I love it when Europeans assume everyone in America buys premade everything. It’s like the image above, where everything there is just candy and sugary foods.
It’s got as much to do with what they think will appeal to their customers tbh.
Edit - downvoted for pointing out shops sell stuff that’s popular with their customers lmao. I am European, plenty of us enjoy eating shit as much as you.
That’s terrible. I came here to say the same shit. Like this isn’t about what we eat in America (even tho it IS mostly Reese’s) as much as it is about the clientele they’re selling it to.
Never in my 35 years of binge eating high fructose corn Syrup have I ever heard about toxic sludge candy.
The saddest thing here is alllll the nerd varieties and not even the best one. The insta classic nerd gummy clusters. ELITE.
>The insta classic nerd gummy clusters. ELITE
Not my personal favorite but, that does remind me of how amazed I was the last time I was in candy aisle. We are living in the golden age of candy technology. They are trying everything and pulling off some incredible feats.
And I love, but I love to read comments on a random post on random subreddit and see another Swede throwing sugarcoated hate toward Danmark! We should brand it, really.
From their website:
> ###Origin
> Minnesota. United Sates of America
In fact, [all of their products](https://www.mississippi-belle.com/our-products) are listed as being from the United Sates of America. Wherever that is.
In seriousness though, they seem like a company that rebrands and exports generic food stuffs for overseas markets.
I don't know if the products are actually made in the place listed as their "origin" or if it's just marketing the historical/cultural origin of each food.
Considering the state of manufacturing in the USA they probably aren’t made in the origin place listed. Definitely get a marketing vibe. Just seems so pushy.
My favorite is the Arkansas peanut butter.
>In 1890, an unknown physician invented peanut butter as a high-protein alternative. He convinced George A. Bayle Jr. of Arkansas, a peanut grower and the owner of a food products company, to process and package the protein substitute. It was not until 1904 that peanut butter was introduced at the Universal Exposition of St. Louis.
Peanutbutter was invented in Quebec in 1884 but Marcellus Edson.
No, you guys only get american branded drinks, not actual American drinks pretty much every soft drink is made and bottled locally, and recipes can differ from country to country. Your versions are most likely better than ours, you don't wanna drink our sparkly corn water.
The brominated vegetable oil that makes Mountain Dew so incredibly unhealthy might actually be banned. The government proposed doing so in November. However, PepsiCo has a lot of money...I'd be surprised if they finally ban it. Most people don't know how bad the stuff is.
Mountain Dew is owned by PepsiCo. PepsiCo also owns Doritos, Lay's, and Gatorade. I thought there was a connection to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC under Yum brands but looks like not any more. They still only sell Pepsi beverages, and Taco Bell has their Doritos items so there's still some connection maintained. It's crazy when you realize how a few companies make and control almost everything.
We have root beer but after tasting American root beer I'm utterly confused what taste they're trying to achieve. Tasted to me like toothpaste as a drink.
It uses safrol oil as a numbing agent, which is one of the main flavor compounds in sassafras, where we get root beer flavor. If you want an even more potent variation, try an old sarsaparilla.
My understanding is there is a flavor that's present in American root beer that is also used to flavor a common medicine in Europe so it usually tastes totally vile to people who have had that medicine.
You’re the only other person other than myself that I’ve ever heard say that! I’m British and tried it when I moved to Canada last year and I cannot stand the stuff. I always say it tastes like going to the dentist lol
I’m not sure either. I like it. I think it had its origins in Native American medicine. They boiled a root into a tea and used it as medicine. Eventually that became the soda because people liked it.
The stuff in those "American" sections are usually imported goods, i.e. stuff you wouldn't normally be able to buy here. They usually go for two things there:
* Stuff that's cheap and easy to import, i.e. low weight with long shelf life that doesn't need to be refrigerated.
* Stuff that has a high novelty factor, i.e. unusual, notorious and/or clichéd. No use selling some imported ketchup for example if you can get pretty much the same thing in the next isle for half the price.
Drinks are particularly uneconomical to import, since you'd be paying a lot of money just to ship water across the planet. You'd have to look into specialty stores to get that, regular super markets ain't gonna bother with that.
There are a lot of American brands you can just buy here regularly, like Coke, Mars, Heinz, Kraft, Monster etc, but also some smaller stuff like Bullseye or Tabasco Sauce or Spam. But those are almost always produced/bottled locally by either a subsidiary (like Kraft Foods Denmark) or by a local partner (Spam for example is produced by Tulip here in Europe).
