American sweets and food stores

American sweets and food stores

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Baryonyx

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17,990 posts

158 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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I don't know if you have one of these stores near you or not, but I am noticing a trend of late for American food stuffs in shops, and even dedicated stores opening up.

Until recently in Newcastle, your best bet for getting American sweets and stuff was going to Fenwicks, which has maintained a small American selection in their food court for a while now. Now at the Metro Centre, there is an American sweet shop that is doing so well that a second store is opening in Eldon Square soon.

The selection is brilliant, though you have to be smart when you shop there. £1.30 for a bag of Ranch flavoured Doritos, the nearly identical Cool Original available for 30p elsewhere. Filter out the stuff that's readily available elsewhere in the UK and you can find some great stuff. I am particularly fond of the Nerds selection, since Nerds seemed to vanish from stores here years ago. The shop is usually rammed and the prices (I am told) are cheaper than ordering stuff online.

I wonder what the sudden attraction to American sweets is. Maybe it's the fact that they still taste like sweets? Do-gooders in the UK seem to have ruined sweets for us. Everything we make tastes bland and insipid. Even Haribo Tangfastics are now squishy and bland. Buy a can of American pop there and you'll probably be amazed at how delicious it tastes, not like the the piss that seems to have replaced most of our favourite pops overnight.

Anyone else have a taste for the American stuff, and anything worth trying? One thing I would recommend everyone try is a Payday bar. Salty peanuts on the outside and a delicious caramel interior (with a consistency like soft fudge) that probably pre-dated the wky chef trend of serving caramel with salt by many years!


Slink

2,947 posts

171 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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yep, i sometime order american drinks and sweets of the net.

brought some back from the USA aswell, and i agree with the drinks over there compared to here.

the fanta there is a deep orange and has such a better flavour than over here.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Quite often pop into the Chinese food shop in Reading which sells original Mountain Dew from the US (not the "Energy Drink" version everyone sells these days". Fantastic

I went into an American sweet shop in Islington a few weeks ago and couldn't believe the range of things they had. I recognised most of the brands (M&Ms for example), but whereas we have 2 or 3 varieties of things, they had 7-10....


deville

34 posts

174 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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If you are in the Newcastle area this firm has started delivering american desserts, sodas and candy up until midnight for those late night cravings. Not sure how the prices compare:-

www.dessertsdelivered.co.uk

(No connection, just thought relevant)

calibrax

4,788 posts

210 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Cybercandy have been doing this for years. They have four shops in London (Covent Garden, Islington, Camden and Shoreditch) and shops in Birmingham and Brighton.

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/


Baryonyx

Original Poster:

17,990 posts

158 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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deville said:
If you are in the Newcastle area this firm has started delivering american desserts, sodas and candy up until midnight for those late night cravings. Not sure how the prices compare:-

www.dessertsdelivered.co.uk

(No connection, just thought relevant)
That looks good! a 276 phone number, that's Walker I think. I could easily make up £8 for an order, but I wonder what their delivery charges are, it doesn't say on the menu. Maybe I will give it a go sometime!

On the subject of American sweets though, I'd avoid Wonka's Chewy Runts. They're fking minging. You can get them in the UK (the sweet dispensers near M&S in the Metro Centre, for instance). Sort of a hard candy shell with a chalky, chewy inside and some naff flavours. The banana ones are particularly bad. I'll not bother with those again!

Also, I have noticed you can now buy 'Fluff', that Marshmallow spread, at Asda. I wonder if Tesco have it.

Stu R

21,410 posts

214 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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You should all buy loads of them, honestly they're brilliant. Especially the sodas and candy, they're even more brilliant, and if you like them so much, you should totally consider selling them yourself.


Regards,
The guy who supplies a fair chunk of the stores which sell them whistle

Edited by Stu R on Friday 12th October 01:22

Captain Cadillac

2,974 posts

186 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Be real careful before you think about drinking American sodas. They are generally sweetened not with sugar, but with high fructose corn syrup.

