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>northern european
>sweeets
so you mean the UK

>>14625489
>Am I just picky
yes

>>14625489
American candy is trash. This is widely known to everyone except americans. It's because they are obliged to use corn syrup instead of cane sugar. Haribo is best candy.

Americans have a sweeter tooth than most other people and if you become acclimated to all the sugar if you eat that kind of stuff routinely. Not every American eats that kind of mass market candy and it isn't the only thing available. Most of that candy is imported for American expats feeling homesick. When they're feeling nostalgic, they gravitate towards the candy they had as children for Halloween or when they went to the movies.

>>14625489
>subsidized corn syrup made by faggot flyover (((old blood))) farmers receiving government gibs, that makes you hungrier and gain weight more rapidly
>chocolate that smells like baby poop because amerisharts dont notice the smell with their high-dairy diets that make them smell like cheese and rotten milk
>"chocolate" that contains 10% cacao because the confectionery jew and FDA are in cahoots and work together to sell goy cattle the cheapest low-grade feed there is at the highest profit margin
>pear juice surplus making its way into lollies
Because it's the Jewnited States of Embezzlement. What do you expect?

>>14625489
candy or chocoalte you are talking about?

the chocolate is mass produced, low quality stuff. Just buy better (also more expensive brands)

>>14625657
I lived in UK for five years. I didn't think their mass produced chocolate was much better.

>>14625489
I'm an American and don't really like candy. There are a small number of good American candies, and I am including chocolate bars here.

1. Three Musketeers

2. Candy Corn

Japanese candy is superior, I once got a hold of these mini crem brulee flavored candie from japan, way better than any candy here

Foolish gay, America has the best sour candy

>>14625489
Sour skittles and mike and Ike’s are pretty based. I like milk duds, but I know that’s an unpopular opinion. Everything else in that pic is pretty bad

>>14625489
>Why does candy have sugar

Slav education

For ages the best cheap chocolate in the Netherlands were these 30 cents a piece koetjesrepen.
Always wondered why the best was so cheap with increasing cacao prices

Then about 2 years ago i had them again and they removed cacao for veggie oil and sugar.. Like all the others

Damn shame

>>14625528
No, I mean Finland.
>>14625657
>Haribo
I don't think I like anything made by Haribo. I dislike winegums.
>>14625696
>"chocolate" that contains 10% cacao
This is probably the reason I hate most imported chocolate actually. If there isn't at least 40% cacao it just tastes like sugar and milk. Switzerland's Lindt chocolate is almost as good as our Fazer.
>>14625729
By sweets I mean most sweet, sugary things you can buy. Biscuits, bubble gum, candy, chocolate, etc. I don't mean chips though since they're more salty.
>>14625761
>Japanese candy
I don't have much experience with Japanese sweets, care to tell me more?
>>14625762
Not too into sour candy either. I prefer salty liquorice.
>>14625775
The candy is supposed to taste flavorful and good, not like straight-up sugar now is it
>>14625781
> they removed cacao for veggie oil and sugar..
fucking ruined

A good chunk of americans know it's shit too.
Since the '90s, us politicians have allowed corporations to write food labeling laws, and they've gotten so bold that anything goes now as long as it doesn't actively make people sick. See: cheese.

Grocery-store 'murican candy is branding-based not taste-based, with millions poured into creating the illusion that these products are the same ever.
They've lost a lot of market-share to indie products in the past decade, as even nostalgia can't cover up the chemical taste anymore, but they too rely on gimmick branding. Except now it's "health fad"-based instead of nostalgia-based.

>>14625783
>Not too into sour candy either. I prefer salty liquorice
You know there’s old time candy shops in the states? I was at one yesterday and my friend got danish black licorice. They had a bunch of other varieties of black licorice too.

>>14625489
This image looks disgusting

>>14625489
>Too sweet and doesn't even taste like a real biscuit

American here, what's a real biscuit taste like

>>14625768
Mike & Ike are good and Skittles are a guilty pleasure of mine but most american candy is waaaayyy too sweet for me

>>14625783
Finland you say, I love your based tarliquorice but seriously fuck Fazer they have been destroying both bread and candy over here by changing classical recipes for memeingredients

>>14625789
Danish liquorice is ok but it's too sweet and not salty enough for me

American here. Are any of those snack crate services worth it for sampling European candies?

