apologies for the mangled post.
we get it- they cannot find chocolate chips- 3 times.
No Zapps potato chips?
I canât see anything I would buy.
American obesity is hereby explained to the Dutch.
What if i wanted a Slim Jim?
not that i would but....
Pretty lame selection, more like a 7-Eleven wanna be than a real store. Nothing that I would or do buy.
No shake n bake?
Meanwhile, here's the Dutch section of a MURRICAN grocery store.
No buckets of lard?
A good friend in the UK loves for me to send over Hersey’s Kisses as a gift. They’re not for sale generally, for some reason. Perhaps it’s Big Chocolate.
I noticed that UK grocery items were less consumer oriented. There won’t be six different flavors of chips/crisps like you might find here. Dog food that I saw was simply labeled “Beef tripe for Dogs” and there wasn’t a yummy-looking picture on the label. Maybe their universities aren’t turning out as many marketing majors as ours.
However, the Spotted Dick was delicious.
Itâs the same in Sweden. Very few âAmericanâ foods on the shelves. And what they do have are all generics. Very few name brands.
We always carry over âorangeâ cheddar cheese, pizza crusts and sauce, chili mix, peanut butter, and salad dressings. Enough to last us for a couple months.
Europeans really donât 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!
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.
I would like to drink a bottle of Twix. Yes I would.
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
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.
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.
I lived in The Netherlands back in the 80s. It was very much like being home - English is the second language and I found the supermarkets much like ours. Just had to get used to mayonnaise on my French fries.
It’s the black section.
That’s exactly the sort of ‘food’ item selection you find in a Philly liquor store.