Warsaw Airport

While leaving for my flight home, I came across two interesting candy displays in the Warsaw airport.

One was this red M&Ms garbage can.  I've noticed that M&Ms are really starting to take over airports.  They always have lots of advertising in airports and it appears they're starting to branch out into every single area of airport publicity.

I also came across this giant chocolate trophy that was apparently presented to Wedel for being a great chocolate maker.  I think more awards should be made out of candy.

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Wawel Store in Krakow

Wawel (I believe it's pronounced va-vel) is a brand of chocolate bars in Poland.  Yes, I know, I posted last week about a brand called Wedel, but they're two different companies.  However both of them make chocolate bars that are available all over Poland, and both of them like to dress up their stores to look like old fashion candy shops.  That is kind of confusing, isn't it.

Although the two concepts are confusingly similar, the chocolate selection is a little different.  Wedel tends to focus on fine chocolate and in particular chocolate bars.  Wawel seems to be a little more divers and they sell more than just chocolate.

Even with their chocolates Wawel tends to have more size and shape variety than Wedel.

It's kind of nice to see competition in the candy world, although I'm not sure which is my favorite.  I like Wedel for the purity of their chocolate, but I find that Wawel is a little more fun.  I guess the good news I can have a little of both if I want.

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Wedel Chocolate Shop In Warsaw

While walking through Warsaw I saw what I can only describe as one of the strangest signs I've ever seen.  It appears to be a guy dressed in red, carrying a few giant chocolate bars, while riding a zebra.  Come to think of it, the only really strange part of this is the zebra.  If you saw a guy in red walking down the street carying giant chocolate bars you'd probably just get excited and hope he was planning to share.  If he was ridding a zebra, you'd probably be a little more freaked out than excited.

As it turns out, under this strange sign is a chocolate shop, but not just any ordinary chocolate shop.  This chocolate shop is in the house of Emil Wedel, founder of the popular chocolate treats.  Inside it's very fancy, and you can choose if you want to enjoy a chocolate drink in the cafe, or just buy some sweets at the candy counter.

The selection of treats is vast.  They not only carry the regular Wedel bars and sweets that you can find in stores, but they also carried more fine quality treats.

I decided to try out these pistachio truffles.  Although the experience at the shop was great, and I'm normally happy with Wedel bars and treats, I have to say that these chocolates disappointed me.  I couldn't taste any pistachio at all, and only found one or two small pieces in the creamy center.

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