International candies I would love to try!

[smahala1991]

Often prople in other countries wonder how American candies taste. Often I have heard that our chocolate is a lot sweeter than their chocolate. Or, our candies are often sour. Here are a few international candies i'd love to try.

Kinder Egg

Sadly these candies are banned in the USA due to choking hazzards, so there is no change of ever getting one here.

Snake Lollies

This candy comes from Australia. We have similar candy here in America called Gummy Worms, but i've never seen gummy snakes.

Maltesers

We have similar candy here in the US called Whoppers. But everyone in the UK, Ireland, and Australia I have seen taste Whoppers say these are better.

German Candies

I have always wanted to try candy from my ancestors country of Germany. They look similar to US candies but may or may not be as sweet.

So there you have it! Some international candies I would love to try. If any of my International GAGers have tried these let me know! And, If you've tried American candies feel free to share your experiences!

[musicbrain5]

That's really the reason why they banned Kinder Surprise eggs in the US? Choking hazard? That's fucking hilarious. Anyways, I haven't had one of those in about 15 years but it's just basically a milk chocolate shell with a cheap novelty toy inside. I used to love seeing what I could get.

And Maltesers are better than Whoppers, although they're both tasty so I'll take either one. They sell both in Canada.

[smahala1991]

unfortunately its a fine up to twenty five hundred dollars per egg which means 12 will get you fined $30,000.
I think it's stupid. Why can't America join the rest of the world and go metric etc...

[musicbrain5]

It's funny. So many kids in the US have easy access to guns and drugs and whatnot, but the government is afraid that they're going to choke on some plastic and die.

[QuestionMan]

Really Kinder eggs are banned.
C'mon the toy comes with a warning that it's a choking hazard. You're supposed to break it apart not swallow the thing whole I thought it was obvious.

[smahala1991]

yes but the ban goes all the way back to 1938

[QuestionMan]

Oh wow I thought it was recent because of all the whiny liberals.
You are missing out. Come to the Great White North and bring some Coke with you. We have a limited variety of Coke here.

[smahala1991]

what kind do ya want lol

[QuestionMan]

Bring everything lol

[smahala1991]

We have cherry coke, vanilla coke, coke with lime, diet coke, mello yello, mello yello peach

[QuestionMan]

Bring cherry, vanilla and lime.
Cherry and Vanilla are really hard to find in Canada I only know one place that has it and it's at a movie theatre.
As for lime I've never tried it and want to.

[smahala1991]

Its in about ever market here in the US

[QuestionMan]

It was here for a bit but I guess not that many people were buying so they stopped shipping as much.
We have a serious soda shortage here. I've been told that in the US you guys have an entire shelf dedicated to Mountain Dew. Here we're lucky if there are 2 or 3 types of a drink. The other type is usually diet yuck

[smahala1991]

that is actually true especially in my part of the USA lol

[QuestionMan]

Where are you from?

[smahala1991]

North Carolina

[QuestionMan]

The capital of North Carolina is Raleigh. I don't know how I remember but it's been stuck in my head for a few months now.

[smahala1991]

Yep, but Charlotte is our major city, Second biggest banking center in the USA

[QuestionMan]

What's the biggest?

[smahala1991]

Charlotte is our biggest, then Raleigh, then Greensboro/ Winston Salem (Cigarette city)

[QuestionMan]

I meant biggest banking city lol
Do you have a lot of smoking in the US?

[smahala1991]

Biggest is NYC, and yes, Winston Salem used to be home of the largest cigarette factory in North America

[BaileyisDarcy]

How have you not had snakes or Maltesers? How? You my friend have not lived.
If you ever come down under though, and decide to buy some snakes, make sure its not a home brand. Home brands are shit.

Get Starburst. They're delicious.

I know plenty of people who haven't had, or rarely have Kinder Surprises so I'm not too concerned about that one. (They aren't cheap).

You have to try maltesers though. As a matter of fact I feel like going out and buying some now. Too hard I can't be stuffed walking. Oh well. I have MnMs.

[smahala1991]

We have starburst here. and M&Ms but we have more flavors lol. What is a home brand is that like a non name brand product?

[BaileyisDarcy]

Well whenever I feel like snakes I usually get the starburst ones. Allen's makes some good snakes though, and they're cheaper so they're the ones parents buy for parties and that.

