Alaaf and Helau! Especially at carnival time, they fly out of floats into the crowd and bring joy to young and old alike. But only very few people know their name: Böhme fruit caramels, or Frukas for short.
The small, square chewy sweets have cult status, but very few people know who produces them. "Everyone knows it, but no one knows what it's called," says Gerrit Sachs, Managing Director of Halloren Vertrieb, to the German Press Agency.
This was the intention for a while, as the Frukas were not a main product of the confectionery manufacturer from Saxony-Anhalt. They were originally invented in the late 1950s in carnival-obsessed North Rhine-Westphalia.
Since the 1990s, however, they have been produced in Saxony - at the Delitzsch chocolate factory, where around 20 employees are involved in their manufacture.
