Who decides what I can buy depending on what country I live

I think I need to move to the USA!
Or Canada or Australia! Didn't mean to leave you guys out!

ah, but then you wouldn't get jaffa cakes, and the cadburys chocolate would taste different

I think I need to move to the USA!
Or Canada or Australia! Didn't mean to leave you guys out!

ah, but then you wouldn't get jaffa cakes, and the cadburys chocolate would taste different

what??!!:noway:
No jaffa cakes...forget it then I'm staying put...lol

martyxxx

Ok, you are going to have to tell us in North America what we are missing in a jaffa cake?

American chocolate is DISGUUUUSTING. Stay where you are.

But isn't that a good thing for us trying to lay off the sweets? lol.

They are a cakey sort of base (but controversially sold in the biscuit(cookie) isle) with a layer of orange flavoured goo and topped with chocolate.

I just wanted to know who it is that makes the decision that I can't buy certain foods because of where I live!

For instance, I see other people's diaries on here and you can tell straightaway whether they live in USA or UK just by what they're listing. We get the same "brands" of food but not the same varieties. I love Skinny Cow products but we only get a couple of different flavours in the UK whereas I know that they have at least double the amount of choice in America. It's not fair :sad:

I think I need to move to the USA!
Or Canada or Australia! Didn't mean to leave you guys out!

I think you need to forget about that kind of food and eat healthily............shakes head...

3 words for you........................

USA = NO CADBURYS!!!!

I know that they have at least double the amount of choice in America. It's not fair :sad:

I think I need to move to the USA!
Or Canada or Australia! Didn't mean to leave you guys out!

I suppose it's our great Capitalist economy. On the other hand, I was listening to a story on the radio about Grocery Store Marketing Tricks - and how they arrange products based on what they want to sell, and monitor how people are buying and moving through the store. One I hate, is the Milk is all the way at the back - so I have to walk all the way through the store, usually through the junk food aisle (potato chips, soda) to get a dang gallon of milk.

Listening to another story about exchange students - and they said when they come and walk into a typical American grocery store, and are confronted with the Ceral aisle - they're just dumfounded - at about 50 different choices of Ceral - and literally can't make a decision because they're not used to having so many choices.

Interesting how you can look at someone's diet and tell where they live.

I've also known some friends from China - and tell me that "Chinese Food" at a restaurant here is NOTHING like "real" Chinese food. It's been Amercanized. And at a Mexican restaurant, I can get a, I forget - a burrito or a taco (one of them) - and they don't even have those in Mexico ...

There are some good kinds of American chocolate - usually smaller/less widely distributed though. But it's quite easy to buy imported Swiss/German/Belgian/French chocolate here - all the local supermarkets here carry quite a few different imported brands. I agree that the Hershey's et. al. chocolate is horrible though!

It's true that food here is so much cheaper - bananas range from 40-60 cents per pound (so I guess that's around $0.88-$1.32 a kilo), and if you go to the right places at the right time, other fruits and veggies are almost as cheap.

*goes and gets a jaffa cake*


mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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I'm betting if you could make those Jaffa cakes in the U.S. that they would sell really well. You could come here, have your jaffa cakes, and be a millionaire! lol

What a great idea! AND I would be able to try out all the other Skinny Cow products that I can't get here :laugh:

*I love your profile pic by the way

You're welcome and thank you! I would only ask for 4% of the annual profits lmao.

I'm a bit boring and my favourite foods are generally not that processed and therefore available globally. However, I'm emigrating to the Netherlands in a few months and will mourn the fact that I can't ever indulge in my beloved Battenberg cake over there! (Not that I'm really indulging in it over here at the moment!). I'll also miss my Branston Chilli & Jalapeno relish (lovely when heated into a sauce with a bit of white wine, then poured over a nice steak!), and Pimms in the summer. I'm not sure if they have Ben & Jerry's froyo either O_O

I'm a bit boring and my favourite foods are generally not that processed and therefore available globally. However, I'm emigrating to the Netherlands in a few months and will mourn the fact that I can't ever indulge in my beloved Battenberg cake over there! (Not that I'm really indulging in it over here at the moment!). I'll also miss my Branston Chilli & Jalapeno relish (lovely when heated into a sauce with a bit of white wine, then poured over a nice steak!), and Pimms in the summer. I'm not sure if they have Ben & Jerry's froyo either O_O

I emigrated to Germany from the US... and you can get Ben and Jerry's at Subway (yes, the sandwich shop) and sometimes at international shops. sandwiches and ben and jerrys = Weird combination, I know... but I'm pretty sure it's the same in the Netherlands.


Oh, and the US does too have Cadbury... at easter. Not exactly like the ones from the UK (which I get compliments of a fellow teacher from there), but not half bad. Otherwise, yes, US chocolate stinks. lol.

Oh Holland has definitely got B&J, I'm just not sure about whether they stock the froyo or not The UK doesn't have all the flavours the US has either!