What o you mean flavours? M&Ms have flavours? Since when? I know they have the ones with nuts and mini M&Ms but what else?

Home brand is a non name brand product yes. Like its a product that is made by the store selling it. Coles brand is a homebrand and Woolworths calls their home brands just that. (Woolworths used to be Safeway. I much prefer Safeway as a name)

[smahala1991]

We have crispy, peanut butter, birthday cake, peanut, candy corn, dark chocolate, Christmas, mint, mini, almond, and pretzel M&Ms. We have a lot of off brands here in the US too. Safeway is still here but mainly all on the west coast like California and Oregon.

[BaileyisDarcy]

Oh okay, yeah I think we can get all of those. I just don't pay much attention unless they're on sale. (why do the good ones have to be so dear? Why? DX)

XD

[smahala1991]

They aren't all that cheap here either a nice bag can cost you like $4-5 dollars. But our gas where I live currently is $2.07 a gallon! Thats a gallon not a litre!

[BaileyisDarcy]

Is that USD?
Over here, in my area at least, you can get gas for $1.07 per litre. The dearest I've ever seen it was in either WA or NSW where it got to maybe, $1.60+ per litre. (I'm talking AUD)

According to Google $1.07 AUD is equal to $0.76 USD.
So yeah.
So convert your price for gas per gallon in USD to gas per litre in AUD and it goes right down to $0.54 per litre.
That's bloody cheap. Seriously. Wow. How? Why are we so dear and you so cheap?

So five USD for a bag of M&Ms converted to AUD is seven.
I think we only pay four, which is 2.85 in USD.

(sorry, I forgot how much I love converting prices, and working out the difference. I am having a field day right here.)

[smahala1991]

Yes its all USD

[smahala1991]

We have a lot of refineries in the Gulf of Mexico especially in Louisiana and Texas. So, the delivery costs aren't as high. I don't really know why we're cheaper to be honest.

[NoClueFrau]

Germany has wide range of schokolade.
Rittersport is amazing <3 the flavors are unending.
Mozart herzl (herzl = heart). It is filled with sahne, pistachio and marzipan.
Milka chocolates are also amazing specifically the ones which feel airy and porous.
ferrero küsschen (küsschen = kiss) with hazelnuts.
Hanuta <3 yummy. No comments for this one. Its very very German.
I think we get Kinder surprize here too.
All the dark chocolates are super tasty. Einfach lecker (Simply tasty).
The schoko bons and yogurt chocolates are also lecker <3

[smahala1991]

We don't have the eggs gere sadly they are verboten in Amerika

[NoClueFrau]

Oh oh!! Let me smuggle it to there. Amerika Amerika :D Einfach Amerika.

[smahala1991]

Ja! sehr gut

[justbanANNAz]

i feel sorry for y'all. so grateful for our confectionary now. the one u must also try is timtams. although it's not really candy but u get the point

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[smahala1991]

they kinda look like twix bars or kit kats lol

[justbanANNAz]

nah theyre wider. =] but they taste AMAZING.

[smahala1991]

i'll have to order them if I get the chance :) No chance ever on getting Kinder Eggs or Cadburuy chocolates though Kinder eggs are banned in the US and Cadburys pulled out of the American market

[justbanANNAz]

that's so sad lol. order maltesers too. theyre worth it. i have some in my fridge actually. id throw u one but I'm not that strong.

[smahala1991]

We do have Whoppers which are similar, but they say American malties are too sweet. I watched youtube videos of Aussies/Brits/Irish try American sweets, one thing they didn't like was peanut butter lol

[mskay]

Agree with her 👍💙

I've also noticed that the white timtams are only found in Australia

[smahala1991]

ok so correction, cadbury is still in the US

[smahala1991]

I'm currently eating Candy Corn lol, its popular in the US in the fall. It tastes like buttercreme icing

[smahala1991]

@justbanannaz and @klaatu51 In case y'all get any ideas about sneaking kinder surprise eggs in the USA i hate to inform I looked it up and there's a fine of up to $2,500 per egg if you bring them here. whic i admit is way over the top so if you have like 10 eggs thats like $25,000 fine plus court costs and us customs fees

[smahala1991]

souvenirfinder.com/.../ here is the story

[Klaatu51]

wid a hot-air balloon maybe?

i mean fly above US wid a hot-air balloon and toss a basket wid kinder surprise eggs... or sth like dat...

