I love that Smarties are naturally colored. All our candy is basically carcinogenic
European sardines are VASTLY superior to most of the stuff you get in the US
It’s not from Europe but I wouldn’t feel the same if I couldn’t get Pocky anymore.
Danish butter cookies are pretty awesome
German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.
Soapy-tasting wax, at that.
Croissants (made here but I think of them as so French)
Good cheese (there is some great cheese being made here but in Europe they make different ones and they are so, so delicious)
Cava wine, the Raventos Blanco Blanco de Blancos Vino Cava holy crap that stuff is so good it convinced me wine can be simply delicious on its own.
W SAUCE
Cheese, cured and uncured dried meats, dairy…actual food standards that protect consumers and aren’t pumped full of antibiotics, they just taste so much better.
Most of it… Last trip I took to Europe, I was staying in an airB&B in Iceland with a few friends, and it had a kitchen. I went to the Bonus (local grocer) and got bread, cheese, eggs, and butter and made a simple fried egg sandwich for breakfast every day. Best damn food ive ever made for myself.
We dont have good cheap bread state side, cheese product is most of whats on the shelves and Euro eggs were just better. It took about a week after coming home for random food items to stop tasting like plastic…
Probably just the swiss chocolate in the Holls chocolates I get for some holidays. The bonbons/truffles themselves are made in Vienna…West Virginia.
Barry’s tea
cheese, all of them
wine and scotch
I’ve infiltrated the European place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesey comestibles!
Proper pickled onions and Branston pickle.
I can find alternatives with enough effort, but I love me some heavy peated Scotch. The smokier the flavor the better
I don’t think there’s any food product from Europe that I regularly consume.
Now, Mexico and South America, on the other hand…
Every time I go to Mexico, one of the first things I do is get tacos! I NEEEED EM!!!
Same. But I did enjoy some of it. There was some local spring water in Bosnia that was awesome, cevapcici is cool, and I enjoyed the Georgian wine I had in Ukraine. Also the Netherlands’ food surprised me. I loved everything I tried, especially bitterballen and mustard soup.
I’m Canadian, but… Fruit, I guess. Some fruit we get from places like Greece, Spain or Italy, both canned and fresh. We could live without them, but surely there’d be moments in the year when we couldn’t get fresh peaches, for example, at the supermarket, without European imports.
But it’s not a majority. We get quite a bit from South America, North Africa, and, astonishingly, as far as South Africa, too.
Though there isn’t much else. It’s rarely worth it to import food from another rich country, all the way across the ocean, in today’s world.
Though interestingly, I bought “canned” soup (actually packaged in a plastic bag) that came from Lithuania, of all places.
