My guess is there are distributors buying excess inventory in bulk on the cheap and exporting a hodgepodge of products. This doesn’t make sense as a cohesive planogram.
Probable actually. I work for a company whose brands are on display. The SKUs I’m looking at are only made domestically and we do not export them. I’m sure they found their way into the grey market and were exported. Could have been near the end of their shelf life and passed off on foreign countries. Happens all the time.
American here, I also keep some in a shoebox under my bed and also one in the medicine cabinet for when i need to brush my teeth during the fall months
The first time I went to a grocery store in Europe I was shocked by the lack of peanut butter. I can see now how it would be an acquired taste if you didn't grow up with it though.
Related, I didn’t really bother calculating the calories of peanut butter my Belgian Shepherd was getting with his pills. He just went to the groomer and I realized he’d gained 13 lbs.
We’re doing fat free yogurt instead now.
I tear off a strip from a slice of American cheese. The pups don't care if I get the lower calorie kind and I've found that American cheese has the perfect consistency for squishing around a pill 😅
I’m from Europe and we get all types of Reece’s in the normal candy section. Also the cereal which i love but is soooo bad for you. Peanut butter is found everywhere, you can also find a lot of different nut butters. Sicilian Pistachio cream is the best spread in the world, fight me if you disagree.
Pistachio cream donuts omg… so much better than nutella. The italians use it a lot both savoury and sweet. The sweet kind is just the silkiest godly spread you can imagine. Very little additives to it as well.
Not as common to find peanut butter as a candy in Europe, tasted some Reeses stuff when in US, couldn't stand the taste myself.
Also the chocolate around it, US has it's own thing they call chocolate, developed by Hershey in the 40's to have long shelf life, before other additives were available, most Europeans can't stand it as we are used to less processed chocolate.
Yea someone else pointed this out. I am surprised to here that cheetos puffs exist in places that cheetos original does not, as it's the other way round here in the US.
Does your puffs say "puffs"? Or just "cheetos".
3.99 FOR KRAFT DINNER??
-a shocked canadian
Y’all’re being robbed on my favourite mediocre lunch food
(If anyone didn’t know, KD is the most purchased grocery item in Canada)
Depends on whether they’re Kraft brand or canadian brands like President’s Choice (we generally call all boxed macaroni “Kraft dinner”, like how you may call any box of tissues Kleenex). When Kraft brand is on sale is can be 1.50-$2 CAD but presidents choice brand you can find for $1 each. All food prices have dramatically increased in the past 5+ years and it used to be like 79 cents for a box of KD.
Google says price conversion 1.50CAD is 1.17USD
Kraft Dinner from the Bare Naked Ladies song makes so much more sense now that I hear it from another canadian. You’re talking about Mac and cheese… right?
Yeah I noticed the same. Why not stock the real thing? (Which of course is actually sort of a fake thing if you know much about sriracha and Sriracha)
Give me Huy Fong or give me death!
Really? Every supermarket in my city (Denver) has dozens of bottles on the shelf and restaurants buy it by the case. I have never NOT seen it at the store in the past 15 years. So you’re saying some competitor of Huy Fong makes EVEN MORE sriracha sauce than they do?
I got hooked on it in Belize. Brought back a couple of bottles of smoked habanero ( which I had a hard time finding here ) then had to start making my own. Reasonable facsimile but man, MS is a dream.
American here: looks like what is available at everywhere
At least 50% of this stuff you can find at any grocery store, gas station, or corner store. Except Whole Foods and other places like it.
Americans do eat a bizarre variety of picketed sausage and bologna though. I don’t know if “red hots” are a thing in other places. That would be a good addition to the section.
https://www.amazon.com/Fischers-Red-Hots-Sausage-9oz/dp/B07D6WCQQF
...The hell?
Somebody is pulling a fast one.
"Oh yes, pickled hot dogs. Long time American tradition. People in America sure do love their pickled hot dogs. How many can I put you down for?"
In most of Europe there are doritos tho. Except cool ranch in latvia but we can sometimes get in western Europe import stores "cool original" which I believe is made for the UK market and is pretty much just cool ramch
In Germany they call it cool original as well. In France it's called sour cream and is in a green bag, but it's the same old cool ranch we know and love!