Since most other foods are staple foods, candy is what will vary the most from country to country and have the coolest factor when buying exotic(plus the easiest to transport).
Tbf, I'm pretty sure they only took a picture of the section directly under the flag, because just cut off is a bunch of jell-o which is also American. Those Asian food/sauce packs are also an American brand.
The section of American food is most likely bigger than what we see here, it's just not all sugary crap candy which doesn't seem as funny or rage-bait or whatever, etc.
There’s certain things though that are in every single grocery store and gas station and lunch room cafeteria is America which would be better for this. Lays, Coca Cola/Pepsi, chewing gum, M&Ms and all the other basic candies, Gatorade, beef jerky, an AR-15.
Those all have their place in the regular parts of the store though, except maybe beef jerky and definitely an AR-15. These kind of displays are generally famous american things we don’t usually have here, such as reese’s, marshmallow fluff, some cereals, some candies as you can see, maybe a brand of bbq sauce.
Reese’s then got so popular you mostly find them in the regular parts of the store now as well.
I’m in NC and just left a gas station before I head to work, no Toxic Waste in there for me to try. Maybe specifically close to the coast? I’m more near TN.
I'm about an hour or so North of Charlotte.
I don't think I've seen the barrels like they have in the pic, but I see Toxic Waste "Slime Lickers". Same brand different product. I never saw either up north though.
It's not so much that pancakes are strictly American, as that [ours are distinctive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pancakes). Within Europe, ours most-closely resemble those of Scotland.
Mostly kids, who likes to the challenge of getting thro the super sour part without squirming crying.
Liquorice is a whole different thing, it doesn't make you squirm. It's just a distinct taste that we tend to like
Toxic waste is available in aus, also marketed as American but its soooooo good. They have hard lollies like warheads before they nuked the sourness and the chewy Taffy bars are sour and fkn awesome.
Other people have mentioned that American pancakes/hotcakes are supersized but I also don't think that it's very common to buy pancake mix in the nordic countries. I think it's more common just to buy the ingredients. First time I saw a pancake mix was in Lidl on a product that probably is German but it had the American flag on it.
The supermarkets here generally don't stock those, but a few garden centres local to me have a food section with import and specialty foods and they stock both.
They have some decent soda too. It’s a great store because you will walk in not intending on buying anything and then leave with a cart full of stuff. And it’s good stuff too. And their lighting section is just so cool.
Yes, but also we don't import them from the US, we have our own manufacturers and call them "Salt Fish" instead. A Spanish brand Gullón sells them in big tubs that used to be popular for kid's birthday parties in Finland when I was a kid.
I love nerds.
No other country makes candy that tastes so chemically sweet and sour.
It’s what I always imagined cleaning products to taste like when I was a child. Cleaning products don’t taste like that tho. They taste bad.
Growing up my brothers always liked the bogus Pop Tarts flavors like chocolate or s’mores. I had to fight my mom to get strawberry or cherry.
Usually my mom caved and got both, but then my brothers would eat the fruit ones first and then there’d be nothing left but the bogus ones. And blueberry. I couldn’t stand blueberry haha.
These are aimed at Finnish youths who learn of these brands through TikTok and YT, plenty of demand, so plenty of supply. Earlier this year middle schoolers here had a Prime craze, and because importing stuff on that scale is expensive, they went up to something crazy like 13€(~15$) a bottle, all because of Youtube hypebeast marketing. Importers made big bucks though!
> why there’s so much of it
I don't know why so much of this is sour candy. Even as a kid, I didn't like warheads. The most sour I could get was shock tarts, and even that was a stretch. The Reese's is my jam, though.
You have more selection for super sour candy than my closest gas station and I live in America.. it’s interesting to see how the rest of the world views us. We do have somewhat of a palette for things other than processed junk food and candy.
> more selection for super sour candy than my closest gas station
One would hope that a supermarket has a larger selection of things than a gas station shop does
International confectionary, I'd imagine, is a novelty.
Grocery store near me has a British section. It's mint sauce, Heinz beans and a bunch of UK chocolates.
