London drops

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London drops (Lontoon rakeet in Finnish) are a type of liquorice candy sold in Finland and Sweden first by Chymos, later by Fazer.

London drops are oblong-shaped sweets about 2 cm long and 5 mm thick. They consist of a soft liquorice-flavoured core inside a hard, sugary aniseed-flavoured coating. They are coloured in pastel colours, coming in white, pale purple and pale yellow.

There is no direct equivalent of London drops in the UK now, but a sweet/candy called Torpedoes used to be sold until very recently, and these looked and probably tasted very similar. Liquorice comfits are also very similar.

British actor Bob Grant was involved in Finnish "Lontoonraetta" campaign in the late 1970s.