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.
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. No fancy stuff.. just som wafers covered in chocolate. Maybe a bit like KitKat.
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
Túró Rudi – chocolate outside, milk curds/túró (not an exact translation, but what to do if the english dairy industry is deficient?) inside. There are a million variations in filling and manufacturer, but first try the original "pöttyös", natúr one.
Kalev is our native brand, although it has been under foreign conglomerates for decades now. EDIT: Does everything from chocolate bars to glazed raisins, nuts to candies to waffles
Kama (flour mix) chocolate is probably our exotic one, I’ve also found our chocolate covered marzipan candies to be pretty rare. The general variety is pretty narrow, but could be interesting to someone not from around here.
Marabou bars of chocolate, I think the schweitzernöt (chopped hazelnuts) are the most popular sort? They also make Alladin and Paradis boxes of pralines that are very popular at Christmas. The company is owned by Mondalez.
Plopp or center filled with caramel cream from Cloetta. They also make kexchoklad wafers dipped in chocolate, less chocolate than in a kit-kat I think.
Various Fazer chocolates even though they are Finnish, but they have bought old Swedish chocolate manufacturers.
Orion, now a Nestle company, has Studentská Pečeť. It has been used as an example of our skyrocketing prices, shrinking package sizes and decreasing food quality. Used jokingly as investments or stonks.
Oh you meant popular as in "people like eating it"? Hmmm, that’s a hard one
I don’t think Portugal has that much of a domestic chocolate industry, with the most popular brands being foreign ones such as Kinder/Ferrero, Milka and Nestle. That being said we have Arcádia and Regina, the latter of which is well known for their chocolate umbrellas.
Another chocolate treat that comes to mind are the shot glasses used to drink Ginjinha (sour cherry liqueur).
We have many, but one of the ones that seem to have the most potential for hype in other countries, is Nidar Smash. Though it is often branded OWL Smash or some other brand in other countries.
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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. No fancy stuff.. just som wafers covered in chocolate. Maybe a bit like KitKat.
The ones I really like:
Tony Chocolonely, merci, chocolate letters during Sinterklaas in December
Kinder in any form, especially the Kinder Eggs that are still a children’s favourite treat after all these years.
Medinki. Honey cake (like a massive cookie) dipped in chocolate.
Túró Rudi – chocolate outside, milk curds/túró (not an exact translation, but what to do if the english dairy industry is deficient?) inside. There are a million variations in filling and manufacturer, but first try the original "pöttyös", natúr one.
Nestle crunch , Aero , kitkat, oreo , maltesers, ferraro rosha
Kalev is our native brand, although it has been under foreign conglomerates for decades now. EDIT: Does everything from chocolate bars to glazed raisins, nuts to candies to waffles
Kama (flour mix) chocolate is probably our exotic one, I’ve also found our chocolate covered marzipan candies to be pretty rare. The general variety is pretty narrow, but could be interesting to someone not from around here.
Marabou bars of chocolate, I think the schweitzernöt (chopped hazelnuts) are the most popular sort? They also make Alladin and Paradis boxes of pralines that are very popular at Christmas. The company is owned by Mondalez.
Plopp or center filled with caramel cream from Cloetta. They also make kexchoklad wafers dipped in chocolate, less chocolate than in a kit-kat I think.
Various Fazer chocolates even though they are Finnish, but they have bought old Swedish chocolate manufacturers.
House chocolates, at least in Transylvania, idk about the rest of the country. Smth like this: https://www.emag.ro/set-27-batoane-ciocolata-de-casa-endibo-80-g-gill0032/pd/DWHZ0VMBM/
I’d say it’s popular amongst Hungarians, but not as much amongst Romanians? (At least my Romanian friends never took the chance when I’ve offered them :)) )
Pålægschokolade is a thin slice of chocolate that you eat on bread, like a chocolate spread but hard.
Also mentioned by others but chocolate covered marzipan seems to be more popular than other places.
Orion, now a Nestle company, has Studentská Pečeť. It has been used as an example of our skyrocketing prices, shrinking package sizes and decreasing food quality. Used jokingly as investments or stonks.
Oh you meant popular as in "people like eating it"? Hmmm, that’s a hard one
Nutella, Kinder bars and eggs, Ferrero Roches, and lots more as well
I don’t think Portugal has that much of a domestic chocolate industry, with the most popular brands being foreign ones such as Kinder/Ferrero, Milka and Nestle. That being said we have Arcádia and Regina, the latter of which is well known for their chocolate umbrellas.
Another chocolate treat that comes to mind are the shot glasses used to drink Ginjinha (sour cherry liqueur).
Zotter. They are pricier, but really good. They also have really odd favours from time to time.
We have many, but one of the ones that seem to have the most potential for hype in other countries, is Nidar Smash. Though it is often branded OWL Smash or some other brand in other countries.