As we can see from the Oreo thread, there;s loads of foods that are hard to get hold of in Britain, for whatever reason...if I was a food company I'd try and get these products (re)introduced into the country, who gives a stuff to all this healthy eating b*llocks? ;)

*Lucky Charms breakfast cereal - it was made by Nestle and when I went to America it was the only thing my friends wanted me to bring home! Anyone else remember it? It was pieces of cereal and marshmallow with a Leprachaun for a mascot.

*Plopp chocolate bars - from Sweden, I sent my friends loads of them with postcards, and I always bring a stash home. In an apt kind of way they have runny caramel inside. They're very nice and vanilla-y though!

*Has anyone ever read 'Notes from a Big Country' by Bill Bryson? One of the articles is purely about American convenience foods, e.g. the 'breakfast pizza' and 'Fluff'-a marshmallow sandwich spread. I vote for these!!!

Any other ideas?

Originally posted by noseyrosie
As we can see from the Oreo thread, there;s loads of foods that are hard to get hold of in Britain, for whatever reason...if I was a food company I'd try and get these products (re)introduced into the country, who gives a stuff to all this healthy eating b*llocks? ;)

*Lucky Charms breakfast cereal - it was made by Nestle and when I went to America it was the only thing my friends wanted me to bring home! Anyone else remember it? It was pieces of cereal and marshmallow with a Leprachaun for a mascot.

*Plopp chocolate bars - from Sweden, I sent my friends loads of them with postcards, and I always bring a stash home. In an apt kind of way they have runny caramel inside. They're very nice and vanilla-y though!

*Has anyone ever read 'Notes from a Big Country' by Bill Bryson? One of the articles is purely about American convenience foods, e.g. the 'breakfast pizza' and 'Fluff'-a marshmallow sandwich spread. I vote for these!!!

Any other ideas?

I LOVE Bill Bryson, he is one of my favourite writers!

I vote for Hershey bars! What a rush!

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
I vote for Hershey bars! What a rush!

Are they the ones that taste like medium-ground gravel with a whole heap o'sugar mixed in? They are absolutely vile, yet strangely moreish. I think they do Hershey Kisses too. Same horrid chocolate, in a smaller and more expensive format.

Originally posted by feargal
Are they the ones that taste like medium-ground gravel with a whole heap o'sugar mixed in? They are absolutely vile, yet strangely moreish. I think they do Hershey Kisses too. Same horrid chocolate, in a smaller and more expensive format.

That's them Fergal! They seem to have some kind of addictive properties. It's like hitting someone smaller than you with a stick; you know it's wrong, so why is it so gratifying?

Now, where did I put my tablets.....

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
It's like hitting someone smaller than you with a stick; you know it's wrong, so why is it so gratifying?


Whatever you choose to do with your private life is your own business, my friend! Or are you buying the small person Hershey's to keep 'em quiet?

American "food", I love :

Spray cheese (in a can to spray on bread)

Hot pockets (like pop-tarts but made from bread with cheese and meatballs and stuff inside)

Cinamon chewing gum (unusual but very nice)

Wintergreen tic-tacs (strange antiseptic flavour)

Gatorade (fruit/energy drink in realy strange flavours and colours)

Rattlesnake (very, very nice BBQ'd)

Sourdough bread and clam chowder (on a cold morning in San Francisco)

Bufffalo burgers

Grits (the most inedible food ever invented, but worth a try)

KFC (you get mashed potato and little scone things with it)

Burger King (breakfast cinamon spirals - loverly)

Get me some Diet Root Beer and some beef jerky!

Originally posted by noseyrosie
*Has anyone ever read 'Notes from a Big Country' by Bill Bryson? One of the articles is purely about American convenience foods, e.g. the 'breakfast pizza' and 'Fluff'-a marshmallow sandwich spread. I vote for these!!!


You can get Fluff from Tesco. I'm having a batch delivered tomorrow in the weekly shop :)

You can also get Root Beer (not sure about diet) from Asda.

Aside from that, I would vote for:

Cap'n Crunch (preferably Crunch Berries) - They keep you high for the whole morning
Grape Nuts
Gatorade

Sainsburys used to sell Gatorade, but only the boring flavours like orange, not "Extreme melon" or "Grape explosion".

:clap:lucky charms!!!!!!!!!!!!! my boyfriends parents have just gone to america, I've told them to bring me lots of lucky charms :hihi:

lucky charms are hardcore!!!!:headbang:

Just thought of another... Peppermint Patties.....so addictive.

Maple Buds from Canada. Bags of yummy little chocs in a cool whippy shape - they look like little turds!!!

My Canadian auntie used to send me them when I was little, but now I've grown up she's stopped :-(

Thye sound a bit like Hersheys Hugs and Kisses (how cute)

For all those who do really really like all this stuff:

www.cybercandycom sells all the sweets you can imagine from the States and elsewhere; gatorade, root beer, Lucky Charms, all different flavours of skittles, tic tacs etc. Although its very expensive (boxes of lucky charms are £5.99!) I use it for an occasional treat when I haven't had a shipment from relatives visiting the states for a while.

