But if any one particular country knows its candy, itвЂ™s Sweden, whose residents, according to a study by the Swedish Board of Agriculture, eat more per year per capita-more than thirty pounds per person each-than the citizens of any other nation.

On a trip to Iceland a few years ago, I was amazed by the wide selection of sweets sold by the pound at even the most average-looking gas stations. Nordic countries, in general, are crazy for candy. It tastes basically of nothing but gives me great shivers of pleasure as I move it between my teeth. As I write this, I am chewing happily on a spongy little number in the shape of a miniature sunny-side-up egg, plucked from a large sack of treats I gathered the other day at Bon Bon. When I am supposed to turn my nose up at the artificial colors, flavors, textures, and whimsical shapes of gummies, I take more delight in them than ever. As an adult, when I am supposed to seek only the refined and bitter pleasures of eighty-five-per-cent dark chocolate, I have regressed, craving only the milkiest of milk. But ultimately, the restriction seems to have backfired. In fact, as a child, my access to sweets was so limited that I made my Halloween hauls last for months. Make no mistake-my parents didnвЂ™t raise me this way. In Internet parlance, вЂњit meвЂќ-which is to say, I am a Candy Person. The longer I looked at it, the stronger my desire was to eat it. The only outlier is a squishy stack of words that I had to squint at to make out: CANDY PEOPLE. ThereвЂ™s an O.M.G., a SELFIE, an and a <3. ThereвЂ™s a LOL, a YOLO, a hashtag, a thumbвЂ™s-up sign that looks like the one on Facebook. Socialcandy are slightly sticky gummies, in opaque pastel shades ranging from yellow to pink to seafoam green, with vaguely tropical flavors (tutti frutti, you might say), and different shapes, most of which take the form of a word, acronym, or symbol of the Internet age. At New YorkвЂ™s newest Swedish candy store, Bon Bon, on the Lower East Side-thereвЂ™s another one, in the West Village, called Sockerbit, which means вЂњsugar lumpвЂќ-one of the scoop-your-own bins contains a confection labelled Socialcandy.

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