Hei! Just received my Finland snack box. How accurate is this? :)

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1. Salmiakki is missing 😦

2. Where do you sign up for this??

3. Pretty accurate of everyday candies / snacks people like to eat here. Maybe needs bit more salty liqourice. I could buy every single product in the photos from my corner store.

4. Pretty accurate. I only find one big flaw: There is no Fazerin Sininen chocolate bar. And yes, I saw that one blue chocolate candy which is Fazer, but it’s not the same.

5. Drink that soda after a hot sauna (shower will do in an emergency) and you’re set.

   Some of the chips idk where to find, but pretty accurate overview, lacks salmiakki tho

6. Good mix but no salmiakki is just wrong IMO

7. Estrella is Swedish I believe. You’ll be forgiven once, but for repeat offence we’ll need to take more serious action.

8. 50% accuracy

9. Da-Capo :drool: 

   Its something you will hate or love, my grandfather used to buy those for me, my brother and cousins like 20 years ago. It is the oldest Fazer chocolate bar there is, from 1916. 

10. A correct mix would have at least 50% salmiakki.

11. OLW and Estrella are Swedish and made in Sweden. Other than that, it is accurate, but lacks salmiakki which is very popular and practically unknown anywhere else.

12. I haven’t seen that Estrella variant on shop shelves, maybe it’s Swedish. The Swedish and Finnish crisps are 95% similar, so it’s odd that they happened to find one that is different… Tell us how you like that Jaffa drink compared to your typical Fanta

13. I bet Tupla, Geisha, Pätkis or Kismet is going to be your favorite

14. No Sips Mega Pussi?

15. Never seen Palle Kulling in Finland. Kulling is something that swedish put in their mouth.

16. Can you check if the Jaffa has finnish pant (0.15€) or maybe swedish pant (1 kr) ? Somehow this whole set just seems like a bunch of mostly finnish items you could buy in sweden, with some sweden-only items thrown in.

17. No salmiakki and one small Fazerin sininen? 😥 Also I’ve never seen anyone pick those specific chips bags but otherwise pretty good I guess

18. Yeah no bueno. missing most important one, salmiakki

19. Idk how to edit my post but I should have said that I only have the second biggest box. In the biggest box they sell there is Salmiakki. I’ll just order some separately to get a true Finnish experience 🫶🏻🤍💙

20. Don’t eat da-capo before driving, it might show in the alcoholmeter 😀

21. I’m feeling like this is more Swedish sourced than Finnish, though the snack bars are all correct.

    Biggest error in the leaflet questions is that Finland gained independence from Russia in 1917, not Sweden!!!

    I’m guessing that this box was put together by a Swede not a Finn!!

22. Not bad. Typical and traditional picks. No salmiakki though. If you don’t like that, then that’s a + for this set.

23. Estrella should’ve been Taffel or Oikea instead. Jaffa is fine but I think Hartwall apple or Moomin strawberry soda would’ve been a bit more special.

24. Estrella and OLW are Swedish. They could have thrown in some nice Taffel from Åland

25. It’s accurate in the sense that those are well known in Finland. A bit lopsided, almost everything from only one manufacturer, Fazer. I would’ve added more salmiakki and licorice. Those are very popular in Finland, but I know salmiakki is an aquired taste. Salta katten and Turkish pepper are there to represent it.

    Anyway, enjoy your tasty selection. Come back after a month and let us know what you and your family thought.

26. Looks fine. But I would have put a bag of Pantteri and Aakkoset. What the hell is Palle Kulling? Never seen it. Probably a Swede made this box?

27. What’s this ? I want a box like that too !!!

28. By the way if you want to follow that blueberry pie recipr in authentic finnish way you would need wild european blueberries ([bilberries](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilberry)), not the north american blueberries. Frozen bilberries are fine to use in a pie.