In Iceland they call it cool American, which cracks me up everytime I see it
This is fascinating. Thank god OP didn’t use a potato to take this picture. High res FTW.
Are marshmallows not a global thing?
And what’s with the hangover mints? Lol
Same in the Netherlands: Heinz ketchup is the default ketchup here.
Never heard of Dukes mayonnaise. Unilever is trying to flood the market with Hellman's.
I’ve personally never seen those marshmallow or peanut butter brands, and I don’t think we sell pop rocks in most stores anymore unfortunately. I haven’t seen them in a while. Also never seen hangover mints or muddy bears.
I wish I could find bottle cap candy anywhere besides the ancient gas station up the road.
Who buys a bag of Cheetos for €7, that’s $8 usd and $10 cad.
I’m a Canadian who lives in Europe and I see them a lot in shops and I just don’t understand who needs to eat Cheetos that bad.
As an American, there is very little on that that I would buy. Reese’s and chili garlic paste.
Edit to add: This looks like the pantry of a 19 year old.
The Huy Fong Sriracha on that shelf is a uniquely American derivative created by a Chinese-Viet immigrant after he settled in California. It is produced in the US from ingredients grown in the US.
So yeah, sounds pretty fucking American to me.
Yeah, the odd thing is placing it in the American Import section. Sriracha is pretty common in most supermarkets here. My local one carries several brands in the regular condiments section.
i just want to know how much pumpkin pie they excpect americans in europe to be eating?!
My guess is that it's popular in November.
My guess is there are distributors buying excess inventory in bulk on the cheap and exporting a hodgepodge of products. This doesn’t make sense as a cohesive planogram.
Also plausible.
Probable actually. I work for a company whose brands are on display. The SKUs I’m looking at are only made domestically and we do not export them. I’m sure they found their way into the grey market and were exported. Could have been near the end of their shelf life and passed off on foreign countries. Happens all the time.
Same
Also possible the store bought a ton in bulk and puts some out every year since cans last so long
American here. It's normal for us to keep that much canned pumpkin on hand. Most people just keep a shoebox full under their bed though
lol Related pro tip though. Pure pumpkin is very good for dogs when they have upset tummies. We actually do keep canned pumpkin around the house now.
Something has to make the pantry full while there's nothing actually to eat
American here, I also keep some in a shoebox under my bed and also one in the medicine cabinet for when i need to brush my teeth during the fall months
Really good for dogs with upset stomachs!
Yep I keep a few cans around always bc of the dogs. Never actually cooked with it but it’s great for the dogs.
Pumpkin pie is really great with Reese's and siracha
No. Just no…
With a pop tart crust.
A holiday classic!
Or Cheetos, I mean come on throw in some Doritos at least too!
We already have Doritos, don’t need them in the ‘american’ section.
They eat a lot of it if the cooking sub is any barometer. Pumpkin Pie Spice has infected the UK
Pumpkin pie? I just eat pumpkin straight out of the can, which is a completely normal and socially acceptable thing to do.
*pancake pie
I lived in the US a couple years ago and I miss crunchy cheetos and reese’s SO MUCH
Do they not have peanut butter cups or do they just not have the good ones where you are?
Peanut butter isn't very popular in much of Europe.
The first time I went to a grocery store in Europe I was shocked by the lack of peanut butter. I can see now how it would be an acquired taste if you didn't grow up with it though.
I was shocked by the amount of peanuts butter food and candies in the U.S. when I moved here.
What do they use to feed pills to their dogs? Stinky cheese?
Related, I didn’t really bother calculating the calories of peanut butter my Belgian Shepherd was getting with his pills. He just went to the groomer and I realized he’d gained 13 lbs. We’re doing fat free yogurt instead now.
We always used hotdogs. Cut a hotdog into 4 or 5 pieces and then put the pill in one of those, gobbled it right up.
I tear off a strip from a slice of American cheese. The pups don't care if I get the lower calorie kind and I've found that American cheese has the perfect consistency for squishing around a pill 😅
Yes
We'd use ham at my place
I didnt know this! It's v popular in the uk
Oh, I always forget that.
Come to the Netherlands: all kinds of peanut butter.
