Tesco's USA sweet goodies!

Merlin5 · 12 Jan 2013 at 19:12

Craig1981 said:
Flipz?! I LOOOOOOOOOVE Flipz!!!

There's peanut butter and chocolate ones too, and also cadburys ones, though I don't think those were in the shop. I think I'll treat myself to a bag of flipz before it closes tonight.

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=274579344
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=274579483
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=275087527

Kanifee · 12 Jan 2013 at 19:37

root beer!

Lew · 12 Jan 2013 at 20:40

Was this a Tesco extra store or just a normal one? Haven't got any of this in the Tesco near me

CliffyBiro · 12 Jan 2013 at 20:47

Hershey's chocolate is horrible. My chocolate consumption has reduced a LOT.

You'd also be incredibly lucky to find Twinkies anywhere at this point. Your best bet would be to try to find Cloud Cakes.

Merlin5 · 12 Jan 2013 at 21:44

Lew said:
Was this a Tesco extra store or just a normal one? Haven't got any of this in the Tesco near me

Well, they're at my local Tesco in my high street which they call a superstore but in fact, it's not one of the big ones, it's a very average sized store. I just drove to another one near me which is massive and called Tesco Extra but they've got absolutely no USA stuff there which surprised me.

Kanifee said:
root beer!

Glaucus said:
Do they have root beer, that's all I want to know.

You'll be pleased to know that there's Boylan's cane sugar root beer 335ml bottles for £1.50 and Boylans cane sugar black cherry caffeine in a same sized bottle for £1.60.

You can just see the tops of the bottles at the bottom left of my first picture.

Well, they only have the dark chocolate pretzels left and I wanted the milk chocolate with peanut butter ones.

They're out of stock along with butterfinger choc bar and baby ruth choc bar. But I was told they're all being delivered tonight and should be in the shop tomorrow. I'm sort of hesitant though about paying £3.25 for a small handful of pretzels, it's quite a lot of money really. But they are nice

Meanwhile, I bought these and will test them out tonight and give you my verdict. It's a tough job but someone's got to be the guinea pig.

See that, a tootsie roll. I'm sure I've heard a gangster offer one of those to someone in a movie before.

Merlin5 · 12 Jan 2013 at 21:57

Verdict:

Tootsie roll : garbage. Very chewy chocolatey..er.. I don't know what.
Cookie Dough bites: crap. Was really expecting these to be nice, very disappointing.
Hershey bar : Decent. Best of the lot, quite nice (well,by comparison to the above two at least) but not a patch on anything UK produces.

Capt Doufos · 12 Jan 2013 at 22:15

I do like a babyruth. Can't believe they don't have the other M&M's they are awesome. Dark Chocolate and Peanut putter are the best ones. The Pretzel ones are tasty as well.

Hershy's milk is vile, the dark is ok though

andrewdodd13 · 12 Jan 2013 at 22:35

All I want to know is do they have Tim Tams?

CrapshoT · 12 Jan 2013 at 22:50

You can't beat a tootsie roll.great for times of mega munchies.
Only 50 calories a bar too!!!

Mr-White · 12 Jan 2013 at 22:59

Craig1981 said:
Yeah Hersheys has a terrible aftertaste that I really dislike. Apparantly its down to the way its made that makes it so bitter.

MrMarvelous said:
My God Hersheys? Really?

It's got to be the worst chocolate i've ever tasted, tastes so artificial and greasy I actually spat it out. And that's saying something because I practically will eat anything sweet.

ShakenNstirred said:
yeah that's not real chocolate I was surprised how bad it was when I tried it when I was over there.
I loved peanut butter M&M's though, pity they don't sell them

It's the PGPR they put in it to replace the cocoa butter that they remove and sell to the cosmetic industry as they can get more money for it.

MW

Smigly · 12 Jan 2013 at 23:04

I'm disappointed they don't have lemonheads.

Lew · 12 Jan 2013 at 23:10

Merlin5 said:
Well, they're at my local Tesco in my high street which they call a superstore but in fact, it's not one of the big ones, it's a very average sized store. I just drove to another one near me which is massive and called Tesco Extra but they've got absolutely no USA stuff there which surprised me.
.

Thanks will have a drive to the Tesco Extra store as my local doesn't have any.

Always fancied trying some of these products

Smigly · 12 Jan 2013 at 23:11

Might have to get some SweetTarts though. I've still got half a box in my car door so I can eat them on the go but they've gone a bit funny looking now.

One More Solo · 12 Jan 2013 at 23:37

andrewdodd13 said:
All I want to know is do they have Tim Tams?

Tim Tams are Australian?

Craig1981 · 12 Jan 2013 at 23:56

Merlin5 said:
Verdict:

Tootsie roll : garbage. Very chewy chocolatey..er.. I don't know what.
Cookie Dough bites: crap. Was really expecting these to be nice, very disappointing.
Hershey bar : Decent. Best of the lot, quite nice (well,by comparison to the above two at least) but not a patch on anything UK produces.

I've never tried Tootsie rolls. I've had a few varieties of the cookie dough bites. Like you I wasn't keen on the peanut butter ones. The red velvet cupcake bites or the cinnamon bun bites were much better.

Peanut butter twixes are really nice if you can get them there. Baby Ruths are pretty decent. I prefer fruity candies over chocolate ones though. You should try the Wonka Runts.

robfosters · 13 Jan 2013 at 00:01

Have they got Reese's peanut butter cups? I love them.

Smigly · 13 Jan 2013 at 00:02

robfosters said:
Have they got Reese's peanut butter cups? I love them.

Morrison's have had these for donkeys.

Charliej · 13 Jan 2013 at 00:06

One More Solo said:
Tim Tams are Australian?

Yes Tim Tams are Australian, but a lot of the larger Tesco stores have them in the normal biscuit aisle.

Jackaby · 13 Jan 2013 at 01:51

The only product the USA is truly good for is Mountain Dew - The English equivalent can eat my ass.

glosrfc · 13 Jan 2013 at 01:52

Got to agree with the Herschey's comments...that stuff is vile. And grits? Who in their right mind is going to buy them over here?

Stuck in a Greyhound bus in the states, I decided to "treat" myself to an individual Hostess Cherry Pie from one of the many truck stops. The ingredient list was quite illuminating:
Corn flour
Corn starch
Corn sugar
Corn fructose
Corn oil
The whole thing seemed to be constructed entirely from corn - the one thing that wasn't mentioned at all was...cherries!