29. Well… Estrella is Swedish. Taffel crisps is the Finnish variety. There is too little salmiakki and it is not the typical Finnish kind. No Fazer Sininen chocolate! That is a big miss…
    You are getting there, friend, but next time do better… 🙂

30. The chips and branding on some of the candies makes me believe they were sourced from a Swedish company. Fazer isn’t always made in Finland either I believe.

31. A few Swedish brands there, but other than that pretty good mix of stuff.

32. Geisha, Susu and Kismet are good.

33. Seems fine. but I would have gone more “wild” with it. Like where is Sisu or do you even call that Tyrkish peber?! It’s like tourist friendly selection whos only foreign meal is new Mcdonald’s menu.

34. Replace Estrella and OLW with Taffel, and add salmiakki.

35. Overall it’s good but there is some swedish (gasp) stuff mixed in

36. It’s pretty accurate, but I’m surprised there’s no Fazer blue chocolate. I guess since they went with smaller bars, they didn’t include it, but Fazer also makes smaller chocolate bars with various fillings.

    (I don’t understand your disclaimer. Most people eat snacks and it comes across as judgmental, if you have to justify it by saying you otherwise eat heatlhy.)

37. It is a fairly accurate one, although as others have already mentioned, fazer blue chocolate should be represented more than as just one tiny wrapper candy and some typical form of salmiakki should be present (I assume that tyrkisk peber stick is filled with a powder or paste with a similar flavor powder or paste as regular tyrkisk peber hard candies and salta katter probably are similar small and chewy salmiakki-liquorice candies that you can find in Finland, so the idea is there, but it isn’t the most representative types of salmiakki).

    I don’t buy crisps often, so I would have given those dill flavored Estrella’s a pass, although haven’t seen that particular bag so it is possible that it isn’t widely available in Finland. However I’ve seen *some* dill flavored crisps and even though it isn’t the most popular flavor, it is something that well *could* be found on the selves in a Finnish supermarket, so close enough.

    Jaffa is ubiquitous, but it is a typical orange soda (although superior to Fanta IMO), so I would have replaced it with Moomin soda (wild strawberry flavored), Smurf soda (pear flavor), Pommac (apple based soft drink vaguely reminiscent of ginger ale, that is a typical drink to give children in place of champagne toast at fancier events) to give it a more distinctive flair, but it isn’t wrong.

    The accompanying leaflet is factually correct, yet missing some nuance in food culture section as even though traditionally Finnish foods mentioned are real things that are still eaten, the actual everyday foods eaten by most Finns nowadays lean more into ”international cuisine” with an occasional Finnish classic thrown into the mix every now and then. But that is more or less the same with each modern country.

38. Never even seen these chips in Finland so pretty inaccurate in that respect… the smaller candy bars are a good representation, but missing the most important Fazer and salmiakki as ppl have mentioned

39. Im Norwegian, so I dont really know. But isnt salt lakris one of the main candy in Finland just like Sweden and Norway.

40. I’d be so sad there’s no suku laku

41. The pie is not finnish with blueberries, they MUST be bilberries 😩

42. I have never seen a candy bag called Palle Kuling, it’s probably only sold in Sweden. Should have replaced it with Remix or Pantteri. OLW products are also Swedish and they’re not widely sold in Finland. Looks like they have compiled it mostly with Finnish products available in Sweden plus a couple Swedish products.

43. No Salmiakki?

44. KULLAH 😀

45. Great selection and great recipes!

46. The dadjokes are absolutely horrible, and Finland didnt gain independence from Sweden, like the leaflet claims twice.

47. I’ve never seen OLW crisps, Estrella dill crisps, Palle Kulling or Salta Katter before.

    Also not familiar with the tutti gritty patukka but not questioning that one.

    So yeah it’s like 70% accurate.

48. The chocolate bars are all the very normal basic and popular ones. The candy ando ther snacks “exist”, but theres definetly more better ones

49. Both Estrella and OLW chips are swedish brands. Where is Taffel?

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