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cimoreneThey don't have candy canes.
I was never a huge fan of them, but now I'm thinking I just never had to miss them because you can't turn around without tripping over them.
Wax says they have them in Sweden and you can totally buy them here, "like an old-fashioned thing, like at fairs," but that's no use, as there isn't a fair here. Our two supermarkets - three if you count the Prisma hypermarket (I always refer to our hypermarkets - Prismas and Citymarkets - to my family as 'like Finnish Super Target') where we did our Christmas shopping - did not have them.
I threatened to ask my parents to mail me some so Wax is now hurriedly searching the web for a Finnish source (hampered by the fact that she can't remember or discover a Finnish name for them; in Swedish they're 'polka grisar'), because it's always better to ship things as short a distance as possible etc.
It seems Finland doesn't like peppermint candy or cinnamon candy at all, actually, because they also don't have:
Cinnamon gum and red hots were some of my favorite candies as a kid. Funny that I never noticed that gap before last Valentine's day! The huge variety of high quality fair trade domestic chocolates blinded me, I guess? I've hardly eaten any other kinds of candy in the last twenty years. (There's plenty of mint gum and breath mints, but the only peppermint hard candies I can think of are Marianne, which are filled with milk chocolate ganache.)
There's a class of "spicy" candy that's named as if it is made with pepper usually here, but I've never tried it or seen anyone eating it or been offered some.
Anyway, that's a big gap in Christmas decor as well as in Christmas candy, although in general the available decor here is much more to my taste. The only other big decor that I miss are those big bulb light strings, the retro kind, and we never had any growing up, I just liked looking at them.
I was never a huge fan of them, but now I'm thinking I just never had to miss them because you can't turn around without tripping over them.
Wax says they have them in Sweden and you can totally buy them here, "like an old-fashioned thing, like at fairs," but that's no use, as there isn't a fair here. Our two supermarkets - three if you count the Prisma hypermarket (I always refer to our hypermarkets - Prismas and Citymarkets - to my family as 'like Finnish Super Target') where we did our Christmas shopping - did not have them.
I threatened to ask my parents to mail me some so Wax is now hurriedly searching the web for a Finnish source (hampered by the fact that she can't remember or discover a Finnish name for them; in Swedish they're 'polka grisar'), because it's always better to ship things as short a distance as possible etc.
It seems Finland doesn't like peppermint candy or cinnamon candy at all, actually, because they also don't have:
- cinnamon gum
- red hots (cinnamon hearts)
- peppermint drops
Cinnamon gum and red hots were some of my favorite candies as a kid. Funny that I never noticed that gap before last Valentine's day! The huge variety of high quality fair trade domestic chocolates blinded me, I guess? I've hardly eaten any other kinds of candy in the last twenty years. (There's plenty of mint gum and breath mints, but the only peppermint hard candies I can think of are Marianne, which are filled with milk chocolate ganache.)
There's a class of "spicy" candy that's named as if it is made with pepper usually here, but I've never tried it or seen anyone eating it or been offered some.
Anyway, that's a big gap in Christmas decor as well as in Christmas candy, although in general the available decor here is much more to my taste. The only other big decor that I miss are those big bulb light strings, the retro kind, and we never had any growing up, I just liked looking at them.
