More and more Swiss are acquiring a sweet tooth – much to the delight of Switzerland’s confectionery manufacturers, who managed to sell 33 per cent more in 2022 than they did in the pandemic-affected year of 2021. Luckily, Switzerland is not the only market for selling sweets: 86 per cent of Swiss-made confectionery is exported, the biggest recipient being the US.
The average Swiss consumes around 100 g of sugar per day – double the maximum amount recommended by the World Health Organization. Both government and industry want to reduce the amount of sugar in food and drink, and have already achieved some success in this regard: within five years, sugar content has fallen by 13 per cent in breakfast cereals and by 6 per cent in yoghurts.
In mid-March, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) agreed a credit injection of 50 billion Swiss francs for the beleaguered big bank Credit Suisse (CS) to keep the markets sweet. In light of this remarkable liquidity injection, we wonder how much money we could squeeze out of the SNB if this magazine fell on hard times.
The Matterhorn is unique. Until recently, images of the iconic mountain adorned Toblerone bars. Those days are now over. As Toblerone is moving some production from Switzerland to Slovakia, the bar with the triangular chocolate chunks must do without the Matterhorn’s silhouette on its packaging. It’s Toblergone! The branding will feature a generic Alpine peak instead.
After so much sugar, let’s do mushrooms. But please, please do not eat these lovely green specimens under any circumstances. The aptly named death cap is one of the most poisonous toadstools in Switzerland. No joke. Many wannabe mushroom pickers discovered their calling during the pandemic – and the number of mushroom poisonings subsequently increased by around 25 per cent in the fungi-friendly autumn of 2022. Better stick with sweets.
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Bonjour, En effet, concernant le "TOBLERONE", c'est désolant de voir une entreprise passer à des mains étrangères. Dernièrement, ma famille en Suisse m'a envoyé des barres de TOBLERONE et j'ai constaté que la production de ces barres était faites en Suisse ! Autre, pour compléter le lien gustatif mentionné par votre rédacteur en chef Marc LETTAU, je m'imaginais encore les "filets de perches" (je suis né au bord du lac Léman), mais encore, on, plus précisément ma fille, a ajouté au colis trois plaques de "Cailler", un tube de "Parfait" et de "Cenovis".....il manquait le "Schabziger"...mais le facteur se serait inquiété.....Quel plaisir de recevoir des "souvenirs gustatifs" !