Posted on 02/07/2022 8:19:44 AM PST by mylife
When I moved from the US to the Netherlands five years ago, the grocery store was an adjustment.
Some ingredients I used to buy, like chocolate chips, aren't available here. But it's possible to find some American ingredients and snacks in the foreign-food aisle of a Dutch grocery store.
Some ingredients I used to buy, like chocolate chips, aren't available here. But it's possible to find some American ingredients and snacks in the foreign-food aisle of a Dutch grocery store.
Some ingredients I used to buy, like chocolate chips, aren't available here. But it's possible to find some American ingredients and snacks in the foreign-food aisle of a Dutch grocery store.
Here are a few of the foods in my local grocery store's "American" section:
Candy bars might come as a bottled shake
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.com ...
No velveeta?
Can’t they just buy Dutch Chocolate?
It’s the same in Sweden. Very few “American” foods on the shelves. And what they do have are all generics. Very few name brands.
We always carry over “orange” cheddar cheese, pizza crusts and sauce, chili mix, peanut butter, and salad dressings. Enough to last us for a couple months.
Europeans really don’t like peanut butter.
I went into a cheese shop one time to get my type of cheddar cheese and the clerk acted like he was going to attack me across the counter, he hated our American cheddar so much!
maybe they want it in chip form for cookies.
I’m addicted to Calypso lemonade, but only the regular, yellowish stuff. Sometimes I see those wild-colored and flavored ones just like in the picture, and no regular. Often none at all. Very often.
no kippers?
I would like to drink a bottle of Twix. Yes I would.
"Well, I'm afraid we don't get much call for it around these parts."
"Not call for it? It's the single most popular cheese in the world!"
You gotta have 'em in Texas.
Europeans really don’t like peanut butter.
WTF is wrong with them?
I really miss the Old London Cheese Waffle crackers. You can’t buy them in the US anymore, and I’ve wondered if maybe they’re available anywhere in the world.
When I was a kid and my dad took me out with him, we’d stop buy a bar he knew and the bartender would give me a coke with a cherry in it, and a pack of those cheese waffle things. That was in the 1950s.
The last time I saw them for sale anywhere was about 8 years ago, in a grocery in central Pennsylvania:
https://www.amazon.com/Old-London-Waffle-Cheddar-4-5-Ounce/dp/B000H25UF6
Diabetes in can!
The only place you could get fried chicken American style was at Wienerwald, a chain of restaurants, but they fried the whole chicken instead of individual pieces as we do here. The occasional Argentine restaurant served American-style steaks--plain, perhaps with some seasoning--but at German eateries steaks were always drowned in sauces.
I came to know what Chuck Berry meant when he sang,
Looking hard for a drive-in,
Searching for a corner cafe
Where hamburgers sizzle
On an open grill night and day.
You can bet your boots I did
Till I got back in the USA.
God I miss those...
“Meanwhile, here’s the Dutch section of a MURRICAN grocery store.”
Haha, gave me a chuckle
“Somebody get me a cheeseburger!”
Reminds of the scene from Gotcha!, when Jonathan makes it back to West Berlin, and heads for a Burger King:
Jonathan : [after entering] How ‘bout a Whopper? No, make that a Double Whopper with American cheese. And large American french fries, and a great big American chocolate shake. Okay?
Jonathan : No sauerkraut. No schnitzel.
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