American Candy

[andy-o24]

Re: American Candy

Mr. Goodbar and Zero Bars are pretty good, imo. I guess Gatorade is good?

-o24

[wildfireskunk]

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As a fellow UK denizen here, the only things I've found which are really worthwhile (other than poptarts) are Jolly Ranchers, Marshmallow Fluff, and Nerdz.

I'm not a big fan of your chocolate... If you Americans get a chance to get a bar of UK chocolate (Cadburys or Galaxy specifically), give it a go! Much milkier

Also, I TOTALLY want to order some Jolly Ranchers from Amazon. Shipping = boo :<

[Flandre Scarlet]

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Bluearrowll is right. It's because we have Cadbury's which is made with real milk ("Glass and a half") and to a lot of people here they think Hershey's is very sugary rather than Chocolate milky like Cadbury's products.

My mum had a friend who was from the UK, she'd always get candy from her parents back home and would send us so much when she'd go home to visit as well. Cadbury's chocolate is SO MUCH BETTER than Hershey's. I loved everything from them, especially the chocolate eggs filled with cream IIRC that those were something they made? So damn good <3

I honestly don't really eat anything chocolate that's made in the US anymore...except Reese's Cups. Everything else just doesn't taste as good :/

[wildfireskunk]

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especially the chocolate eggs filled with cream IIRC that those were something they made? So damn good <3

Cadbury's Creme Eggs. Totally agreed <3

[Arntonach]

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Am I the only one who noticed he spelled Lucky as Lucy? But yeah, Cadbury's all the way.

[kommisar]

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ferrero rocher

[welsh_girl]

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kinder bueno

take any of these and dip them in nutella

Kinder Bueno is godly, it's one of my favourite chocolate bars.

We get Kinder Surprise Egg too, apparently they're banned in America?

I think I'ma get me some Jolly Ranchers next time I'm in town.

What drink would go with these? The only drink I like, so far, that has to be imported is Cherry Dr. Pepper. We only get the standard flavour as standard.

[darkshark]

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Cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper is amazing.

Hershey's Cookies n' Creme is one of my favorite ones, Skor bars are damn good, Pop Rocks are fun, anything made by Ghiradelli is good.

[kommisar]

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kinder surprise got taken off the shelf after like forever because of the toys. stupid as hell.


if you can manage to find it, try bawls

[omega_grunt666]

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kinder surprise got taken off the shelf after like forever because of the toys. stupid as hell.


if you can manage to find it, try bawls

Bawls is the greatest thing since sliced bread and sync'd stepcharts.

[Aldentron]

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it's true, the kinder surprise eggs are not sold in america. american children are trained from birth to eat anything that appears on their plate, whether they like it or not. it was only a matter of time before they started choking on the toys inside...
also, america is the most obese nation, you sure you want to be eating our candy and drinking our soda? it's all mass-manufactured bullshit...

[Cavernio]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesogen

Cadbury's chocolate is supposed to be fair trade too. And gluten free. But they recently started putting less caramel into the Caramilk bars, and it makes me a sad panda every time I eat one now.
I don't eat Hershey's chocolate anymore. Hershey's is not only not fair trade, but it's also used American military (for shame!) to keep their chocolate supply cheap. My mom was friends with a guy in univesity from the Ivory Coast or some other cocoa bean growing country in Africa. After he graduated and went back home, he became a politician (I believe). Anyways, my mom kept in touch with him for a bit, and I guess the country wasn't getting a very fair price for their cocoa beans, and so they were looking into selling them to some European manufacturers that were going to pay them substantially more for their quality product. And then the American military got deployed into their country and stopped the whole thing because they couldn't stand to see Hershey's potentially collapse.

tbh, Cadbury in Canada tastes pretty damned close to Hershey's. Maybe in the UK Cadbury chocolate is less sweet.

Someone needs to do a documentary about it while the people involve in the scandal are still alive.

God I'm a bitter person

Skittles. Preferably a large package of them dissolved in a bottle of Stoli.
I'm also partial to those chewy not-quite gummy candies that have that sour sugary coating on them, like Fuzzy Peaches and Cherry Blasters.

[25thhour]

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Vitamin Water is the shit.

[welsh_girl]

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it's true, the kinder surprise eggs are not sold in america. american children are trained from birth to eat anything that appears on their plate, whether they like it or not. it was only a matter of time before they started choking on the toys inside...
also, america is the most obese nation, you sure you want to be eating our candy and drinking our soda? it's all mass-manufactured bullshit...

Hahaha, actually LOLin'.

From obviously eating British goodness all my life a lot of your stuff does taste like sugary crap, but it's stuff I want to try because you get so much more than us and I need advise on what to get because it's so expensive!

tbh, Cadbury in Canada tastes pretty damned close to Hershey's. Maybe in the UK Cadbury chocolate is less sweet.

Without trying the Canadian Cadburys I'd say we're giving you a bad deal of our amazing chocolate. It's far from sweet and very milky chocolately, nothing like Hershey's at all. Maybe they assume you like thing sugary being next to America.


Also gonna see if they sell this Bawls stuff.

[m3t4kn1ght]

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I'd stick with british candy & chocolate. Their Cadbury and galaxy chocolate is so incredible. I even import all of the good stuff from there. Don't get me wrong, american candy is great too. for instance twizlers is what I had a while a go, But it cannot best the british imo.