>>14625783
so you only like dark chocolate and salty licorice. Sounds like you just don't like sweet things so I don't know why you think anyone should give a remote fuck about your opinion on "sweets"

>>14625789
>Since the '90s, us politicians have allowed corporations to write food labeling laws, and they've gotten so bold that anything goes now as long as it doesn't actively make people sick.
So there's basically no regulation or scrutiny about what they put into their products? Slightly worrying
>See: cheese.
Cheese, in sweets? That's kind of weird. Probably tastes greasy as fuck
>>14625813
Oh, that's super cool! Did he like it though? Licorice is an acquired taste, to my knowledge only the Finns, Danes and Norwegians like it
>>14625839
Look up a recipe and make one. The cookie in the biscuit should be more crumbly/flaky. Difficult to explain, oreos taste more industrial I think.
>fuck Fazer they have been destroying both bread and candy over here by changing classical recipes for memeingredients
True but they still make the best chocolate up here despite that. They also get their cacao from questionable moral practices abroad but that doesn't make me like the taste any less
>>14625871
Very overpriced no doubt but probably a fairly easy way to sample. Would be easier to sample if you just happen to travel abroad but that's not very cheap of course
>>14625878
>dark
Shit, meant to type 30% not 40%. But even 40% isn't really that dark.
>Sounds like you just don't like sweet things
I do. But I dislike the taste of chemicals and sugar mixed together

>>14625893
He loves black licorice and black cock, he also browses /mu/

>>14625761

>Most American candy is bad except for -lists 2 of the worst candies ever made by mankind-

I can't even imagine having taste this shitty

>>14625781
At least cheap American chocolate can't do that and still label itself as "chocolate".

>>14625981
have fun eating sub-10% cacao "chocolate" I guess

>>14626031
I think you replied to the wrong person. I wasn’t talking about chocolate.

Why do yuropoors think the U.S. only has U.S. candy and chocolate? ALDI here sells imported chocolate, same with other discount groceries and random variety gift shops.

>>14626041
Yeah well I wasn't talking about dicks

>>14626044

Europeans are deranged, they're so hollowed out and vacant culturally their only source of pride (they think) is comparing themselves to America, knowing the whole time we've got everything they have and then some.

>>14626053
Different anon here. Then stop talking about it fag

>>14626053
You sound like you really would love some big girthy cock up your ass. I bet you’d love getting spit roasted by two bbcs. Admit it, u gay

>>14625489
>As a Northern European
Sorry all our candy isn't salted liquorish.

>>14625489
You're just used to them. If you grew up eating this you would like it too. Quit acting like you wouldn't.

>>14626118
You're right, some are sweet

Haribo is extremely overrated

>>14626114
I'd rather eat that dish normally by mouth but you can take it up the ass if that's how they eat it in the States
>>14626136
>Quit acting like you wouldn't.
I'm not acting like that now am I

>>14626157
I’ll give you a nice unprotected dicking anon, you’ll squeal like a pig

>>14626156
You take that back!

>>14625489
I had a cheesecake from the grocery store for a birthday some years back and it was maybe one of the most sickeningly sweet things I'd ever had. But over the next few days I'd eat some and noticed I got more and more acclimated to the sweetness. This is the majority of americans' brains on HFCS.

North Europeans have the worst sweets. What those people do to licorice is an absolute crime.
Sugar and flour? Fucking piss-salt? Ugh, wtf is wrong with them.

>>14626697
We have a lot of kino chocolate with everything from milk chocolate to high cacao ones (Marabou milk chocolate is something worth trying out) and also a whole lot of different high quality "regular" candy just a lot less sweet than American and German (pretty much less sweet than the rest of Europe really or as far as I know and have tasted)

Pic related is a bad example but something, also buying your candy by weight like nuts or fruit is real popular here

>>14625489
I've got little experience of foreign candy but it's likely that the stuff we export is mostly garbage. There are a few local candy companies where I live and they make good product that's not even available in most of the rest of America unless you order it delivered. I have some salty licorice around that I bought at the candy factory, product of the Netherlands. The local candy factories make hard toffee, chocolate, marshmallows, and truffles.

>>14626741
Please. Your chocolate is meh at best. At least it's not American chocolate, I guess.
I've not been to so far north in damn near 20 years now, but I've family in Mälmo.

>>14626785
You know chances are that if your exports are worse then your boutique stuff is also worse.
You hear non stop from Americans in the beer threads that you should stop comparing American export to foreign export, you need to compare American craft to foreign export. It's ridiculous.

That said I don't have a problem with American supermarket candy. Gobstoppers and nerds are based.

>>14626826
Not him, but I can't think of any American sweets that I really like a whole lot other than Albanese gummie bears.
They're masters of salty snacks, tho.

