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30 People Reveal What Stores Stock In Their American Food Aisles: “What’s Wrong With Your Country?”
Being a shop owner is a lot of hard work. You’re competing against massive conglomerates and local stores for a very limited number of customers. Not only do you have to stand out from the crowd, but you also have to find some way to connect with consumers so you can offer them what they truly want, not just what you think they might want. Plus, you have to find a way to cater to hungry tourists and expats from abroad, too!
In an interesting thread, some of the AskReddit members living outside the United States revealed the food items that their local shops have stocked in their ‘American’ aisles. From peanut butter to Lucky Charms and beyond. Scroll down to see what their shopping and dining experience is like.
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#1
Candy, candy and more candy.
When what I want is Triscuits, which are obscenely expensive over here in the UK.
You don't know how lucky you are to be able to get Triscuits so easily.
I have a box and a half now ( boyfriend treated me) and allow myself one at a time. How sad is that?
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
Wait, they're not triangle shaped? Why?! Why must you betray me like this?
John Mosley 8 months ago (edited)
The name "Triscuit" is a combination of "electricity" and "biscuit," reflecting the fact that Triscuit crackers were, at one point, marketed as being baked using electricity. They've been around since the early 1900's.
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Ashlie Benson 8 months ago
Sounds like someone needs an American friend who can send care packages.
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#2
In the UK Ranch flavour Doritos were launched as "Cool American" flavour and later changed to "Cool Original" because we don't know what Ranch is.
Aaaa Bbbb 8 months ago
Wow, a country where ranch dressing is unheard of. Sounds like paradise! I'm an American, and words can't express how much I hate ranch dressing
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
That's OK, neither did we until it came out. It's a salad dressing.
Pernille 8 months ago
You must live in a place with horrible chips if Doritos is the best.
Load More Replies... Ashlie Benson 8 months ago
HOLD ON...did they just say those in the UK don't know what ranch is?!! Is this true?! You don't have ranch? Please tell me it's a joke.
K Barnes 8 months ago
Ranch is super American, you can't find it in most of the world.
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G A 8 months ago
American flavour not that Americans are cool. Anyway the name didn't stick, and they taste so bland.
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Snyder's honey mustard pretzels are the s**t and that's usually the only place I'll find them.
The_First_Viking:
If you ever want to really understand America, check the nutritional information on those. They're like a billion calories per serving, and a serving consists of "I looked really close at the package." You can gain fifty pounds just by thinking about eating some.
BrunoVI 8 months ago
WTF is wrong with the First_Viking? 140 calories per bag, 2g protein, 3g sugar (they are HONEY mustard; you can easily find plain).
K Barnes 8 months ago
Where I come from a bag is 5 servings at 250 calories each. You must have small single serving bags where you are. Here one serving is 250 calories, 13g of fat, 3g sugar. Not any worse than other unhealthy snack foods.
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One of the best things about traveling abroad—at least for us—is trying unseen and untasted dishes from different cultures and cuisines. At the same time, there will be moments when you get homesick. And a little taste of home with a dash of nostalgia can help with this. So, it can genuinely bring a smile to your face when you see familiar ingredients, products, and meals at a shop.
According to a poll conducted by YouGov, topping the list of the most popular American dishes in the first quarter of 2025 were [drumroll, please] French fries. They had a fame rating of 99% and scored a whopping 85% in terms of popularity.
In second place were mashed potatoes (98% fame, 84% popularity), followed very closely behind by the mighty hamburger (also 98% fame, but 83% popularity).
#4
When I lived in Germany there was a little American food section in my store that had "American cookies" (chocolate chip), "American ice cream" (cookies and cream), and the most expensive Oreos ever. All of the packages had US flags on them.
Also around July 4th they had packages labeled "American drinking game" and it was several Solo cups and 2 ping pong balls.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
I think it's one of those games where you lose worst when you win and win best when you lose 😂
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Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Most parties teens-20 somethings have in Australia these days has beer pong. I can't believe how much they sell the sets for, considering it's just plastic cups and ping pong balls. I played it once, with an alcoholic punch my sister made instead of beer and got more drunk than I had expected.
#5
A corn dog in Japan is called an “American dog.”.
Lost Panda 8 months ago
Those pictured are from Korea. The Japanese looks like a regular American corndog but... smaller...
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K Barnes 8 months ago
When I had a corndogs in South Korea they rolled it in sugar first. When I asked why they would do such a disgusting thing they said that's how they eat it in America. We (inc Americans) told them that no, it is not, and they said it is because they think they saw it in an American movie. I don't know if that goes beyond the community I lived in but I saw sugar rolled corn dogs twice while I was there and gagged hard both times. They loved it.
Mary Kelly 8 months ago
those are not american corn dogs...those are korean corn dogs...several korean fast food chains sell them in the u.s....e.g., https://kongdog.us/
Grundel County 8 months ago
I'm American, have never seen a corn dog like those in my life, and am VERY interested in trying those corn dogs from photo
#6
Pickled hotdogs, what's wrong with your country?
Sara 8 months ago
Been an American, in America, for almost five decades and I have NEVER heard of, nor seen, pickled hotdogs.
Maples Dad 8 months ago
Brand in the photo is Lidl own brand and they are not 'pickled' it's just water.
Tonyah Mcanelly 8 months ago
American here I have never seen these but I dont have a desire to look for them either
Cuppa tea? 8 months ago
When shopping for frankfurters I check how much % of meat each contains. Those "American" ones from Lidl have the most meat. Note -.only thing American is the name, they are Madi in Germany actually.
