If 'Cheese Doodles' doesn't sound tempting to you, you're not human.
Instantly intrigued by the snack, I rushed home to tell Sofia and Kristoffer that I had a new idea for a blog article- something new, something daring- something....delicious. And so came about my research assignment for the next two days- an assignment that I nicknamed "Swedish Junk Food: Exposed". My goal was to try and rate a smattering of different candies, chips, and goodies that we don't find back home and report back to my blog readers just what I do and do not recommend if they ever happen to travel to Sweden.
Kristoffer and Sofia listened to my idea and, after much talk and excitement, we put our shoes on and headed to Ostenssons grocery store to purchase snacks of all sorts for me to try.
We entered the store with the mission of only purchasing typical Swedish goodies. We walked out of the store with 2 different types of crunchy snacks (you can rest assured that one of them was Fun Doodles), a dozen different varieties of candy, and....more Bilar.
When we returned home with our newly acquired food, we launched straight into the snacking research- no regrets, no looking back- this was a blog assignment and not time to count calories.
First I tried the 6 different types of chocolate that we bought, then I ate a gummy Swedish Ferrari (like Swedish Fish shaped like a...um... Ferrari). Then I got into the chips, dip, and Cheese Doodles. I am happy to report back to you that 'Cheese Doodles' is pretty much a Swedish version of Cheetos, but fluffier. Let's see, then it was on to the taffy and caramels and hard candy. I tried something shaped like a gummy 'sunny-side-up' egg and even choked down some salted licorice.
About fifteen minutes into the Snack Fest frenzy, I paused, looked at my two goodie partners and sheepishly made a confession:
"I don't feel good."
For some reason, I thought that my guts would tolerate the torture I was putting it through in the name of blog research; I thought wrong. Pushing a bowl of candy away from me, I told Sofia and Kristoffer that I had to stop with the junk food and and left the room to go get a glass of water.
Even though I didn't get through EVERYTHING we purchased, and even though my intestines still haven't fully recovered from our binge, I can proudly say that I made it through a approximately two-thirds of the goods and can confidently give you a report on my findings. Here's it in a nutshell (you may refer to the pictures at the bottom of this page if you need to):
Best Crunchy Snack:
Cheese Doodles (if you like fake cheese... I'm a sucker for fake cheese)
Best Chocolate Bar:
Kex Bar (uh-maze-ing!)
Best 'I'm a Purist and Only Eat Milk Chocolate":
Marabou Milk Chocolate
Grossest Candy Ever Invented:
Generic Blueberry Hard Candy- super salty, super icky.
Best Overall:
Ballerina Chocolate Cookies (what Oreos wish they could be)
Vivian's Favorite:
Bilar, anything with chocolate, and the gummy egg-shaped things because they're cool.
When I'm done with those, I'll take the following:
Tums, Rolaids, and a barf-bag.
***In other random news from yesterday and the day before: I caught my small oscillating fan on fire and filled the house with the smell of burning wires and plastic. Don't worry, only the fan was harmed...along with my pride.
PS. A big shout-out to my Swedish homie, Gunnel. Thanks for reading. =)
Let the snacking begin.
For those chocolate purists out there
I never compalin about rubbery eggs
Delish
For Your Snacking Pleasure 
Cheese Doodles 
Ferrari Time 
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