American Food
While I was at work today, Wife took at trip across the border for some holiday shopping. When ever she goes over, the only rule we have is that we have to buy some crazy American food stuffs. I say crazy because there are so many strange “foods” on your shelves. Things that we don’t get here in Canada (which is why I love doing Snack Swaps). Take for instance the above picture. It’s probably one of the tamer food items she brought back, but not the first “cupcake” flavored thing to enter the house (cupcake flavored ice cream topping anyone?). We don’t really get the cookie Goldfish here. We get some, but it’s mostly the cracker flavors. Let’s see what else Wife bought in the States.
This is another tame product. She bought these because two summers ago we had up here some Cheese Burger Doritos and they where all kinds of awesome! After that summer we never saw them again. So she was curious to see if they where similar. These where pretty good, but I prefer the Doritos version better.
We get pain jane Chex Mix up here. Which is the way things usually go. We get the regular version and you guys get the fun flavors and stuff. I can say with total certainty we do not get Turtle Chex Mix.
You call it soda, I call it completely unfair that you get Cherry Crush, Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke and we don’t . What the hell is up with that?! Wife brought back a bunch of this too because all three are awesome.
Now we’re getting in to crazy town. Really? Smorz cereal? I guess I can’t say too much because we have sugar cereals too. What get’s me is the “good source of VITAMIN D” at the top. I’m pretty sure that if you felt like you weren’t getting enough vitamin D in your life you could… just go out side. We get it from the sun. I’m pretty sure it’s not so naturally occurring in Smorz.
Really? Really?! I have no words for this. You guys really eat this stuff? Supply and demand?
What is awesome is how many things are gluten-free in America. Up here, Canadian food factories feel it’s just safer for them to not put on such labels. That way they don’t have to hold and responsibility for any food contamination even though there might not be any wheat in the factory. So good on you America!
Also, food is so cheap in America too! Far cheaper this it is in Canada! Some times by about half. How you’re able to sell it at such low costs is beyond me. I will say this about our foods though. I generally think that ours tastes better, but then I’m a little biased. I wonder how many American’s come to Canada to buy our food?
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December 4th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
“You call it soda, I call it completely unfair that you get Cherry Crush, Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke and we don’t .”
But in Canada you get your sodas made with REAL sugar instead of the HFCS toxic waste we have to put up with. So it’s a trade-off.
December 6th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
haha! I was waiting for someone to say that. I’ve been told that many a time by others too.
December 4th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
I’ve tried pizza flavored Pringles before. They kinda taste like a pizza. I like Lays tomato and basil Potato chips too.
December 5th, 2012 at 8:28 am
You should check out jlist.com
Japan has some kah-razy foodstuffs. Tropical chicken pringles, tenticle grape soda, and I forget what they’re called but they’re tiny chocolate burgers.
December 6th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Yeah, I hear that Japan loves it’s limited time/seasonal flavors. I wish we had that sort of thing over here.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:03 am
We still have vanilla coke here in Australia, and some specialty stores have cherry coke, but that’s it. Americans have some pretty cool looking cereal.
Perhaps we make up for it by being one of the few countries to eat it’s own national emblems (Kangaroo and Emu)
December 6th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Really? You eat kangaroo?
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What’s it like?
December 7th, 2012 at 1:47 am
It’s really healthy, with almost no fat on it. It has a strong smell when it’s cooked, but I think it tastes yummy. Especially bbq’d then put in a bun.
December 6th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Wow… I can honestly say that I’ve never tried any of these foods. Chex mix and Pringles come the closest, but I’ve not had those flavors. My wife recently found a sweet/salty M&M mix that we’ve enjoyed, which shocked me, since I’m not all that fond of sweets (I tend to have a savory tooth).
I think it’s interesting that you find food here cheap. I was just having a conversation with my sister about how expensive food is here compared to where she lives. Which makes me wonder: is it just snack foods that are cheaper in the States, or are staple foods cheaper here too?
December 8th, 2012 at 12:05 am
We have Cookie goldfish?!!! Man ive been living under a rock…
Turtle chex mix isn’t bad i like the caramel bits!
December 8th, 2012 at 1:13 pm
If you can find grenadine in Canada (it’s a non-alcoholic cherry flavoring usually found in the alcohol section of a grocery store in America), mix a little bit of that with your favorite cola and you’ll never want another canned cherry cola again.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Strange, I come across Vanilla Coke and Cherry Coke all the time here in Toronto. As for how good, I always found that you had to mix the Vanilla Coke with 2-3 times as much regular Coke.
As for why you can find all sorts of gluten-free stuff in the States but not in Canada: Most of that stuff is the kind intended for idiots who have fallen for a altie diet fad and simply can’t meet Canadian labeling requirements[1].
[1] Which are based on the needs of people with things like celiac.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
A bit I forgot: In Canada it’s also illegal to label your product as being “X Free” if “X” would not normally be present, (as it implies that similar products do have it).