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As an employee of a confectionery Factory, I steadily support the domestic producer by diligently hauling kilograms of marmalade home, and on holidays, candies and gingerbread as well (all honestly bought at the local store, don't think otherwise). I'll share my impressions. I don't want to push the advertising too hard, but lately, I eat sweets mostly at the Factory, since I'm stubbornly trying at least not to get fat, but sometimes I really, really crave something tasty.

Gingerbread. I've already talked a lot about Tula gingerbread; they are my absolute favorite. I especially recommend the cranberry ones, but actually, all varieties are very cool, although they are thermonuclearly sweet. On the other hand, they are aromatic and beautiful.
Zefir. Vanilla with chocolate glaze is my love since childhood; I eat it constantly and it still hasn't grown old. Mom approves of the regular unglazed ones. Overall, our zefir is very tasty—not cloying, not chemical—especially tasty when it's still fresh and not even fully dried out.
Waffles. Good; everything is tasty when it's fresh, but I'm not a huge fan, and they aren't produced here often. But when they are, I happily munch on a couple while they're still crunchy.
Marmalade. Regular "domes," nothing supernatural, but mom loves it, and I find it quite tasty. By the way, there are two recipes: one just with molasses and one with added juice. The one with juice is much tastier, and the flavors themselves are more interesting, but the regular one is also not bad. Generally, I prefer gummy or "slices" more—they aren't as sweet—but ours is also quite, quite good.
Crackers. As usual, the tastiest are those swiped from the conveyor belt right from under the noses of the packers. I don't like cookies and crackers much, but I enjoy munching on ours when the occasion arises. Mostly salted (small loose pieces and standard "squares" of several flavors, approved by dad), but there are sweet ones too, also very tasty and "munchable" no worse than chips. I'll separately mention galettes: how I hated them during my internship (when I tried to grab them from the conveyor and shove them into a box, but they flew all over the workshop, mixed into a shapeless heap on the conveyor, fell haphazardly into the box in a pile, and then I got a scolding from the workshop foreman) and how I love them now. Approved by the whole family—dense, crunchy, bland taste, but very pleasant. My favorite cracker, alas, our Factory doesn't produce, but I'll say that I adore it when a cracker is thin-thin and the flavorings in it are punchy-punchy, especially cool if it's herbs or tomato, but it could be cheese or some other stuff.
Candies. Only three varieties, but what kinds! Liqueur bottles are especially cool to chew whole, when the liqueur flows out and mixes with the chocolate; it's particularly tasty. Grillage (there are several varieties made from different types of nuts) is soft, easy to bite and chew, and very tasty. And the "signature" blackcurrant soufflé in chocolate is another childhood favorite delicacy. Truth be told, the damn things are made rarely and are terribly expensive, but they are very cool.

Also, I've become hooked on agar-agar jelly. It costs significantly more than gelatin jelly and is usually exported from the Far East (I've come across what seemed to be Chinese, Korean, Malaysian). As a rule, it's generously filled with coconut cubes processed to be translucent. Dense, pleasant taste, although some manufacturers use too chemical flavorings. I recommend getting the transparent varieties; even from those Malaysian chemists, they taste milder and it really seems like they actually put real juice in there. And the Chinese have a great drinkable one (liquid enough to suck through a thick straw). And it's especially cool in some cases to fish out generous heaps of fruit pieces filled to the brim, which are much, much more than the jelly itself. After agar-agar, I struggle to perceive gelatin jelly. But the prices for agar-agar do bite noticeably; eating it by the kilogram every day is difficult.
Dessert puddings are also not bad; I especially love nut and coffee ones.

Lollipops are a special love! I especially adore the opaque striped ones; they are white inside and a bit tart. Although the regular "caramelized sugar + a pinch of flavoring per tank" also have their charm.
I've started buying gummy marmalade by weight; I know a couple of places. By the way, I once tried marmalade claiming to taste like pizza; to my extreme surprise, it was an excellent taste, very unusual and cool. However, I saw it in one place; I go there rarely and they don't always stock it.

Also, dad used to brew jam on pectin with stevioside. He intended it for himself, but by the time he got around to it, I had already eaten it all, and he grumbled for a long time. Expensive, but much tastier than regular jam—not cloying at all, with an interesting jam-like consistency.

In February, there was an Indian fair in our city; besides a couple of cute tunics for summer, I took some honey with cranberry to try. If it weren't for my conscience, a thirst for experimentation (like, how will it taste with porridge or kefir?), and fears for my figure/health, I would have eaten it for two hours instead of two days—it turned out to be such a delicacy. Not too honey-like, though (it was dense and opaque, as if there were a bunch of pollen or some other bee waste in there), but very pleasant and not cloying.

But the absolute best sweets are cherries, strawberries, blackberries, grapes, and mango, that's it.
And I stopped putting sugar in my tea long ago, even if it's with lemon. When I'm sick, I throw in jam or honey, but otherwise—no way. I've even started drinking cocoa without sugar.

Well, usually I'll have some sugar-free tea, some sugar-free cottage cheese/yogurt, some meat stuff, some kefir stuff, and I consume sugar in food mostly in almost pure form as candies and gummies x)
А, вот почему.

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