I had no idea Tescos sold Marshmallow fluff! I love that stuff and I normally have to wait until I can visit Selfridges until I can get a jar (although they usually only have the rather gross strawberry flavour).

Hotphil - you need to do your big shop at Asda - they've got beef jerky on promotion! I thought it was dog treats at first, but on closer inspection, its human food!

I love the jelly belly jelly beans you get in the states, with the flavours on the back and recipes for mixing them :D Yummy!

Originally posted by cobaltblue
I love the jelly belly jelly beans you get in the states, with the flavours on the back and recipes for mixing them :D Yummy!

You can get some of them here. I haven't seen Jelly Belly, but I have just finished a tube of Jelly Bean Factory beans. I love the marshmallow ones and apple ones.

You can get them at the party shop next to Somerfield on Ecclesall road (I work practically next door! Woo!), or at Bradfield post office (seriously). I even got a big tube from Lane Top Netto once.

Originally posted by spiffymonkey
You can get some of them here. I haven't seen Jelly Belly, but I have just finished a tube of Jelly Bean Factory beans. I love the marshmallow ones and apple ones.

You can get them at the party shop next to Somerfield on Ecclesall road (I work practically next door! Woo!), or at Bradfield post office (seriously). I even got a big tube from Lane Top Netto once.

yes i remember getting them here too!!
I like the buttered popcorn flavour!!!

Waitrose do Jelly Belly beans in small bags or boxes. You can also get larger bags/tubes and things at John Lewis. You used to be able to get pic n mix Jelly Belly at Woolworths but they don't do them at Woolworths Sheffield.

i want some lucky charms :(

Originally posted by feargal
Are they the ones that taste like medium-ground gravel with a whole heap o'sugar mixed in? They are absolutely vile, yet strangely moreish. I think they do Hershey Kisses too. Same horrid chocolate, in a smaller and more expensive format.

They smell like baby puke!

I much prefer Milka chocolate.

snapples, especially the iced tea flavour ones. bit sugary but very nice

Hershey's kisses, god they're disgusting - American chocolate is so much more sickly than ours. And cinnamon chuddy - bleargh!

Lays crisps in Europe seem to be available everywhere on the continent except here. does anyone know why?

Wow I bought some Fluff in Tesco t'other day. Can't believe it exists! I don't think I'll dare eat it, but I'll just watch it on the shelf. It just looks so American, the label and everything, and the jar is so worryingly weightless...

Japanese sweets. Particularly grape flavoured chewing gum

Mmmm... I used to love Nerds (sugary hard blob things in boxes) but apparently they had to stop selling them in the UK because glass was found in some of the boxes. The aforementioned Cybercandy stock them though.

We went in the Cybercandy shop in Covent Garden and it was absolutely fantastic. I have never spent so much money on sweets :)

Purely for the name, Mega Perky Nanas from New Zealand get my vote! They're like banana marshmallow wrapped in chocolate and delicious.

Originally posted by robbie
Japanese sweets. Particularly grape flavoured chewing gum

I've been assured by a friend in Melbourne that we (as a country) need a Pocky addiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky). Apparently we're really missing out.

I'm suprised that nowhere in Sheffield sells Pocky. There must be somewhere

Originally posted by robbie
I'm suprised that nowhere in Sheffield sells Pocky. There must be somewhere

They do! Tai Sun oriental supermarket just off the Moor sells them - I've been buying them for years and I'm a total addict. They're long, thin sticks that taste like rich tea biscuits and come with all kinds of coatings. Almond ones are great - really dark, bitter chocolate with tiny bits of almond in.

.................

Pocky really are the doyens of the sugerscene right now! I'm suddenly hearing loads of people in London talking about how great they are. Fortunately, I live in an area with loads of Japanese shops so we always have loads in the house. Men's chocolate pocky rules!

Alternatively, the most digusting sweet I have ever eaten was some Thai oddity in a really posh box. It could only be likened to eating solid mould. On further investigation, I discovered that the main ingredient was yolk of salty egg. Urgh!

M

As i sit here munching on my box of lucky charms which have been brought back from america, i wonder why they have stopped selling them in the UK :( i remember them from wen i was a kid and this box isnt gonna last much longer so does ne 1 kno y they stopped selling in the UK? please get bk 2 me if u kno

thanks
alex x

sounds daft but I've had peas coated in mustard - I think they were from Hong Kong. Sounds disgusting but actually very nice.

They're 'wasabi nuts'. (Not sure if they're peanuts or broad beans.)
They are lethal! Bring tears to your eyes. You can get them in the chinese supermarkets too.

Nice thread ! :D
I like milka choc, some flavours we can't get any more. Even in Woolies. >.< !
I like the hot chocolate by Suchard. You can get these little packets for brekkie when in Europe, but then don't tend to sell it here. It's muuuch nicer than Cadbury's Chocolate Break. Oh, I also miss Mountain Dew. :(
I love Snapple. The melon flavour is delish. :D Also used to love Rubicorn's tropical flavour (?) I recall it had a blue can anyway, whatever the flavour was.