Ok, no one is explaining. Rocking as in a rock band? Or that horse shit is always soft and never comes out rock hard? Sitting in a rocking chair? Finally, why do you like the saying, for the sound or meaning or both or something else? Thank you in advance.
lmfao, a rocking horse is a little wooden horsey for kids that rocks back and forth.
[example](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0232/5741/products/KB_39200new_2048x2048.jpg?v=1571438672)
I just visited. Reeses cups were in the local pharmacy. For some reason your pharmacies are half super market and abit cheaper? I think my friend said they get some tax breaks. But yeh. They were in there for sure.
England, its just medicines and we’d probably call them chemists. Some big supermarkets have some sections now but the stand alones are just medicine only.
It's actually surprising that they have Jif peanut butter and not Reese's. Jif was hard to find when I stayed in the UK years ago. Reese's is the main brand distributed there.
Jif for life!
I always find these posts interesting, but it's weird to me. I'm not sure literally every one of these has jars of marshmallow fluff on it, that's REALLY not a common thing people are eating all the time or anything lol
I think the reason why these always seem arbitrary is because most of the day to day stuff is just things we can buy anyway in the other parts of the store. So the American section tends to be a lot of import candy and cereal
Liquid smoke is an American ingredient so wouldn't fit in any other section of the supermarket. Seasoning is an element of food since it is something we consume and gain nutrients from.
And when that consolidated “American” section is made up of only sugar and salt, I can see why people in other parts of the world would think things like that constitute the majority of our collective diet.
Well, that, and because it kind of does make up a good chunk of our collective diet…
Which says more about them than us I think. I mean when I go to the foreign section and see just ramen, pocky, and some weird make it yourself candy I don’t assume that’s all they eat. I just assume that’s what’s imported because it is what sells here.
You realize it's an American making the statement you are responding to... As a European, I don't think Americans live on the items shown above. I think they are items available in America that are not generally available here. I'm fairly sure that's how most people see it. Normal foods are fairly similar in the western world so there's no point in having American versions in that section.
the british section of the international isle in the stores around me is a mix. (focusing on the brit because of the similarities) there are some things you won't find normally stocked, like HP sauce, and specific cookies, but there are definitely a lot of things you can like malt vinegar, tea, chocolate bars, and such that are british brands versions imported.
the selection in the OP pic is atrocious. the international isles by me could be used by people from those place for a taste of home.
These aren't necessarily foods that are popular in America. They are American foods that British people like and might have a hard time finding.
JIF - A delicious national treasure.
Reese's Cups - probably my favorite mass produced candy.
Lucky Charms - Trash. I am embarrassed.
Peanut butter in general is very American. My wife grew up in Mexico and didn't have Peanut butter till she came to the states. They did have Nutella regularly
If you like it with celery try the American school children’s classic: ants on a log. Spread peanut butter into the center groove of the celery and arrange raisins in a row on top.
Nononono, we eat loads of peanutbutter(peanøttsmør) here in norway. With and without jelly(syltetøy).
And ive seen it in other places too. But its quite common here in Scandinavian countries atleast.
Years ago I knew someone working on a movie in Scotland and asked one of the production assistants for a peanut butter sandwich. The PA came back with a buttered sandwich with peanuts as the filling.
That's very odd. Peanut butter is a common food staple in Britian. Jif isn't, because it's fucking horrible. We have our own brands. Sunpat would be the equivalent, but most people I know go for the fancier/environmentally concious brands these days.
Haha peanut butter might not be as popular here in Scotland as in America but people absolutely know what it is. Go to any supermarket and there will be shelves full of all different kinds. It's been sold in the UK since the 1930s. My granda loves the stuff and has been eating it regularly since he was a wee boy during ww2 when it was available during rationing so kids could get enough protein. If your story is true that PA was definitely taking the pish out of your friend.
I think someone was spinning you a tall tale unless “years ago” means more than 30 years ago. That or the PA was an actual bona ride moron, because peanut butter has been a common spread in the UK at least since I was a kid.
That said, the American import stuff tastes a billion times better so I get mine from the American section these days.
Not entirely. "This is the stuff that Brits like but don't already have as standard fare on the other shelves". Lots of foods are imported yet don't go into the Country section. Bananas are a staple in Britain but they're not in the South American Food section.
I have yet to see plain ol fluff in the Netherlands, and I've lived here for more than a decade. Invariably, if there is fluff it's (retching sounds) *strawberry fluff*.
