wait, in the US you don't have Coffee Crisp, Aero, or Smarties?

[Stu35]

wait, in the US you don't have Coffee Crisp, Aero, or Smarties?

That sucks.

I'm told Canada doesn't get Cadbury Creme eggs except around Easter. Is that true?


I've also recently read that Irn Bru is banned there. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Canada]



So, basically, what reasons do you actually have for living?

 

[Zontar]

wait, in the US you don't have Coffee Crisp, Aero, or Smarties?

That sucks.

I'm told Canada doesn't get Cadbury Creme eggs except around Easter. Is that true?


I've also recently read that Irn Bru is banned there. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Canada]



So, basically, what reasons do you actually have for living?

The part about Cadbury Creme eggs is true.

As for the Irn Bru, the ban will probably be lifted if a colouring that is aproved is used, but to be honest the drink has never been that popular here.

OT, the line I needed to post this was "chocolate rain". Can you say irony?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

These are the Smarties this topic is talking about...

Spoiler: The Genuine Article

We have M&Ms instead. Like the Hersey's Air Delight, probably not as good.

I hate to be an ass, but m&m's are not smarties, they're peanuts covered in layers of chocolate with sugar shells ( or whatever the new ones are, there are different ones i grant you. )

Actually what you're referring to is the peanut m&ms. The original m&ms are just chocolate squished spheres covered in candy. They're actually marketed as melt in your mouth. However they probably don't taste as good as smarties.

That being said, I recognize there is a taste and size difference, which is why I said m&ms probably don't taste as good. I like Nestle chocolate more, but have never had Smarties.

 

[Fishcactus]

It's shocking to me that a lot of countries don't have Tim Tams

You have not truly lived until you've eaten a whole packet in an half an hour or less.

Yeah we do but here in the UK it's Penguins, well I think cause they look familiar.

Is it only New Zealand that has Tim Tams? Maybe Australia does but i've never been there.

As somebody who has had both Penguins and Tim Tams, i'd say that Penguins are softer and more "melt in your mouth" whereas Tim Tams are crunchier and have a harder biscuit. Personally I like Penguin bars better.

 

[Starnerf]

We do have Tim-Tams in the US, but they're made by Pepperidge Farm and sold only in Target stores. From what I've read they're exactly the same as the Arnott's ones, since they're made in the same factory.

Spoiler

 

[CJ1145]

As another guy from Ohio, where's the closest place to get all this delicious foreign candy? I think there's some kind of big candy shop down in Newport but I don't know how much in the way of foreign stuff it actually has. Does Jungle Jim's stock candy?

 

[StriderShinryu]

Florida here. I've had British Smarties plenty of times, because grocery stores in areas with large brit populations tend to have a good stock of British candy in the international food aisle. There's this one town in particular where a lot of wealthy Brits have Summer homes, and the Publix in that town is /full/ of the stuff. I've also had Aero, although it didn't stick out in my mind as anything but chocolate with holes in it. Can't say I've even heard of Coffee Crisp.

By the way, there /is/ a difference between Smarties and M&Ms other than the size: the shells on the Smarties are mildly flavored, M&Ms have food coloring but the shells are just sugar shells, no flavoring added.

Yeah, Aero is pretty much just milk chocolate with air bubbles. I actually prefer it to a standard plain milk chocolate bar so maybe there's something else going on with it but if there is it's nothing I can tell just by looking at one. Aero's also one of those chocolate bars that gets put out in different varieties with mint probably being the most common.

And absolutely on the M&M/Smarties comparison. Yes, both are chocolate covered in a candy shell but they are really nothing alike in terms of taste. Smarties have a much harder shell and the shell is flavoured. They also don't come in peanut or pretzel or almond varieties like M&Ms do. I love M&Ms and will eat them in any variety but I wouldn't even eat Smarties if someone gives them to me for free. They are totally different.

Coffee Crisp is probably one of my favourite chocolate bars. It's sort of a chocolate coated wafer bar similar to a really big Kit Kat. The wafers have a slight coffee flavour to them. Very very nice, though very sweet. It's the sort of chocolate bar that you could eat half of and then want to just save the other half for later.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

We do have Tim-Tams in the US, but they're made by Pepperidge Farm and sold only in Target stores. From what I've read they're exactly the same as the Arnott's ones, since they're made in the same factory

Which means they're not 'made' by Pepperidge Farm. Rebranding doesn't change a thing.

Also, for those not in the know, the Tim Tam turned 50 this year.


Of course, until the rest of the world (except kiwiland who get most of the Arnott's range) knows the joy of the Arnott's Mint Slice you're all the poorer for it.

 

[Griffolion]

Most American food is great, but their chocolate is horrific. Hersheys may as well just give up all pretense and start packaging wax. As a Brit moving to the US later this year, I'm not looking forward to the lack of good chocolate, since I do love the stuff.

 

[Someone Depressing]

It's like Stalin rose from the dead and became the head of the confection monopoly.

I shall pray for the yanks, as they go without their bubbles.

 

[Aesir23]

The US doesn't have Coffee Crisp?! I may not eat a lot of chocolate but I think that would be the one I would miss the most if I were to ever move south of the border.

 

[BiscuitWheels]

I swear to God there was a Coffee Crisp commercial that I used to see on t.v. with KC and the Sunshine Band's That's the Way I Like It. It was on the tube when I was a kid..though it could have been playing on the Canadian channels I could pick up on the rabbit ears here up near Niagara Falls. I'm old..I remember black and white sets and UHF stations.

 

[BiscuitWheels]

I swear to God there was a Coffee Crisp commercial that I used to see on t.v. with KC and the Sunshine Band's That's the Way I Like It. It was on the tube when I was a kid..though it could have been playing on the Canadian channels I could pick up on the rabbit ears here up near Niagara Falls. I'm old..I remember black and white sets and UHF stations.

DOUBLE POST! Sorry about this, folks. Didn't mean it.

 

[ensouls]

It makes me deeply sad that Coffee Crisp isn't a coffee-flavoured version of Cookie Crisp cereal. I don't eat breakfast either way, but coffee flavoured cereal might do it.

Our grocery store has an imported candies section, and we try something new each week. Maybe it's a poor representative sample, but damn I hate the British candy. It's been almost as bad as American, even discounting the shared brands. Last time it was a Walnut Whip. /shudder/

Jameson truffle bars are pretty good though :L

 

[Lightknight]

It's shocking to me that a lot of countries don't have Tim Tams

You have not truly lived until you've eaten a whole packet in an half an hour or less.

Yeah we do but here in the UK it's Penguins, well I think cause they look familiar.

Those, like nearly everything else mentioned here, are also present in the international foods aisle of Publix in the southeast.

 

[putowtin]

Of course we have Smarties, but we call them M&Ms.

That's like saying we don't wear trousers just because we call them pants. (Granted, your chocolate trousers are generally better than our chocolate pants)

Smarties and M&M are completely different, one has lovely chocolate inside a sugar shell the others are M&M's!
:]

(seriously american chocolate... not good!)