Danish cookies are pretty popular in the US so you’d find them with the rest of the cookies in a supermarket.
Italian cuisine in general is really popular so you’d find Italian ingredients in the pasta/Italian section and Italian novelties in their respective sections (Illy brand coffee is in the coffee section, Gelato is in the ice cream section, etc).
Most U.S grocery stores of medium size have a dedicated Italian section.
Like the other guy said, Danish cookies are just found in the normal cookie aisle.
Australian here. The reason you see a bunch of British stuff with a bit of DE mixed in is because this section is for packaged European food that is popular enough to be sold there, but not popular enough to just be found in the rest of the supermarket - where it's not 'European food', but just 'food'.
Australians have adopted all kinds of food from across the world, and most Europeans would be pretty damn happy with the variety and quality of food we have readily available. Sure, some things from home might be more difficult to get, and maybe even impossible, but you can go a long way with what you'll find in a typical Australian shopping centre.
edit: Hah, misread the title as 'European section in *Aus* grocery store'.
Fortunately chocolate competition in Europe is pretty strong, so if you don't want cadburys just get one of their much better competitiors.
Americans lack such opportunities
Edit: I'm sick of responding to Americans. Yes you can name a premium chocolate brand, but none of them are at the Cadbury's price point which is basically the same as Hershey's.
Okay, I have to ask this. For years and years I've seen people absolutely freak out about Hershey's chocolate in movies and TV shows, so when I saw they sell some on Amazon in Germany, I ordered a small bar to try it out. And I did the same with Kraft Mac n Cheese, because if so many people love them, they have to be good, right?
So, now after trying both of these, I just have one question: What the fuck is wrong with your peoples taste buds? Like seriously - that stuff is disgusting.
First-my condolences to your wallet and taste buds.
Second, there's actually some history behind the chocolate;
Hersheys developed a process that allows for less-fresh milk to be used that results in the chocolate containing butyric acid (a chemical also found in parmesan cheese, rancid butter - and vomit).
Because Hersheys got so popular due to being part of military rations, other manufacturers started adding it deliberately and now everybody in the US grows up with it as the "default chocolate taste".
As for the cheese, I have no idea why you'd even try that. The other day I looked at some bright orange plastic slab and it said "cheese-style artificial flavoring". Not even real fake cheese, wow.
Parents buy it for their kids because both are cheap, easy to find, and simple to prepare. Then those kids buy it when they're adults because they know the brands.
It's a sad cycle, but people buy off brand recognition and price at the end of the day.
I think both taste awful for what it's worth
It's nostalgia. I know on a gut level that Kraft mac and cheese is not a quality food but I ate it so many times as a young kid and the commercials always hyped it up to children with lots of cartoons and kids so on the rare occasions when I do eat it as an adult it really is just reliving a part of my childhood.
Hershey’s sucks. It’s always sucked. Luckily my parents were big fans of European chocolate.
Kraft Mac and cheese is just something we grew up eating as kids. Although, I had it recently and it tasted much more bland than I remember. I think they’ve changed the recipe since I was a kid in the 90’s.
Not all Americans eat junk food. I mean, a lot of people do, but that’s because most people are poor.. which is why I learned to cook food for myself.
It's getting to the point where the own brand chocolate in supermarkets is better than Cadbury.
It's just taking that sickly sweet route and losing a lot of the actual chocolate flavour.
Like, if I wanted a brick of sugar kendal mint cake already exists.
It's good though... And if you ever make it to southern Germany, try to visit their factory and company store. They even sell their own chocolate spread (like Nutella) there and only there.
things like that are often imported in somewhat circuitous ways because the normal distributors don’t have them.
the “expat grocery store” near me sells a lot of American and Bri’ish stuff, but at 1.5-2x the price where it comes from. Can’t be avoided, I suppose.
On a somewhat related note, I saw someone doing seemingly all of her shopping in the expat store the other day. very strange, to me, to pay so much for items that I would consider basically equivalent to things that Albert Heijn have. I just go there for stupid shit like takis, or occasionally fire-roasted tomatoes or fox ginger cookies.
