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
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I remember that... :-)
Wow! If Germans are drinking IPAs, the country truly has changed.
Never brought home cheeses. The cheese vendor at Schiphol had two sections, one for the pasteurized versions that you could legally board with for a US flight, and one with the real stuff that you could take along for a flight within Europe. The difference in flavor between the two, favoring the latter, made taking what you were allowed to bring pointless.
where is the cheese in a can?
British Hersey’s is a brighter sweeter chocolate.
Live 43 months in The Neder-lands and another 15 or so in Burssels. I loved and my family loved it - during my boy’s 14 years overseas with me, this and Israel were our favorite tours. HK, Japan, Korea, Guyan and Rio de Janeiro were the places they lived. Today both boys are grateful for the international experience and they are literally social rock stars.
The Dutch prefer poffertjes, silver dollar sized pancakes, a big heaping plate of ‘em. Covered, no-ENTOMBED in powdered sugar.
CC
They’re not big on corn either.
CC
In America on my grocery aisle for international foods, all I could find for Netherlands was RedBull.......
Pizza and chicken wings will no longer be an option.
When I was in a “hipster” part of Berlin, almost all the beer in the fridges were American-style craft brews. It was amazing.
Yark!!!
The Europeans ended racism generations ago by removing the slanderous icon from their packaging! /S
Authors last name is “Wegman”.
Interesting.
—”However, the Spotted Dick was delicious.”
An Anglophile I occasionally worked with kept a can of Spotted Dick on his desk?
I never knew anyone that asked about it.
Seems like a lot of the food products are from this company: https://www.mississippi-belle.com/
An important distinction. I was working at SHAPE and driving the roads in Belgium after hours. I saw in interesting billboard with French language. I stopped by the mini-mart outside of the cafeteria at SHAPE and grabbed an English-French dictionary. Tossed it in my backpack. After work, I pull the dictionary out at the hotel room and looked up the unfamiliar French word. The English equivalent was "bloke". Damn. British English, not American English. C'est la vie!
When I lived in Germany, there was a beer called Berliner Weisse (Berlin white) that was usually served in a large bowl-shaped goblet. It is made from wheat and tastes very sour, so it is usually mixed with syrup made from raspberries or woodruff. I haven’t seen it anywhere in the States, but it is probably available in places like Fredericksburg, Texas or Columbus, Ohio, which have large German-American populations..
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