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More Candy Reviews
Mar. 18th, 2025 10:59 pmI went back to the Eastern European grocery store last week and picked up more candy! This time the theme was fruit instead of wafers. I'm also too lazy to provide the Cyrillic this time, because I'm currently overwhelmed with unfun work already. But in exchange I'm adding links to pictures.
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Svitlogor'ye cheese curd snacks. In the shop they were called "cheese cakes" because I guess "curd snack" is not something an American would jump up for. And the one I tried was more sour than I expected a cheese cake to be, but it was still delicious and I can see why they're so popular. I got an orange flavor one and it was very orangy and zesty. They are also kept cold and are kind of fill an ice cream niche. Would buy again. I'm also unduly proud of myself for being able to read the wrapper, because the company title is written in italics which are hard as fuck for a noob to recognize. According to Wikipedia they are extremely popular in Eastern Europe.
Pekarro Orange. Continuing the orange theme. This is an oreo shaped snack. The cookies are vanilla and the creme is orange flavored. It tastes exactly how the description suggests imo and since I like orange flavor I was pleased with this.
Prihot'. This seems to mean whim or fad which both made the candy hard to find and is suitable for a little bite sized treat I guess. It's back to the staples of wafers and chocolate, with a sort of chocolate sauce filling. Nothing special, but also I could eat five million of them without realizing it probably.
Krasniy Mak. I did not manage to read the italics on this wrapper T_T so I had to do a little poking around. Luckily the company that made it was printed in standard script. Roshen is a Ukranian company that specializes in chocolate and this was just a chocolate inside a chocolate. That is too much chocolate for me, but it was still definitely better than a Hersheys.
Sufle by Pokrovsk. I guess it literally means Souffle? It's a combo of a marshmallow type layer, and a jam (this one was strawberry) encased in chocolate. A little overly sweet for me and the Jam part was kind of wetter than I would like.
Macul Rosu - According to the description I found, this is "chocolate coated sweets made of grinded cocoa mass, cocoa butter, peanuts, wafer crumbs, coconut oil and crystals of caramel mass." The texture reminds me a lot of Halva, which I don't like, so this goes to the bottom of the list for me. This candy comes from Moldova though which is pretty cool! I don't think I've had a natively Moldovan candy before.
Chuvs - The wafers have returned! This one is a big square chunk of strawberry jelly wrapped in wafer and chocolate. There is supposed to be peanuts in there too though they're minimal. I liked this one a lot because it had a firmer chewy texture, though after going through this batch I'm thinking the fruit based candies are a little too sweet for me.
Konti Stefaniya - A cherry in chocolate type candy but there is no cherry, only cherry flavored goo, and the chocolate is thick and as a bit of a grainier texture inside. It wasn't as intense as the liqueur cherry candy I got last time so I liked it more.
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I think I have one more round before I've pretty much exhausted the candy options on the candy wall.
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Svitlogor'ye cheese curd snacks. In the shop they were called "cheese cakes" because I guess "curd snack" is not something an American would jump up for. And the one I tried was more sour than I expected a cheese cake to be, but it was still delicious and I can see why they're so popular. I got an orange flavor one and it was very orangy and zesty. They are also kept cold and are kind of fill an ice cream niche. Would buy again. I'm also unduly proud of myself for being able to read the wrapper, because the company title is written in italics which are hard as fuck for a noob to recognize. According to Wikipedia they are extremely popular in Eastern Europe.
Pekarro Orange. Continuing the orange theme. This is an oreo shaped snack. The cookies are vanilla and the creme is orange flavored. It tastes exactly how the description suggests imo and since I like orange flavor I was pleased with this.
Prihot'. This seems to mean whim or fad which both made the candy hard to find and is suitable for a little bite sized treat I guess. It's back to the staples of wafers and chocolate, with a sort of chocolate sauce filling. Nothing special, but also I could eat five million of them without realizing it probably.
Krasniy Mak. I did not manage to read the italics on this wrapper T_T so I had to do a little poking around. Luckily the company that made it was printed in standard script. Roshen is a Ukranian company that specializes in chocolate and this was just a chocolate inside a chocolate. That is too much chocolate for me, but it was still definitely better than a Hersheys.
Sufle by Pokrovsk. I guess it literally means Souffle? It's a combo of a marshmallow type layer, and a jam (this one was strawberry) encased in chocolate. A little overly sweet for me and the Jam part was kind of wetter than I would like.
Macul Rosu - According to the description I found, this is "chocolate coated sweets made of grinded cocoa mass, cocoa butter, peanuts, wafer crumbs, coconut oil and crystals of caramel mass." The texture reminds me a lot of Halva, which I don't like, so this goes to the bottom of the list for me. This candy comes from Moldova though which is pretty cool! I don't think I've had a natively Moldovan candy before.
Chuvs - The wafers have returned! This one is a big square chunk of strawberry jelly wrapped in wafer and chocolate. There is supposed to be peanuts in there too though they're minimal. I liked this one a lot because it had a firmer chewy texture, though after going through this batch I'm thinking the fruit based candies are a little too sweet for me.
Konti Stefaniya - A cherry in chocolate type candy but there is no cherry, only cherry flavored goo, and the chocolate is thick and as a bit of a grainier texture inside. It wasn't as intense as the liqueur cherry candy I got last time so I liked it more.
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I think I have one more round before I've pretty much exhausted the candy options on the candy wall.