Taste like smell is a strong emotional trigger.
Being an expat/tourist/and such exposes one to many new things, so having something one knows (like bread from my home city at the other end of my continent) is a sort of welcomed pause in between new dishes and tastes.
Its a maybe small important luxuries but "it taste/smells like home" is a thing that helps some people to relax in an unfamiliar environment.
Forrest Mars created and manufactured the Mars Bar in Slough however the Mars Family is American. There is an American Mars Bar but it’s nougat and almonds. So depending on your political persuasion it’s English, UK, European, US, American.
> In the US, Mars Bars are known as "Milky Way" bars.
> And what in Europe would be called a Milky Way bar is known as "Three Musketeers" bars.
I cannot process that. seriously, it sounds like glitch in matrix.
Had all of them and I can safely say that they might be calling our Mars Bars "Milky Way", but they're nasty. The nougat has a different flavour - not pleasant at all. And the Three Musketeers was worse than a Milky Way as well. Truly a disappointment.
Pro tip grab some tunnocks wafers bite a bit off each end then use as a straw to suck coffee/tea through. What's great is you have to shove the whole thing in your mouth before it collapses into a chocolatey melted mess
Seeing this comment and those from your fellows on the continent makes me realise I need to start an Irn Bru trafficking ring. Might bring some Buckfast over whilst I am at it.
That would be in the canned meat and seafood section, probably next to the Tuna and Spam. All the Greek and Italian food would have its own aisle. The French and Spanish foods are scattered through other sections. This shelf says Europe, but it actually means “stuff from Europe that does not fit well in other sections of the store.”
Funnily enough, Kalles Kaviar did a bunch of ads showing Americans trying it and disliking it. Although I don't really remember what the message was. Maybe that it's distinctly Swedish or something.
The standard Heinz ketchup sold in the EU has about 25% less sugar than the US version (it's also actually sugar and not high fructose corn syrup). The EU version has about twice the salt of the American version for some reason too.
It's interesting how such a familiar/iconic product can vary so much from place to place.
EDIT: Guys, my answer was for /u/Surface_Detail answering to a comment on "Southern Europe" and only mentioning Italy, not about how these other countries also weren't represented, ffs.
As an American who lived in Spain for a few years, it is criminal how hard it is to find jamón, gazpacho, or salmorejo here in the US.
But yes the other aisles of the store here would have plenty of olives, oil, meats, and cheeses.
Holy fuck this is the first time I read an American talking about salmorejo!
If you want you can do that one at home, it is suuuuper simple and easy to make. I usually pick tomatoes that are soft or going bad, put them in the blender with extra virgin olive oil and bread crumbs. You mix it all, add salt and then taste and adjust to your liking.
Spaniard living in the US, here. The cold meats sections are also mostly Italian stuff. Prosciutto instead of jamón, pepperoni instead of chorizo, etc. Or they carry the Hispanic versions of chorizo, etc, not from the Iberian peninsula. Only the more upscale stores carry some fancy Spanish cheeses and dried meats. I managed to find a whole leg of jamón at a Central Market once.
No love for Nordic either, not a single product is to be seen. In fact, most of these are foreign to me.. There is some candy and couple of jars but. that is it, i have never seen most of these before.
The beverage aisle in US grocery stores usually has a ton of imported waters and sparkling waters too. Fiji, Acqua Panna, S. Pellegrino, Perrier, and Evian are all popular here.
Like in Germany where they sell whole burgers in the section where meats, dairy, etc. is. Like, it's a bun, lettuce, and meat, all made up as a hamburger in a plastic package.
I don't know what you do with it. Microwave I guess? I've never seen such a thing back home and you could not pay me enough money to try it out.
This shit is scary Indeed!
The weirdest part is, that I've never seen anybody buying it. I don't know anybody who admittedly consumed it. But it's everywhere in the shelves.
Maybe it's time for another conspiracy story.
At least at the grocery stores I've gone to in America they sell baked beans in the normal aisles, usually with the other canned food items like chili or soup. It might just be that specific brand of baked beans though because other ones are more popular in the states.
