Americans Try Fazer Finnish Chocolate

Fazer makes the best chocolate. :) And hello from FINLAND! =) =)

[@FinnLovesFood]

Hello from California!

[@tonimoi]

Marabou good too

[@Accidentalreef.]

@@tonimoi Isn't Marabou Swedish tho

[@GRAHAM2109]

Fazer are lovely. I tried the mint creams and the half milk, half white ones, but they were mini chocolates and not bars. I went to Helsinki in 2007 for The Eurovision Song Contest, and they had free chocolates in the press centre

[@FinnLovesFood]

That must have been fun! Plus, free chocolate. 🍫

[@Jo_Rb]

You can never go wrong with the Fazer blue and the Fazerina with orange truffle filling. Those are my fave. 😊

[@FinnLovesFood]

Orange truffle filling sounds delicious.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Holding that Fazermint seemed to bring a glimmer of hope into Ross' eyes. Fazer is the leading producer of chocolates, sweets and biscuits in Finland with a market share of 30-40%. Geisha's story starts from the 60s. Karl Fazer liked a Japonica pastry he ate in a cafe in Helsinki and asked his people to come up with a milk chocolate bar with similar filling. If you happen to go the Scandinavian store again and they are available there, Ross might like Fazer's Marianne minty dark chocolate filling candies. And I have to say that Ross looks like a hardy salmiakki guy, but I guess the looks can be deceiving. If you're interested, here's a video about Fazer: "Fazer The Fazer Story". And Fazer is also to thank for turning salmiakki into candy: "Very Finnish Problems Why Finland fell in love with salty liquorice".

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thank you for the background on the Geisha chocolate bar. Ross doesn't even like the sweet licorice we have here so couldn't be convinced by salmiakki! :)

[@ShootingStar_JB]

I LOVE the dark chocolate and mint from childhood, my Finnish Mummi (Grandmother) use to have them in her house and I would always get into them. I need to try the Geisha ones. Great review!

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thank you. We also love the combination of mint and dark chocolate. It was so fun to try these as we were not familiar with Fazer.

[@simmysims9209]

As a Finn when I did a traveling job I always miss mostly chocolate, salmiak and rye bread. When I was back in home I did always rush to the store buy those to fix my cravings 😛

[@FinnLovesFood]

Nothing like the tastes of home. I do love sweet licorice, but still getting used to salmiak.

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

Geisha is the best chocolate on earth. no question about it.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We really enjoyed that one.

[@jerrimenard3092]

If you like that one, you need to try Ferro Rocher hazelnut cream filled one. Here in Oregon we love hazelnuts. Wish they had Marionberry Fazer hazelnut flavor. That would be the 💣.

[@Karl_90]

Im from sweden and fazer is one of my favorite for candy, wish they would bring back the ”palle kuling” mixed bag

[@FinnLovesFood]

What is in the "palle kuling?"

[@Karl_90]

It cointained dumle, ”dumleklubba” small candyboxes, small chocklate bar, popsicles and other goodies, in the 80s it was the donald duck mix but in the 90s the rights with disney expired and became the palle kuling mixed candy bag

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@Karl_90 thank you.

[@PekkaSiltala]

Fazer is prononced "faht-ser".
Try also Finnish Panda chokolate. My grandfather was the chokolate master, who restarted that chokolate produktion after WWII creating basically the whole chokolate division for that sweets maker.
Panda also makes good licoriche.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We may have seen Panda licorice in our import store. We'll watch for it next time.

[@BigC1290]

Scandinavians and Eastern Europeans make the best chocolates as well as Belgium, Germany and Switzerland

[@rthoc71]

Nordic countries Norway Sweden Finland all have some lovely stuff like lovely Icelandic chocolates bar milk/toffee/dark u posted to me in uk

[@FinnLovesFood]

I'm surprised we can find that Icelandic chocolate, but not the Fazer at Cost Plus World Market.

[@rthoc71]

@@FinnLovesFood is there any baltic country shops near u for scandanvian people might be worth a look

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@rthoc71 not that we're aware of. We have a place called KP International that has primarily Asian food, but a small section of European food. It's mostly Eastern European, but you occasionally find some surprises.

[@rthoc71]

@@FinnLovesFood if u like scandanvian things like cloudberry & ligonberry which are from Norway & Sweden which u tasted at Scandi festival u went to.
Have you been in IKEA had their meatballs in their cafe on site? Ikea own cafeteria Instore really good maybe a review video short for u

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@rthoc71 we have been there and had the meatballs, but not for quite a few years. We used to like to get breakfast there and then go shopping.

[@merjal.]

Geisha has cherry blossom pictures in the wrapped because Geisha is a japanese professional entertainer and cherryblossoms present Japan.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We're familiar with Geisha and cherry blossoms - we used to get a Japanese snack box and usually if it was pink with cherry blossoms, it was cherry blossom flavor. We just weren't sure how it ended up on Finnish chocolate with hazelnut flavor. 🙂

[@merjal.]

