The guys at The Sugar Revolution have found another candy we can add to our ever-growing list of oddly named candies — this one is the Picnic Hedgehog. The reviewers of this curiously dubbed product say that milk chocolate smothers peanuts, chocolate fudge, biscuit pieces, caramel and wafers in a 45g bar.

The Sugar Revolution writers say they purchased the Picnic Hedgehog for $1.75 at 7-11, but they live in Australia, so don’t expect to see it in your local 7-11 (unless you happen to live in Australia, of course). According to this page, Picnic Hedgehog was the 60th most popular candy in Australia for the past four months! If I can ever find one of these, I’m definitely buying it. Not just because I like all the ingredients, but because who can resist eating candy called Picnic Hedgehog? And you have to love the slogan for the Cadbury Picnic bars: “Deliciously Ugly.”

On a totally unrelated note: Cookie Dough Kit Kat! (found while researching Picnic Hedgehog)

• Australian Cadbury Picnic page
• Picnic Hedgehog at The Sugar Revolution

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I came across this one today while looking for something else – I swear I wasn’t googling “wiener” at work! I thought it was pretty funny, at least as candy names go. Manufactured by Fazer, a division of the Midco Company in Italy, this humorously-titled product is a combination of cocoa, sugar, and almonds.

From Wikipedia:

A totally different nougat type is called “Wiener (Viennese) Nougat”, or, in German, “Schmelz-Schokolade” (molten chocolate, because of its mellow consistency), which contains only sugar, cocoa butter, almonds, and cocoa mass.

I can’t trust any candy with the word wiener in it, despite the fact that the ingredients and the description make it sound like a “wiener”. (Yes, that was bad, but it had to be done.)

• Fazer
• Midco Company
• Other Oddly-Named Candy
• Wiener Nougat review at The Sugar Revolution

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