YouGov found that the other most popular American dishes this year included fried chicken, the legendary grilled cheese sandwich, the cheeseburger, steak with baked potatoes, hash browns (yum!), and steak with fries.
In tenth place was corn on the cob, followed by apple pie, barbeque ribs, the simple yet yummy turkey sandwich, tater tots, chicken wings, roast beef, chicken nuggets, and the Philly cheesesteak. Chicken pot pie was nineteenth in terms of popularity, while hot dogs claimed the twentieth spot in the poll.
#7
We don't have a whole aisle, but there is a three-foot section of weird-looking sweets and biscuits that I've seen on US TV. It's next to the Polish section, which is about eight feet of horrible pickled things.
mp7dvnrw85 8 months ago
I love pickles so I love the Polish section in the supermarket. Jar after jar of pickled vegetables and some wafer biscuits.
Zelda McLink 8 months ago
Which also sell vapes, chop chop and Double Happiness under the counter...
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#8
In American aisle in Ireland you’ll find lucky charms.
anon:
Omg yes! Every time we enter that aisle (during the time when they are in stock, which is very rare), my dad starts going off about how they’re making fun of us and how I should never buy them. I do anyways and I’m still waiting for when he’ll notice and lose his mind. Damn are they ever good.
K 8 months ago
Become pen pal with American & have multiples shipped to you. Warning- may cause weight gain & diabetes like most of Americans
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
Most Americans don’t have diabetes. Only about 13 percent of the American population has diabetes. Stop spreading stereotypes .
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Cheese in spraycans for whatever f*****g reason.
anon:
Uh actually, yeah that's a thing. It's called easy cheese. Don't question it, get some chicken n a biscuit crackers and spray an x on em. Yes cheese in a can sounds like an an abomination, because it is. But it can be good depending on what you put it on.
Robin Roper 8 months ago
As God is my witness, I have never and will never eat spray cheese - US Citizen
azubi 8 months ago
It only just struck me that the lord must be a very, very busy man, having to testify on things like that. I
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Reset Game 8 months ago
Okay. Yeah that's very American. I'm not sure if it classifies as actual cheese though. It's great to distract dogs though
Sarah 8 months ago
Can they legally spell it as cheese if it is not actually cheese? That’s why you often see this spelling.. Cheez . Whatch out for what looks like a restaurant trying to be quirky with spellings.. it means the ingredient is not actually what is implied.
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Janelle Collard 8 months ago
Chicken In A Biscuit crackers + Easy Cheese? Yes Please! An acquired taste, to be sure.
Sarah 8 months ago
I want a cheez off between Robin and Nannychaci.. ‘come dine with me’ style
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
And it is absolutely necessary on road trips, where else are you gonna get cheese that doesn't spoil at room temp and you can shoot in your mouth when driving like whipped cream?
What’s your shopping experience like dear Pandas? What American food items can you find in your local shops? What products and dishes from the United States do you wish stores would stock more often?
What are, for you personally, the most quintessentially American foods that you simply love? Grab a snack and let us know in the comments below.
#10
Cans of mashed pumpkin. I don't know why they import that but it must be import to someone. Also cherry cola and pop tarts. I never buy any of them but I do get the delicious Dutch butter cookies or cinnamon biscuits while I'm there!
dont_slap_my_mama:
It's how we make pumpkin pie :)
Tabitha 8 months ago (edited)
Since extracting pumpkin pulp from a pumpkin is damned difficult and messy AF (yep, tried it once—ONCE), when you want to make any recipe that calls for pumpkin—-pie, muffins, soup, bread, roll, etc—-you will fall to your knees and thank Libby’s for doing all the hard work for you.
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Except that it's not pumpkin in the can, it's butternut squash. And extracting squash is so easy if you just chop it and bake it for a bit, then you can just pull away the skin with your fingers.
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Boo 8 months ago
Prefer cherry Pepsi Max, Pepsi Max cream soda and the limited edition Dr Pepper cherry crush (hoping that one sticks around).
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Canned pumpkin is also good for doggos as long as it’s not the “spiced” pumpkin pie kind!
2x4b523p 8 months ago
I buy the cans in bulk on Amazon UK for the doggos. Mix with oats, egg and a bit of peanut butter, shape into bite size balls and bake. Dogs love it as a treat. Much faster than dealing with fresh pumpkin.
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Joyce Melton 8 months ago
If that really is 100% pumpkin, it would be weird. In the US, canned pumpkin is really butternut squash if you read the label.
Tostones 8 months ago
Libby has growers produce their own proprietary pumpkin variety. It is a pumpkin.
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Mary Kelly 8 months ago
pumpkin is used for all manner of autumn desserts in the u.s., and soup in australia....AND, you can feed it to almost any kind of sick pet...seriously...
Diane Tucker 8 months ago
Also FYI a spoonful of this pumpkin in your dog's food makes their poop firmer. Fibre!
Jumping Jellyfishes 8 months ago
Everybody I know buys cans of Libby's 100% Pumpkin to add to dogfood as a supplement. And once a year in November, they use one of those cans to make pumpkin bread, pie, etc.
Heras buddy 8 months ago
It's not really pumpkin. It's actually butternut squash. Pumpkin doesn't can well.
#11
Don’t know too much about american products where i work, but there’s Dr Pepper, Reeses, Pop Tarts, Cheetos, Hersheys & probably some other stuff...