@@FinnLovesFood To be honest, I as a Finnish person, don't know either :) But in Fazer's page, they tell that the chocolate bar got inspiration from a pastry which was called Japonica ( it had japonica filling ). The name and the pink color was borrowed from another Fazer-candy that got a new name, Tokyo. Japan was an inspiration for this new product ( Geisha ) because it was topical at the time because of The Olympic games of Tokyo.

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@merjal. Thanks, that helps explain it!

[@jojobee42]

Finnish people don't call salty liquorice 'liquorice' ~ they have a totally different word for it; 'salmiakki'.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks!

[@ltpepe5707]

Salty likrish is called salmiakki

[@edvarkinnunen6906]

The salty Licorice is salmiakki and it's sold and made Only in Finland so scandinavia ain't known for that and those chocolate covered licorice does not have salmiakki in it

[@godE25]

Finland isint part of Skandinavia. Well only pqrt of lapland is.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Guess they relied on that to take part in the festival. In any case, we're glad they were there so we could try Finnish chocolate.

[@marialindell9874]

Finnish Lapland can only be considered to be "kinda" Scandi due to geography and how the difference between what us Scandinavia and Fennoscandi are seperated by geography. Even then Finland as a country is Fennoscandi, including Lapland.
It's a shame that people still continue to bunch us up as Scandinavian, when it's very easy knowledge that we are anything but. Sure, we are Nordic and very happily so, but we aren't Scandi. 😂

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@marialindell9874 I'm not sure why they don't just call it Nordic festival, but the festival is described as a "celebration of Nordic heritage."

[@Caldera01]

@@FinnLovesFood Majority of Nordics don't care about the distinction between Scandinavia and Nordic. The only people that do are either know-it-all's and geography nerds.
Normal people simply do not care. This is why Finland often actively bands together under the Scandinavia banner during international events and stuff. Like I said, only know-it-all's and geography people care.

[@darkmage7280]

@@Caldera01 Wrong. The majority of Nordics DO care, and a lot.
Swedes, Norwegians & Danes find it offensive that backwoods barbarians stuck in the 1880s such as Finns could be mistaken as Scandinavian.
Finns find it offensive that we would be lumped together with naïve wimps like actual Scandinavians.

[@michaelriordan8265]

Someone should invent a coconut liquorice, imagine the glee on Ross's face and then the horror of finding the licorice, I don't think I've tried Finnish chocolate but I've had many Danish pastries, apart from UK chocolate the only other one I've tried was Polish which I found unpalatable.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Is there coconut in the liquorice allsorts? Richard got us some, but we haven’t tried them yet.

[@michaelriordan8265]

​@@FinnLovesFoodYes there is, it's circular with a licorice piece in the middle, I think he might like liquorice all sorts as some of them have a mint flavour

[@sambba1230]

You would like finnish salmiakki!

[@jerrimenard3092]

This is good chocolate. My special friend went on a website and found ones filled with vodka. I don't drink but I bet some of you do still. Go give them a try.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Sounds very good! We've had other alcohol filled chocolates and enjoy them.

[@monikanordgren5844]

Dunder Salt is Swedish.

[@GRAHAM2109]

Have you tried the Maribou chocolate from Sweden?

[@FinnLovesFood]

No, we haven't. Looks like they may sell it at IKEA? We haven't been there for quite a while, but always liked checking out the food section.

[@GRAHAM2109]

@@FinnLovesFoodThey definitely sell the bars in the UK IKEA, but look out for the boxes called Paradis and Alladin. I haven't been to Sweden since 2020, but hoping to go next year for Eurovision

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@GRAHAM2109 we'll look for it next time we're at IKEA.

[@Onajourney519]

Everytime I eat fazer I go to paradise and come back 😅 they're dangerous

[@FinnLovesFood]

We just tried Dumle by Fazer and it was also good!

[@monikanordgren5844]

Scandinavia is Denmark Norway Sweden.

[@jennifer1329]

Karl Fazer was German so the a is pronounced as in far and the z is ts.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks. We had a feeling we weren't pronouncing it correctly.

[@woodentie8815]

Ooh, wait a minute, chocolate covered liquorice; Surely not? Sounds disgusting, but you never know until you try it, I guess?!😊

[@FinnLovesFood]

It was good! Very mild liquorice flavor.

[@sveiniscute9101]

It's yummy.

[@TheRealBaconWasTaken]

Pronounce it fatzar

[@rthoc71]

You have watch out Ross tina might mix salty ones up your next forray into bag be like lucky dip 😜 u thinking it sweet bag Tina having a laugh

[@FinnLovesFood]

He never puts his hand in a bag of liquorice unless it's for a video. 🤣

[@rthoc71]

@@FinnLovesFood have put in plain white bag normal sweets hide it in plain site.

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@rthoc71 he might fall for it if I switched out the wrappers!

[@rthoc71]

@@FinnLovesFood what a brilliant idea tina