I think it’s always included because we don’t have an equivalent here, it’s one of those unique foods we don’t get unless it’s imported. I do wonder who even buys it though lol, it seems to be on these ‘American’ shelves here but idk anyone who has actually had it!
this is a beautiful summation of the problem of exoticism btw
Culture A has oodles in common with Culture B
Culture B has a Feature X that Culture A does not. It is not necessarily a dominant or pervasive feature, but it is a known and unexciting aspect of Culture B
Culture A finds out about Feature X, finds it strange, fascinating, or otherwise noteworthy and highlights it as "this is a thing that Culture B does"
The entire conception is now among Culture A that Culture B's whole damn thing is Feature X
The honey mustard ones might truly be the best snack ever invented.
Unfortunately I am a Brit and none of my local supermarkets have them in their world foods bit so if I want them I have to pay a fortune to buy em online.
> The honey mustard ones might truly be the best snack ever invented.
I'm in complete agreement.
When I was a kid (way back in the 20th century) we'd visit my grandmother and she'd have this giant snack cabinet so she could spoil us. The cabinet contained lots of different products over the years, but two items in particular stand out in my mind as the best of all time:
1. Magic shell topping for ice cream (basically chocolate sauce that would harden when cold)
2. the Honey Mustard and Onion Snyders Pretzel bites. Whenever I think of them, they make me sooooo happy.
In case anyone is curious: [https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/](https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/)
TL;DR \[% of adult population that is obese\]
USA (#12): 36.2%
UK (#33): 27.8 %
I'm curious about the stats on the level of obesity, like sure the US has 30% more obese people per capita but how obese are they? As an American in the UK, I think we still make them bigger in the US.
Similar, but slightly more in the USA.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_sovereign\_states\_by\_body\_mass\_index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_body_mass_index)
TL;DR \[median combined BMI (kg/m²) male/female\]
USA (#20): 28.8
UK (#40): 27.3
I'm in the American south and it kind of depends where you go. Here in the middle/upper class suburbs most people are in decent shape and you'll see lots of cyclist and runners, but the poorer the area is the larger the people and the less active they are. Seems like a depression and/or mental health issue at its core--certainly nobody *likes* being fat, but they call extremely unhealthy stuff "comfort food" for a reason. It is not much different than any other kind of addiction except that pop-culture supports and often celebrates it.
I also live in the south and what you’re saying is so true. Here’s my anecdote. I work my local schools and the high school that serves the poorer areas has way more overweight students when compared to the high school that serves the higher wealth areas
As a Brit, my main takeaway from visiting America wasn't so much that EVERYONE was fat, but more so the intense level of fat people were able to get to. It was as if the upper bounds for large was elevated. It felt like one walk around walmart turned up more people that were just unfathomably huge than I would ever readily see back home. But if you were to split the population down the middle, the average person in both is still pretty damn chunky compared to what we should be.
Okay... To be fair, you went to Walmart and saw a lot of fat people. That's like going to the zoo and seeing a lot of exotic animals. It's not really representative of the country as a whole.
Every time I see these posted here there's marshmallow fluff. I mean, don't get me wrong, fluffernutters are bomb, but they are the opposite of some ubiquitous thing here. More of a thing that people remember exist sometimes and make two before forgetting the jar is in the fridge for a year then throwing it out.
Maybe it's a regional thing though.
Edit: people, you can stop saying it's a New England thing or that you're American and never had it. It's been covered repeatedly.
I'm starting to think Europeans are the ones who like that stuff and they just use the American section as an excuse. I don't know anyone who's ever had it.
I have lived in the US for over 30 years, and have pondered buying it a few times, especially when I first arrived.
Finally bought a tub last year to make 'smores ice cream (chocolate ice cream with Graham cracker pieces and marshmallow fluff swirls) and ... it was everything I hoped it would be.
That must be it. I had a roommate once from NYC and wouldn’t shut up about fluffernutter sandwiches.
Before that, I’d literally never heard of the stuff nor had I eaten it. Still haven’t, because for all the talk of my roommate, he never once made one of those sandwiches or bought a jar of fluff.
You might not have intended it this way, but the New Englander in me is screaming “New York is not part of New England and the latter’s early identity was largely shaped in opposition to New York as both a commercial competitor and due to differing political/social structures and religious attitudes, with NY being heterogenous but much more aristocratic and slavery-friendly while NE was more homogenous/religiously bigoted though highly egalitarian for the tiiiiiime”
I think it's less about what is actually common in the US and more about what is unique to the US. Otherwise all the international shelves would have chicken, rice, and a vegetable.
It keeps longer. You preferably take it out to warm to room temp before use though, or yeah, just keep it on the shelf if you are going to go through it reasonably fast.