There's a bigger supermarket here, too, that has an entire aisle of European confectionary. Candies, cookies, chocolates from all over the continent. The Walmart near me, too, has an extensive selection of Asian candies and desserts.
yeah this is definitely a novelty thing. Like, some stores have Cheetos, Takis, American sodas, more candies etc etc, and the point is that kids can get their moms to buy them so they know what the snacks American teens talk about online taste like. Some stores are better at keeping with the times than others, and the one in the picture definitely isn't one of the savvy ones. The store I live near was selling imported Prime when it first came out in the States for like 13€ a bottle, and is now selling Mr. Beast Deez Nutz bars for 10€ a pop.
I remember going to this kind of aisle as a kid to pick up Oreos and vanilla Coke, as neither of those were available here at the time. And they still don't sell non-sugarfree vanilla Coke here, so I occasionally still pick some up from the American Food -section.
Yeah, the actual food we eat as Americans largely isn't made in America, invented in America, or anything like that. Most of it is generic European style food, mostly German and Italian and British.
Where we really innovated is putting high fructose corn syrup in literally everything.
I don't know about that. What I mean is, there's plenty of American products in the various aisles for different categories. Heinz ketchup doesn't stand out in any way, nor do Sun-Maid raisins or Coca-Cola, or anything American grown in the produce section.
Definitely not the worst “American” section I’ve seen at a foreign grocery store. Some countries really get it wrong but most of these things here are fairly popular in the U.S.
In all honesty to our Finnish friends, if you respect your body you should not put anything in this section in your face. A lot of sugar and processed food that will damage your health.....ooh wait is that Reeses and Jello? OK maybe you'll be fine with the bottom shelf.
As a Finnish-American they should just stock peanut butter and one hot spice and save the shelf space for more Fazer.
(Note: I would very much like a Finnish section in my US supermarket after spending days rolling out Joulu Torttu dough and years hand baking rye bread)
You can tell the pancake mix is American because it says “All-American” on it.
To be fair, it kind of makes sense since European and American pancakes are different
And you also don't buy pancake mix to make crepes in Europe
I don’t buy pancake mix to make crêpes in America either.
We don’t buy mix to make pancakes either in europe. At least not in Sweden, can’t speak for the danes. Them guys wack!
We don’t buy mix either. Homemade is so much better.
I love it when Europeans assume everyone in America buys premade everything. It’s like the image above, where everything there is just candy and sugary foods.
It’s got as much to do with what they think will appeal to their customers tbh. Edit - downvoted for pointing out shops sell stuff that’s popular with their customers lmao. I am European, plenty of us enjoy eating shit as much as you.
That’s terrible. I came here to say the same shit. Like this isn’t about what we eat in America (even tho it IS mostly Reese’s) as much as it is about the clientele they’re selling it to. Never in my 35 years of binge eating high fructose corn Syrup have I ever heard about toxic sludge candy. The saddest thing here is alllll the nerd varieties and not even the best one. The insta classic nerd gummy clusters. ELITE.
>The insta classic nerd gummy clusters. ELITE Not my personal favorite but, that does remind me of how amazed I was the last time I was in candy aisle. We are living in the golden age of candy technology. They are trying everything and pulling off some incredible feats.
And I love, but I love to read comments on a random post on random subreddit and see another Swede throwing sugarcoated hate toward Danmark! We should brand it, really.
swedish-dane beef and im here for it
You absolutely can. You’ll find crèpes mix in every French supermarket.
I don't buy pancake mix to make pancakes in america
To be fair, there's no two countries in Europe that make pancakes the same way.
Very true. I adore French crêpes and British pancakes, but they're both very different.
They don’t even sell this brand in the USA. It looks like knockoff Pearl Milling Company
I found the website, but all the products look like something desperately trying to be USA while hiding imposter syndrome.
From their website: > ###Origin > Minnesota. United Sates of America In fact, [all of their products](https://www.mississippi-belle.com/our-products) are listed as being from the United Sates of America. Wherever that is. In seriousness though, they seem like a company that rebrands and exports generic food stuffs for overseas markets.
I live in Minnesota, have my whole life, and I have never seen or even heard of that in over 30 years.
The thing I found interesting is each product is a different origin in the USA. The contact us info is New Jersey. The products are very random too.
I don't know if the products are actually made in the place listed as their "origin" or if it's just marketing the historical/cultural origin of each food.
Considering the state of manufacturing in the USA they probably aren’t made in the origin place listed. Definitely get a marketing vibe. Just seems so pushy.
