Toms candy in Australia means Ferrari, the Danish car-shaped raspberry wine gum, and both bags ship from our own warehouse in Sweden.
Ferrari Hallon is 130 g and plain. Ferrari Salt Hallon is 120 g and salted with salmiak rather than sodium.
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The plain one and the salted one
Ferrari Hallon is the plain one. Raspberry wine gums in a small car shape, nothing sour and nothing salted. Hallon is Swedish for raspberry. Wine gum is the right word for the texture in Australian English, firmer and chewier than a gummy and a long way from a jelly snake.
Ferrari Salt Hallon is the same car, salt-candied. Set the two declarations side by side and it is obvious what does the work:
The sodium is identical and next to nothing in both. Every bit of the salty-liquorice bite is salmiak, and there is no liquorice in the recipe either.
Both are built the same way underneath. Sugar, glucose syrup and modified corn starch set with gelatine, raspberry flavouring, citric acid for lift and carmine for the colour. The plain bag is finished with coconut and rapeseed oil under a carnauba wax glaze, and the salted one carries rapeseed fat instead.
Salted raspberry is an unusual thing to meet for the first time, and it is exactly why Salt Hallon works as an introduction to Nordic salt. It asks you to like raspberry, not liquorice. Work up from there to Djungelvrål or Lakrisal, which are salt liquorice proper.
Both bags contain gelatine and are coloured with carmine, so neither suits vegans nor vegetarians. Toms’ supplier states both are made without palm oil.
Danish cars on a Swedish shelf
Toms is Danish, which makes Ferrari a Danish sweet on a Swedish shelf. It has changed hands twice in a century and has been foundation-owned since 1974:
1924 Two pharmacists, Hans Trojel and Victor H. Meyer, register the company as Toms Fabrikker A/S on 30 January
1942 The wholesaler Victor B. Strand buys the business
1974 Strand hands every share to a foundation, Gerda og Victor B. Strands Fond, now the Toms Group Foundation
We would rather tell you that than sell you a Danish product as a Swedish one. Our Swedish candy range has always been Nordic rather than strictly Swedish, and Toms is the clearest case of it.
If salt is what you came for, the Nordic Super Salty mix pack puts Salt Hallon alongside the harder end of the range, and Ferrari Hallon keeps the sweet side covered. For a wider spread, the Sour but Sweet mix pack covers more ground again.
We post both bags to every Australian state and territory, Sydney and Melbourne through to Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin.
Ferrari questions, answered
Toms is Danish, not Swedish. It was founded in Denmark in 1924 by two pharmacists, Hans Trojel and Victor H. Meyer, and has been foundation-owned since 1974.
Ferrari lollies are small car-shaped raspberry wine gums made by Toms. Ferrari Hallon is the plain 130 g bag and Ferrari Salt Hallon is the salted 120 g one.
Ferrari Hallon is a 130 g bag of plain raspberry wine gums. Ferrari Salt Hallon is a 120 g bag of the same car, salt-candied, with ammonium chloride declared at two per cent.
Ferrari Salt Hallon is salmiak without the liquorice. Ammonium chloride is the compound that gives salty liquorice its kick and it is declared at two per cent here, but no liquorice is in the recipe.
Salmiak is ammonium chloride, the salt that gives Nordic salty liquorice its sharp, slightly numbing bite. It is a different thing from table salt and tastes nothing like it.
Ferrari Salt Hallon gets its salt from salmiak rather than table salt. The declared salt content is 0.01 grams per 100, so what you taste is the ammonium chloride rather than sodium.
Hallon is Swedish for raspberry, and salt hallon is salted raspberry, which is exactly what the second bag is.
Neither Ferrari bag is vegan or vegetarian. Both contain gelatine and are coloured with carmine, which is insect-derived.
Salty liquorice ships anywhere in Australia from our own warehouse in Sundsvall, Sweden. Ferrari Salt Hallon is the gentlest way in, and Djungelvrål and Lakrisal are the full-strength versions.