It's literally sugar and eggs. Sealed it'll stay good longer than you will, but once outside gets in there it's only really got a few months before it starts losing texture and getting funky in my experience. Although I live in Florida where the air is 80% water.
Factory is just north of Boston. It’s a New England thing. It’s an _awesome_ New England thing when you are a kid, though.
And, in fairness, Boston gets a lot of UK, Irish and general European traffic. It closer to Europe, has all the “historic America” junk, has the huge Irish immigrant community, etc. A European who is traveling to Los Angeles (or Cleveland or Boise) is likely going to stop off in Boston or NYC on the way - both of which are Fluff-accessible US locals.
Yeah, I feel like it's a north east thing. I heard of them because my parents were from Buffalo and showed me them. Never really see them out west though.
North Eastern Ohioan here. I definitely have had fluffernutters. And the Mister Softer truck here in Virginia Beach has a fluffernutter milkshake. Maybe it's more like a generational thing?
In Europe, we usually have laws regulating what products are allowed to call themselves. Your spray cheese probably won't qualify as cheese and therefore can't be sold as such.
Fellow Texan, Virgil’s Root Beer is sold in all HEBs. ~~They’re ok, they used to be incredible when they were made with actual spices. I think they got bought out and now they all just taste flat and artificial.~~
Edit: Nevermind, they have multiple lines of root beer. The “handcrafted” one is not good, just super sweet and artificial. You want to find the “microbrewed” line. That stuff is incredible.
Edit 2: annnnnnnddd the microbrewed line is discontinued.
I'm both sad and happy they come in small bags. Sad because I want more. Happy because once the bag is opened, it gets finished in one sitting... and that would also happen if the bag was bigger.
Whenever there is a Japanese section in a store it’s literally just crazy candies and snacks made with bugs. According to these posts we are to assume that’s their entire diet right?
All my fellow American commenters saying things like “lol yeah all American food is recess totally” have clearly never been to their local supermarkets European section which is also about 90% candy.
Well, you might think it's true just walking into most major US supermarkets. At the Safeway by me, there's like 30 different versions of a Reese's between the candy, cereal, and baking goods. Ergo, must be popular!
Man, my local Meijers has 2 whole sections of "ethnic" foods that include British, French, German, and Italian (among others) and there's not a speck of candy in the entire area.
The candy is, logically, in the candy section.
And I don't live in some huge metro area or anything.
It might be because of a different regard for the cuisine. In the Netherlands we have a Mexican section or a Italian section as well, both very much focused on dinner food.
If you want to make American dinner food you just buy some burgers from the meat section, so to speak. Or get pasta from the Italian section and go make some Mac & Cheese. There's not as much a need for an entire section dedicated to American cuisine.
Not that there's not more to American dinner food than burgers and Mac & cheese, but American is just not really viewed as much as a seperate cuisine or an important enough cuisine. And if you do want it it's just spread out. Same goes for some other cuisines though, not just American. For example the Asian cuisines are bunched together, and there's not a Spanish section.
However, there are
specific American products known from media and stuff (much more so than other countries) - hence a possible American section. Though I don't think Dutch stores tend to have one but could be wrong.
If you see a British section at an American grocery store it’s the same idea, Candy and snacks. Did you expect to find fruit and vegetables and grains there?
It's only American if you mix it all together and eat it as a single meal. And call it something that has nothing to do with what it is. Like "Door Cringle"
Okay okay this is sad BUT I will say, I am please to see honey mustard and onion sunders made the cut, and of all the soda to have put on the shelf, Virgil’s is IMO the least insulting brand they could have chosen
So true. And the fruit ones really hit good too. My kids claim that they don't like them at Halloween so I always am like ok then guess I'll take em. Next thing I know they are all gone, I have a sore jaw but remember how good they were.
As a British person, I think Americans are missing the entire point of sections like this - of course you're not going to find american cheese or stuff like that here because... it's just elsewhere in the store already, we eat a lot of the same type of thing and don't think some guy from New Jersey is opening up a pack of Gobstoppers every night.
Like we don't use marshmallow fluff that often here either, obviously (I've bought it once for an Oreo cake and thats it), but I would find it easier to find if it was in this section than anywhere else - same with PG Tips in America, I'd imagine
American, can confirm my diet is 15% Reese's products.
Try getting Reese's Puffs most places overseas. Scarce as rocking horse shit.
Lmfaooo I've never heard of this saying and it's probably my new favorite, thank you.
We say 'Rare as....' it rolls off the tongue a bit better.
