Woogie Fine Drops Raspberry Hard Candy 175g (6.2oz)

Woogie Fine Drops Raspberry Hard Candy are Austrian fruit hard candies in the raspberry flavor — the Woogie brand's raspberry-flavored drop in the Fine Drops line, the smooth round hard candy that delivers a sweet-tart raspberry taste through the slow dissolve that characterizes European quality hard candy confectionery. Woogie is an Austrian confectionery brand producing fruit drops and hard candies in the Central European tradition — the Fine Drops format being the quality line of smooth, individually flavored hard candies that the Austrian and German confectionery industry has produced since the 19th century under various brand names, the format that appears in glass jars on Austrian shop counters and in the confectionery bowls of Central European households. Raspberry as a hard candy flavor occupies an interesting position in European confectionery: the acidic, complex flavor of fresh raspberry — unlike the simpler sweetness of cherry or the clean tartness of lemon — produces a hard candy with a rounded, slightly floral sharpness that pairs particularly well with the sugar-sweetness of the hard candy shell, making raspberry drops one of the more sophisticated flavors in the European fruit-drop tradition. Keep in a bowl for desk or table snacking, eat as a single piece at the end of a meal as a palate-cleansing sweet, pack in a bag for travel, or serve as the raspberry hard candy that represents the quality end of the European fruit-drop tradition.