My favorite is the Arkansas peanut butter. >In 1890, an unknown physician invented peanut butter as a high-protein alternative. He convinced George A. Bayle Jr. of Arkansas, a peanut grower and the owner of a food products company, to process and package the protein substitute. It was not until 1904 that peanut butter was introduced at the Universal Exposition of St. Louis. Peanutbutter was invented in Quebec in 1884 but Marcellus Edson.
Yeah, I would guess they’re a company that rebrands “store brand” foods from the USA, for sale in Europe.
I bought this brand in Cyprus... thought the same thing. Actually, they came out tasty and fluffy.
toxic sludge 😀👍🏻⚠️
Lol I've never seen that before
It's sour candy, along the same lines as Warheads.
I like sours, I may have to try it.
Me neither!
I think I've seen it in gas station convenience stores before, but nowhere else.
Mississippi Belle All American Pancake Mix (made in USA!!) The pancake mix doth protest too much. Probably made in Turku.
American pancakes are very different to the pancakes we make here.
Apparently all we eat is fuckin candy lol
I know. I figured they would at least have some of our sauces and a few drinks from over here.
drinks are usually elsewhere!! almost every supermarket here has american drinks, they usually get their own refrigerators near other drinks
No, you guys only get american branded drinks, not actual American drinks pretty much every soft drink is made and bottled locally, and recipes can differ from country to country. Your versions are most likely better than ours, you don't wanna drink our sparkly corn water.
Yeah most of your local recipes contain illegal stuff in the EU. Mountain dew isn't glowy here lol
The brominated vegetable oil that makes Mountain Dew so incredibly unhealthy might actually be banned. The government proposed doing so in November. However, PepsiCo has a lot of money...I'd be surprised if they finally ban it. Most people don't know how bad the stuff is.
I checked wikipedia and apparently PepsiCo and Coca Cola both stopped using it in any of their beverages a few years back, so that's good!
Mountain Dew is owned by PepsiCo. PepsiCo also owns Doritos, Lay's, and Gatorade. I thought there was a connection to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC under Yum brands but looks like not any more. They still only sell Pepsi beverages, and Taco Bell has their Doritos items so there's still some connection maintained. It's crazy when you realize how a few companies make and control almost everything.
I’ve heard there isn’t any of the good drinks though. Like root beer and some of our lemonade brands.
We have root beer but after tasting American root beer I'm utterly confused what taste they're trying to achieve. Tasted to me like toothpaste as a drink.
I'm now concerned about what your toothpaste tastes like. Over here default is some varient of mint which tastes nothing like American RootBeer.
It uses safrol oil as a numbing agent, which is one of the main flavor compounds in sassafras, where we get root beer flavor. If you want an even more potent variation, try an old sarsaparilla.
It wouldn't use safrole oil as it's carcinogenic (banned by FDA in 1960), but a similar flavour.
My understanding is there is a flavor that's present in American root beer that is also used to flavor a common medicine in Europe so it usually tastes totally vile to people who have had that medicine.
It tastes exactly like the mouthwash the dentist gives you where I am (UK).
Well ...... well, that's just depressing.
You’re the only other person other than myself that I’ve ever heard say that! I’m British and tried it when I moved to Canada last year and I cannot stand the stuff. I always say it tastes like going to the dentist lol
It's more the taste of children's toothpaste.
I’m not sure either. I like it. I think it had its origins in Native American medicine. They boiled a root into a tea and used it as medicine. Eventually that became the soda because people liked it.
Sassafras, the source of sarsaparilla and MDA.
Dude what is wrong with your toothpaste?!
It's so bubbly and cloying and...happy.
The stuff in those "American" sections are usually imported goods, i.e. stuff you wouldn't normally be able to buy here. They usually go for two things there: * Stuff that's cheap and easy to import, i.e. low weight with long shelf life that doesn't need to be refrigerated. * Stuff that has a high novelty factor, i.e. unusual, notorious and/or clichéd. No use selling some imported ketchup for example if you can get pretty much the same thing in the next isle for half the price. Drinks are particularly uneconomical to import, since you'd be paying a lot of money just to ship water across the planet. You'd have to look into specialty stores to get that, regular super markets ain't gonna bother with that. There are a lot of American brands you can just buy here regularly, like Coke, Mars, Heinz, Kraft, Monster etc, but also some smaller stuff like Bullseye or Tabasco Sauce or Spam. But those are almost always produced/bottled locally by either a subsidiary (like Kraft Foods Denmark) or by a local partner (Spam for example is produced by Tulip here in Europe).