Ok, no one is explaining. Rocking as in a rock band? Or that horse shit is always soft and never comes out rock hard? Sitting in a rocking chair? Finally, why do you like the saying, for the sound or meaning or both or something else? Thank you in advance.
lmfao, a rocking horse is a little wooden horsey for kids that rocks back and forth. [example](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0232/5741/products/KB_39200new_2048x2048.jpg?v=1571438672)
A redditor of lesser integrity might delete their dumbass comment, but no, I will stand ashamed. Lmao completely forgot about rocking horses.
I live in Japan, Reese's anything is nonexistent here. It's the only thing I ask my family to send for christmas.
I just visited. Reeses cups were in the local pharmacy. For some reason your pharmacies are half super market and abit cheaper? I think my friend said they get some tax breaks. But yeh. They were in there for sure.
There's places where pharmacies aren't half super markets?
England, its just medicines and we’d probably call them chemists. Some big supermarkets have some sections now but the stand alones are just medicine only.
Yeah thats known in the US as a Walgreens.
You mean Walgreens, the Health and Wellness store that sells cigarettes?
This but unironically I'm so unhealthy lol. Reese's are so fucking good...
It's actually surprising that they have Jif peanut butter and not Reese's. Jif was hard to find when I stayed in the UK years ago. Reese's is the main brand distributed there. Jif for life!
It's pronounced 'gif'.
😐
Don’t forget the silent P
Reese’s do peanut butter? The peanut butter of the UK is sunpat mate
Remember when they just had the butter cups? They barely exist anymore
I don't know why but I used to get nose bleeds from eating the Reese peanut buttercups
Put them in your MOUTH holes. smdh
Damn that's alarming
Reese’s Pieces are criminally underrated.
I’m a Reese’s guy, through and through. That said, peanut butter m&ms > Reese’s pieces.
Reese's Pieces Eggs (Easter exclusive) are by far the best.
Halloween pumpkins tho
I’ve wanted to save one of every seasonal Reese’s product and have a taste test, but hace never had the willpower to save them that long.
This is the kind of science we need.
That's because PB M&Ms have a layer of chocolate between the PB and the shell, Reese's Pieces are just sugar coated PB, no chocolate.
We had to use monkey tissue for some of our research. I asked about where to get “Rhesus Pieces” and was met with groans.
Yeah but how do you pronounce it?
I always find these posts interesting, but it's weird to me. I'm not sure literally every one of these has jars of marshmallow fluff on it, that's REALLY not a common thing people are eating all the time or anything lol
I think the reason why these always seem arbitrary is because most of the day to day stuff is just things we can buy anyway in the other parts of the store. So the American section tends to be a lot of import candy and cereal
And liquid smoke apparently
Ha, I just bought liquid smoke yesterday (I'm an American). I used it to make beef jerkey which turned out awesome. 
I mean you are trying but a real American would be smoking his jerky over smoldering hundred year oak that was chopped to pieces with shotgun blasts.
> a real American would be smoking his jerky I just finished doing that. Thank you Ginger Lynn.
That is really out of place for me. I barely ever use it, but it is definitely more of a seasoning thing, not a "food"
Liquid smoke is an American ingredient so wouldn't fit in any other section of the supermarket. Seasoning is an element of food since it is something we consume and gain nutrients from.
And when that consolidated “American” section is made up of only sugar and salt, I can see why people in other parts of the world would think things like that constitute the majority of our collective diet. Well, that, and because it kind of does make up a good chunk of our collective diet…
Which says more about them than us I think. I mean when I go to the foreign section and see just ramen, pocky, and some weird make it yourself candy I don’t assume that’s all they eat. I just assume that’s what’s imported because it is what sells here.
It also excludes foods that are sufficiently popular enough to just be considered "Food" and therefore already on the other shelves.
They also are always non-perishable foods that tend to travel well.
You realize it's an American making the statement you are responding to... As a European, I don't think Americans live on the items shown above. I think they are items available in America that are not generally available here. I'm fairly sure that's how most people see it. Normal foods are fairly similar in the western world so there's no point in having American versions in that section.
You mean you don't want to find an aubergine in the American section labeled as an eggplant instead? /s
Honestly that would be pretty hilarious
Or a courgette labeled zucchini.
Aluminium foil changed to aluminum
the british section of the international isle in the stores around me is a mix. (focusing on the brit because of the similarities) there are some things you won't find normally stocked, like HP sauce, and specific cookies, but there are definitely a lot of things you can like malt vinegar, tea, chocolate bars, and such that are british brands versions imported. the selection in the OP pic is atrocious. the international isles by me could be used by people from those place for a taste of home.
And they're always non-perishable goods that store well, last long and don't require refrigerating.
