Snacks From Abroad You Wish Were in Ireland

shefellover93

Was over in France a few weeks ago and it reminded me of all the things over there I wish we had over here

The proper Orangina, the one that tastes refreshing and not just like Club Orange, and the 'Rouge' one made with Blood Oranges. Oasis, madeleines, Nutella Snack &, Go, and the Poulet Hot Chocolate. Used love these chocolate cookies and Limon Soda you could get in Italy :pac:

Anyways, what snacks from abroad do you wish you could take home everytime you go away?

sh__93

Tim Tams. I've never tasted Tim Tams but I've heard Tim Tams are delicious. It's also fun to say Tim Tams....
Tim Tams.

fussyonion

Lays crisps. I know they're the same people who own Walkers but Lays have so many different flavours.
Also Ruffles. Also Cheetos. Readily available, I mean, not for €5 a pop in those fancy import-specialist shops.

HomelessMidge

Campino! Those strawberry and cream sweets. Delicious!

dee_mc

Chimes ginger chews are amazing. I bought a pack of the ones with peanut butter on the last day of my last trip to the US, so didn't get a chance to stock up for home!

full_irish

This cadbury bar that you get in NZ - your normal milk chocolate but with cherry flavoured jellies and biscuit pieces (kinda brownie-ish) through it. Very tasty.

And can I second tim tams aswell.

endacl

sh__93 wrote: »

Tim Tams. I've never tasted Tim Tams but I've heard Tim Tams are delicious. It's also fun to say Tim Tams....
Tim Tams.

Same as Penguins. Only not as Penguiney. Penguins are like TimTams, only not as TimTammy.

Hope this helps.

endacl

Fresh durian fruit.

Just to see what all the fuss is about.

Faith

Peanut butter M&Ms.

jacksie66

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whiskeyman

Peppermint patties.
All the different types of Milka and Haribo on the continent... so many to chooooose.
Marabou Chocolate (you can get some in Ikea). The stuff is gorgeous!!

Crumpets

sh__93 wrote: »

Tim Tams. I've never tasted Tim Tams but I've heard Tim Tams are delicious. It's also fun to say Tim Tams....
Tim Tams.

I cannot recommend these enough! Little bars of heaven!!

drumswan

+1 on Lays.

Salted crisps in general too, there are no oily, crunchy salted crisps available here

Amalgam

endacl wrote: »

Fresh durian fruit.

Just to see what all the fuss is about.

They're in season at the moment. Pricey, but nice and big Durian for sale on Moore Street, Dublin. Impressive to behold, visually, if nothing else.. *ahem*

..the fuss, heh, well.. imagine filling a very pungent gym sock with bits of old rubber, then using the sock as a 'straw', to suck up the inner thigh sweat from a very obese person in a state of perspiration, with more than a hint of ammonia, sulphur and just a tiny sensation of old lemons, thrown in, for a laugh.

I can send you a few Durian boiled sweets, they are vile, you'll suck one, get very distressed.. and bin the rest.

Zaph

Sugar free Oreos, sugar free Pettermint Patties and Cherry Coke Zero, for starters. The range of sugar free goodies you can get in America is huge and unfortunately we can't get any of it here.

palmcut

Cha dan.

Chinese snacks from the side of the road and in small food stalls. These are eggs boiled in tea.

Pang

Everything Milka especially the cookies and the Champiolada bar that is coconut flavoured. So yum.

Also Casali's Schokobananen. They are delicious.

born2bwild

Italian soft drink 'Chino' - tastes like tonic water mixed with coca cola - love it.

Amalgam

born2bwild wrote: »

Italian soft drink 'Chino' - tastes like tonic water mixed with coca cola - love it.

For sale in Dublin, Hipster-like pricing though. I love it too.

TeaBagMania

Let me know if I can Post you anything

Zaph

born2bwild wrote: »

Italian soft drink 'Chino' - tastes like tonic water mixed with coca cola - love it.

Saw that last week in La Corte in the IFSC, if you're ever in that neck of the woods.

nervous_twitch

Get wicked bad cravings for these.

born2bwild

Zaph wrote: »

Saw that last week in La Corte in the IFSC, if you're ever in that neck of the woods.

Ah you can get it but it's 1.50 - 2 eu for a can!!!!
1 Euro for a 2 litre bottle in Italy - I don't like it that much.

The Pheasant2

Salmiak liquorice

sh__93

jacksie66 wrote: »

White chocolate tim tams are unreal. Eating a pack now actually.

Where are you located? Thet sound delicious. Almost too good to be true. Like oreos. Oreos were so hyped up when I eventually tasted one I was so disappointed I lost the ability to turn left for a whole 2 months.
TimTams better not be oreos 2.0.

supremenovice

Dont know if youd call them a snack, but my God I wish they were here...

irish_goat

supremenovice wrote: »

Dont know if youd call them a snack, but my God I wish they were here...

https://www.facebook.com/KrispyKremeIreland

supremenovice

irish_goat wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/KrispyKremeIreland

No update in over a year on that page. Looks like a hoax

mel.b

sh__93 wrote: »

Tim Tams. I've never tasted Tim Tams but I've heard Tim Tams are delicious. It's also fun to say Tim Tams....
Tim Tams.

A lot of Tesco shops actually sell TimTams if you look.

For me i'd love...
Violet Crumbles
Picnics (the ones without the raisins in them)
Summer Roll & Honey Logs
Arnotts Savoury Shapes
Red rock Deli salted crisps
Thins Chicken Chips
All the bags of Allens sweets like Chicos and strawberries and creams
Clinkers

Mmmm...think I'm going to head of to the sanza online shop and stock up now!