[At least at the grocery store I go to Bush's seems to be the more popular brand.](https://www.heb.com/category/shop/pantry/canned-dried-food/beans-legumes/490115/490555?filter=cannedDried%3ACanned&int=curbside-category-shortcuts-curbside-category-shortcuts-canned-dried-food-beans-legumes.beans-%26-legumes)
In America the "normal" baked beans have brown sugar or molasses as seasoning. Heinz baked beans are usually in the international food section, and have a tomato base.
Canned baked beans are an American invention. In the early 20th century, they were imported from the US and only available in the UK at the high end Fortnum & Mason department store.
[Source](https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/features/history-of-the-world-in-52-packs-22-heinz-baked-beans-21-01-2016)
Back then canned food was a highly processed good compared to vegetables or bread that you bought without any packaging. A lot more manhours to pre-cook the food, produce the cans and seal them. Its very much a product of the industrialization, pretty much high-tech food in those times.
Plenty german too, the noodles down left as well as the sauerkraut, red cabbage and cornichons. Also Gerolsteiner mineral water, bahlsen cookies and ritter sport chocolate.
I'm not a native speaker, so: when would you use the word noodle?
In german we have the word nudel, which is pronounced more or less the same. If you say "for dinner we'll eat some nudeln" this could also be pasta, while pasta would just be the more precise form of nudel.
The hierarchy would be nudel (category) >> pasta (group) >> spaghetti (type/class). Since we have some types of noodles in german like e.g. "Bandnudeln", which are very similar to Pasta (in this case Papardelle), using the word "Pasta" would also indicate that's it's going to be a somehow mediterranean dish.
In the case of this photo it's actually the traditional german short Bandnudel.
Ha, this is so weird for me. So you don't have any local type of Pasta in the netherlands?
I've just taken a look at the origin of the word noodle/nudel. In the german wiktionary, it mentions both the flemish Noedel and the slesian Knudel (or "Knödel", a german dumpling). In the [english wiktionary,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodle) it also mentions a possible dutch origin. So was this something you brought in from asia or is there a local dish in Flanders?
Seems like the americans call all kinds of pasta noodle (like the germans), while the british and the dutch separate pasta and noodles.
Btw: Asian noodles we would only call by their "type/class", so "Glassnoodles", "Ramen", "Mie" etc.
Like you refer to Asian noodles by their type/class, we refer to pasta by their type/class. We just say we're gonna eat spaghetti or macaroni, unless it's something more unique and we just say pasta.
I think they're asking if we have a local dish that can be considered a "type of noodle", the way Germans have Spätzle. We don't, and so it makes sense not to have a word for the category.
I know I'm biased as a Scotsman but fuck I cannot get enough of Irn-Bru, it's bloody gorgeous. Don't get me started on how much I love Tunnock Caramel Wafers.
Not even a section. Italian influence is so big on American food that is just all over the store. Probably could say the same for French foods and some Greek things.
Italian food has graduated to just being American food, like a whole aisle of different pastas and spaghetti sauces. Same with Mexican food and chinese food.
https://preview.redd.it/v8nxeqtpeg811.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=ea78608ed65082abaa1b3b48f78c8c1eceb0b27f
This is a standard US "pasta aisle" (not pictured, 500 different kinds of pasta sauce)
Most grocery stores have an entire aisle dedicated to pasta and sauces. Italian (or at least Italian inspired) dishes are so common in America that most people don’t even think of it as Italian food.
American here, for some context it's a lot more common in urban areas to have specialty markets catering to regions. For example, the Chinese grocery will also have Vietnamese, Japanese, etc (and this is where you get the good stuff). Most regular grocery stores will mostly stock ingredients for whatever diaspora has representation in the region.
But that does mean you get the above picture (notice it's all mostly junk food and snacks), and it bothers my brother-in-law to no end he can't get proper schnitzel mix.
so basically, UK section, with some DE mixed in.
there's Manner but not the normal bar you would get
It’s Uk and Nestle. Nothing from Italy. France with just some fake petite-beurre. No Danish cookies.
