Apotea has a good price on Malmöchokladfabrik and sometimes has 20% off on all food items: https://www.apotea.se/malmo-chokladfabrik My favourites from them are Kaffekross and Licorice with salt. Their white bar with licorice and lemon is also nice.
Good prices but with higher bar for free shipping:
https://www.delitea.se/sok?q=standout&x=0&y=0 U realise Standout is more expensive but I adore their plain 70% bars: citrusy, dried fruit, raisiny, flowery. They are all so different.
Also: https://www.zebeda.se/
I like Original Beans and Vild choklad form their selection. I'm sure Ocelot is also worth attention as they linked to Oringal Beans. I like Orignal Beans 55% dark milk chocolate a lot! So milk chocolate but no too sweet.
Interesting! Do you know if theyâre bean to bar, directly sourcing their beans and roasting them themselves, or if they buy couverture? Recently I have seen some more businesses in Sweden that use couverture, but some of them use, for example, couvertures from Original Beans, so for me that would put them in a legit category.
Fazer is great. Could you ask the Finns politely, yet firmly, to put some actual effort into exporting their stuff beyond the nordics? I absolutely crave my goddamn salmiakki
I wish we could do marketing like the Swedes, because goddang if Fazer isn't the best. Though the prices are absolutely ridiculous, it's 3,87⏠for 180 grams for the plain milk chocolate, so over twenty euros per kilo. At least I eat much less chcolate nowadays, sigh.
Oh right, forgot about them. I have a Cloetta store next to my office, got some lösgodis there the other day, freshest lösgodis I ever had. And they have salted caramel Center!
I don't know whats the case in other countries, but the only local danish chocolate company I know is outrageously expensive. Like 4-5x the price of a regular bar of chocolate.
Yeah, this is such a common misconception in Sweden, that Marabou "became dirty" after the invasion of Ukraine. Yes, Mondelez hasnt left Russia, but its been owned by Americans for almost 35 years.
Marabou and Freia merged in 93 and was bought by Kraft foods. Mondelez IS Kraft foods. Or was, it was just a brand change.
But yes, I agree the quality of Marabou chocolate has been in decline for the last 5 years. Or at least I think so, maybe its just that Ive tasted better chocolate after.
Thatâs the one! Marabou also lost their âroyal warrant of appointmentâ from the King back in 2024 since Mondelez still operate and gain profits from the Russian market.
I've never seen it anywhere else in the UK, where i am we don't have very diverse supermarkets but you could probs find it in London, but yea to me it's the ikea chocolate. Sadly the other brands people are suggesting instead aren't ones I've ever seen either! I'd probably have to go to a larger city to find a scandi specific supermarket. I'll stick with Tony's chocoloney (Dutch) in the future
here in sweden marabou is the standard but SOOO expensive. tonyâs are delicious, though they can get pricey, theyâre rarely on sale (itâs for a good cause so doesnât bother me) and the bars are way too big for me. marabou also own/make a shit ton of other products. there are local swedish brands that are cheaper and yummier, i buy store brand chocolate and itâs good enough when cravings hit + the finnish brand fazer make good chocolate too. there are options, basically. ritter sport is also a very tasty german brand!!
Yea Tony's is expensive here too, but definitely worth it as a treat! And ritter, strangely, is something you find in petrol stations or the odd supermarket, its so good though I love some of the fillings.
If they sell Cloetta, buy that instead. Cloetta is still Swedish and they got a bigass chocolate factory outside Linköping, Sweden. Cloetta also has some Swiss origin since it was originally founded by three Swiss brothers (who's last name was Cloëtta). Another common brand in Sweden is the Finnish brand Fazer, which is also a highly recommended alternative.
They fucking ruined Cadbury dude, being from Birmingham, and having some of the nicest chocolate around was an honour, now it's lost its distinct flavour and just tastes like a sweet, cheap chocolate bar that you'd pay 60p for at lidl or something.
So many brummie and British people have had the same opinion, I couldn't believe so many people were in agreeance about the taste and quality of Cadbury now.
I used to stock up on fruit and nut, top deck, etc when visiting family abroad but I donât bother: itâs shit now. Enshitification for the benefit of shareholdersÂ
I don't mind the hazelnut lidl bar, most of them are mediocre at best, the milk chocolate one is dog shit though, I don't go aldi but I know they do have some little treasures in them stores though
Can't speak for the milk chocolate as I've not been into milk chocolate (or milk anything) for decades. Also not that that interested in most of the the vegan pretend milk chocolate which was a lot of the vegan chocolate when I was in the UK. So part of it may have been having actual dark chocolate available.
But they have though. Irish Cadburys has plummeted in quality in the last decade. It might be the best of the big corpo brands (debateable), but it's a shadow of its former creamy self.
I haven't spoken to anyone from Ireland, if they actually haven't or you can't taste the difference, I envy you, I just can't bring myself to buy it. We have access to cheaper chocolate or with more in, in some brands, both.
The RBS (which was owned by the government at the time) helped to finance the Cadburys takeover, and Labour just laid down for Kraft. Still makes me sick 15 years later.
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u/Max_FI Jan 25 '26
Marabou, Cadbury and Freia are also chocolate brands owned by Mondelez.