Snacks & Sweets

Every European candy aisle has a wall of Haribo gummies, and kids in the diaspora spot the gold bag from a mile away. These are Haribo Frogs gummy ...

The candy aisle in an American grocery store became its own kind of comfort food once you'd been away from home long enough. This is Almond Joy, a ...

A box of Ptasie Mleczko on the table was a small celebration in itself, the soft marshmallow center always a surprise under the chocolate. E. Wedel...

Toybox Spongebob Surprise Crystal Egg Candy is a 15g novelty confection — an egg-shaped candy container with a Spongebob Squarepants-licensed toy s...

Va-Va Hard Filled Candies Lemon and Orange are a 200g bag of individually wrapped hard-boiled candies with soft citrus-flavoured fillings from Va-V...

Werther's gold-wrapped candies were the ones grandpa always had a spare of in his coat pocket, ready to be unwrapped on any walk. This sugar-free W...

Every grandmother's purse back home had a stash of these hard black candies, pulled out the moment your throat felt scratchy. This is Pionir's Negr...

These were the candy a parent handed over guilt-free, the ones with vitamins built right in, kept in a jar by the door for the walk to school. Kalf...

Peach and strawberry drops always got passed around when cousins visited for the summer, one tin making the rounds at the table. Kalfany's Fruit Se...

Coffee-flavored hard candy is the treat that shows up in the candy dish next to the good chairs. Woogie's Fine Drops are coffee-flavored bonbons, 2...

Apple hard candy is the twist-wrapped sweet from the corner shop jar, the one always within reach. Woogie's Fine Drops are apple-flavored hard cand...

Mint bonbons in a twist-wrap are the candy that always turns up at the bottom of Baba's purse. Woogie's Fine Drops are mint hard candy bonbons, 200...

Orange hard candy is the twist-wrapped sweet from the corner shop jar, the one always within reach. Woogie's Fine Drops are orange-flavored hard ca...

Marco Polo Fruitmix Candy is a 198g bag of assorted fruit-flavoured hard candies from Marco Polo — the Croatian confectionery brand — in the multip...

Marco Polo Fruitmix Fruit-Filled Hard Candy is a 198g bag of assorted hard-boiled candies with soft fruit-centre fillings from Marco Polo — the Cro...

Someone's grandmother always had a tin of ginger chews in her purse for the long car ride. Pocas makes this lemon-flavored ginger chew and bags it ...

Afoi Chaitoglou Macedonian Halva with Almonds is a 400g block of tahini halva studded with whole almonds from Afoi Chaitoglou — the Thessaloniki-ba...

Achva Sesame Halva with Pistachio — Israel's Achva (1929) sesame halva studded with whole pistachios in the 454g pack, the diaspora-kitchen confect...

Chocolate halva was the other jar next to the plain one on the sweets shelf, the cocoa version for anyone with a sweet tooth. This Mezap Halva with...

Halva from Thessaloniki was the treat sliced thin and shared after Sunday lunch, sweet enough to make the whole table smile. This Mezap Traditional...

Zaharni Zavodi Lokum Bulgarian Delight is a rose-flavoured or classic Turkish delight from Zaharni Zavodi — Bulgaria's oldest and largest confectio...

Sour straws traded between kids after school, sour-then-sweet, are the kind of candy-aisle treat that turns up in every import store. Sour Power Pi...

Woogie Fine Drops are Austrian hard candies in an assorted fruit format from Woogie — delicate, transparent hard-candy drops from the Austrian conf...

A little dish of fruit drops always sits out for guests, the kind you're offered the second you sit down for coffee. Kalfany's Assorted Fruit Drops...