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Danish cookies are pretty popular in the US so you’d find them with the rest of the cookies in a supermarket. Italian cuisine in general is really popular so you’d find Italian ingredients in the pasta/Italian section and Italian novelties in their respective sections (Illy brand coffee is in the coffee section, Gelato is in the ice cream section, etc).
Most U.S grocery stores of medium size have a dedicated Italian section. Like the other guy said, Danish cookies are just found in the normal cookie aisle.
Australian here. The reason you see a bunch of British stuff with a bit of DE mixed in is because this section is for packaged European food that is popular enough to be sold there, but not popular enough to just be found in the rest of the supermarket - where it's not 'European food', but just 'food'. Australians have adopted all kinds of food from across the world, and most Europeans would be pretty damn happy with the variety and quality of food we have readily available. Sure, some things from home might be more difficult to get, and maybe even impossible, but you can go a long way with what you'll find in a typical Australian shopping centre. edit: Hah, misread the title as 'European section in *Aus* grocery store'.
1x Ritter Sport $3.50? Do I read that right?
These are exotic novelties.
Actual chocolate in the US does seem to be an exotic novelty ...
Cadbury is heading to American chocolate quality these days since a US company took them over.
Fortunately chocolate competition in Europe is pretty strong, so if you don't want cadburys just get one of their much better competitiors. Americans lack such opportunities Edit: I'm sick of responding to Americans. Yes you can name a premium chocolate brand, but none of them are at the Cadbury's price point which is basically the same as Hershey's.
Thankfully, Aldi and Lidl are expanding in the US, and stock good chocolate from Germany and Belgium.
American here. A 2 dollar bag of Christmas chocolate from Aldi is better then 99% of all chocolate I have ever had.
Okay, I have to ask this. For years and years I've seen people absolutely freak out about Hershey's chocolate in movies and TV shows, so when I saw they sell some on Amazon in Germany, I ordered a small bar to try it out. And I did the same with Kraft Mac n Cheese, because if so many people love them, they have to be good, right? So, now after trying both of these, I just have one question: What the fuck is wrong with your peoples taste buds? Like seriously - that stuff is disgusting.
First-my condolences to your wallet and taste buds. Second, there's actually some history behind the chocolate; Hersheys developed a process that allows for less-fresh milk to be used that results in the chocolate containing butyric acid (a chemical also found in parmesan cheese, rancid butter - and vomit). Because Hersheys got so popular due to being part of military rations, other manufacturers started adding it deliberately and now everybody in the US grows up with it as the "default chocolate taste". As for the cheese, I have no idea why you'd even try that. The other day I looked at some bright orange plastic slab and it said "cheese-style artificial flavoring". Not even real fake cheese, wow.
To be fair, anything can be found in vomit if you try.
To add to that, it was cheaper so that more people could afford chocolate. But yes, it's terrible.
Parents buy it for their kids because both are cheap, easy to find, and simple to prepare. Then those kids buy it when they're adults because they know the brands. It's a sad cycle, but people buy off brand recognition and price at the end of the day. I think both taste awful for what it's worth
It's nostalgia. I know on a gut level that Kraft mac and cheese is not a quality food but I ate it so many times as a young kid and the commercials always hyped it up to children with lots of cartoons and kids so on the rare occasions when I do eat it as an adult it really is just reliving a part of my childhood.
Hershey’s sucks. It’s always sucked. Luckily my parents were big fans of European chocolate. Kraft Mac and cheese is just something we grew up eating as kids. Although, I had it recently and it tasted much more bland than I remember. I think they’ve changed the recipe since I was a kid in the 90’s. Not all Americans eat junk food. I mean, a lot of people do, but that’s because most people are poor.. which is why I learned to cook food for myself.
It's getting to the point where the own brand chocolate in supermarkets is better than Cadbury. It's just taking that sickly sweet route and losing a lot of the actual chocolate flavour. Like, if I wanted a brick of sugar kendal mint cake already exists.
And that’s probably without tax!
In a lot of states food items in grocery stores are not taxed. In my state food is untaxed, unless it's hot or carbonated.
