The Dutch have loads of bizarre but delicious foods:
As
@Ebenezer says:
- Drop: salty liquorice. Ideally in the shape of a cat: Katjes (although, oddly, Katjes is a German company).
- Muisjes: sugared aniseed powder made by De Ruijter.
Plus:
- Hagelslag: tiny chocolate sprinkles, typically poured over buttered bread, and then stuffed in your mouth apart from the 10% that fall on the floor
- Stroopwafel: two thin once-crispy waffley biscuits stuck together with a thick treacly syrup. Disgusting.
- Poffertjes: Spherical fluffy small pancakes served with butter and powdered sugar. Heaven!
- Bitterballen: Small beef meatballs coted in crumb and fried. Order 50 - you will eat them all.
- Hopjes: Coffee sweets from Rademaker.
- King Peppermunt: Best peppermints in the world.
- Chocolate letters: A popular gift is a six-inch high chocolate letter for your initial.
Plus nutmeg. My son was surprised and embarrassed when staying with friends, as a boy, when he said 'could someone pass the nutmeg' at lunch, as it turned out this was NOT, as he thought, one of the three standard table condiments in England.