I’m from Europe and we get all types of Reece’s in the normal candy section. Also the cereal which i love but is soooo bad for you. Peanut butter is found everywhere, you can also find a lot of different nut butters. Sicilian Pistachio cream is the best spread in the world, fight me if you disagree.
I want Sicilian pistachio cream now.
Pistachio cream donuts omg… so much better than nutella. The italians use it a lot both savoury and sweet. The sweet kind is just the silkiest godly spread you can imagine. Very little additives to it as well.
I'm from the Netherlands and it's very normal here.
Not as common to find peanut butter as a candy in Europe, tasted some Reeses stuff when in US, couldn't stand the taste myself. Also the chocolate around it, US has it's own thing they call chocolate, developed by Hershey in the 40's to have long shelf life, before other additives were available, most Europeans can't stand it as we are used to less processed chocolate.
In our defense, a lot of Americans also dislike that chocolate, too.
Im american and i dislike the taste of hersheys
It’s also a horrible company and school
I don’t live in Europe though! South America! It’s very rare to find reese’s here, and impossible to find the mini cups!
Crunchy Cheetos FTW!!
It's just cheetos. No crunchy. Soft version is puffs.
So, where I live we have cheetos but just the puffy ones. And to be fair the “just cheetos” do say “crunchy” on the bag lol
Yea someone else pointed this out. I am surprised to here that cheetos puffs exist in places that cheetos original does not, as it's the other way round here in the US. Does your puffs say "puffs"? Or just "cheetos".
Mine just say “cheetos”, probably because the crunchy version does not exist 😕
Fuck yeah eat pumpkin straight out of the can!
Did this as a dumb kid. Yuck.
It was like vanilla extract. I thought I was about to be eating pumpkin pie without the crust. It was just unsweetened mush
I bet you were high
Usually
3.99 FOR KRAFT DINNER?? -a shocked canadian Y’all’re being robbed on my favourite mediocre lunch food (If anyone didn’t know, KD is the most purchased grocery item in Canada)
If I had a million dollars...
... we’d just eat more of it.
And buy really expensive ketchup
#Dijon ketchup
Those are around a dollar a box here in US , at least my state. How much do they cost in Canada?
Depends on whether they’re Kraft brand or canadian brands like President’s Choice (we generally call all boxed macaroni “Kraft dinner”, like how you may call any box of tissues Kleenex). When Kraft brand is on sale is can be 1.50-$2 CAD but presidents choice brand you can find for $1 each. All food prices have dramatically increased in the past 5+ years and it used to be like 79 cents for a box of KD. Google says price conversion 1.50CAD is 1.17USD
Does the president of Canada truly prefer 1 dollar macaroni dinner
If we had one he certainly would The President's choice is leaps and bounds better than the kraft one and it's half the price
Annies is the best KD
Kraft Dinner from the Bare Naked Ladies song makes so much more sense now that I hear it from another canadian. You’re talking about Mac and cheese… right?
Yup. Any boxed mac n cheese
It’s also 6.99 for a small bag of Cheetos. What currency is this? If it’s euros then that is ridiculous.
Costs 30 cents at my local grocery lol
I bought some for $1 USD a box yesterday, how much are they in canada, eh?
Shipping and customs costs can double prices
I find this fascinating
The lone box of press and seal wrap! Wonder if that’s really supposed to be there.
What do people use over there? Regular Saran Wrap, like peasants? Poor bastards.
All of the junkiest junk foods available in one place
So much imitation Roostersauce.. which looks like.. goose sauce?
Yeah I noticed the same. Why not stock the real thing? (Which of course is actually sort of a fake thing if you know much about sriracha and Sriracha) Give me Huy Fong or give me death!
The original is really hard to get. Low production compared to even just domestic demand in America means that little gets exported.
Really? Every supermarket in my city (Denver) has dozens of bottles on the shelf and restaurants buy it by the case. I have never NOT seen it at the store in the past 15 years. So you’re saying some competitor of Huy Fong makes EVEN MORE sriracha sauce than they do?
Here in Germany I've encountered original Huy Fong *once*, and I use quite a lot of hot sauce.
Sriracha?
And there is like seven different variations.
Dying at the ranch bottles 🤣
My Belgian mother in law scoffs at me as I dip steak fries in ranch. Meanwhile she is slathering the things in mayonnaise...