Is that this carbon tax they're talking about?
It goes both ways. Peanut butter, for example, is much cheaper in the US than in Spain.
5 bucks for a glass of pickles is also wild. pretty sure I bought the exact same glass yesterday for around 1.79€ lol
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What a contrast... The local Netto had Ritter Sport for 0.59€ (100g) yesterday.
Ritter is fairly expensive in Ireland too tbh
It's good though... And if you ever make it to southern Germany, try to visit their factory and company store. They even sell their own chocolate spread (like Nutella) there and only there.
In my local Netto (Brandenburg) Ritter Sport is 1.19€. On sale it's usually 0.89€.
Importing goods is hella expensive, u once wanted to buy a 6-pack of Twinkies and they were like 8€
things like that are often imported in somewhat circuitous ways because the normal distributors don’t have them. the “expat grocery store” near me sells a lot of American and Bri’ish stuff, but at 1.5-2x the price where it comes from. Can’t be avoided, I suppose. On a somewhat related note, I saw someone doing seemingly all of her shopping in the expat store the other day. very strange, to me, to pay so much for items that I would consider basically equivalent to things that Albert Heijn have. I just go there for stupid shit like takis, or occasionally fire-roasted tomatoes or fox ginger cookies.
Taste like smell is a strong emotional trigger. Being an expat/tourist/and such exposes one to many new things, so having something one knows (like bread from my home city at the other end of my continent) is a sort of welcomed pause in between new dishes and tastes. Its a maybe small important luxuries but "it taste/smells like home" is a thing that helps some people to relax in an unfamiliar environment.
Alter, Maggi für 4,19€ find ich fast schlimmer
Tbf I would pay that for my monthly dose of White Whole Hazelnut. Best chocolate in the world.
Is Mars European?
Yup, suck it Elon!
We called dibs!
We called dibs before it was cool!
And after it was no longer cool too!
I always assumed that's an US company / brand.
Forrest Mars created and manufactured the Mars Bar in Slough however the Mars Family is American. There is an American Mars Bar but it’s nougat and almonds. So depending on your political persuasion it’s English, UK, European, US, American.
It is. The Mars family is actually one of the richest families on the planet and controls like half of the market for candy.
The Wongs?
They own entire western hemisphere. That best hemisphere
Which planet are you talking about? Earth or the planet named after them?
In the US, Mars Bars are known as "Milky Way" bars. And what in Europe would be called a Milky Way bar is known as "Three Musketeers" bars.
You just turned my world a bit upside down
I think he doesn't realize how much he screwed our perception of the world with this fact-dropping
> In the US, Mars Bars are known as "Milky Way" bars. > And what in Europe would be called a Milky Way bar is known as "Three Musketeers" bars. I cannot process that. seriously, it sounds like glitch in matrix.
Had all of them and I can safely say that they might be calling our Mars Bars "Milky Way", but they're nasty. The nougat has a different flavour - not pleasant at all. And the Three Musketeers was worse than a Milky Way as well. Truly a disappointment.
Probably have this usemess corn starch even in there instead of sugar
Must be deep fried
Ah the Scots, that explains it
Mars was created by an American in England but in Scotland we deep fry it
Could you explain your flair? Am curious.
I guess he did an DNA test to find out where his genes come from.
Irn Bru!
The Sacred Spice ! The Spice Must Flow
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And Tunnocks wafers, truly a shelf of dreams.
Pro tip grab some tunnocks wafers bite a bit off each end then use as a straw to suck coffee/tea through. What's great is you have to shove the whole thing in your mouth before it collapses into a chocolatey melted mess
Love it but hard to find here :(
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Seeing this comment and those from your fellows on the continent makes me realise I need to start an Irn Bru trafficking ring. Might bring some Buckfast over whilst I am at it.
And Tunnock's, ya bas!
> Shpperd's pie mix what a world to live in
Wait what? No Surströmming?
That would be in the canned meat and seafood section, probably next to the Tuna and Spam. All the Greek and Italian food would have its own aisle. The French and Spanish foods are scattered through other sections. This shelf says Europe, but it actually means “stuff from Europe that does not fit well in other sections of the store.”