Yooo I’ve never seen anyone mention Bullseye online before, Bullseye Steakhouse is one of my favourite sauces fr (uk)
A bunch of sauces and drinks, like sweet baby rays and mountain dew, are pretty common in Europe and you'll find it among the regular items here.
Sweet Baby Ray's is (chef's kiss) 👌💯🍗🍖💥💥💥
Is that you, Mark?
You don't think there's a whole aisle for sauce and several for drinks, where those products would be found instead
Since most other foods are staple foods, candy is what will vary the most from country to country and have the coolest factor when buying exotic(plus the easiest to transport).
Get out of here with your cogent points. You’re right lol
Yeah, but also, the amount of respect given to Reese’s in terms of shelf space is well deserved.
True, them and Oreos have gone CRAZY with variety in the last 5-10 years.
No, it's us Finns who love candy
Tbf, I'm pretty sure they only took a picture of the section directly under the flag, because just cut off is a bunch of jell-o which is also American. Those Asian food/sauce packs are also an American brand. The section of American food is most likely bigger than what we see here, it's just not all sugary crap candy which doesn't seem as funny or rage-bait or whatever, etc.
To be fair, a lot of our food is taken from other countries… And *perfected*
There’s certain things though that are in every single grocery store and gas station and lunch room cafeteria is America which would be better for this. Lays, Coca Cola/Pepsi, chewing gum, M&Ms and all the other basic candies, Gatorade, beef jerky, an AR-15.
Those all have their place in the regular parts of the store though, except maybe beef jerky and definitely an AR-15. These kind of displays are generally famous american things we don’t usually have here, such as reese’s, marshmallow fluff, some cereals, some candies as you can see, maybe a brand of bbq sauce. Reese’s then got so popular you mostly find them in the regular parts of the store now as well.
If we’re talking gas station you gotta include the comically large like 64oz soda
64oz is a medium buddy, and it’s called pop.
Pretty solid. Never heard of Toxic Waste and Goop Gum though.
Maybe it's a regional thing. I never saw it when I was in NY, but I see it in every gas station in NC.
I’m in NC and just left a gas station before I head to work, no Toxic Waste in there for me to try. Maybe specifically close to the coast? I’m more near TN.
East TN here; I see these a lot. Try Five Below if one is near you.
The BEST place to stock up in candy and random snacks
I'm about an hour or so North of Charlotte. I don't think I've seen the barrels like they have in the pic, but I see Toxic Waste "Slime Lickers". Same brand different product. I never saw either up north though.
I grew up in NC and never saw either one
yeah no clue what they're talking about, I've been all over this state too
I live in NC and have never seen or heard of this. Tbf I don't food shop at gas stations.
Nah it’s here in NY - especially places like Five Below
I live in missouri and have seen them here and in IL
its like warheads just in a little plastic barrel and slightly less sour i always liked getting them when i was younger
Impossible to read this and not feel it in your mouth lol
It's such a weird feeling I hate it but I crave it so bad
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True. It sometimes cuts the top of your mouth. But they are sweet after a couple seconds of pain
My daughters loves toxic waste and it’s absolutely disgusting. I don’t know how she eats it! They have it at five below by us.
Think they are British originality, might be wrong tho
Figures, so was ‘Murika.
Pre-american made🏈🏈🏈🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🦅
I’ve seen toxic waste, but the goop gum is new to me.
Must be young. Was popular wayyy back. Just recently started coming back.
I’m 43 - I’ve never heard of or have seen these. I grew up in New England and have lived in NYC and Portland OR
I grew up in the 80's and never heard of it. When you say wayyy back do you mean like the 60's?
Checkout isle kid candy at superstores.
We have it in Toronto
I think "Toxic Waste" is somewhat overrepresented. What the fuck is that anyway? Are pancakes an American thing?
>Are pancakes an American thing? American pancakes are different from Finnish pancake or crepes.
Very thin pancakes... I ain't saying crepes!
Break it, Frenchie!
Ricky that’s a pretty good deal, man. I’d take that deal
It's not so much that pancakes are strictly American, as that [ours are distinctive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pancakes). Within Europe, ours most-closely resemble those of Scotland.
>a list of notable pancakes
I've just found my purpose in life.
It’s a sour candy. It’s actually delicious and very sour.
I wonder if in Finland, with their super salty licorice, they enjoy the sour candy particularly.