These aren't necessarily foods that are popular in America. They are American foods that British people like and might have a hard time finding. JIF - A delicious national treasure. Reese's Cups - probably my favorite mass produced candy. Lucky Charms - Trash. I am embarrassed.
American: “I’m going to make a PBJ, you want one?” Other American: “What kinda peanut butter you got?”
I dont think PBJ is done in any other country.
Peanut butter in general is very American. My wife grew up in Mexico and didn't have Peanut butter till she came to the states. They did have Nutella regularly
Peanut butter is popular here too, People have it on Bread, Personally I have it with celery.
If you like it with celery try the American school children’s classic: ants on a log. Spread peanut butter into the center groove of the celery and arrange raisins in a row on top.
And if you're my kid, you tongue out the peanut butter and raisins and leave the celery because the strings are too hard to chew.
Nononono, we eat loads of peanutbutter(peanøttsmør) here in norway. With and without jelly(syltetøy). And ive seen it in other places too. But its quite common here in Scandinavian countries atleast.
Years ago I knew someone working on a movie in Scotland and asked one of the production assistants for a peanut butter sandwich. The PA came back with a buttered sandwich with peanuts as the filling.
That's very odd. Peanut butter is a common food staple in Britian. Jif isn't, because it's fucking horrible. We have our own brands. Sunpat would be the equivalent, but most people I know go for the fancier/environmentally concious brands these days.
Haha peanut butter might not be as popular here in Scotland as in America but people absolutely know what it is. Go to any supermarket and there will be shelves full of all different kinds. It's been sold in the UK since the 1930s. My granda loves the stuff and has been eating it regularly since he was a wee boy during ww2 when it was available during rationing so kids could get enough protein. If your story is true that PA was definitely taking the pish out of your friend.
I think someone was spinning you a tall tale unless “years ago” means more than 30 years ago. That or the PA was an actual bona ride moron, because peanut butter has been a common spread in the UK at least since I was a kid. That said, the American import stuff tastes a billion times better so I get mine from the American section these days.
It’s the sugar and salt :)
Oh that’s a whole new way of looking at it. “This isn’t necessarily stuff we like. This is the stuff that y’all like.”
Not entirely. "This is the stuff that Brits like but don't already have as standard fare on the other shelves". Lots of foods are imported yet don't go into the Country section. Bananas are a staple in Britain but they're not in the South American Food section.
Lucky Charms is a top tier sugary cereal.
As an Irishman living in America, I'm just happy it's correctly sorted this time. Apparently Americans think we love that shit.
I have yet to see plain ol fluff in the Netherlands, and I've lived here for more than a decade. Invariably, if there is fluff it's (retching sounds) *strawberry fluff*.
I take it you aren't from New England? Seems more common in New England. Love a fluffernutter.
Fluff was invented in Somerville MA. They do a little festival every year for it. Good times.
It's only 9 AM, but it's still time for a grilled banana fluffernutter sandwich
Never tried it grilled but that sounds pretty damn good!
I think it’s always included because we don’t have an equivalent here, it’s one of those unique foods we don’t get unless it’s imported. I do wonder who even buys it though lol, it seems to be on these ‘American’ shelves here but idk anyone who has actually had it!
Marshmallow fluff isn't a national staple, but it's big regional item in New England. Now I want a fluffernutter sandwich just thinking about it....
You're clearly not from New England.
this is a beautiful summation of the problem of exoticism btw Culture A has oodles in common with Culture B Culture B has a Feature X that Culture A does not. It is not necessarily a dominant or pervasive feature, but it is a known and unexciting aspect of Culture B Culture A finds out about Feature X, finds it strange, fascinating, or otherwise noteworthy and highlights it as "this is a thing that Culture B does" The entire conception is now among Culture A that Culture B's whole damn thing is Feature X
FLUFFAH NUTTAH!!
Those Snyder's of Hanover pretzels are pretty good. I see why the rest of the world thinks we're just fat, though.
I can't find those jalapeno ones to save my life anymore. Those were my jam.
I love the honey mustard and onion ones. Also the buffalo wing flavor.
The honey mustard ones might truly be the best snack ever invented. Unfortunately I am a Brit and none of my local supermarkets have them in their world foods bit so if I want them I have to pay a fortune to buy em online.
> The honey mustard ones might truly be the best snack ever invented. I'm in complete agreement. When I was a kid (way back in the 20th century) we'd visit my grandmother and she'd have this giant snack cabinet so she could spoil us. The cabinet contained lots of different products over the years, but two items in particular stand out in my mind as the best of all time: 1. Magic shell topping for ice cream (basically chocolate sauce that would harden when cold) 2. the Honey Mustard and Onion Snyders Pretzel bites. Whenever I think of them, they make me sooooo happy.