Btw, im from New Zealand but we call them “international” aisles where there is a mix of products from other countries.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I wonder what the NZ Dr Pepper tastes like - the bottle I had in the UK tasted exactly like diet American Dr Pepper
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I heard it mentioned that Dr. Pepper was carbonated prune juice. I don't know ifvthat is true. I tried Dr. Pepper once. It was horrible in my opinion.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
Same in Australia. Actually I think there is more Asian and UK products than US these days.
Sue Mullen Andersen 8 months ago
Called international aisles in the USA at many stores as well. Depends on where you live. I live on the West Coast (In Washington State) and we also have full aisles with Mexican foods, Asian foods, and Polynesian foods. We had Middle Eastern food aisles when I lived in Detroit, Michigan.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Diet drinks are disgusting. They taste like something crawled in, died and stayed there with the nasty aftertaste!
#12
The one thing I consistently find whenever a store has an American aisle is Mac 'n' Cheese boxes. Like those with quick-cook macaronis and the yellow powder you mix in. It can be good as a treat some times since we don't really have something similar here (Sweden), but it's ironically really expensive.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
We need to send over some Cracker Barrel shells and cheese. It has 50% more heart attack in it.
person (i think) 8 months ago
I want to try that! Is it in stores or only at Cracker Barrel’s?
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Kevin Hickey 8 months ago
If I had a million dollars, we wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner....
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I used to eat it for my school lunch most days in year 12 (where we had access to microwaves in the common room) in Australia. Looks terrible but tastes good.
Beak Hookage 8 months ago
I nearly had some American packaged Mac 'n' Cheese once but my friends stopped me in time.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
Wow, glad your friends saved you, surely you would have died if you’d eaten it. -Signed, an American who is poor and eats boxed mac & cheese regularly (because it’s cheap) and who dies every time she does
Load More Replies... Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago (edited)
Kraft Mac n Cheese smothered in Franks Red Hot sauce is amazing. I'm trying to lose weight so it's also forbidden these days. Only during my birthday week am I allowed junk food.
#13
Peanut butter, exotic candies, hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Brian Droste 8 months ago (edited)
I tried natural peanut butter. I found out that it didn't tastes any better or the texture was any different than other brands. It is more expensive so I won't buy any natural peanut butter again.
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Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
You gotta have marshmallows in hot chocolate. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich is good sometimes. Not sure about the exotic candy.
tracy black 8 months ago
i simply couldnt live without peanut butter i love it spread on hard boiled eggs
nicholas nolan 8 months ago (edited)
"Yes, officer, this post right here." (I'm kidding, like what you like.)
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Our Danish exchange student laughed when I opened a pkg of pasta w/ broccoli. The broccoli was dehydrated flakes. "That''s ok, I usually do THIS anyway" and took frozen broccoli and added.
#14
I just took a photo of it (from New Zealand).
Reset Game 8 months ago (edited)
That's the worst of the American food 😞. Cherry Coke is okay but where's the Dr pepper? Where's the Pop-Tarts? Zingers?
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
Pop-Tartd are good? This must be one of those alternative dimensions.
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Spencers slave no more 8 months ago
The daft bit of this photo is that it's USA/South Africa and most of that is not even "American". The USA section in my local Woolworths is about 18 inches wide. There is a "grocery" store here that sells lots of out of date American stuff.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
No M&Ms, Butterfingers, Doritos, BBQ potato chips..you call this American?
#15
Hershey's, Reese's Pieces and Pop Tarts.
Spencers slave no more 8 months ago
As the world's highest heavy metal content "chocolate" Hershey needs to not be considered chocolate or a foodstuff.
tracy black 8 months ago
ive never seen a hershey bar that color and pop tarts are freaking amazing
#16
Marshmallow fluff in a plastic jar. Do you people eat that in America?
Alex Martin 8 months ago (edited)
Fluffernutters, its a New England (northeast US) thing. Marshmallow fluff with peanut butter on bread. Whatever you do, do not insult fluffernutters in the presence of anyone from that area of the country. They'll be offended and then make you eat one so they can prove you wrong.
#17
A lot of weirdly expensive candies.
Diane Tucker 8 months ago
Hah! years ago when my daughter went to school in the UK for a year we sent her over Goldfish crackers. Now there they are!
#18
The one thing that I do want is not available anywhere in my country. For some weird reason Dr. Peppers stopped selling in Slovenia some 20 years ago, now when I want some I have to drive to Croatia (where there is a single store that I know of that has a steady suppply). I'd love to know why my country is "embargoed" by Dr. Peppers.
R Dennis 8 months ago
I disagree. Dr. Pepper can be substituted for something else, but something else is not a substitute for a Dr. Pepper. (I have an unopened limited edition bourbon barrel aged Dr. Pepper I am tempted to open.)
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#19
Lucky charms, gatorade, arizona drinks, mallow fluff and a bunch of sweets like nerds, mike nd ikes and suchlike
oh yeah, and butterfingers. dang I love those things
i’m from Scotland and this is in my local tesco extra :).
Kyle Simonson 8 months ago
Mike 'n Ikes are more popular internationally than they are in the states..
Mary Kelly 8 months ago
nerds are not that popular in the u.s., but butterfingers are tooth-ruining heaven
#20
Over at LIDL, a German store that crossed over to Italy, they make an American Week every now and then, where hot dogs, hamburger buns, wings, American style sweets and snacks can be bought for dirt cheap.
Lauren Wilder 8 months ago (edited)
We have Lidl here. It's a competitor to Aldi and dollar general. Aldi does a German week too!
