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Brand: Carletti Cost: 3 for 10KR Found at: ICA If there’s one thing that I’ve learned about the Scandinavian countries, it is that their relationship can best be described as a sibling rivalry. For the outside observer, they seem to be pretty similar, but in their own eyes, they could not be more different.... Continue Reading →
Brand: Cloetta Cost: 8.95KR Found at: Coop As a teacher of young children, you keep yourself sane by making little jokes that the kids won’t get. Nothing unwholesome, just little asides that will make the other teachers laugh and which the children will not register until their mid-twenties. It’s like sending a cohort of... Continue Reading →
Brand: Marabou Cost: 8.95KR Found at: Coop In preparation for my impending move to Scotland, I thought I’d do a little research. And before I launched into the Rick Steve’s Guide to Scotland, I decided to set the tone of the day with a candy bar named “The Scotsman.” And oh boy, if the... Continue Reading →
Brand: Marabou Cost: 8.95KR Found at: Coop Where is the crisp? WHERE’S THE CRISP?! I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but I feel like I must have misunderstood the underlying message of this candy bar. I thought that by biting into a Crisp bar, that I might get - I don’t know -... Continue Reading →
Brand: Cloetta Cost: 7.5KR Found at: Coop You cannot get more classic than this Center bar. Milk chocolate with a smooth caramel filling. Its sweet, its mellow, its exactly what you need in the middle of the day when the blood sugar is getting low. In fact, its very similar to a Plopp bar,... Continue Reading →
Brand: Cloetta Found at: Coop Found at: 7.5 KR You cannot go wrong with a milk-chocolate bar filled with caramel. Unless, of course, you name it “Plopp.” But as much as this candy bar evokes like the sound that ruined the romance of a horse-drawn carriage ride, there is a reason that it’s a... Continue Reading →
Brand: Swebar Found at: ICA Cost: 15KR Protein bars: the catfish of candy bars. I like to pretend that I’m eating healthy food, but really it’s just a socially acceptable way to cram 21g of sugar into my face while at the same time implying that I exercise. And what a glorious 21g of... Continue Reading →
Brand: Bourbon Found at: Lawsons My father’s favorite aphorisms is “gilding the lily,” declaimed at such wonton excesses as eating bacon on a burger, putting chocolate sauce on ice-cream, and wearing earrings and makeup to the same event. It’s one of a long line of fatherly one-liners that later turn out to be references... Continue Reading →
Brand: Fujiya Cost: 129 yen Found at: Ministop It’s official! The name of the new era in Japan has been announced. As of April 30th, the Heisei Era (“peace everywhere” era) – the 31 year-long era in which I was born – will be over and the Reiwa (“joyful harmony”) era will begin. For... Continue Reading →
Brand: Meito Cost: 108 yen Found at: Daiso I have not been in Japan long enough to fully distinguish between the waves of seasonal food flavors and the waves of fad food flavors. I’m starting to recognize what is eaten when, but there is still so much that I have to learn when it... Continue Reading →
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