FREIA

Hey Larissa here!

Wensday 24th we went to Freia, one of norwegians choclate factorys, and it was a amazing experience, but we got to much chocolate, so I havn`t eaten it since that day. On the factory we made our own choclate, and we went on diffrent "tours", we even travelled in time! Haha, not actually, we stept in a small gold colored room, and than just stood there untill the guide told us to step out. We also got told a story, about a king or something from year 1500 I think, he found the cocoa beans, and the beans became more valuable than money! Isn`t that weird? Now I have told about nearly everything from our tour, so let me tell you litle bit aboult Freia!

Freia`s History
 In 1904 started Freia to produce finer sort "eat chocolate" which previously only had been imported in the world outside. To produce such a chocolate, it was necessary to improve both equipment and production in Rodeløkka. Most significantly given a method that Freia in 1906 bought from Switzerland. This manufacturing method established by Dr. Armin Kaiser, namely resulted in our unique Freia milk chocolate.

 

 

  Freia Milk chokolade was the original name of what in the 1920s was said to be "Europe's best eat choclate". To emphasize that it was imported, added, one might assume that it was Norwegian. Only when the chocolate came back on the market after the war, was Freia Milk Chocolate spelled as we do today after the spelling reform of 1939

 
  The summer of 1949 started Freia production of Japp, and this was the first major chocolate news came on the market after World War II. Soft maltnougat and a thin layer of caramel coated with Freia Milk Chocolate was party food for sjokolademonser who had lived with rationing a decade. Japp was an instant success, particularly among youth.

 
 

In 1892 byed Johan Throne Holst the choclate fabrick in Rodeløkka
"Johan Throne Holst is one of the most significant industry leaders of all time. This is the man who made Freia to the leading chocolate factory and who was a pioneer in corporate welfare"

* Do you have any choclate factorys?

*What kind of choclate do you like the most?
*Did you learn anything from our tour or my post on the blog?

-Larisa.M.

Freia a little piece of Norway!