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 8 months ago
Grace Brothers has a very good German week.
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Pheebs 8 months ago
Lol. I see Marshmallow Fluff. Love that as a kid, with peanut butter, and either banana or salty chips, on bread. Fun fact, Fluff wasn’t available in all parts of the US 20 years ago. We could get it New York, but had to ship some down to my grandmother in Florida. It eventually mad its way down.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
And I remember everybody having a friend in Colorado in the sixties because then they could ship Cole's to you ( American beer, really good).
Load More Replies... G A 8 months ago
They do that in UK too. Best one are the massive bags of peanut flavoured wotsits
2x4b523p 8 months ago
I love those half kilo bags of peanut flips. The Lidl version is so dry it will cut your mouth but I can finish the bag in two days, they are so addictive.
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#21
Donuts, and those cheesies that are in ball form in that giant plastic container with the red lid.
Amie80:
Cheeseballs!
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago (edited)
"teeny tiny, terribly fagile, easily make you sick..."
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Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Love them but don't buy very often and share a few with the dogs. They get very few treats because they aren't good for them and they don't need them.
Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
Wonderful for putting on the floor for your cats to lick and chase.
#22
Swiss miss, root beer, off brand reese's, and all sorts of taco paraphanilia.
also: imported vanilla coke. wich i don't understand, as we have vanilla coke in germany.
here's the deal. if you come to germany, you will notice that there is a lot of american stuff, that we take for granted. we adopted SO many american brands and products. you will NOT find a supermarket that does not have american style sandwich bread, or burger buns. bagles come and go. i don't know why. i guess because they are just breadbuns with a hole in it, and the average german doesn't like it when the leberwurst starts dripping out. point being, in germany it has less to do with products and much more with brands, when it comes to the "american aisle". we even have beef jerky now. what the hell are we supposed to do with beef jerky?
Jenn Smith 8 months ago
Beef Jerky is the best travel snack! No need to refrigerate, and the whole pack fits in a pocket. Yum!
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I'm a little surprised that the jerky seems to be not a thing outside the US (based on this post). It's literally just dried meat, usually salted, and has been around for longer than most countries.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
We don't have bagels that are just "bread rolls with a hole punched in them".
Mary Kelly 8 months ago
hmmm, if you are calling it bread with holes, your bagels are likely the c**p "bagels" you get in teh middle of nowhere...real bagels are boiled and then baked, giving them a complex texture that is heavenly...come to new york or any large city in the u.s. or montreal in canada...then, you my friend, will know what a bagel is and love it!...especially iwth lox, creme cheese, red onion, and capers...
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Swiss Miss is the best hot chocolate other than the recipe I have for homemade hot chocolate mix. Any kind of jerky chew on it forever if you can stand all of the salt in it. My son loves it but way 2 salty for me and I love potato chips and saltine crackers. Forget any flavors in Coke, just go with the plain stuff and NOT diet. Root beer yum! Barg's, A&W oh yeah! Forget any of the taco c**p, the only Mexican food I like is steak or chicken fajitas without sour cream or any sauce or cooked tomatoes (YUCK), I want them raw.
Alex Martin 8 months ago
I heard bagels became less popular in Germany in the late 1930s. By 1943, you couldn't find a single bagel shop.
#23
Extremely overpriced cheetos.
€3 for a small single serve bag not even a share size. I tray myself sometimes cos I ducking love them, wish they were more common here
Jumping Jellyfishes 8 months ago (edited)
Hello, my name is JJ, and it's been nearly 7 years since I ate my last Cheeto. And almost 20 years since I drank my last Diet Coke (pretty sure it was lime flavored)
Spencers slave no more 8 months ago
Cheetos were a "thing" here in NZ for a while. Not so much now.
#24
Twinkies, Gatorade, Lucky Charms (ridiculously expensive for some reason) american varieties of Pop Tarts, A1 sauce, Hershey chocolate, Nerds and a few other American sweets. The only thing I ever buy is the pop tarts.
Midoribird Aoi 8 months ago
I live in Iowa, too. I have seen them briefly. They went FAST.
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The nost overrated thing. They taste like you mulched up cardboard with sugar and dried it out.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 8 months ago
I've only even had one flavor of Pop Tarts. (brown sugar) I had no idea there were so many!
persephone134 8 months ago (edited)
When I spent an exchange year in the US, I developed a Pop Tarts habit. They are unavailable in Germany, despite being a Kellogs product (which is a staple in German cereal shelves). (Sometimes you find them as super-expensive import goods.) In other countries, France or GB for example, they are available, but only very few flavours. I looked it up on Wikipedia - it's strange how they are sold in some countries, but not others.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
A snickerdoodle is a cinnamon sugar cookie. Really yummy, but the Pop-tart version isn't nearly as good, imo.
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See, there's this store chain here simply called Americanas, and it has... everything. It's just a really big-ish store where they sell everything from candy to appliances to clothes and cellphones and other things.
Most stores here in Brazil are specialized, if you want clothes you find a clothes store for example. Not a rule or every one, of course, but as far as my experience goes. After visiting the US a couple times it finally clicked in my head that Americanas supposed to be emulating the Walmart way of doing things.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I was confused by that in Vienna, I'm American and it was weird seeing an aisle full of things labeled "American" because of the brand
Forrest McCanless 8 months ago
We had a friend visiting from Egypt - he got it. He said, "What kind of drugstore is this? They do not even have bicycles."
Sarah 8 months ago
What’s the Walmart way of doing things? For non- Americans we don’t know what Walmart’s is- a supermarket?
