I've been relieved to find that my local Asian markets have a wide array of imported chocolate, candy, and snacks. American chocolate, in particular, is made so cheaply that it's not even pleasant, anymore. I used to find a Snickers and 5th Avenues a great "guilty pleasure" now and then...but, the last couple I've eaten tasted like wax and corn syrup and not much else. I'm certain the actual food content has declined dramatically since my childhood (I was trick or treating in the 80s), and has been replaced by food-like substances that don't taste as good and are worse for my health.

What are those little hard licorice candies you get in Holland called, in Dutch? Not the Allsorts he mentioned, but called something else?

Also the European dark chocolate is of a much better quality.

I know what you are talking about, but I forget the name as well. They are a strange flavor, since they are salty too.

It's called salmiak (salmiakki in Finland).

The ammonium chloride that Linus writes about is the salt that gives the taste to these candies. Like someone else in the comments there, I have to advocate another Finnish spice: tar.