The rise of American Snacks in Ireland

banie01 · 04-01-2023 12:15PM

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Oreos, plain and double stuffed are gack. They are a biscuit that is utterly transformed when chocolate (With a non yank chocolate) covered tho.

The Cadbury coated Oreo is a pancreas killer 😲

Mad_maxx · 04-01-2023 12:16PM

Europeans beat the pants off Americans in many areas

cars are one , chocolate and sweet treats in general are another

Glaceon · 04-01-2023 12:24PM

My wife is American so she mentioned how much easier it is to get American snacks now, even compared to when she came over here first around 2010. But she admits that Hersheys is waxy crap after tasting what we have here. Sarris chocolate is very good but I doubt you'd find it over here.

Igotadose · 04-01-2023 12:27PM

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Ahh, that explains Cadbury's. When I lived in the US years ago (90's), whenever a coworker or friend got a trip to the UK, we all begged them to bring back Dairy Milk bars and they were just... amazing.

Then, fast forward to a few years ago, moved here, dairy milk - Yuck! Dairy milk bought in the UK - disgusting! Might as well eat garbage like Hershey's.

We have ordered from an online US candy store here in Ireland for things like Reese's chips for baking as well as butterscotch chips, which are weirdly impossible to find outside the US.

Graham crackers are approximated by Digestives, a good enough substitute.

HalloweenJack · 04-01-2023 12:32PM

I only got over to the States for the first time last December and I was determined to eat as much of the crap that my previous 33 years of pop culture had exposed me to.

Peanut Butter M&Ms are amazing. I remember getting Christmas-themed hot chocolate in 7/11s which was great. I tried a shitload of all that other 'candy' and I wasn't overwhelmed. Butterfingers were decent but the other stuff was much of a muchness. The chocolate is dour and not European standard.

What I came away with was the knowledge that Americans are great hype merchants, probably to do with their highly consumerised society and the need to constantly be selling stuff, but I wouldn't be trusting them for food recommendations because most of what they consume is highly processed shite.

PTH2009 · 04-01-2023 12:39PM

Is there any big difference to the American Coca Cola and Pepsi ?? Always see the versions advertised on American candy sites

I know in Europe they have the 'Real full sugar Fanta'

Is there a US version of 'Lucoazade' ?

fineso.mom · 04-01-2023 12:42PM

I'm sure I bought butterscotch chips from Aldi recently, in the baking section with the dark chocolate and milk chocolate chips.

Igotadose · 04-01-2023 12:44PM

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US soft drinks don't contain sugar as a rule, certainly not Coke or Pepsi. Seems like they do outside the US and imo taste better (though, I'm old enough to remember when they used to contain sugar in the US, then came the horror that is High Fructose Corn Syrup.)

Glaceon · 04-01-2023 12:45PM

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American Coca Cola is made with high-fructose corn syrup instead of beet sugar. I personally don't notice much of a difference between them. But you can get imported Mexican Coke in glass bottles and that's made with cane sugar instead.

Doc07 · 04-01-2023 12:48PM

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Yes noticed that in London last year, makes the area look awful with glaring neon and horrible colours. They stand out a lot even when passing on the bus tour. Selling all types of crap junk food and cereals. Kids thought it was great of course…

PTH2009 · 04-01-2023 12:54PM

https://youtu.be/zRAJdMdgB70

You'd love to punch the hell out of the 2 of them but shows the difference in quality

04-01-2023 01:03PM

Don't like anything American where there is an obvious taste of that American spew tang.

Reese's peanut butter cups I do find ok even though I don't really like peanut butter normally.

But they are very bad value.

04-01-2023 02:15PM

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The puffed up snacks like monster munch are made from corn. Also American products are full of high fructose corn syrup rather than beet or cane sugar.

recyclops · 04-01-2023 02:28PM

American sour skittles are so much nicer than the ones we can pick up here, they are actually sour

Homelander · 04-01-2023 03:08PM

Could take or leave most American snacks but there's plenty of decent ones. The only thing I don't like is American chocolate.

The one thing I go out of my way to get is Herr's Carolina Reaper cheese puffs. They are proper hot, most spicy crisps here aren't remotely spicy. The only semi-decent ones I can think of are the Pringles Xtreme Chili Cheese.

Space Dog · 04-01-2023 03:18PM

Unfortunately Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my favourite cereal ever, so I indulge a few times a year. And I do love a Twinkie from time to time.

PTH2009 · 04-01-2023 03:45PM

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Always here of Twinkies but what kind of 'Cakes' are they ??

Fecked if I'm paying €9 for a box

Igotadose · 04-01-2023 03:56PM

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Weird and yellow, with a white filling that withstands most forces of nature. A caver friend described inadvertently leaving a bag in a cave, coming back some years later, bag's gone, yellow cake is gone, but the filling was intact and perfect looking. I haven't touched one since. Terrifying.

04-01-2023 03:59PM

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"golden sponge cake with a creamy filling"

utter muck full of pretty much the most processed ingredients legally usable in human "food"

I imagine if you were eating them on the regular you'd have as fat a hole as that cop in die hard

Markus Antonius · 04-01-2023 04:42PM

I got a box of Lucky Charms for old times sake (they used to sell these here in the 90s didn't they?)

I was thinking I'm probably looking back at them with rose-tinted glasses, but no. They are delicious! Tasted as good as I remember!

04-01-2023 04:54PM

They have a Krispy Kreme section in our local Tesco. For curiosity sake I said I'd see what the fuss was about as for €3.70 a pop they would want to be special. I was sorry I just didn't buy 3 bags of Tesco jam donuts for the same money sat right next to the Krispy shite. No way they were even close to warranting the asking price. A fool and his money parted ways that day I tell ya.

I remember loving the Dunkin Donuts from a place on Grafton St I think it was back in the day? Used to always go in when I was in Dublin.

I remember a girl at school bring me back a huge thing of Jelly Belly beans from the US , now those were good. You can probably get those here these days?

RayCon · 04-01-2023 05:11PM

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Agreed but the Hot Buffalo Wing ones. Addictive

odyssey06 · 04-01-2023 05:13PM

Don't really miss the food snacks.

Their lozenges and cough drops seem stronger \ more effective than ours.

And I miss the Iced Tea variety you could get, with real tea.

Nodster · 04-01-2023 05:44PM

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The Cherry flavoured Strepsils or the Walgreens branded ones are the best - usually come back with a dozen packs/tins

Atlantic Dawn · 04-01-2023 05:49PM

A lot of the shops selling just American sweets are fronts to launder money in the UK.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/londons-oxford-st-overrun-american-candy-stores-rcna38845

martingriff · 04-01-2023 05:59PM

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They say the only things to survive a nuclear fallout will be cockroaches and Twinkies. The best before date is decades not years

04-01-2023 06:13PM

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I think they were discontinued in the US at one stage due to being basically horrible. They’re a sort of cult thing though.

Someone was trying to compare them to Tunnock’s Tea Cakes which is just sacrilege in my view. There’s no comparison whatsoever!

04-01-2023 06:49PM

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But why is it? If you want to eat & so do a bunch of other people you will have to wait in line for a short while.

it’s like saying waiting in line to pay at Tesco is stupid, it certainly isn’t.

Greyfox · 04-01-2023 07:06PM

I don't bother with any new American stuff, Cadburys dairy milk is still the best chocolate bar that you can buy.

04-01-2023 07:18PM

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Cadburys is gone to shite. Like eating chocolate sand. That’s excusing how it’s barely even legally allowed be called “chocolate” it’s got such a low coca content..

The rise of American Snacks in Ireland

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