Ron Man 8 months ago
It's a department store that sells everything from groceries to car parts. They go into small towns, open up, and drive every other store in town out of business. My city does not allow them to do business here.
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#26
Our local butcher in London has as American section, as there are quite a few expats in the neighborhood. Root beer (impossible to find anywhere else), goldfish crackers, Jif peanut butter (which you can now find at some big supermarkets - so much better than that Sun-Pat c**p), and some specific cold cereals that don't seem to be sold here normally (eg plain Cheerios - the Cheerios here are all sweetened multi-grain).
Kathrin Pukowsky 8 months ago
I was really hyped to try root beer, and then my brother brought me some from a visit to an american air base. 25-ish years later, I'm still telling myself that it was just awful because he didn't pay attention and bought the diet version.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
Ewwwwww never by any diet drinks they are gross!
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I grew up on Jif peanut butter, so to me, it’s the best brand and the food of the gods XD
#27
AMERICAN HAMBURGERS!!!!!Yeeeaahhh Ameericcaaa!!!
No but seriously the packaging is rideculously American. Red and white stripes everywhere mixed with blue and some stars...
#28
It happens to be American weeks here in lidl.
Bagels, maple syrup, pancake mix, brownie mix, fried chicken, and popcorn
Sometimes something stupid like chocolate with coke flavored candy pieces.
Karen Krause 8 months ago
I questioned that also. Found this on the 'net: "McEnnedy" refers to a Lidl house brand of American-style food products, designed to appeal to a German audience by sounding American, with products like popcorn, peanut butter, and pulled pork.
Load More Replies... Kyle Simonson 8 months ago
Deli Pocket Hot Dog sounds like some evil mash-up of over processed foods.
#29
No American aisle but we do have a chain of American importation stores: https://www.tasteofamerica.es/
We have overpriced cereal (10€ for a box of Froot Loops), beef jerky, Reese's Cups (my personal favorite), doctor pepper, vanilla coke, and for some reason Yankee Candles, among other things.
I like to buy there occasionally.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
Reese's Cups are way to sweet to me. I will still eat one or a miniature ones occasionally.
Load More Replies... Sarah Belt 8 months ago
I'll ship stuff to you in the UK if you send me stuff from Waitrose & Sainsbury's! :)
#30
* Pop tarts
* Ready made icing
* Root beer
* Bunch of weird sodas with both corn syrup and artificial sweeteners. What's up with that BTW? Why use both carbs and no carb sweetening?
* Pancake mix
* Reeses pieces
* Hershey chocolate bars (we only have the syrups normally).
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
You need to go to the Mexican aisle for the sodas. They use cane sugar.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
They have there own pop which I don't care for.
Load More Replies... Mary Kelly 8 months ago
hhhmmm, in the us it's soda with either HFCS cane sugar OR artificial sweeteners, never both
K 8 months ago
Bc america is unhealthy and the healthy options are super over priced where the unhealthy options are cheap. It's quite terrible.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Part of the problem is that the US government subsidizes food products that are often unhealthy, such as corn, which is made into additives like corn syrup. It's a vicious cycle.
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I looked at the American section of our largest Tesco (UK supermarket) yesterday coincidentally. This is what I remember;
- Lucky Charms
- Captain Crunch
- Hershey chocolate bar
- Warheads
- Jolly Rancher chews
- Nerds
- Fluff
- Baby Ray sweet bbq sauce
- Some brand of beef jerky I don't remember
- Pop tarts
- Peanut butter and jelly combined in one jar (really?)
- Snapple
There are more but it's largely sugary snacks but they're definitely over priced. Some of the choices are odd because beef jerky has really taken off here and there are lots of more local brands. We already do store own and bigger branded peanut butters, kellogs pop tarts are already sold (so you'll see them in a different place in the same shop).
I think I sometimes see root beer too. Absolutely vile stuff, you can definitely keep that.
Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
Captain Crunch is made where I live. The days they make crunch berries flavor the whole city smells good.
JoMeBee 8 months ago
That is hilarious! I loved chocolate pudding day at a food production plant wed pass by occasionally...
Load More Replies... Jenn Smith 8 months ago
Peanut butter and jelly in one jar? Really? I'm giggly about this.. It's not gourmet or even tasty..but if traveling with little ones can be very useful! Goober Grape is the brand we have! Lol!
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
I remember a Star Trek TNG episode where Worf (Klingon crew member) was tasting several human-made beverages. When he got to root beer, he made a face and said "this is vile!" Prune juice, on the other hand: "Now THIS is a drink for a warrior!"
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
For some reason in the German version that was translated to currant juice. I always wondered about Klingons apparently loving sour drinks. Prune juice on the other hand would have given me immediate associations as to Worf's stuck-up attitude - and how that might change soon. 😅😂
Load More Replies... John Mosley 8 months ago (edited)
I think Root Beer is kind of like our Irn Bru. I had to order Irn Bru off Amazon to finally try it and I thought it tasted like medicine. I've seen a few YT vids of Europeans trying Root Beer and they say IT tastes like medicine.
#32
Dr Pepper, AW Root Beer, canned pumpkin, a Smore's kit and Reese's PB cups. Coles Supermarket, Australia (select stores only).
#33
Australia: Hersheys syrup, marshmallow fluff (what even is this?) Dr Pepper, Milka chocolate bar and Arizona Ice Green Tea.
Jenn Smith 8 months ago
Again, marshmallow fluff really needs bananas, even if peanutbutter is absent!