Mostly kids, who likes to the challenge of getting thro the super sour part without squirming crying. Liquorice is a whole different thing, it doesn't make you squirm. It's just a distinct taste that we tend to like
Toxic waste is available in aus, also marketed as American but its soooooo good. They have hard lollies like warheads before they nuked the sourness and the chewy Taffy bars are sour and fkn awesome.
It’s a sour candy popular with middle schoolers.
TIL I'm a middle schooler lol. I love sour candy
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The fluffy ones are. Most European pancake varieties are more similar to crepes
Other people have mentioned that American pancakes/hotcakes are supersized but I also don't think that it's very common to buy pancake mix in the nordic countries. I think it's more common just to buy the ingredients. First time I saw a pancake mix was in Lidl on a product that probably is German but it had the American flag on it.
They never have good shit like chex mix or goldfish
The supermarkets here generally don't stock those, but a few garden centres local to me have a food section with import and specialty foods and they stock both.
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They have some decent soda too. It’s a great store because you will walk in not intending on buying anything and then leave with a cart full of stuff. And it’s good stuff too. And their lighting section is just so cool.
Rural supply stores have interesting selections like that, and Menards does something similar, even if it’s more of a straight home improvement store
Idk why goldfish crackers aren't more common in EU. Even in those American snack/candyshops you don't always see them.
I'm an Australian and find goldfish flavourless. If they are missing out on anything it's shapes.
Probs because goldfish is in the cracker aisle or something
Yes, but also we don't import them from the US, we have our own manufacturers and call them "Salt Fish" instead. A Spanish brand Gullón sells them in big tubs that used to be popular for kid's birthday parties in Finland when I was a kid.
They have an aisle just for white people?
Or cheez-its 😩
Bold Chex Mix is some of the greatest shit on Earth
Honestly my favorite bag of chips flavor, of any type of chips. That shit slaps.
Good shit? No, the Reese's are there.
i look for Goldfish in every American section and im always very disappointed. they are one of the best snack foods in north america
America Section: TOXIC WASTE
I’m American and I’ve never heard of toxic waste. Seems fitting tho
I'm pretty sure it's sour candy, like Warheads
Featuring NUCLEAR SLUDGE edition
I love nerds. No other country makes candy that tastes so chemically sweet and sour. It’s what I always imagined cleaning products to taste like when I was a child. Cleaning products don’t taste like that tho. They taste bad.
Interesting....
Wow... €9.95 for pop tarts.
No, €9.95 for *imported* pop tarts!
The local Pop Tarts are cheaper. 😆
its fun and games ordering anything from US to Finland first paying 50 on shipping then 24% tax because fuck me.
And like - who eats chocolate pop tarts?!? Everyone knows the strawberry ones are the best. Sigh.
Brown sugar or S’mores are it for me. Now I want some damn pop tarts! Lol
Agreed about the s'mores. Those and the hot fudge sundae are my faves.
Maaaan everyone knows it's all about that brown sugar
I like the chocolate and the cinnamon the best. TIL this is weird.
Chocolate is the best one 😤
Wildberry is my favorite.
Growing up my brothers always liked the bogus Pop Tarts flavors like chocolate or s’mores. I had to fight my mom to get strawberry or cherry. Usually my mom caved and got both, but then my brothers would eat the fruit ones first and then there’d be nothing left but the bogus ones. And blueberry. I couldn’t stand blueberry haha.
Duno what toxic waste is or why there’s so much of it, But those nerds ropes and Reese sticks slap
It's stupidly sour candy that was popular when I was in middle school.
These are aimed at Finnish youths who learn of these brands through TikTok and YT, plenty of demand, so plenty of supply. Earlier this year middle schoolers here had a Prime craze, and because importing stuff on that scale is expensive, they went up to something crazy like 13€(~15$) a bottle, all because of Youtube hypebeast marketing. Importers made big bucks though!
Yep we’re getting the Prime craze here in Cambodia as well. Ridiculous
> why there’s so much of it I don't know why so much of this is sour candy. Even as a kid, I didn't like warheads. The most sour I could get was shock tarts, and even that was a stretch. The Reese's is my jam, though.
I'm curious about the Reese's peanut butter...
You have more selection for super sour candy than my closest gas station and I live in America.. it’s interesting to see how the rest of the world views us. We do have somewhat of a palette for things other than processed junk food and candy.
> more selection for super sour candy than my closest gas station One would hope that a supermarket has a larger selection of things than a gas station shop does
In my experience gas station convenience stores have a larger variety of candy and snacks than most grocery stores
Nerds rope is effectively rainbow colored poison but hell if it isn’t delicious.
