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with or without filling. Nowadays curd snacks are popular mainly in Eastern Europe and former Eastern Bloc countries: in the Baltic states (

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, Latvia and Lithuania) and

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), as well as

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( Túró Rudi),

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and

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Production

The main part of a curd snack is made from

, which is mixed with sugar, sweeteners or other ingredients and milled into a homogenous paste that is pressed into the desired shape and filled with

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or other fillings. The formed bars then pass through the so-called 'glaze waterfall' that coats them in

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or another type of glaze. Finally, the curd snacks are cooled in a cooling tunnel and packed.

History

The mass production of curd snacks began in the 1950s in

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and they quickly gained popularity. Initially, they were flavoured with simple ingredients, such as

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, cocoa and

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, but since the 1990s the curd snacks have become more varied and also contain ingredients such as cookie bites, apricot,

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and boiled condensed milk. In 2012, ''Kārums'' curd snack was voted the favorite product by the Latvian consumers, receiving 20% of the votes.

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