squeebee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I should probably refrain from saying I can get > them any time I want... ;) > > At Christmas I get my wife a couple of one-pound > cups as stocking stuffers.
You sound like some of the Yanks when we enjoy a Cadbury bar! Imports! Hard to imagine when you can buy it at every check out stand.
Then again, I can't imagine why Americans insist on ketchup everywhere they go that it is one of the bigger exports!
My DD said when in London she enjoyed the food without it, but noticed the Americans paying a premium price for a little package and not understanding it was an import and not complementary with their meals! Sheesh
When I was in London on my mission, it took me awhile to get you to no ketchup on my chips. Then I finally tried sale and vineagar on them, like the Brits. I was immediately hooked. I still love that taste. I crave British fish and chips 25 years later. The Brits have some amazing quisine, with the exception of Blood puddin', brussel sprouts, and steak&kidney pie. Everything else is incredibly edible.
Wait, did you get regular Reese's cups imported to you someplace not America, or did you get special Reese's cups that can only be found outside of America, imported to you in America? I must know, for I am now wondering if there is a special version of my favorite treat that is somehow better then the one I know and love.
BTW, the holiday ones, when they are shaped like Christmas Trees, or Easter Eggs are the best. The peanut-butter to chocolate ratio is a little higher and those, and the candy benefits greatly from it.
There are Latin American Reese's and U.S. Reese's. I don't know why they make the Latin American ones differently, because they're not that good. (They were introduced to the market just a couple years ago) Luckily there are a lot of places that stock imported U.S. ones now, and they're not any more expensive than the local variety.
matt, I should fuss at you for eating those when I know you are diabetic. . .but heck - my DH is diabetic too and I am supposed to be on a super-low sodium diet, but we have an agreement: as long as the other person only has a REASONABLY small amount of the forbidden substance (while rolling their eyes in ecstasy!) we don't fuss.
ASDA and Tesco in the UK usually have them. Carrefour has them in most stores in Poland; Solvay and Tesco had them in Kliny/Borek area outside Krakow. Delhaize sometimes had them in Belgium. Marriotts sometimes carry them in their hotel shops in central and western Europe. As do many British import shops in Holland, Germany and Austria; Stone Manor (both locations in the Brussels area) had both regular and white chocolate ones, all the time.
Can you tell my kid likes them? I also knew every place "American" style Heinz catchup was served in every country we traveled in. He was born in Pittsburgh and knows exactly what "his" ketchup is supposed to taste like.
Sometimes, when you're away from home, it's the littlest, stupidest things that matter most.
Yes indeed, I can't stand the ones sold here in Brazil. Last month some American friends came over to visit, and brought some packs of candy to give away to the kids on Halloween. One of them was a whole pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I confiscated them immediately. Sorry, neighborhood kids. But my wife saw me doing it, so I had to fight her for them. We ended up splitting 50/50 after she tasted one of them :-)
My wife and I love them. We always get the six-packs of the holiday cups -- hearts on Valentine's Day, pumpkins at Halloween, and christmas trees at Christmas.