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
Marshmallow fluff goes into desserts. It is yummy. Icecream shops and frozen yogurt places have it as a topping option. Try it!
#34
No such thing as American aisles in Italy (for what I know). We have some products here and there, like an American frozen pizza with like everything on it, cheddar cheese slices, or peanut butter (but not so common to find).
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
The idea of buying an American frozen pizza in Italy sounds so, so sad.
#35
Sweets mostly, marshmallow fluff and weirdly salsa, tortillas, taco shells. On shelves marked as American there's mostly mexican food 😅.
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
Most of what you're calling Mexican probably isn't actually Mexican. It's more likely Tex-Mex, which is basically American versions of Mexican food. And as an American who's had actual Mexican (my aunt is an immigrant), the Tex-Mex is amazing in its own flavors, if you get it at the right places.
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
Very true, a ton of dishes usually called "Mexican" are Tex-Mex, and not seen in Mexico (outside of tourist areas) or authentic Mexican restaurants, including "shell" (hard) tacos, and my all time favorite meal - fajitas! I'd eat them everyday if I could. Funnily enough, the best fajitas in my area come from my local mom&pop Salvadoran restaurant. Authentic Mexican is also amazing - but tex-mex is my favorite food, uh, genre.
Load More Replies... #36
My favorite thing in the US aisle- Saltine crackers. Why. Chile makes crackers with salt granules on top.
Have a bought them? Hell yeah. They are so thin!
#37
Here in the Netherlands, I've seen more and more American products appear in the normal supermarkets, but never in an "American" aisle. We just don't have the space for a dedicated aisle like that.
Used to be (quite some years ago) that oreos weren't sold in the Netherlands, only in special import stores. Now they're pretty much everywhere.
Jelly beans also have started making it here. Cliff bars are also starting to appear the past couple of years.
Also interesting note, Doritos Cool Ranch are called Cool American here.
#38
Cereal (honey flakes), mac and cheese, cheedar, and oreo.
Indonesia.
#39
The classic stuff.
Doritos,Lays,Cheetos,Skittles,guns,bald eagles, etc.
BUT THE SURPRISING THING IS 80% OF THE LAYS' BAG IS FILLED WITH CHIPS WHEN I BOUGHT ONE AND THATS JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
If you have Lay's chips bags filled with chips, you should be happy. Here in the US if the bags are half filled with chips, we are doing good. There is a lot of extra air, extra room in the bags.
#40
Twinkies, reeces pieces, lucky charms, grape soda, Mike n IKes, hersheys, reeces puffs, American smarties, nerds, pop tarts. I think that's pretty much it. Based on what I've seen in Morrisons.
#41
Rootbeer, hot chocolate mix, gross chess sause, bbq sauce, chocolate poptarts, off brand mac n cheese, marshmallow stuff (it’s a very small shelf)
there’s also peanut butter with an American flag on the packaging, „American“ cookies and brownies with an American flag on the packaging and few other sweets and stuff, but those things aren’t on the American shelf, they‘re in the candy or condiments aisle.
#42
There once was a time when a few stores had an American section at the end of an aisle, where there were Reese's Peanut butter cups, Hershey's Cookies & Cream bars, Nerds and I think at one point they also had Twizzlers there, too.
Since then, unless they stopped selling those in particular, everything has just been added among all the other stuff, like hot dog buns, peanut butter, various soft drink brands, because there are so many products of our own that are very much alike them, so there's no point in separating them.
The most recent "American" thing I can think of is stores and shops branding red plastic cups as "American beer pong" cups.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
The American beer pong cups are a brand of plastic cups called Solo here in the US. I don't know if the beer pong cups have the Solo brand on them. Usually they are red or blue. I believe the red ones are more popular though.
#43
Arizona tea (for about 7 dollars per can), milka chocolate bars, wonka products. All of it is ridiculously expensive.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I think OP meant milk chocolate. Probably was a just a typo. I do that quite often. Even if I catch a typo and think I have everything spelled right, still missed typos gets through.
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Mary Kelly 8 months ago
milks is not american...wonka and nerd are rare and less rare in the u.s.
#44
Australian (Victoria), my local supermarkets don't have an "American aisle". We have sections with British, Dutch and Asian foods, but no American.
A lot of American foods are just mixed in with everything else. Ranch dressing in with the other salad dressings, Hersheys mixed in with other confectionary or sauces, oreos in with other biscuits, pop tarts in with cereals etc
Aldi do often have American foods in their weekly specials: root beer (gross), baby rays sauces, smores kits.
#45
Cherry and vanilla cola, root beer, dr.pepper. Barbeque sauces, franks, some different hot sauces, blue cheese dip, salad cream (yuck) Taco kits, spice mixes, and sauces. Pop tarts, popcorn flavourings, Ben&Jerrys.
Huddo's sister 8 months ago
I am so astounded by the craze for Ben&Jerrys and other ice creams that come in time packages in Australia now. They have only been common in supermarkets for 5-8 years and they cost so much (per unit price) compared to the 2-5 litre ice cream tubs we have normally had here.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
Even here in the US Ben and Jerry's ice cream is expensive also. A pint size of Ben and Jerry's ice cream costs about $6 USD last time I checked.
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#46
As an American living in Germany, my regular store sells "American Style Chocolate Chips Cookies."
#47
I travel to Europe on occasion for work, they don't really have grocery stores like we have in the US, but the convenience stores that have an American Section (stand?), usually it's Oreo products and stuff I've never seen in the USA with the USA flag displayed heavily on the packaging.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Which is weird, since the flag c**p is mostly on stuff around 4th of July here. Thank f**k.
