17 Iconic Finnish Snacks You Need In Your Mouth Right Now

They sound weird but taste amazing.

1. Salmiakki.

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Why You Should Try It: If you like your liqourice strong, you'll love salmiakki. It's flavoured with ammonium chloride to make it salty. Delicious.

2. Tupla.

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Why You Should Try It: Firstly, it's a milk chocolate bar that's filled with nougat and coated with almonds. Secondly, you get two in every pack. Win, win.

3. Tyrkisk Peber.

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Why You Should Try It: If you enjoy salmiakki, this is what you'll graduate to. It's liquorice candy filled with ammonium chloride and pepper. Yum.

4. Dumle.

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Why You Should Try It: A Finnish childhood staple, these chocolate coated toffees are just the right amount of sticky.

5. Fazerin Sininen.

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Why You Should Try It: It's practically a part of the Finnish identity and hands down the best milk chocolate you'll ever taste.

6. Marianne.

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Why You Should Try It: They've very usual. Marianne sweets are sweet peppermint shells with milk chocolate in the centre.

7. Ruis Sipsi.

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Why You Should Try It: Because they're rye crisps and that's incredible.

8. Jim.

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Why You Should Try It: It may just look like an average chocolate bar, but it's actually marmalade foam covered in chocolate, which is genius.

9. Pihlaja.

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Why You Should Try It: They're rowan berry flavoured marmalade sweets. Why wouldn't you?

10. Muumi Kuviokeksit.

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Why You Should Try It: Finns aren't big on biscuits, but they do shape them like Moomins. Amazing.

11. Geisha.

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Why You Should Try It: Because they're probably the most delicious chocolates ever made. They're milk chocolate bites filled with hazelnut. Yummmmm.

12. Kipparin Piippu.

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Why You Should Try It: It's traditional Finnish liquorice, but it's shaped like a pipe. So you can pretend to smoke it.

13. Lemon lakritsi.

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Why You Should Try It: It's delicious Finnish liquorice filled with lemon fondant.

14. Carneval keksit.

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Why You Should Try It: They're boring biscuits, but they come in exciting colours and have pictures of love, an archer, a ballerina and a ship on the backs of them.

15. Terva Leijona.

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Why You Should Try It: Another variety of strong Finnish liquorice, but this one's flavoured with tar. You can also get it with juniper berries, lemon, cloudberries, lingonberries and pine needles.

16. Wiener Nougat.

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Why You Should Try It: YUMMMMMM. They're individually wrapped chocolate pralines with a nougat filling. Delicious.

17. Pantteri.

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Why You Should Try It: They're sugar-coated liquorice gum drops and they're gorgeous.