the sweet scrapbook

15th of October, another visit from my parents.
"Anita, here, take this..."
"No, I've tried them, they're with peanuts..."
"How about this?" and my mother took something small and yellow out of her bag.
"Yes!" and I grabbed it fast.

I had tried them before, but still I wanted to taste them... again.

Loacker. I first discovered their products some five-six years ago. I thought they were good, very good.

The company was founded 85 years ago by Gotzis-born Alfons Loacker in Bolzano (that's the city where they have a very well preserved ice mummy in the Museum of Archaeology). Loacker wafers soon became famous in Northern Italy and, in 1979, they went international. In 2002, they launched the chocolate delicacy line Gran Pasticceria - this was the first Loacker range I tried. Loacker have been the wafer market leaders in Italy since 1985. Their logo represents the Schlern mountain, one of the landmarks of the region.

In addition to producing their own sweets, Loacker also distributes Ritter Sport chocolates in Italy. Which probably explains this bar (picture source).

15th of October, another visit from my parents.
"Anita, here, take this..."
"No, I've tried them, they're with peanuts..."
"How about this?" and my mother took something small and yellow out of her bag.
"Yes!" and I grabbed it fast.

I had tried them before, but still I wanted to taste them... again.

Loacker. I first discovered their products some five-six years ago. I thought they were good, very good.

The company was founded 85 years ago by Gotzis-born Alfons Loacker in Bolzano (that's the city where they have a very well preserved ice mummy in the Museum of Archaeology). Loacker wafers soon became famous in Northern Italy and, in 1979, they went international. In 2002, they launched the chocolate delicacy line Gran Pasticceria - this was the first Loacker range I tried. Loacker have been the wafer market leaders in Italy since 1985. Their logo represents the Schlern mountain, one of the landmarks of the region.

In addition to producing their own sweets, Loacker also distributes Ritter Sport chocolates in Italy. Which probably explains this bar (picture source).

Ice-cream must be my favourite sweet thing. Anything new and having a flavour that I find acceptable is a must try. As soon as possible, of course! So, less than two weeks ago, when I first saw in Auchan two new flavours in their ice-cream range, I knew it wouldn't be long before I tried them. I was right.

What I find interesting about the Auchan ice-cream range that we get here is that part of it is produced in Italy, for the Italian hypermarkets. Those have the text in Italian (some of them also in French) and have a hexagonal shape. The others have the text in Romanian and have a rounded rectangle shape (like this one).

Ice-cream must be my favourite sweet thing. Anything new and having a flavour that I find acceptable is a must try. As soon as possible, of course! So, less than two weeks ago, when I first saw in Auchan two new flavours in their ice-cream range, I knew it wouldn't be long before I tried them. I was right.

What I find interesting about the Auchan ice-cream range that we get here is that part of it is produced in Italy, for the Italian hypermarkets. Those have the text in Italian (some of them also in French) and have a hexagonal shape. The others have the text in Romanian and have a rounded rectangle shape (like this one).

In the first post (Ice-Mastry Garden Party Chocolate with Cherries) I mentioned two other brands - G7 Gelati and Haagen-Dazs. So I thought I'd make this entry about G7 Gelati. I guess the origin is pretty obvious. I won't make a list of all the names and things I can think of that originate from the boot-shaped country - I'm afraid the list would get so long I'll finish linking everything... next year!

First of all, I must say I really like their website (see link above). It's simple, clean, elegant, informative and it also has an English version. I have no problem with understanding Italian, but maybe other people don't understand the language, so it's always good to have an international version as well.

In the first post (Ice-Mastry Garden Party Chocolate with Cherries) I mentioned two other brands - G7 Gelati and Haagen-Dazs. So I thought I'd make this entry about G7 Gelati. I guess the origin is pretty obvious. I won't make a list of all the names and things I can think of that originate from the boot-shaped country - I'm afraid the list would get so long I'll finish linking everything... next year!

First of all, I must say I really like their website (see link above). It's simple, clean, elegant, informative and it also has an English version. I have no problem with understanding Italian, but maybe other people don't understand the language, so it's always good to have an international version as well.