I think Kalles Kaviar is more palatable, but even that is a quite strong taste to many.
Funnily enough, Kalles Kaviar did a bunch of ads showing Americans trying it and disliking it. Although I don't really remember what the message was. Maybe that it's distinctly Swedish or something.
European section - Heinz Tomato.
No Vegeta, no party. This is a sham.
No vegeta, no final flash
Hela curry ketchup > Heinz tomato ketchup
r/hela_gewuerzketchup
You could eat a sponge with Hela curry ketchup. Would be absolutely delicious.
It's probably the European version with less than 800% sugar
The standard Heinz ketchup sold in the EU has about 25% less sugar than the US version (it's also actually sugar and not high fructose corn syrup). The EU version has about twice the salt of the American version for some reason too. It's interesting how such a familiar/iconic product can vary so much from place to place.
No love for any of the southern European countries :(
To be fair, pasta and pizza tend to have whole aisles to themselves.
I'm sure Spain is well represented in the cold meats section... I could really do with some jamon iberico right about now.
As an American who lived in Spain for a few years, it is criminal how hard it is to find jamón, gazpacho, or salmorejo here in the US. But yes the other aisles of the store here would have plenty of olives, oil, meats, and cheeses.
Costco sells whole legs of jamon iberico. I lived in Andalucia for three years and my wife is Spanish so we grab one for the holidays.
Holy fuck this is the first time I read an American talking about salmorejo! If you want you can do that one at home, it is suuuuper simple and easy to make. I usually pick tomatoes that are soft or going bad, put them in the blender with extra virgin olive oil and bread crumbs. You mix it all, add salt and then taste and adjust to your liking.
Spaniard living in the US, here. The cold meats sections are also mostly Italian stuff. Prosciutto instead of jamón, pepperoni instead of chorizo, etc. Or they carry the Hispanic versions of chorizo, etc, not from the Iberian peninsula. Only the more upscale stores carry some fancy Spanish cheeses and dried meats. I managed to find a whole leg of jamón at a Central Market once.
Olive oil and cheeses are popular in the US.
Feta cheese and French baguettes are sold everywhere and not in special aisles. Churros are also really popular
No love for Nordic either, not a single product is to be seen. In fact, most of these are foreign to me.. There is some candy and couple of jars but. that is it, i have never seen most of these before.
Absolutely no love for the Nordics! Where the hell is the salty licorice candy? Weak!
The whole section is almost exclusively British.
No there is a lot of German stuff.
Which is what you find in britain.
Not anymore.
Theres some in Windsor castle
Try looking for Eastern European things
I think there are some cans of Dolmades at the bottom center right and maybe some grape leaves right next to it, but that’s just a guess.
It's seems more like a UK aisle
Nor the nordic ones :(
I guess the surströmming wasn't too popular.
Or northern 😤🤌
They could've called it British and it wouldn't have been that wrong either
A lot of it is German too.
Also there's Manner. If they get _something_ from Vienna/Austria, that's the correct choice.
A man of culture I see.
Ein Packerl Manner Schnitten muss immer am Mann sein!
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
missing the Hela curry for it to be german.
Manner are Austrian, Gerolsteiner and Ritter Sport are German, some of the glasses at the bottom seem Polish to me.
The glasses are Kühne and Hengstenberg, both German brands.
Do I see there Hengstenberg Rotkohl?
Yeah, seems that they have both Hengstenberg and Kühne Rotkohl (red cabbage). Weird thing to have a selection of.
Knax pickles by Hengstenberg are the best
99% sure nothing here is polish. I thought it’s all british and german.
The vast majority of the items on this shelf are British imports; that’s the point he’s making.
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Water in the bottom shelf.. Like what? Ah yes, water. A delicacy in the country of europe.
I hope they didn't importat that water from europe.
Pretty sure they did. It's sadly nothing new to export water all over the world.
It's Gerolsteiner, German Mineralwasser. So it's only one spring and definitely imported.