>>14626826
Of course since in the US you only need 10% cacao to be able to call milk chocolate chocolate while in the EU it's a minimum of 25% and sure I might be slightly or a wee bit biased but Marabou chocolate is really high tier and something you should try at least the regular milk chocolate then if you want more expensive stuff you got a whooole lot to choose between.

>>14626826
Gobstoppers are sweet and Nerds yeah ok, had a relative that had an "american shop" here with only imports and I would be lying if I would say that I wouldn't sample stuff from time to time and there are some snacks, candy and not to mention foodstuff that are real good (hot sauce comes to mind)

>>14626847
>Albanese
Not Albanian? Let me google that shit.
>Anthony Norman Albanese is an Australian politician serving as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labor Party since 2019
I voted labor and I've never heard of him.

Anyway I can't say I've ever had Albanian gummy bears.

>>14626885
They sell cheap dark chocolates in supermarkets here. Is it not the same in America?
On closer inspection the dark chocolate is all Swiss. In Australia. No wonder it all melts so easy.

>it's another larping nigger thread

>>14626826
>You hear non stop from Americans in the beer threads that you should stop comparing American export to foreign export, you need to compare American craft to foreign export. It's ridiculous.
You shouldn't compare exports in any case I don't think. I know the beer Canada exports to America is garbage and we send them fairly good craft beers from the middle of the country. The quality of exports is affected by tariff agreements, I'm willing to believe there's somewhere in Canada where they don't drink Molson, just like there must be some town in Mexico where they have a better beer than Corona or Modelo or Pacifico.

>>14626919
>They sell cheap dark chocolates in supermarkets here. Is it not the same in America?
Yes, it is.

>>14626919
The ones I'm talking about aren't and in America I wouldn't know haven't been there in at least a decade.

Dark chocolate shouldn't melt easily (70-90% cacao doesn't melt easily), milk chocolate on the other hand

>>14625489
It's really one of the cases of importing makes things suck. You can get most regular size candies for like 2 for $1-1.50 most places, while like a Toblerone winds up being like $3-4. Toblerone or Ferrero Rocher is pretty much equivalent to shit like Twix, Reese's, Kit Kat, etc. I'd be disappointed if I was spending like $5 USD on a fucking king size Kit Kat after VAT too. There's only a few instances where foreign candy for about the same price is better here. Malteasers are better than Whoppers. Haribo and Ablanese gummy bears (although I think they crushed all competition and there aren't US gummy bears around much anymore). Ritter Sport bars are pretty decent, but they wind up being pricey too.

>>14626953
>just like there must be some town in Mexico where they have a better beer than Corona or Modelo or Pacifico
What's that matter to you who can't drink it without travelling to mexico?
And you don't hear Ireland complaining about the unrealistic representation of Irish beer the rest of the world has due to Guinness.
Saying something like "American beer is bad because Budweiser is bad" is fairly accurate and meaningful. A lot lot of Americans are drinking Budweiser, it's a fair representation. The American exports are bad and you would be well served to avoid them.

>>14626969
>doesn't melt easily
This is cold country talk. If I have to lick my fingers after eating it with my bear hands then it was never going to stand up to summer room temperature. There is better preserved (and worse tasting) chocolate.

>>14625489
Obsessed

>>14627042
It's chocolate, most chocolate starts melting at around 30°C whereas high cacao (~85%) starts melting at 37°C that doesn't really change much unless you have shitty chocolate that starts melting sooner as for cold country we can't keep chocolate outside of the fridge in summer 'cause it would melt (very few ppl have an AC we mainly heat our homes)

>>14627042
>What's that matter to you who can't drink it without travelling to mexico?
Huh? My point is, that's all the Mexican beer I see for sale in America. That and Dos Equis. And I don't think it's fair to judge the domestic market by the country's exports.

>And you don't hear Ireland complaining about the unrealistic representation of Irish beer the rest of the world has due to Guinness.
No, I've never seen such a complaint. My uncle did complain to me that there was nothing better than Guinness in Ireland, but he's a High Life man.

>>14627042
>Saying something like "American beer is bad because Budweiser is bad" is fairly accurate and meaningful. A lot lot of Americans are drinking Budweiser, it's a fair representation.
It's not accurate nor is it meaningful. People buy Budweiser because a 30-rack is cheap and inoffensive and you can drink all night without getting horribly drunk. Craft beer is huge in America, but that is poorly reflected in exports from what I've heard. I haven't been to Europe since I was a kid 20 years ago; I'd be curious to see what craft beers are sold there. I have seen a couple beers from my state for sale in Canada at an obscene markup.

