Campaign starts to save Haagse Hopjes coffee-flavoured sweets - DutchNews.nl

First, the tins of Haagsche Hopjes by Rademaker disappeared from the store, now the traditional square coffee sweets are almost impossible to find. Soon, lovers of the iconic sweet will miss out completely, because production has stopped.

The production of Rademaker's Haagsche Hopjes is being discontinued. According to the manufacturer, the demand for the well-known square coffee sweets has decreased to such an extent that it has been decided to stop making them. The hopjes were developed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by confectioner Van Haaren en Nieuwerkerk. It was not until 1880 that the chunks were officially given the name Haagsche Hopjes. The hopjes were later …

The dark brown coffee candy wrapped in white paper with a black and yellow print. You got them from grandma, at the hairdresser or in the box of the bill from a restaurant. Anyone who still has Haagse Hopjes in their candy jar should be careful with them. The producer is stopping making the famous Hague delicacy. To the great sorrow of Jan van der Laan of the Haagsche Hopjesmuseum. "We don't want a piece of Hague heritage to be lost."

Campaign starts to save Haagse Hopjes coffee-flavoured sweets - DutchNews.nl

An iconic Dutch coffee-flavoured sweet, which can trace its history back to the early 19th century, is being taken out...