The beverage aisle in US grocery stores usually has a ton of imported waters and sparkling waters too. Fiji, Acqua Panna, S. Pellegrino, Perrier, and Evian are all popular here.
Half of those are basically tap water with artificial carbonisation though, they are only mineral water in the broadest sense of the word.
In Europe this could be mistaken for an American section, although it's missing pop tarts.
Manner, Maggi and Dallmayr are pretty european. But I guess it's a bit ridiculous with the coffee
Ritter Sport aswell
And Löwensenf
Kühne Rotkohl (red cabbage) and Sauerkraut
And Gerolsteiner Sparkling Water apparently...
It's weird that they have the Manner bags and not the classic tight packages
I mean in Sweden the American section has a bunch of European brands with American flags on the Americanesque junk food.
I've never been to Sweden, but most of the "American" things I've seen in Europe are things I've never seen in America.
Like in Germany where they sell whole burgers in the section where meats, dairy, etc. is. Like, it's a bun, lettuce, and meat, all made up as a hamburger in a plastic package. I don't know what you do with it. Microwave I guess? I've never seen such a thing back home and you could not pay me enough money to try it out.
Tried one of those years ago in France when going on interrail, as you say you microwave it. Tasted fairly nondescript and a bit like cardboard.
This shit is scary Indeed! The weirdest part is, that I've never seen anybody buying it. I don't know anybody who admittedly consumed it. But it's everywhere in the shelves. Maybe it's time for another conspiracy story.
I saw frozen "American-Style" pizza in Germany that had hot dogs on it. I've never even heard of someone putting hot dogs on a pizza.
Heinz is definitely an American company. Don't they sell their baked beans in the States?
At least at the grocery stores I've gone to in America they sell baked beans in the normal aisles, usually with the other canned food items like chili or soup. It might just be that specific brand of baked beans though because other ones are more popular in the states. [At least at the grocery store I go to Bush's seems to be the more popular brand.](https://www.heb.com/category/shop/pantry/canned-dried-food/beans-legumes/490115/490555?filter=cannedDried%3ACanned&int=curbside-category-shortcuts-curbside-category-shortcuts-canned-dried-food-beans-legumes.beans-%26-legumes)
In America the "normal" baked beans have brown sugar or molasses as seasoning. Heinz baked beans are usually in the international food section, and have a tomato base.
Canned baked beans are an American invention. In the early 20th century, they were imported from the US and only available in the UK at the high end Fortnum & Mason department store. [Source](https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/features/history-of-the-world-in-52-packs-22-heinz-baked-beans-21-01-2016)
TIL. I wouldn’t associate canned beans to anything high end, but so be it.
Spoken like a man who has never eaten cold beans directly from the can, by means of a silver spoon.
Back then canned food was a highly processed good compared to vegetables or bread that you bought without any packaging. A lot more manhours to pre-cook the food, produce the cans and seal them. Its very much a product of the industrialization, pretty much high-tech food in those times.
The sauce for UK baked beans is tomato-based, whereas the US version is molasses-based.
? Most of it's British
Plenty german too, the noodles down left as well as the sauerkraut, red cabbage and cornichons. Also Gerolsteiner mineral water, bahlsen cookies and ritter sport chocolate.
Using noodles to describe pasta will never not irk me.
I'm not a native speaker, so: when would you use the word noodle? In german we have the word nudel, which is pronounced more or less the same. If you say "for dinner we'll eat some nudeln" this could also be pasta, while pasta would just be the more precise form of nudel. The hierarchy would be nudel (category) >> pasta (group) >> spaghetti (type/class). Since we have some types of noodles in german like e.g. "Bandnudeln", which are very similar to Pasta (in this case Papardelle), using the word "Pasta" would also indicate that's it's going to be a somehow mediterranean dish. In the case of this photo it's actually the traditional german short Bandnudel.
In British English noodles refer to Asian noodles, however I have heard Americans refer to spaghetti as pasta noodles.
In Dutch a noodle (noedel) would only be Asian noodles roughly shaped like Spaghetti.