[smahala1991]

@justbanannaz @mskay We do have Tim Tams here, I went to Walmart this morning and they were on the shelf. They are like $3.00 a pack though lol

[GirlScout]

You can order foreign sweets on Amazon.

Kinder eggs used to be the daddy of kids chocolate, they're one of those things that you keep buying as a grown up because the toys were so damned cool! Now they're rubbish and you can't even build them yourself, just premolded crap. Should be able to get them in the states now, Kinder chocolate is lush, I'm lucky that I have a Lidl store near me so I buy all the foreign chocolate from Germany there.

Maltesers are awesome though...

[smahala1991]

Yeah I think the ban is stupid and plus they fine you hefty for each egg like up to $3000 each

[GirlScout]

Fine you? For what, importing Kinder eggs? Don't be mental! I've bought American chocolate and a lot of that won't pass British food standards.

[smahala1991]

That is if airport customs dont catch you

[GirlScout]

Amazon dude, Amazon. com.

[Mustachekitteh]

I would want to try Japanese candies.
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[smahala1991]

lol one looks like a toilet

[Mustachekitteh]

It is supposed to and from what i understand your supposed to eat the candy out of it. :D Only in japan. ^^

[smahala1991]

lol nice

[SirenDep]

When I was a kid, I used to eat Kinder eggs often, because I collected the toys they had inside. Maltesers are tasty, as well as some of the german sweets, like the colorful worms and the kinder schoko-bons

[smahala1991]

They look so good, I wish the US customs bureau would unban them

[menina]

I've tasted Kinder eggs, Maltesers, Kinder Schoko -Bons and Kinder chocolate.
I can tell you that I like all them. I'm a big fan of white chocolate Maltersers.
I thought you had Maltesers in U. S.

[smahala1991]

We have a similar product called Whoppers but they are not like maltesers

[menina]

I would like to try Whoppers. If you have the opportunity, try Maltesers, they're addicting lol

[smahala1991]

They look really good, so do maynards wine gums

[menina]

Yes, those look good too.
I hope I can try them someday.

[Sam19XX]

Exactly. I thought they had maltesers in the US. Its very popular in my country !

[menina]

Me too. They're also popular here. @Sam19XX

[BiscuitesSwag]

I ate all of them, yum. :3 😎
I tasted some of American candies and they are really good too. ^^
by the way, great myTake! ☺

[smahala1991]

Thank you :) It's a shame the Kinder eggs are banned here completely though

[smahala1991]

What American candies have you tried?

[far2gud4u]

Will trade you some maltesers for some Little debbies oatmeal cream pies... may also add in the rogue kinder egg :D

[smahala1991]

Kinder eggs are banned in the USA, but i will try to send the creme pies in the future :)

[Klaatu51]

no kinder eggs in US?

do u have cadbury creme eggs?

[smahala1991]

We did, but Hershey's has decided to longer supply Cadbury in the USA. Which sucks because i loved them and carmellos

[smahala1991]

Even Marmite/Vegemite is banned in the USA

[Klaatu51]

oh i see... r there any surprise eggs available in america?

[smahala1991]

those are banned too. Vegimite is banned due to too much folic acid. the eggs are due to the toys inside. We had wonder ball's though, same concept

[Klaatu51]

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^ya they look nice... :D

[admles]

Vegemite is actually not banned in the USA, it's just an urban myth.

[smahala1991]

Then why is it so hard to find here?

[Lady7]

I love trilli saure gluhwurmchen and apfelringe!! So good😋😋👌🏼

[smahala1991]

German gummies?

[Lady7]

Yep! The sour ones tho, i dont really like sweet gummies

[smahala1991]

so sour glowworms and apple rings?

[Starfishlover]

Have a PO box? I can send you some.

[smahala1991]

send some what lol

[smahala1991]

I have a address lol

[smahala1991]

Thank you in advance :)

[Ashely_Princess]

That looks yummy, nice take! :D

[smahala1991]

Thank you :)

[Ashely_Princess]

You're welcome

[the_unknown_panda]

nice take. I've had kinder eggs and maltesers before. They are SO good.