Hamburger Speck is a type of candy made out of foamed sugar with various coatings. The candy's colors are often the same as the colors of Hamburg's flag (red and white), with a white central square and two red outer squares. The name refers to the candy's similarity in appearance with bacon (or

speck Speck can refer to a number of European cured pork products, typically salted and air-cured and often lightly smoked but not cooked. In Germany, speck is pickled pork fat with or without some meat in it. Throughout much of the rest of Europe a ...

). The version "Helgoländer Speck" or "Helgoländer Schnitten" uses the colors of

Heligoland Heligoland (; german: Helgoland, ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , da, Helgoland) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. A part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein since 1890, the islands were historically possessions ...

and is red, white and green.Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (ed.): ''Hamburg Lexikon''. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2011, {{ISBN, 978-3-8319-0373-3, p. 295

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