Haribo Happy Cola

One of my fondest childhood memories was that exciting visit the the local sweet shop. Few people who grew up between the late 60's up the end of the 80's will always remember flying saucers, pear drops, black jacks, gummy bears and of course Jelly cola bottles. These were always one of my favourites, either in the plain or fizzy variety. Nowaday, we have companies like Haribo to keep these little gems on our shelves. This is a small review of my old favourite. Haribo are a german sweet producer, originally founded in 1920 and their headquarter are located in Bonn. They could have been the ... more

Haribo Happy Cola are nice, chewy jelly sweets that in the the shape of a cola-style bottle. They have a mild cola like taste. There are other similar sweets on the market that have a more distinctive cola flavour, but these Haribo Happy Cola sweets are amongst my favourites, I think. Considerable care has obviously been taken with the design of the jelly cola bottles. The bottle is only half filled with cola colouring, the rest is left clear, so it looks somewhat like a half filled bottle of cola.. There are also nice little examples of attention to details that puts sweets made by the Haribo ... more

About Cola Bottles Cola Bottles are manufactured by Haribo. Haribo was first incorporated as a company on 13.12.1920. Nutritional Information *: Calories: 348 Kcal Protein: 7.7g Carbohydrate: 78.9 g Fat: 0.2 g Satuarated Fat: 0.1g Fibre: 0.3g * nutritional information based on 100g Don't forget the Haribo slogan, in two languages for you: English: Kids and Grown ups love it so, the Happy world of Haribo German: Haribo macht Kinder froh, und Erwachsene eben so (Translation: Haribo makes Children Happy and Adults equally so). My Opinion I love cola bottles. They have just such a lovely taste and ... more

I bought this while I was travelling as I couldn't find the Haribo Starmix. History of Haribo It all starts when a man called Hans Riegel start up a company called Haribo in 1920 2 years later, he invents "Dancing Bear", which later will be known as the HARIBO Goldbear. Soon enough all of Germany were supplied with Haribo sweets and the slogan translated "HARIBO makes children happy" was advertised on the packets. Hans Riegel sadly died but his son Hans Jr took over the company. In 1982, Haribo goes international and sets up a headquarters in USA. Then the ball started to roll and a couple ... more