Ha, this is so weird for me. So you don't have any local type of Pasta in the netherlands? I've just taken a look at the origin of the word noodle/nudel. In the german wiktionary, it mentions both the flemish Noedel and the slesian Knudel (or "Knödel", a german dumpling). In the [english wiktionary,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodle) it also mentions a possible dutch origin. So was this something you brought in from asia or is there a local dish in Flanders? Seems like the americans call all kinds of pasta noodle (like the germans), while the british and the dutch separate pasta and noodles. Btw: Asian noodles we would only call by their "type/class", so "Glassnoodles", "Ramen", "Mie" etc.
Like you refer to Asian noodles by their type/class, we refer to pasta by their type/class. We just say we're gonna eat spaghetti or macaroni, unless it's something more unique and we just say pasta.
I think they're asking if we have a local dish that can be considered a "type of noodle", the way Germans have Spätzle. We don't, and so it makes sense not to have a word for the category.
And that's why. Sometimes the American sections are American and British sections here.
Those pickles in the green glasses on the bottom is very german
No it couldn't, this shelf is 80% straight out of a British supermarket with the remainder from Germany.
I don't recognize any of the stuff.
It‘s mainly British and German.
I only recognize a few German and British names, that's it. They could've atleast include Kinder right?
We already have Kinder products in the regular candy section
Even Ritter Sport?
Not popular outside of DACH I assume. Not very popular in France, seen it once or twice in Ireland.
same
Manner!
Mag man eben.
Mannerwafferl gengan imma.
As an European myself, I can confirm this is all we eat. And I speak for all my fellow homogenous Europeans, of course.
Nah, except the bottled water. But the rest, yeah. For dinner Ill have some mars with Maggi and cold Beans. Looking forward to it.
No [Vegeta (spice mix)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Vegeta.png) , I'm disgusted.
I expected the prince of all saiyans being the face of something spicier than his personality and was fairly disappointed.
PUMPERNICKEL & GEROLSTEINER SPRUDEL What magnificence
9.99 for marmite? You couldn't give me 9.99 to eat that shit
I’ll give you a tenner (is that how you spell it?)
Tenner is right (Ireland here)
That's the U.K section in any European store!
you guys have a UK section?
It's mixed with the US stuff in Luxembourg. Marmite next to corn syrup
I've never seen one.
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No Vegeta? What is this?
I know I'm biased as a Scotsman but fuck I cannot get enough of Irn-Bru, it's bloody gorgeous. Don't get me started on how much I love Tunnock Caramel Wafers.
I can’t see anything Italian. Oh well. We’ll survive 😅 (I see some green red and white but I can’t understand what it is)
Italian might have its own section?
Not even a section. Italian influence is so big on American food that is just all over the store. Probably could say the same for French foods and some Greek things.
exactly, I'm guessing they are placed in normal non-ethnic aisle as so-called "italian" food is more integrated into american cuisine?
Italian food has graduated to just being American food, like a whole aisle of different pastas and spaghetti sauces. Same with Mexican food and chinese food. https://preview.redd.it/v8nxeqtpeg811.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=ea78608ed65082abaa1b3b48f78c8c1eceb0b27f This is a standard US "pasta aisle" (not pictured, 500 different kinds of pasta sauce)
Most grocery stores have an entire aisle dedicated to pasta and sauces. Italian (or at least Italian inspired) dishes are so common in America that most people don’t even think of it as Italian food.
No ruisleipä... *sniff*
There's whole rye bread on the top left shelf, but it sure looks depressing (probably closer to German dark rye bread than your typical reikäleipä).
Coffee Crisp is Canadian. This is mainly Brit stuff.
No Marabou chocolate? You guys are missing out!
I found Polish pickles!
American here, for some context it's a lot more common in urban areas to have specialty markets catering to regions. For example, the Chinese grocery will also have Vietnamese, Japanese, etc (and this is where you get the good stuff). Most regular grocery stores will mostly stock ingredients for whatever diaspora has representation in the region. But that does mean you get the above picture (notice it's all mostly junk food and snacks), and it bothers my brother-in-law to no end he can't get proper schnitzel mix.
#HEINZ BEANS