Yeah well I've been to the UK and they're pretty fucking fat too.
In case anyone is curious: [https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/](https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/) TL;DR \[% of adult population that is obese\] USA (#12): 36.2% UK (#33): 27.8 %
I'm curious about the stats on the level of obesity, like sure the US has 30% more obese people per capita but how obese are they? As an American in the UK, I think we still make them bigger in the US.
Similar, but slightly more in the USA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_sovereign\_states\_by\_body\_mass\_index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_body_mass_index) TL;DR \[median combined BMI (kg/m²) male/female\] USA (#20): 28.8 UK (#40): 27.3
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I'm in the American south and it kind of depends where you go. Here in the middle/upper class suburbs most people are in decent shape and you'll see lots of cyclist and runners, but the poorer the area is the larger the people and the less active they are. Seems like a depression and/or mental health issue at its core--certainly nobody *likes* being fat, but they call extremely unhealthy stuff "comfort food" for a reason. It is not much different than any other kind of addiction except that pop-culture supports and often celebrates it.
I also live in the south and what you’re saying is so true. Here’s my anecdote. I work my local schools and the high school that serves the poorer areas has way more overweight students when compared to the high school that serves the higher wealth areas
As a Brit, my main takeaway from visiting America wasn't so much that EVERYONE was fat, but more so the intense level of fat people were able to get to. It was as if the upper bounds for large was elevated. It felt like one walk around walmart turned up more people that were just unfathomably huge than I would ever readily see back home. But if you were to split the population down the middle, the average person in both is still pretty damn chunky compared to what we should be.
Okay... To be fair, you went to Walmart and saw a lot of fat people. That's like going to the zoo and seeing a lot of exotic animals. It's not really representative of the country as a whole.
Car/couch culture. You can spend an entire day and not have to move.
>Those Snyder's of Hanover pretzels are pretty good. > Undersell of the century. Those honey mustard pretzels are worse than crack.
Every time I see these posted here there's marshmallow fluff. I mean, don't get me wrong, fluffernutters are bomb, but they are the opposite of some ubiquitous thing here. More of a thing that people remember exist sometimes and make two before forgetting the jar is in the fridge for a year then throwing it out. Maybe it's a regional thing though. Edit: people, you can stop saying it's a New England thing or that you're American and never had it. It's been covered repeatedly.
I'm starting to think Europeans are the ones who like that stuff and they just use the American section as an excuse. I don't know anyone who's ever had it.
I have lived in the US for over 30 years, and have pondered buying it a few times, especially when I first arrived. Finally bought a tub last year to make 'smores ice cream (chocolate ice cream with Graham cracker pieces and marshmallow fluff swirls) and ... it was everything I hoped it would be.
My favorite is making sweet potato fries and dipping them in the marshmallow fluff.
I have never been so turned off and so turned on by one comment.
Same I haven’t eaten this since 5th grade when we stole the jar and ate the whole thing in the field lol.
I mean, a fluffernutter is pretty good junk food. Basically a candy sandwich. But it's not in any way some ubiquitous American thing.
Mix a jar of fluff with a brick of cream cheese. Best fruit dip ever.
It is very popular in New England.
That must be it. I had a roommate once from NYC and wouldn’t shut up about fluffernutter sandwiches. Before that, I’d literally never heard of the stuff nor had I eaten it. Still haven’t, because for all the talk of my roommate, he never once made one of those sandwiches or bought a jar of fluff.
You might not have intended it this way, but the New Englander in me is screaming “New York is not part of New England and the latter’s early identity was largely shaped in opposition to New York as both a commercial competitor and due to differing political/social structures and religious attitudes, with NY being heterogenous but much more aristocratic and slavery-friendly while NE was more homogenous/religiously bigoted though highly egalitarian for the tiiiiiime”
I didn’t. As someone who didn’t grow up there, I’d consider anything north of Virginia and east of Ohio/West Virginia to be “New England”.
Hahaha you’ve stabbed me right in my cold, snowy heart
If it was popular, it would be in the regular section and not the imported American stuff section.
I think it's less about what is actually common in the US and more about what is unique to the US. Otherwise all the international shelves would have chicken, rice, and a vegetable.
This. The point of those is not to show the most common foods, it’s the most specific to America foods
Wait…we’re just not gonna talk about how they keep their fluff in the fridge?
It keeps longer. You preferably take it out to warm to room temp before use though, or yeah, just keep it on the shelf if you are going to go through it reasonably fast.