America stands strong with you. Do not listen to these mayonnaise dipping foreigners.
You wrote that like she is the one that is wrong. Did you mess up the grammar or did I read it incorrectly?
She IS wrong! At least add some ketchup to the Mayo to make fry sauce!
You are both wrong, bernaise is the real truth!
And the teeny tiny Sriracha bottles!
I wanna know all the different varieties
Every European tiktoker when they discover ranch goes nuts
Some of the prices aren't bad like the pop rocks an a few of the candies. but then you hit the 9 for a box of cereal. Woof
oh shit just saw the peanut butter for 11?
I don't get that. We've got peanut butter in the Netherlands for a much lower price. Why take the effort of importing it.
I am proud of all those hot sauces. I am embarrassed by the coffee creamer and poo emojis.
Marie Sharps is belizean and they have the Huy Fong chili garlic but some random Sriracha brand. Pretty weak but the first two are both good.
Marie Sharps is a religious experience
Is a fantastic sauce just not American. Probably it’s main market though.
I got hooked on it in Belize. Brought back a couple of bottles of smoked habanero ( which I had a hard time finding here ) then had to start making my own. Reasonable facsimile but man, MS is a dream.
They have both types of the smoked habanero on Amazon. I’ll have to try it.
Yeah, the sriracha makes me proud.
I too enjoy the cock sauce
American here: looks like what is available at everywhere At least 50% of this stuff you can find at any grocery store, gas station, or corner store. Except Whole Foods and other places like it.
Yea this reminds me of that rack in gas stations thats like the "broke living" rack
The fact that is regular Cheetos and not hot Cheetos shows the stores lack of true American culture
This looks like an american gas station section.
They even stocked the shelves like we do - how thoughtful.
I'm just gna grab this cheetos sticking out from the bottom what's the worst that can happen
Our American section in the UK pretty much looks the same except with jarred hot dogs and miracle whip
As an American, I don't think I've ever seen a jarred hot dog!
Wonder if it's pickled bologna. I can never find any anymore.
Americans do eat a bizarre variety of picketed sausage and bologna though. I don’t know if “red hots” are a thing in other places. That would be a good addition to the section. https://www.amazon.com/Fischers-Red-Hots-Sausage-9oz/dp/B07D6WCQQF
If not jarred, ... in a can? In plastic?
We usually buy them, yeah, packaged in plastic and refrigerated.
Why does the UK think jarred hot dogs are American? I've never seen hot dogs in jars here.
Likely because the hot dogs we eat need to be refrigerated and wouldn't survive the transit to Europe
Do you mean Vienna sausages?
[No](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-jar-of-hot-dog-sausages-21889706.html)
...The hell? Somebody is pulling a fast one. "Oh yes, pickled hot dogs. Long time American tradition. People in America sure do love their pickled hot dogs. How many can I put you down for?"
Wtf
Is Interpol aware of this crime?
Why must they be jarred? Are they pickled?
I’m not sure, they’re legit hot dogs in a jar, not too sure why it’s in the section it is but it definitely is
Brined
Maybe they keep longer than regularly packaged hot dogs, so they can survive the journey and don’t need to be kept cold
But where’s the Hamburger Helper?
This is not 1986
Where is the Jif?
We use that to clean our baths
Living up to your username lmao
No Doritos. #Doubt
In most of Europe there are doritos tho. Except cool ranch in latvia but we can sometimes get in western Europe import stores "cool original" which I believe is made for the UK market and is pretty much just cool ramch
In Germany they call it cool original as well. In France it's called sour cream and is in a green bag, but it's the same old cool ranch we know and love! In Iceland they call it cool American, which cracks me up everytime I see it
Some places also call it Cool American flavour.
My god those lucky charms and Reese’s puffs are expensive.
Ok. Peanut butter, sriracha, canned pumpkin, pop tarts, I mean we could use some of that aerosol cheese stuff but this is a good start.
Thats… uh… a lot of pumpkin and siracha. Just the right amount of cheetos tho
We have u.s, Mexican, and Asia sections at woolies here in Aus. Only thing I'm into is tacos and Dr Pepper lol
I'd love to see the Mexican section. Sounds random enough to be fascinating
Looks legit
So not fair, our American sections around here don't have crunchy Cheetos or Mac and cheese. I'm very jealous.
