Danish Licorice Sweets

As I've previously mentioned, Europeans go mad for Licorice. So I have here two bags of sweets that I purchased in Copenhagen. Original Skole-Kridt and the more sinister looking Dracula.
Skole-Kridt, I assumed meant school chalk as the sweets in the bag look like chalk and there's a blackboard on the front of the pack with the logo in what looks like chalk. However, online translators came up a blank, so maybe it means something else. Who knows?
The sweets themselves really, really look like chalk. I was beginning to suspect that I may have inadvertantly purchased an actual bag of chalk. I was even able to write on the concrete outside my house with it. So it was with some trepidation that I put it into my mouth and began to chew. Thankfully they are just licorice sweets. They taste a bit like licorice comfits but with an intense minty rush. They're not that bad really.


The Dracula sweets had..well..Dracula on the front in the classic cape open "I vant to suck your blood" pose. I have to comment on how dull the packets are. They're almost minimalist in their design. Three colours max, plain graphics and a to-the-point logo. No film tie-ins, no bragging about faux health properties, it's very different to what we're used to in England.
The sweets inside look like a lozenge, almost like a Fishermans Friend. The colour was dull and dusty and they looked quite unappetizing. I wish I'd heeded that thought, as these are horrible. They taste of salt. I quickly spat it out and cursed Count Dracula and his shoddy candy. This is easily the worst thing I've eaten for this blog. In fact it's one of the worst things I've ever eaten. I suppose the "Salte Lakridsbolcher" description on the bag should have wised me up a little.
I find it difficult to believe that licorice and salt is what Scandanavian kids are scoffing in playgrounds. Thank God for Haribo.