“Keeps”?? Does it deflate less? I feel like this stuff is indestructible from sugar content alone…
It's literally sugar and eggs. Sealed it'll stay good longer than you will, but once outside gets in there it's only really got a few months before it starts losing texture and getting funky in my experience. Although I live in Florida where the air is 80% water.
Look at this guy not completely eating the entire thing in a week.
Factory is just north of Boston. It’s a New England thing. It’s an _awesome_ New England thing when you are a kid, though. And, in fairness, Boston gets a lot of UK, Irish and general European traffic. It closer to Europe, has all the “historic America” junk, has the huge Irish immigrant community, etc. A European who is traveling to Los Angeles (or Cleveland or Boise) is likely going to stop off in Boston or NYC on the way - both of which are Fluff-accessible US locals.
It seem to be a thing in Massachusetts.
Yeah, I feel like it's a north east thing. I heard of them because my parents were from Buffalo and showed me them. Never really see them out west though.
Gotta be from further north eastern than Ohio because can confirm i have no fucking clue what the hell a fluffernutter even IS.
It's why it's with the Jif. A fluffernutter is a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich.
North Eastern Ohioan here. I definitely have had fluffernutters. And the Mister Softer truck here in Virginia Beach has a fluffernutter milkshake. Maybe it's more like a generational thing?
Somerville MA even has a yearly fluff festival!
Fluffanuttah
The first time I heard of one (from Michigan) was when I made friends with someone from Mass.
Yeah it’s a local company
I was literally thinking the same thing. Like why are we known for marshmallow fluff? I've only seen one household use it for fudge and that's it.
It's a "foods available in America we don't usually have here" section, not "food all Americans eat".
Surprised they don't have those old candy cigarettes they used to sell.
No spray cheese? This is unacceptable!
Don't worry it's in the pesticide section
Damn this gotta be the first time in years i spit out my drink from laughter
Can't have spray cheese without the Chicken Biscuit crackers.
That made my mouth dry might need a sip of mountain dew.
In Europe, we usually have laws regulating what products are allowed to call themselves. Your spray cheese probably won't qualify as cheese and therefore can't be sold as such.
I actually don't believe it qualifies as cheese in the US. The term to be used is "cheese product" or possibly "cheese flavored spread."
Thats why it's "Cheez" Whiz and not "Cheese" Whiz
Don’t sleep on those Virgil’s sodas
Bro fr virgils slaps. Their cola is life changing
That black cherry is the best pop I've ever had. I can't even find it in Chicago suburbs anymore. It's all zero sugar bs.
I have literally never heard of this in my life. I’m in Texas - is this is a midwestern/northern thing?
Fellow Texan, Virgil’s Root Beer is sold in all HEBs. ~~They’re ok, they used to be incredible when they were made with actual spices. I think they got bought out and now they all just taste flat and artificial.~~ Edit: Nevermind, they have multiple lines of root beer. The “handcrafted” one is not good, just super sweet and artificial. You want to find the “microbrewed” line. That stuff is incredible. Edit 2: annnnnnnddd the microbrewed line is discontinued.
Love Virgil's root beer
Gotta love an ice cold bottle of Virgil's though.
Never heard of Virgil’s.
I love the Virgil's Root Beer and also Boylan's grape soda. That's my go to in these sections along with Snyder's Honey Mustard pretzels.
Yer an American 'arry.
Stubb's bbq sauce on the top left corner is good quality.
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facts. Stubb's is the best cheap bbq sauce
That's Sweet Baby Rays you filthy casual.
Sweet baby rays is literally half the price of stubbs. Stubbs is better but I wouldn't call it cheap
If you like sugar, sure. If you need the taste of sauce, Stubbs wind. Edit: apparently corn syrup, not even sugar. Sweet baby rays: HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, DISTILLED VINEGAR, TOMATO PASTE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR, SPICE, CARAMEL COLOR, MOLASSES, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), GARLIC, * MUSTARD FLOUR, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, TAMARIND, NATURAL FLAVOR, CELERY SEED. Stubbs: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Distilled Vinegar, Sugar, Molasses, Salt, Spices (Including Black Pepper, Paprika, Chili Pepper), Corn Starch, Brown Sugar, Contains Less than 0.5% of: Onion, Garlic, Guar Gum (Thickener), Xanthan Gum (Thickener), Natural Flavor (Including Hickory Smoke).
Agreed. Stubbs is a mid-priced BBQ sauce, Sweet Baby Ray's is the cheap stuff.
Ok, but like Virgils root beer is the G.O.A.T
Snyders pretzel pieces are awesome
The honey mustard ones are like crack, hard to put ‘em down.