>>14627243
>And I don't think it's fair to judge the domestic market by the country's exports
This isn't Australia with Fosters, Mexicans do drink Carona. Just like Americans drink Bud. You're judging them by their most consumed beer. It's perfectly accurate.

Also your pointless patriotism has blinded you so much that you've forgotten the whole point - to drink better beer. I've got to be more careful not to use the word "America" in examples because clearly it switches your brain off. If you can only get Carona from mexico, then to you Mexican beer and Carona are equivalent. And the advice to not drink Mexican=Carona is meaningful. There being good Mexican beer that you can't access is meaningless.

>>14625761
the candy you posted are garbage tho

>>14625489
american chocolate is mostly great. any non-chocolate candy from anywhere in the world is shit 9 times out of 10

>>14625489
>>14625528
I like Nerds and Wonka but I am boycotting Nestle as a social worker of justice.

>>14627830
I fucking love America, but I think chocolate is one of the things we just don't dunk on the rest of the world at like almost everything else. Hershey' bars are fucking garbage. And most other Mars/ and Hershey chocolate only compares to other mass manufactured shit from the rest of the world. Our mass market high end is Godiva, which is okay, but usually more expensive and worse than Lindt. Yeah, we have super expensive shit I've seen at places, but I'm just not enough of a manchild to spend $10 on a chocolate bar.

>>14627864
yeah european chocolate is better on average but I dunno man. Haven't really had anything better than pic related below double digit cost anywhere else. And I firmly stand by my second point

>>14625489
many other posters here have summed it up well, but if the chocolate net weight is less then 25% made up by the cocoa butter and grinds, its garbage. ideally you should be getting up into the 30's for milk chocolate, even higher if you can tolerate the bitterness of dark chocolate(at higher percentages, the cocoa starts replacing the sugar and milk as compared to the vegetable fats and other filler that make up the cheap low% choc). back in my uni days there was a job fair and an american company was handing out hersheys, they were 5-10% cocoa iirc and if i was blindfolded i couldnt tell you i was eating chocolate.
>>14626156
i am a manchild that eats way too much gummies, most of the market is made up of garbage set cordials, haribo is great because they use metric fucktonnes of gelatin in their gummy bears(you can see the difference in protein amounts on the label, easiest way i can compare). many other brands use little or no gelatin, switch it out for cheaper setting products. it gives a much nicer texture, actually chewy yet soft. much more satisfying to eat, and means you dont need as many because they take longer to eat

>>14627886
Well, we are good at shit like mix ins, but the chocolate of that alone is the same enslaved brown person cocoa and sugar, ecologically devastating palm oil, and "vanillin" that candy in yurope uses for their run of the mill sweets.

>finnish faggot who eats lye licorice thinks he has the audacity to lecture anyone ever about candy or sweets
kill yourself and take your disgusting salmiakki with you
you have some fucking nerve pulling this shit

>>14625657
I will have to point out that all those Wonka candies in the OP are made with sugar and not cawn searp and they are delishus

In the US despite many adults eating candy, candy is generally seen as being strictly for kids.

>>14625489
> "hurrr durrr north europe is just so superior even our candy is superior hurr durr checkmate americans"

>>14625489
Resses = Butterfingers = zero >>>>> whatever you like

>>14625489
If you think Oreos are too sweet I'd like to see you eat one of these

>>14625696
Go back to /pol/ and kys

>>14628040
Good anon you're finally getting there :p

>>14628256
they literally burn one's throat with sweet

kinda want one now though

>>14628256
>>14628270
44% of its net weight is sugar.....
the icecream tub im eating now is only 23% kek

>>14625489
probably cus the FDA is a meme

Look for local bakeries and candy shops, people will gladly give you samples and show you their local specialities.

>>14625489
>I don't want my sweets to be sweet
Legitimate retard, or bait.

>>14628021
No it's not at all. Watch just about any candy commercial now a days, it's almost all directed towards adults.

>>14628310
>Legitimate
*Genuine

everyone thinks the food they grew up with and are used to is the best

you aren't technically wrong insofar as your taste is your taste but you aren't objectively right either

>>14628319
Either works. They are synonyms.

>>14625489
I don't like anything in that image except for PayDays and maybe Bottle Caps or Gobstoppers on Halloween.

American candy is more about fun and novelty for kids than something an adult would enjoy with tea. But we do have that if you look in the right places.