I'm American and I only drink Mexican Coke, which is still made with real sugar (aside from when Kosher for Passover Coke is available in the spring) or diet soda.

HFCS is linked to pancreatic cancer which I am a survivor of. I won't touch the stuff.

Colonial

13,553 posts

204 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Captain Cadillac said:
Be real careful before you think about drinking American sodas. They are generally sweetened not with sugar, but with high fructose corn syrup.

I'm American and I only drink Mexican Coke, which is still made with real sugar (aside from when Kosher for Passover Coke is available in the spring) or diet soda.

HFCS is linked to pancreatic cancer which I am a survivor of. I won't touch the stuff.
Yep. And is hugely bad for weight.

I don't rate American sweets, candies or chocolate. It's just a huge sugar hit and artificial taste.

WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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www.americansoda.co.uk are my boys and they have a physical shop too!

listen:

they discontinued Vanilla coke in the UK so I have to buy it from them

WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Stu R said:
You should all buy loads of them, honestly they're brilliant. Especially the sodas and candy, they're even more brilliant, and if you like them so much, you should totally consider selling them yourself.


Regards,
The guy who supplies a fair chunk of the stores which sell them whistle

Edited by Stu R on Friday 12th October 01:22
"every day British favorites"

"harbio tangfantastics"

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Oddly, our local Garden Centre [in Addlestone] sells lots of American products. I've bought Vanilla Coca-Cola and Butterfinger bars from there.

mph1977

12,467 posts

167 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Colonial said:
Captain Cadillac said:
Be real careful before you think about drinking American sodas. They are generally sweetened not with sugar, but with high fructose corn syrup.

I'm American and I only drink Mexican Coke, which is still made with real sugar (aside from when Kosher for Passover Coke is available in the spring) or diet soda.

HFCS is linked to pancreatic cancer which I am a survivor of. I won't touch the stuff.
Yep. And is hugely bad for weight.

I don't rate American sweets, candies or chocolate. It's just a huge sugar hit and artificial taste.
and whether it;s just psychological I often detect a bit of a maizey aftertaste ... ?from the HFCS .

the only Merkin 'Soda' i rate is the 'proper' mountain dew - as colonial says the US go crazy over pop sweetened with actual sugar rather than HFCS

nickdrinkwater

833 posts

189 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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There is a shop that sells American sweets in Lakeside, Thurrock but the prices are very high. Refused to pay £2 for a chocolate bar!

Asda have now started doing some American sweets but only a narrow selection.

Pickled

2,051 posts

142 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Garson's Farm in West End nr Esher sells a lot of American stuff (probably due to the American Community School?) and Bentalls have a section on the lower floor; personally, I love grape soda and reeces pieces, but most American 'candy' is naff.

Justin Cyder

12,624 posts

148 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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I've not been to the states since I was a kid, but last time I was there, I recall my dad buying me a milk carton. Full of Maltesers.


That was the most awesomey thing in all creation. Can you still get those?

CarTimeNow

956 posts

165 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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there is also stateside candy co, online and in aldershot & guildford,

i have to set a budget or i can get carried away, twizzlers ftw!

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Justin Cyder said:
I've not been to the states since I was a kid, but last time I was there, I recall my dad buying me a milk carton. Full of Maltesers.


That was the most awesomey thing in all creation. Can you still get those?
You must mean Whoppers.



Not as nice as Maltesers, I find they leave a rather unpleasant aftertaste.

Justin Cyder

12,624 posts

148 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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Yep... American snack food seems to have landed smile

There's a shop called 'Americandy' just opened up down the street from my office and is rammed with all the sugar filled crap you could ever need.

I will admit to visiting it a few times and buying a few items!

Fluff is ok on toast, I like the 'Three muskateers' chocolate bar, and also Welch's Purple Grape drink is nice smile