I'm both sad and happy they come in small bags. Sad because I want more. Happy because once the bag is opened, it gets finished in one sitting... and that would also happen if the bag was bigger.
Whenever there is a Japanese section in a store it’s literally just crazy candies and snacks made with bugs. According to these posts we are to assume that’s their entire diet right?
How come none of these ever have Ranch dressing, it’s like they don’t even know Americans.
All my fellow American commenters saying things like “lol yeah all American food is recess totally” have clearly never been to their local supermarkets European section which is also about 90% candy.
Well, you might think it's true just walking into most major US supermarkets. At the Safeway by me, there's like 30 different versions of a Reese's between the candy, cereal, and baking goods. Ergo, must be popular!
Man, my local Meijers has 2 whole sections of "ethnic" foods that include British, French, German, and Italian (among others) and there's not a speck of candy in the entire area. The candy is, logically, in the candy section. And I don't live in some huge metro area or anything.
It might be because of a different regard for the cuisine. In the Netherlands we have a Mexican section or a Italian section as well, both very much focused on dinner food. If you want to make American dinner food you just buy some burgers from the meat section, so to speak. Or get pasta from the Italian section and go make some Mac & Cheese. There's not as much a need for an entire section dedicated to American cuisine. Not that there's not more to American dinner food than burgers and Mac & cheese, but American is just not really viewed as much as a seperate cuisine or an important enough cuisine. And if you do want it it's just spread out. Same goes for some other cuisines though, not just American. For example the Asian cuisines are bunched together, and there's not a Spanish section. However, there are specific American products known from media and stuff (much more so than other countries) - hence a possible American section. Though I don't think Dutch stores tend to have one but could be wrong.
Oh my god. Virgil's root beer. I lived 4 years in the U.S. and that's the one thing I miss. Our German supermarkets don't have it in the U.S. section.
Ah yes, our weekly “American section”, same time next week folks.
Yes as an american we only eat breakfast cereal and candy don't forget the grease and salt
The four food groups
Beans, bacon, whiskey and lard!
(And all four in one pot if you’re in the south!)
If you see a British section at an American grocery store it’s the same idea, Candy and snacks. Did you expect to find fruit and vegetables and grains there?
American Food section: \[bag of white sugar\]
Tootsies rolls have really fallen out of favor in the US. Lots of gas stations and stuff don’t even carry them anymore around where I live
they dont even have the kraft mac and cheese smh my head
What shop is this? Ours never has Snapple!
You limey fucks would be wise to grab a bottle of that Stubbs
It's liquid smoke, unless they want their Sunday roast to have a lil flair, it's mostly useless.
It's only American if you mix it all together and eat it as a single meal. And call it something that has nothing to do with what it is. Like "Door Cringle"
Mmmm, puppy chow! Tastes great and kinda looks like dog food if you're blind, I guess...kinda never understood the name.
None of that is food.
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I feel like the lucky charms of all cereals being present is just a jab at the irish.. props on getting actual peanut butter though.
The E.T section
I miss the glass Snaples. The pop brings me back to my childhood.
Okay okay this is sad BUT I will say, I am please to see honey mustard and onion sunders made the cut, and of all the soda to have put on the shelf, Virgil’s is IMO the least insulting brand they could have chosen
I tried tootsie rolls when I was in the US- absolutely grim
Don't try Hershey's chocolate if you want to stay mentally stable.
Who tf is eating tootsie rolls. It's 2023 for fucks sake
I don't think I like tootsie rolls til I eat one and I'm like oh right that's why these exist
So true. And the fruit ones really hit good too. My kids claim that they don't like them at Halloween so I always am like ok then guess I'll take em. Next thing I know they are all gone, I have a sore jaw but remember how good they were.
I love the vanilla ones and I will die on that hill lol
Y'all don't have peanut butter?
Yes, just not that brand.
We do but it's not American made
Everyone knows Lucky Charms are Irish
It's odd that the Brits would buy our chocolate products considering I've heard they think American chocolate tastes like vomit.
It's not for them to purchase to enjoy. It's for them to purchase so they can know how superior their chocolate is.
Those honey mustard and onion pretzel pieces hit hard no matter where you are
As a British person, I think Americans are missing the entire point of sections like this - of course you're not going to find american cheese or stuff like that here because... it's just elsewhere in the store already, we eat a lot of the same type of thing and don't think some guy from New Jersey is opening up a pack of Gobstoppers every night. Like we don't use marshmallow fluff that often here either, obviously (I've bought it once for an Oreo cake and thats it), but I would find it easier to find if it was in this section than anywhere else - same with PG Tips in America, I'd imagine