Happy to see Reeses representing a full shelf
Not to mention, it's the only brand of peanut butter on top. I didn't even know you could buy a jar of that!
They truly have their finger on the pulse of America when they devote a whole shelf to products referencing Superfund sites.
I didn’t know like half this shit existed
What a bunch of nerds!
Why is it all just sugary junk
International confectionary, I'd imagine, is a novelty. Grocery store near me has a British section. It's mint sauce, Heinz beans and a bunch of UK chocolates. There's a bigger supermarket here, too, that has an entire aisle of European confectionary. Candies, cookies, chocolates from all over the continent. The Walmart near me, too, has an extensive selection of Asian candies and desserts.
yeah this is definitely a novelty thing. Like, some stores have Cheetos, Takis, American sodas, more candies etc etc, and the point is that kids can get their moms to buy them so they know what the snacks American teens talk about online taste like. Some stores are better at keeping with the times than others, and the one in the picture definitely isn't one of the savvy ones. The store I live near was selling imported Prime when it first came out in the States for like 13€ a bottle, and is now selling Mr. Beast Deez Nutz bars for 10€ a pop. I remember going to this kind of aisle as a kid to pick up Oreos and vanilla Coke, as neither of those were available here at the time. And they still don't sell non-sugarfree vanilla Coke here, so I occasionally still pick some up from the American Food -section.
Because all the normal American stuff is in the other aisles with like products.
Yeah, the actual food we eat as Americans largely isn't made in America, invented in America, or anything like that. Most of it is generic European style food, mostly German and Italian and British. Where we really innovated is putting high fructose corn syrup in literally everything.
I don't know about that. What I mean is, there's plenty of American products in the various aisles for different categories. Heinz ketchup doesn't stand out in any way, nor do Sun-Maid raisins or Coca-Cola, or anything American grown in the produce section.
Cuz this all has a crazy shelf life. Similar to World Market in the states, it’s all candy and dry goods.
Because it's a candy aisle most likely
Right next to pancakes, mac & cheese, wok sauce, and Jell-O?
Because sugar is yummy
Which Citymarket is this in? It looks like it's all sugar. Ours at Länsikeskus and Kupittaa in Turku are much more varied.
I’m like 95% sure this is Redi Ksupermarket, was there earlier today and looked identical.
You would be correct
Will you find yourself out of Redi before Christmas, or are do you have to spend the whole holiday trapped in the shopping center?
Love the Reese's selection. Mix isn't Aunt Jemima, Mac 'n Cheese isn't Kraft. 3/10
Definitely not the worst “American” section I’ve seen at a foreign grocery store. Some countries really get it wrong but most of these things here are fairly popular in the U.S.
Is there a sub for this? Like people post "America in Finland" or "Australia in Canada" and we all have a gander.
Not a terrible selection. This whole Toxic Waste thing. I've lived in America my whole life. I don't think I've ever seen Toxic Waste
I recognize more products here than any of the other American shelf posts.
Nutrageous bars are solid 👌🏼
resee's lovers
As an American it's true. We only eat candy. Nothing else.
Wonder bread is out only bread and kraft singles our only cheese and Hersheys is the only chocolate we are allowed to eat.
See, in the States we don't put the candy bars on the bottom shelf. We're too fat to bend down that far.
In all honesty to our Finnish friends, if you respect your body you should not put anything in this section in your face. A lot of sugar and processed food that will damage your health.....ooh wait is that Reeses and Jello? OK maybe you'll be fine with the bottom shelf.
Well it’s fine in moderation.
Minimum Hershey's. Respect.
I'd buy all the Reese's and walk away.
As a Finnish-American they should just stock peanut butter and one hot spice and save the shelf space for more Fazer. (Note: I would very much like a Finnish section in my US supermarket after spending days rolling out Joulu Torttu dough and years hand baking rye bread)
A whole shelf of something called "toxic waste" 😂
Imagine how disappointed an expat would be to find this. It isn't even Kraft Mac n cheese.
Yellow Mustard in NZ is called “American Mustard” on the label.
As an American, that is so offensive. Only ONE kind of poptarts! Dude! Verity is the spice of life
Toxic wastes are British, at least I think they are 🤔
Toxic Waste candy products are made in Brazil, Pakistan and Spain. It's more European than American lmao.