Tesco's USA sweet goodies!

Mark A · 13 Jan 2013 at 02:14

I get the impression from this thread that peanut butter is very popular in the US

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I think i'm going to have to get some poptarts tomorrow. Not had them for ages.

Merlin5 · 13 Jan 2013 at 03:50

glosrfc said:
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!

Lol. So what was the corn based pastry like compared to a good old english cherry pie?

Mark A said:
I get the impression from this thread that peanut butter is very popular in the US .

I think i'm going to have to get some poptarts tomorrow. Not had them for ages.

Yeah, americans do seem to have a staple diet of corn products and peanut butter. There's a few varieties of peanut butter at tesco, including JIF peanut butter, Smuckers Goober Grape And Peanut Butter Spread, and Smuckers Goober Strawberry And Peanut Butter Spread. I guess it means it's.. peanut butter jelly time!

Craig1981 · 13 Jan 2013 at 12:30

I've tried the smuckers peanut butter and grape. I thought it was quite nice.

J-FRO · 13 Jan 2013 at 13:41

Hersheys cookies and cream is probably the only nice hershey bar....

Craig1981 · 13 Jan 2013 at 14:10

J-FRO said:
Hersheys cookies and cream is probably the only nice hershey bar....

Amen to that. They have one called an Air Delight thats like an aero bar, kind of bubbly chocolate. It is AWFUL!!!

thecremeegg · 13 Jan 2013 at 16:18

Standard milk Hershey's is vile, truly horrible. The dark chococlate version is tolerable however

glosrfc · 13 Jan 2013 at 16:40

Merlin5 said:
Lol. So what was the corn based pastry like compared to a good old english cherry pie?

Like most of their products with an unlimited shelf-life (Twinkies, Ding Dongs), it was pretty horrendous. A cement-like casing of pastry surrounding a gloop of bright red chemical substitute for cherries. The whole thing had been liberally dipped in sugar, possibly to disguise the abundance of corn. Unfortunately this intense sugar hit (almost a third of each 120g pie consisted entirely of sugar) did little to hide the cloying taste of each mouthful.

Other dubious ingredients that I can recall from the packaging included locust bean, soy beans, canola oil, beef fat and a completely new one to me - cottonseed. This probably explains why it felt like I was trying to chew through my shirt. Halfway through this exercise in masticatory futility, I gave up, and tossed it out of the bus window.

Craig1981 · 13 Jan 2013 at 17:01

^ Mmmmm. Sounds devine! :s

andrewdodd13 · 13 Jan 2013 at 17:06

One More Solo said:
Tim Tams are Australian?

I know this, however the aisle is called "world foods aisle", and contrary to what we stereotype the American's as believing...

kwerk · 13 Jan 2013 at 17:19

Enjoy eating your brown wax.

FTM · 13 Jan 2013 at 17:45

mmm nerds

CliffyBiro · 13 Jan 2013 at 18:25

Hershey Drops are alright, in the absence of Cadbury's Tasters.

MrMarvelous · 13 Jan 2013 at 20:02

I don't know, i've tried a lot of this American food and I think it's over hyped. People were raving about Oreos, tried them and they tasted really plain. Same with Twinkies, taste like really cheap Swiss rolls with a glue-like filling.

it's probably just me though but I much prefer our U.K based sweet stuff.

Razor-BladE · 13 Jan 2013 at 20:23

Oreos are great! Pack of Oreos + milk in a blender = NOM!

alexakasloth · 13 Jan 2013 at 20:55

Butterfingers are seriously good!

Mark A · 13 Jan 2013 at 22:04

Oreos are one American food i really do like. Shame they are so expensive though, I only buy them when they're on offer for 50p a pack.

Does anyone know if they taste the same as the American ones? Says they're made in the UK, so wouldn't be surprised if they use different ingredients.

Merlin5 · 13 Jan 2013 at 22:10

Oreos are awesome. Many brits swear by custard creams over Oreos, but Oreos are much nicer and much crisper. I tried a pack of double stuff Oreos but frankly, didn't think they were better than the normal ones.

Windle · 13 Jan 2013 at 23:50

Anybody apart from the Op actually found these by the way? Tesco occasionally only use certain stores to trial things, perhaps the Op is just lucky!

Oh and the reason the UK Mountain Dew tastes different is because you can't use Corn Syrup over here which is the main difference in taste. The reason it's called Mountain Dew Energy is it legally has to be called an energy drink due to the high caffeine content. So it's perfectly legal to import Mountain Dew but not make it to the proper recipe

Goberpiles316 · 14 Jan 2013 at 00:10

In the States they have Orange, Peanut Butter, Mint Oreo's they are awesome.

Merlin5 · 14 Jan 2013 at 00:15

Windle, it seems my local is either trialing or has it permanently, and I'm still surprised the much larger megastore up the road has none.

Try this site guys, and they also have shops. Huge selection of everything that is american candy

http://www.americansweets.co.uk/stateside-candy-co-store-now-open-288-c.asp

Tesco's USA sweet goodies!

Wise Guy