Swedes, particularly the younger ones, don’t eat candy on weekdays. Swedish parents prevent children from eating too much by adapting a rule they themselves learned as children; you only eat candy on Saturdays, so called “Lördagsgodis”. So every Saturday, children throughout Sweden have a little extra kick in their step. Not just because it’s Saturday and they don’t have to go to school, but because Saturday means Lördagsgodis.
(Lördagsgodis is a typical swedish compound word, lördag = Saturday, godis = candy, lördagsgodis = Saturday candy!)
Candy is a big deal in Sweden. Swedes eat, on average, a whopping 37.5 lbs of candy each per year. So the best day of the week is Saturday...
Lördagsgodis, has become a Swedish tradition of stocking up on sweets. This usually means pick'n'mix style candy, which you'll find in every supermarket in the godisvägg (wall of candy) as it's sometimes called. Pick'n'mix is called plockgodis in Swedish, or lösgodis (loose sweets). It's a beloved weekend activity, so each Saturday you'll see families with children (and adults) filling up their paper bags with the yummy candy. Having sweets on Saturday is a uniquely Swedish phenomenon.