#48
There isn't very much in my local supermarkets. Just a few pop tarts, cereals and other sweets. All of it has labels covering up the ingredients and certain advertisements on the packaging. I think it maybe because the labelling rules are stricter here but I'm not 100% sure.
#49
Peanut butter, weird combination of sweets like Chocolate AND marshmallows AND sugared nuts, ketchup, burger buns, roasted onions, diabetes inducing ice cream, marshmallow spread.
Annik Perrot 8 months ago
Chocolate-covered marshmallow has existed here in France for as long as I remember, and I'm 70. "Oursons en guimauve".
#50
It's mostly sweets and cereal here. And the weird flavours of pop tart that nobody buys. There used to be oreos too but they kind of migrated in with the normal biscuits over time.
#51
Lucky Charms.
Reese's mixed pieces.
Reese's mini peanut butter cups.
Jolly Rancher (chews?)
Jelly Belly, Bean Boozled.
Small tubs of American selection sweets (candies)
Huge marshmallows suitable for roasting
Tesco.
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
Jelly beans and jelly bellies are yummy. The bam boozle ones are disgusting. Supp to be a fun game for kids to play see who gets the nasty flavors.
#52
It varies at first Oreos were in the American/non EU section but then I guess people liked them enough for them to move to the mainstream cookies.
What is there currently, jerky, bacon bits, hershies, pickle relish just a lot of snacks mostly.
Btw hershies are awful I hope you guys have other chocolate than that.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
Us Americans are used to Hershey's chocolate. But I w9uld like to try other chocolate. I also read that american cheese isn't real cheese either from European citizens. So I would like to try some cheese from a European country.
K 8 months ago (edited)
We do. Hershey chocolates were specifically made to have a puke like taste. My favorite chocolate is Godiva. Seriously mouth watering
Pernille 8 months ago
Try to get hold of Neuhaus or Leonidas chocolate from Belgium, they are soon good.
Load More Replies... PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
We agree hersheys is disgusting. Mainly ppl use to make Smores. Over a fire outside camping melt fluffymarshmellows onto graham crackers with chocolate. It's good.
Boo 8 months ago
When my sister came to visit (I emigrated to the UK), she brought a few bars of Hershey's with her. I forgot what they tasted like (yeah...like puke) and my hubs had a square...he spit it out and asked WTF? I was like yeah...sorry bout that....I forgot that they taste nasty!
Load More Replies... #53
Some bigger markets have few items. Cherry soda cans. Rootbeer, cream soda. Candies and pop tarts. Mac&cheese. Hot sauces and grill sauces.
#54
In Thailand it is mixed in with everything as here isn't a specific "American" aisle. Hershey, Jif and Skippy peanut butter (expensive), Cereals (Like Cherrios, Special K, Honey Bunches etc.) all are nearly $10 a box, BBQ Sauce, Tabasco, Sargento Cheese (super expensive), PBR just recently made its way here.
There is also a grocery chain specifically carrying imported food and goods. If you can't find it there then it likely does not exist in any shop in Thailand. For example, I have never seen Dr. Pepper anywhere.
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
Honey bunches of oates cereal with sliced banana and almond milk is lovely.
#55
Dr pepper ,Arizona teas ,a few cokes ,mallow puff, smore kits pumpkin pie in a can blueberry pie filling pie crusts. Fish batter and some chicken products in Australia.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
Smor kits pumpkin pie in a can blueberry filling pie crusts. I wonder what that would be like and taste. People use punctuation.
#56
My closest imported food store had assorted sharp cheeses, cheetos, American brand potato chips, peanut butter, Hormel chili, herbal teas and a special assortment of stuff specifically from Hawaii (coffees, candied macadamia nuts, etc).
PrettyJoyBird 8 months ago
Macadamia nuts and chocolate covered macadamia nuts are amazing! My moms family is from the Island of Maui, Hawaii. You used to not be able buy on mainland America but now can certain stores for holidays. For example at Costco during Christmas can buy these boxed macadamia nut chocolates for gifts. Melt the chocolate a bit in microwave Oh My Goodness so good.
#57
Don't really have an "American" aisle but we have Lidl and they rotate between diferent countries, when the US comes around they have "american" popcorn, chicken wings, burgers, potato chips and BBQ sauce.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
In Germany popcorn is generally sweet and mostly used to be sold either prepared fresh at the cinema or in microwave bags. "American" popcorn is either salted or (lately) pimped with all kinds of stuff like pretzel bits, chocolate, cheese, chili, M&Ms.
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#58
In my part of Australia, there are a handful of American softdrinks and some of your s****y candy/chocolate taking up a small part of the international foods section.
Elsewhere there are a few "American style" items (specific peanut butter, hot dog buns, American BBQ flavours) scattered throughout the store, alongside regular Australian versions. My American wife usually finds them to be inauthentic.
#59
Marshmallows, nerds, weird bottled drink, general American sweets, powered s**t that will definitely k**l you, an incredible amount of different flavoured Fanta.
#60
BBQ Sauces....lots and lots of BBQ Sauces.
#61
First of all, the entire color scheme of the aisle is always completely red with small smidges of rainbow colors. It's also usually right next to the "Mexican food" aisle which has pretty much the same color scheme. But what the "American" aisles usually contain are pop tarts, canned soups, cake & brownie mixes, peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, some sort of chips, different flavoured sodas, and stereotypically American candies such as nerds, reese's pieces, tootsie pops, junior mints etc.