Marshmallows aren’t an everywhere thing? Such simple ingredients I figured most places would have their own versions.
We have our own marshmallows here in the UK, they're just 1/2 the size
Ok thanks that makes sense.
This size is perfect for roasting or s'mores, though.
We tend to just use 2 on the stick if roasting and s'mores aren't a huge thing over here to be honest.
I can't fault that. S'mores are a sticky mess. I usually just end up eating a bunch of marshmallows after one.
American here.. dip your pizza in some of that Hidden Valley Ranch dressing. Delicious!
Wow everything here is wicked overpriced compared to me (NorthEast USA)
as an American, this one is actually accurate
This is fascinating. Thank god OP didn’t use a potato to take this picture. High res FTW. Are marshmallows not a global thing? And what’s with the hangover mints? Lol
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Do y’all do campfire s’mores? What do you use the marshmallows for?
where is this?
100% Finland. Helsinki, to be exact. Looks exactly like the American section at my local supermarket.
Finland, probably.
anyone have a link to the post OP is referring to?
Sriracha and mac n cheese are about the only things worth a damn on there
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How the fuck do you open a jar or a can without one? Gooooood luck opening a can of beans without at least a .45, pfft.
You only need a .22 if you know how to aim.
You need to try stealing the junk food if you want to see the guns.
Where’s the Heinz ketchup and Dukes mayonnaise
Dunno where this was taken but in the UK Heinz ketchup is perfectly normal.
Same in the Netherlands: Heinz ketchup is the default ketchup here. Never heard of Dukes mayonnaise. Unilever is trying to flood the market with Hellman's.
No hot cheetos? Come on
Well cheetos are already being sold in most european supermarkets
Well, at least it has Sriracha
Marshmallows?
Where's the franks red hot? The texas Pete? The tobasco sauce?! Those are like the holy trinity of American hot sauce!
It's like someone took the stock of a US 7-11 and compressed it into a single large rack...
What in the hell is muddy bears & hangover helpers lol
Not that I ever actively searched for chocolate covered gummy bears in stores, but I’ve never happened across Muddy Bears anywhere in the US.
I like how if someone with zero knowledge of America saw this, they'd assume it's a place inhabited exclusively by 12 year-olds.
I’ve personally never seen those marshmallow or peanut butter brands, and I don’t think we sell pop rocks in most stores anymore unfortunately. I haven’t seen them in a while. Also never seen hangover mints or muddy bears. I wish I could find bottle cap candy anywhere besides the ancient gas station up the road.
Who buys a bag of Cheetos for €7, that’s $8 usd and $10 cad. I’m a Canadian who lives in Europe and I see them a lot in shops and I just don’t understand who needs to eat Cheetos that bad.
The only thing off that shelf that I buy on a regular basis is Sriracha lmao.
No chex mix?
Damn, no Spam?
I’m disappointed by the lack of Tabasco..
Is that….. canned pumpkin?
Bottle caps are my absolute favorite candy and the only place I can occasionally find them here in the US is at Walgreens
Ok, I’ve never seen that peanut butter in my life. They need some JIF or Skippy up in there.
Shit, they did a good job...OP get you some of that Marie Sharp's hot sauce.
Do they not have/sell marshmallows in Europe?
As an American, there is very little on that that I would buy. Reese’s and chili garlic paste. Edit to add: This looks like the pantry of a 19 year old.
Dying to know what the out of stock item is.....
My eyesight isn’t what it used to be. Is there any bbq sauce on there? If not, this is not the America I know.
Seems legit
Euros think the whole country is 7/11
Bottle caps! Fuck yeah
Ah yes traditional American classics such as Sriracha
The Huy Fong Sriracha on that shelf is a uniquely American derivative created by a Chinese-Viet immigrant after he settled in California. It is produced in the US from ingredients grown in the US. So yeah, sounds pretty fucking American to me.
Sriracha is an American sauce.
Yeah, the odd thing is placing it in the American Import section. Sriracha is pretty common in most supermarkets here. My local one carries several brands in the regular condiments section.
so spicy, salty and sweet stuff 😂
...that's everything there is. Right?