Novelty Snacks of Sweden

Swedish Fish? Check.

Novelty Snack: KEX
Description: A chocolate wafer cookie
Tastes Like: A chocolate wafer cookie, what you’d expect. Would love to try the dark chocolate version.
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Chocolate Ball
Description: A ball of chocolate coated with coconut
Tastes Like: A very dense and rich chocolate coconut cake
Verdict: Thumbs up! (but I could only eat half)

Novelty Snack: Riskager (pretty sure it’s Danish)
Description: A plain rice cake coated in dark chocolate on one side
Tastes Like: Deliciousness. I might have to make this myself. It’s like healthy, but not.
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Plopp
Description: Chocolate bar with pockets of butter toffee
Tastes Like: Reminiscent of a Caramello bar, pretty gross. The name alone…
Verdict: Thumbs down!

Novelty Snack: Hjartan
Description: Garlic and cheese heart shaped potato snack
Tastes Like: Greasy puffy potato chips with a bit of a garlicky flavor
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Swedish Fish
Description: A gummy fish caught in the Stockholm archipelago
Tastes Like: As you can see, this snack required great deliberation. The search alone to find the candy was difficult enough. It was a bit stale and tough to eat. The flavor was a bit off as well. But you have to eat a Swedish Fish in Sweden!
Verdict: Thumbs neutral

xo, jill

Novelty Snacks of Denmark

Still on it.

Novelty Snack: Mega Mix Krydret
Description: A potato based crunchy snack
Tastes Like: Mr. Krispy (UAE novelty snack) with light salty seasoning
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Faxe Kondi
Description: A lemon-lime sport drink
Tastes Like: 7-Up or Sprite
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: X-tra Romkulor
Description: A chocolate brownie with sprinkles
Tastes Like: A weird trying to be healthy cake ball with apple chunks inside
Verdict: Thumbs neutral

Novelty Snack: Nestea Hyldeblomst
Description: Hyldeblomst flavored Nestea
Tastes Like: Perfume. I thought “hyldeblomst” might be hydrangea but a google search tells me it’s elderberry flower
Verdict: Thumbs neutral


xo, jill

Novelty Snacks of Germany

Gotta do it.

So it’s a little weird taking photos of yourself eating snacks. And then taking photos of yourself rating the snacks you just ate. But I did it.

Novelty Snack: Bread baked with onion and cheese
Description: Bread baked with onion and cheese
Tastes Like: Bread with onion and cheese baked on top
Verdict: Thumbs up!


Novelty Snack: Jogurt Puffreis
Description: Little puffs of yogurt surrounded by yogurt and covered in chocolate
Tastes Like: Stale packing peanuts in sweet dried paste
Verdict: Thumbs neutral but in hindsight, thumbs down

Novelty Snack:Pombar
Description: Teddy bear shaped potato chips
Tastes Like: Puffed up potato chips
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Apfel Nektar
Description: The nectar of an apple
Tastes Like: Apple juice
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack:Benimo!
Description: Marshmallow cookie covered in chocolate covered in coconut
Tastes Like: A baby moon pie with coconut on top
Verdict: Thumbs up! Thumbs down! This cookie was delicious, but upon a closer reading of the ingredients I realized it was not vegetarian (marshmallow). What a bum out.

xo, jill

Novely Snacks of India

“Not spicy for you? Or not spicy for me?”

With our time in country so short, the novelty snacks were scrounged up weren’t the most exciting. We’ll do better next time.

Novelty Snack:Kurkure Funjabi
Description: Tweedy breadsticks “kadhai masala” flavor [I know you probably can’t use “tweedy” like that… but that’s what I want to say
Tastes Like: A not so good spicy breadstick
Verdict: Thumbs down

Novelty Snack:Potato Chips
Description: “Lime and Masala Masti” potato chips
Tastes Like: Kind of limey, kind of spicy
Verdict: Thumbs neutral

Novelty Snack:Bourbon chocolate biscuits
Description: Chocolate cookies with a creamy chocolate filling
Tastes Like: Not super fantastic chocolate cookies with not super fantastic chocolate cream in the middle
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Krack Jack
Description: Crackers that are “lighter, crispier, tastier!”
Tastes Like: Crackers of the Ritz variety
Verdict: Thumbs neutral

Novelty Snack: Nimbooz by 7Up
Description: A lemon flavored drink
Tastes Like: Minute Maid lemonade
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Horlick’s Bisquits
Description: A mild flavored cookie
Tastes Like: Graham crackers
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Moong Dal
Description: Lightly salted yellow lentils
Tastes Like: A light and nutty snack… a pretty neutral flavor, but delicous
Verdict: Thumbs up!

xo, jill

 

Novelty Snacks of Egypt

Eat. Snack. Eat.

You know we didn’t go to Egypt and fore go any novelty snacks.

Novelty Snack: Bake Rolls, cheese flavor
Description: The Arab world’s version of bagel chips
Tastes Like: A very chemically tasting cheese powder on crispy slices of bagel
Verdict: Thumbs up! (duh)



Novelty Snack:
Potato Chips
Description: Potato chips flavored with lemon and chili
Tastes Like: Spicy potato chips
Verdict: Thumbs neutral



Novelty Snack:
Potato Chips
Description: Cheese flavored potato chips
Tastes Like: A very chemically tasting cheese powder on potato chips
Verdict: Thumbs up!

Novelty Snack: Rocket Chocolate
Description: A chocolate bar that apparently makes you very strong, just like the weird baby thing on the wrapper
Tastes Like: “Waxy chocolate with really hard Turkish Delight in the center, in other words, it didn’t taste that good.” – Molly
Verdict: Thumbs neutral… later changed to a thumbs down after she’d experienced the full effect.

Novelty Snack: Lion Potato Chips
Description: Salted potato chips
Tastes Like: Potato chips with salt on them
Verdict: Thumbs up! (really now…)

xo, jill

Novelty Snacks of Thailand Part 3

Not recommended to keep your girlish figure.

Here are the last few treats:

Novelty Snack: Rocco
Description: A cocoa filled wafer cookie
Tastes Like: Stale wafers with a trace of cocoa
Verdict: Thumbs neutral. I thought these might rival the famous Tutku… but no. Not at all.

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Novelty Snack: Pretz
Description: Thin breadsticks in a variety of flavors, this package is a Thai dish we didn’t get the name of
Tastes Like: Didn’t sample this one
Verdict: Thumbs neutral

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Novelty Snack: Lemon Juice and Vinegar Chips
Description: Potato chips flavored with lemon juice and vinegar… I think.
Tastes Like: Tangy chips
Verdict: Thumbs neutral… but I still ate them quickly.

Thailand Novelty Snacks

Novelty Snack: Chocolate cookies
Description: A completely chocolate version of Rocco (see above) but a different brand
Tastes Like: Stale chocolate breakfast cereal
Verdict: Thumbs neutral.

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Phew! That’s it for Thailand!

xo, jill

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