocolate.
Pralines from Leonidas, Daskalides, Neuhaus, Godiva, Marcolini,…
But even our regular “supermarket” chocolate taste better than most foreign luxury chocolate.
Guess the county.
For the outside world it is “Belgian Chocolates”. We call those pralines and would only buy them as a present or to celebrate a special occasion.
Us Belgians, we eat chocolate on almost everything. We eat chocolate bars in old kinds of tastes and sizes as a snack. They can be solid blocks or have fillings of all kinds. We have all kinds of chocolate to put on our sandwich. Not only spread, but also thin slices or sprinkles. We of course have excellent chocolate ice cream and chocolate drink as well, both cold and hot.
🇳🇱 De Ruijter – since 1860 (hagelslag: chocolate sprinkles for on bread
Droste chocolatepastilles – since 1863
Verkade – since 1886
Tony’s Chocolonely – 2005 (fairtrade and slafe free)
Chocolatemakers – 2011 (biologic and fairtrade)
Johnny Doodle – 2015 (different in taste and combinations)
Cadbury’s used to be good and very much the dominant chocolate brand, but it’s perceived as having declined in quality since it was bought by Kraft foods
Orange is a common flavour in chocolate, with chocolate oranges being common at Christmas and Jaffa cakes wildly popular all year round
Variety boxes with individually wrapped small chocolate bars are popular, the best is probably the Celebrations box which has miniature Mars, Twix, Snickers, etc bars. Nobody likes Bounty though. Cadbury’s make the Heroes box which is the same idea, loads of miniature versions of their chocolate bars
Since it’s soon easter holiday.. Have to say the Kvikk-Lunsj… It’s kind of sacrosant related to [easter](https://imbo.vgc.no/users/protokoll/images/7f8ad8a4e62af83ad796a808078d5e55?accessToken=1bdd2b6d761b3d7b55378d001ceb47515f925813faf284aff1717d83ec7b7bb9). No fancy stuff.. just som wafers covered in chocolate. Maybe a bit like KitKat.
The ones I really like:
* Prince Polo: simple wafer bar with cocoa filling covered with good dark chocolate (popular in Iceland as well)
* Kasztanki (translate it as Chestnuts): dark chocolate candies with cocoa filling with crunchy pieces of wafers
* Michałki: dark chocolate candies with cocoa/peanut filling
* Mieszanka Krakowska: fruit jelly (not like Haribo, more delicate) covered in chocolate, it’s awesome (most classic versions are orange, lemon, raspberry and pineapple flavors)
* Wawel Miętowa and Wawel Pastylka Miętowa – chocolate + mint filling, Polish answer to After Eight; there are also newer orange versions, and I think cherry