Hopeatoffee Explained

Hopeatoffee (Finnish for "silver toffee") is a Finnish brand of candy bar, originally launched by Hellas, with a salty liquorice and toffee flavour.^[1] Production of Hopeatoffee started in the 1970s, and the candy was a new innovation at the time, as salty liquorice had not been combined with toffee before.^[2] ^[3]

Hopeatoffee was later produced by Leaf International, which produced it until 2009.^[4] Because of great demand, Cloetta started producing the candy again in autumn 2013.^[5] Hopeatoffee was originally produced as candy bars, but it has later also been produced in candy bags.^[6] Nowadays Hopeatoffee is produced in Italy.^[7]

The Finnish Salty Liquorice Association awarded Hopeatoffee the Salmiakki Finlandia prize in 2008 as the best salty liquorice product of the year.^[8]

References

http://www.elka.fi/kotisivu/index.php?id=188&page=Hellas%20ja%20Leaf Hellas ja Leaf
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/1970-luvun-klassikkokarkki-palaa-kauppoihin/3294988 1970-luvun klassikkokarkki palaa kauppoihin!
http://nyt.fi/20130822-hopeatoffee-ja-muut-herkut/ Hopeatoffee palaa syksyllä – näistä herkuista on turha haaveilla lähiaikoina
Pimilä, Katariina: "Korviketta ei löytynyt ja palautetta tuli päivittäin" - suosikkikarkki palaa kauppoihin, Ilta-Sanomat 19 August 2013. Accessed on 5 November 2013.
http://www.cloetta.fi/medialle/uutisarkisto/uutinen/kaivattu-hopea-toffee-palaa/47/ Kaivattu Hopea Toffee palaa kauppojen hyllyille
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ruoka/a/2013081917384116 Sitkeä suosikkimakeinen palaa kauppojen hyllyille
http://www.cloetta.fi/tuotteet/tuote/hopeatoffee-168-7g-lakritsitoffee/009142/ Hopeatoffee 168,7g lakritsitoffee
http://salmiakki.fi/?page_id=201 Salmiakki Finlandia 1997–2013