I've never seen anyone buy anything from that aisle though and no one is ever around it. But I guess that's kind of understandible since the aisle looks pretty repulsive not gonna lie. The food there looks barely even edible and kinda looks like kid's play food for their play kitchen. I obviously don't know if they actually represent American grocery stores accurately, but that's how they chose to present those aisles.
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago
Slightly OT, but I'd like to know what cakes called "birthday" and "red velvet" are supposed to taste like - and where/if their taste differs from any other sponge cake.
michael Chock 8 months ago
When you add vinegar to unalkalized cocoa it turns red while the vinegar makes the cake texture really smooth, so they named red chocolate cake "Red Velvet". Unfortunately, unless you are making it yourself, what you buy is mostly Red food dye.
Load More Replies... #62
Peanut butter, maple syrup,beef jerky, chocolate cookies inferior to those that we normally have, really grossly sweet hamburger buns.
#63
Hersheys, Lucky Charms, Reese's, Pop Tarts, Payday bars, A&W, bags of giant marshmallows.
It's not so much an aisle at our local supermarket though, more a shelf.
#64
Junior Mints but they’re always in the smallest box :/.
Tucker Cahooter 8 months ago
They are very refreshing. Just don't get them into your abdominal cavity
Nicole Weymann 8 months ago (edited)
Had to google them, but they sound like the first thing on this list (currently #63) that I might try out of curiosity AND actually like.
#65
That foul orange stuff called cheese, it's mostly terrible, except for Jolly Ranchers, I f*****g love those.
What do you think ?
Pernille 8 months ago
My local supermarket here in France has a sign that says that the US shelves will be back when trump is gone. They have expanded the British shelves and now have both Yorkshire and PG tips.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
It seems like other countries' "American" offerings are mostly garbage food. We do have good food, I promise.
LilliVB 8 months ago
This I can believe. The USA are a massive country with a lot of global influences due to the constant immigration from all over the world since its origin. It's not likely that every ethnicity of the USA has c**p food.
Load More Replies... Bob Jones 8 months ago
We often have some "American style" products alongside regular products, eg peanut butter, tomato sauce, mayonaise cereal etc etc. "American style" is just code for "with lots of sugar added"
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Please tell me you forgot the comma after mayonnaise... :)
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Onan Hag All 8 months ago
I wonder how many stores out here in civilisation will now be removing this American shite from their shelves, (as the post by"Pernille".)
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I know that what y'all are finding in Europe and other places is mostly junk food with tons of sugar in it, but please don't judge all our food based on that. We actually have some really great foods over here!
Toika Gao 8 months ago
In Chile, at the Lider supermarket, which was bought by Walmart, they have imported chlorinated chicken and beef. Needless to say I do not intend to buy there unless it's a matter of life or death.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Yeah, it's super gross, and the way the animals are treated is abhorant. Sorry we're dumping that on you.
Load More Replies... Ron Man 8 months ago
Of all the different things on here, I'm surprised that Europe doesn't have Root Beer. I didn't realize that was an American thing.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I think it's because of their medicine tasting similar to root beer, and thus they don't like root beer
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
A lot of American foods are mixed in with others on the shelf in Australia. Actually, many of our traditional food brands have been bought out by American companies so aren't Australian anymore.
Rose the Cook 8 months ago
In China the "imported food" section comprises of sports drinks, chips and dozens of varieties of bubble gum. There is nothing that a cook might be looking for.
Pernille 8 months ago
My local supermarket here in France has a sign that says that the US shelves will be back when trump is gone. They have expanded the British shelves and now have both Yorkshire and PG tips.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
It seems like other countries' "American" offerings are mostly garbage food. We do have good food, I promise.
LilliVB 8 months ago
This I can believe. The USA are a massive country with a lot of global influences due to the constant immigration from all over the world since its origin. It's not likely that every ethnicity of the USA has c**p food.
Load More Replies... Bob Jones 8 months ago
We often have some "American style" products alongside regular products, eg peanut butter, tomato sauce, mayonaise cereal etc etc. "American style" is just code for "with lots of sugar added"
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Please tell me you forgot the comma after mayonnaise... :)
Load More Replies... Onan Hag All 8 months ago
I wonder how many stores out here in civilisation will now be removing this American shite from their shelves, (as the post by"Pernille".)
Child of the Stars 8 months ago
I know that what y'all are finding in Europe and other places is mostly junk food with tons of sugar in it, but please don't judge all our food based on that. We actually have some really great foods over here!
Toika Gao 8 months ago
In Chile, at the Lider supermarket, which was bought by Walmart, they have imported chlorinated chicken and beef. Needless to say I do not intend to buy there unless it's a matter of life or death.
Sarah Belt 8 months ago
Yeah, it's super gross, and the way the animals are treated is abhorant. Sorry we're dumping that on you.
Load More Replies... Ron Man 8 months ago
Of all the different things on here, I'm surprised that Europe doesn't have Root Beer. I didn't realize that was an American thing.
Dragons Exist 8 months ago
I think it's because of their medicine tasting similar to root beer, and thus they don't like root beer
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 8 months ago
A lot of American foods are mixed in with others on the shelf in Australia. Actually, many of our traditional food brands have been bought out by American companies so aren't Australian anymore.
Rose the Cook 8 months ago
In China the "imported food" section comprises of sports drinks, chips and dozens of varieties of bubble gum. There is nothing that a cook might be looking for.
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