Oh and Cheezels and Twisties....i think i have a junk food problem!

MissFlitworth

Sweet & sour filled Twizzlers, I can get them but only in €2.50 packs of 4 in novelty American sweet shops. I want big bags.



Orsons Guimauve - Little chocolate cover marshmallow bears. I can also get these but am completely at the mercy of the stock levels in Chez Max



Peanut Flips, Spanish style salted crisps and paprika crisps (I can get all of these here too but it's an effort, I miss just walking into any random shop and picking them up)

Milka Tuc (the Cadbury's ritz cracker version is a poor imitation)



Ovomaltin Crunchy Cream - like nutella but instead of hazelnuts it has malt in it. So essentially a jar of malteasers you can spread on toast. Also Ovomaltin bars.



A wider variety of salty-sweet sweets, Salt caramels, chocolate covered pretzels and a wider variety of chocolate bars with marshmallows in them.

Espresso pads - like teabags but with coffee. So much less messy than using ground coffee in an espresso machine and also are around €2 for 20 in Germany. (Spose these aren't snacks really! You wouldn't chew on one)

Pang

I must have Ovolmaltine spread. It sounds amazing!

MissFlitworth

It is the absolute best thing, you'll get it in Switzerland, Germany (generally in the health food section of a shop, somehow the healthy malt negates the chocolate in it) & Austria

Pang

MissFlitworth wrote: »

It is the absolute best thing, you'll get it in Switzerland, Germany (generally in the health food section of a shop, somehow the healthy malt negates the chocolate in it) & Austria

Excellent! Thanks MissFlitworth! I have family in Austria so I'll ask them to add it to my confectionary shopping list!

whiskeyman

Pang wrote: »

I must have Ovolmaltine spread. It sounds amazing!

MissFlitworth wrote: »

It is the absolute best thing, you'll get it in Switzerland, Germany (generally in the health food section of a shop, somehow the healthy malt negates the chocolate in it) & Austria

I NEED this!! :eek:

Going to Germany soon.
Must check in for extra luggage

Miaireland

Lays salted crisp

Bittenballen from Holland.

Amalgam

Two I'm sort of happy that they aren't readily available.. My teeth are still my own (boiled sweets) and my blood pressure is somewhat normal.. (crisps)

Napoleon Lempur (tart/sour powder center)



I'm partial to the Cola too.. just.. fiendishly addictive. Very inexpensive to buy in their country of origin. (Netherlands)

WWW: http://www.mijn-napoleon.nl/en/home/

Seabrook Sea Salted crisps



Stocked by Tesco for years, I would eat these compulsively. A six pack was *not* for sharing. Dropped from their supply chain very suddenly. Taste great, close to some European 'undressed' varieties, where the strongest flavour is the crisp itself.. and the oil the crisp has been cooked in. Oh, and salt, in this case. *cough* [thirsty sip of water]

Cherrycoke

Faith wrote: »

Peanut butter M&Ms.

You can get these in Dealz at the moment. Jolly Ranchers too

Roesy

These bad boys!

Faith

Cherrycoke wrote: »

You can get these in Dealz at the moment. Jolly Ranchers too

Really?! Awesome.

I'm moving to Canada in august so they should be more freely available there too

DoozerT6

Whittakers Macadamia nut chocolate from NZ.

Om. and nom.

ebbsy

Why do we not get these products here ??????

Chocolate fiend

ebbsy wrote: »

Why do we not get these products here ??????

Because you have lots of other amazing stuff that us poor sods down under sit and dream about :-)

the beer revolu

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Salmiak liquorice

Mr. Simms sell a few different salt liquorice.
If your local one doesn't have them, they can get them.

Double salt and triple salt are the best of the bunch.

Wurly

Sakata rice crackers. I loved these so much. They were a lovely low fat snack to have with a beer. I can't find anything like them here.

http://www.sakata.com.au/

La_Gordy

endacl wrote: »

Fresh durian fruit.

Just to see what all the fuss is about.

I assure you you would regret that.

bette

Graham_B18C

endacl wrote: »

Fresh durian fruit.

Just to see what all the fuss is about.

I know two people have replied but...

I had never heard of it before trying it. Lonely Planet put it best with:

Looks like s**t
Smells like s**t
Tastes like s**t

Literally the most disgusting fruit I've ever eaten. The texture, taste and smell all combine and it's just awful! Full of protein apparently!

Dunno what the big fuss is with Tim Tams, the caramel ones are lovely but I won't miss them when I can't get em. King crisps and Mighty Munch though, what I'd give!

MissFlitworth

You can definitely, unfortunately, get Durian fruit in Ireland. At least in Dublin you can, have regularly had to pinch my nose going into Asia Market on Drury Street because it's a warm day and there's a serious waft coming off a box of Durian. Spotted it on Moore St too, luckily the smell of a box of fish heads nearby covered it up

Stench Blossoms

Top Deck.

Mr. CooL ICE

A big packet of pretzel M&Ms lasted approx 2 hours in out office after a colleague returned from the states.


I need my sister to move abroad soon. When she returned home after living in Italy in the 90s, she gave me loads of Lindt 70%. Next week, I saw them in tesco for the first time ever. Same with when she moved back from Australia and brought Tim Tams. They were everywhere (for about 6 months ).

Eeden

Turtles - Chocolate, caramel, pecans. Absolute heaven!