Mainly we just don't give a shit, not everything has to be gourmet. What is "meh" to us will be "bad" for you, and even when it's good enough to be a matter of preference, you'll still dislike ours cause you're a little bitch. My favorite candy happens to be Reese's Peanut Butter Cups even though they're technically not great. And we get fun creative stuff like Pop Rocks and War Heads cause we're not stuck up snobs whose sweet tooth was calibrated with Salmiakki.

https://youtu.be/pqLH6cc3Ob8

NA food industry kike-cucked to the extreme. Same goes for anything health, pharma, hospital, gov, whatever it is it's just much worse in america

>>14627364
I'm American and I show my patriotism by drinking Yuengling. They're actually American owned while Budweiser and the like are owned by (((InBev))). Too bad you can't get Yuengling in the western USA.

>>14625489
these are all childs candies tho faggot.
contained within this there are a few based items ill rank them
>milk duds
>payday
>mike&ike
>hon mention to baby ruth there on the right

the rest are fucking shit that children like to eat.

>>14628366
or the eastern USA. also it's bland and completely devoid of character.

so take your goddamn ying-ling and your utz and fuckoff back to flyover with it

>>14628378
Are you so retarded that you can't even think of your own insult? Explain to me exactly how "fly over" is an insult, or which states are "flyover". Can you rub your last 2 braincells together long enough to produce a coherent thought?

>>14625783
>Finland
Of course you think other countries candy is bad when you got Fazer. That stuff is dope. Too bad we don't get the whole sortiment in Sweden

>>14625981
>>14626114

thats the garbage we export to third world masses, this one near me is a good one

https://lakingsconfectionery.com/

>>14628389
PA and midwest are flyover anon. And these shitty PA companies founded by inbred German hicks are encroaching east and frankly we find the whole unsavory, or as /ck/ might put it, unumami.

>>14628402
>pennsylvania is flyover
most of it, anyway

>>14628256
Did you ever find a tub of icing that supposed to go onto a cake as a kid, and just take a big ass spoonful, enjoy it for a few second and then after about 30 seconds realize the mistake you have made? That's what eating a little debbies is like.

>>14628490
No, but that's probably because I'm not USican and I really, really don't like icing/frosting/cake cream. That that Americans all like that stuff or anything, just that cakes in my country tend to be, for lack of a better word, conservative with the stuff. Most of our cakes don't even get any (dusting lightly with confectioner's sugar is more common) and the few that do have any don't get nearly as much as those in other countries.

>>14625813
Danish licorice, like all licorice outside of Italian, is adulterated with sugar and extenders. I prefer Italian licorice over all others. It's 99-100% pure. No sugar. Just condensed licorice extract.

>>14625783
Lindt > Fazer, IMO. But I could be biased cuz my mom worked at Lindt & Sprüngli way back when. That, Frey and Perugina were the ones I mostly grew up with.

>>14625489
Why do europeans like salty black licorice and Muslim dick so much?

>>14627364
>There being good Mexican beer that you can't access is meaningless.
No it isn't, that's the point. The exports don't necessarily reflect the quality of what's sold internally.

>>14628678
they just love the taste of anise, I don't get it

>>14625489
I want to point out that nobody over the age of 10 actually likes any of this shit. Good job cherry picking a small slice of the available market like a typically ignorant european.

>>14628565
Lindt is decent at best. That's what you get from mass produced products. I much prefer the fresh local stuff that is made a few miles from where I live. Oh, 'murican reporting in.

>American candy is more about fun and novelty for kids than something an adult would enjoy with tea. But we do have that if you look in the right places.
Any specific products you have in mind?

>>14628373
>these are all childs candies tho faggot.
>childs candies
we have no such thing here, candy is candy and it's not often aimed at different age groups in my country, the selling point is the taste not the wacky wrapping
>>14628390
I suppose lol. Swedish candy is great too though, not much experience with other Nordic brands but most of what I've tasted has been good
>>14628401
Local stuff like candy shops and confectioneries like your link always manage to make my mouth water
>>14629021
>Cherry picking
I honestly haven't been able (or very enthusiastic) to taste most American candy. My experiences come from what's been imported here. The image was among the first that sprung up on Google.
>nobody over the age of 10 actually likes any of this shit
This point has been mentioned by other anons a couple of times in this thread. Do Americans really have candy that is for adults and candy for kids? Like do you have separate Kids' and Adults' alleys in the sweets alley or something?

>>14625489
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5BL4RNFr58

DO

I like getting those boxes of candy and snacks from different countries. just tried one from Thailand recently and they were pretty dope. Japan always has good shit too.

>>14628256
Nasty, chemical undertaste in all of their products.