American Candy

Catari Jaguar

My boyfriend just came back from the US with tons of sweets for me. Skittle that are super sour, wild berry and tropical flavour. Jelly Belly jelly beans, Nerds, peanut butter m&ms (oh my god!), giant m&ms, (no almond m&ms though ), Goobers and loads more stuff. Diabetes here i come

Any one got any favourite US treats that are unavailable here??

Ruu_Old

Alot of US sweets are just named differently. I can't think of any too many apart from some of the Reeses variety of sweets.

CombatCow

Jolly Ranchers ! , Reeses Nuggets, Almond snickers, almond M&M's, Milk dud's...to name but a few


CC

bringitdown

Dairy Crunch, Skippy Super Chunky Peanut Butter, proper Brownies, Reeses, Trail Mix, Krispy Kreme ... god I can never go back.

p-nut

this makes me wanna go back to ny again for the third year running!!! nothin beats the fresh cakes and brownies out of the little bakeries or tasty delite ice cream.....mmmmm, i could stand there all day taking the free tasters

Rabies

Mountain Dew

*drools*

Ruu_Old

Oh Take 5 and 100 Grand are quite tasty (yes I've been shopping.)

Charlie

Oreo Ice cream sandwich....nomb. Proper NYC Pizza.

p-nut

charlie mchugh wrote:

Proper NYC Pizza.

somehow i dont think thats candy:D .....but ye i agree wholeheartedly. Its no wonder there are a large number of overweight/obese people in the states, their food is just soooooooo good:p

abelard

Lil Kitten wrote:

My boyfriend just came back from the US with tons of sweets for me. Skittle that are super sour, wild berry and tropical flavour. Jelly Belly jelly beans, Nerds, peanut butter m&ms (oh my god!), giant m&ms, (no almond m&ms though ), Goobers and.....

What are Goobers?

Reeses stuff can actually be gotten here, pretty hard to find though.

I have a ridiculously sweet tooth, this thread makes me want to visit America

emeraldstar

abelard wrote:

What are Goobers?

Reeses stuff can actually be gotten here, pretty hard to find though.

I have a ridiculously sweet tooth, this thread makes me want to visit America

i know!! Roll on June

Aldi have had Reese's stuff in the past...peanut butter cups.....*drool*

Faith

I find Reese's sickeningly sweet. I ate five tiny peanut butter kisses or something, and I couldn't get to sleep that night because I felt so nauseous.

Peanut butter M&Ms though are amazing!

Charlie

Actually, now that I think of it, did anyone ever taste 'mike & ikes'? They are frikkin gorgeous, could eat a bucket of them and I still wouldn't be sick of them.

CombatCow

Ah yeah there pretty good, you can get them in a spar on the corner of talbot st and marlborough st in dublin


CC

Ruu_Old

A nice snack that comes around once a year, Girl Scout cookies. It is so easy to go through a pack.

Oracle

Jolly Ranchers were available here years ago, then they just vanished. I used to like them; strong fruity flavours, smooth and long-lasting, in a handy pocket sized pack. Very different, very nice, reasonable price too.

Catari Jaguar

charlie mchugh wrote:

Actually, now that I think of it, did anyone ever taste 'mike & ikes'? They are frikkin gorgeous, could eat a bucket of them and I still wouldn't be sick of them.

Mike and Ike are deadly! The cherry ones. I also devoured a massive bag of Starburst jelly beans.

Goobers are chocolate covered peanuts.

And no one can make waffles like the Americans. The size of the plate, fluffy and crisp with a ton of butter and maple syrup. *Ow my heart hurts*:D

Catari Jaguar

CombatCow wrote:

Ah yeah there pretty good, you can get them in a spar on the corner of talbot st and marlborough st in dublin


CC

OMG! I work right by that Spar! Thank you! I am in your debt good sir

Schlemm

100 Grand Bars...........

also excellent in their super size form...

whiskeyman

Can't believe nobody has mentioned these yet.
They're just like After Eights! Beautiful!

:|

defintiely not hersheys anyway, puke!

caffrey

junior mints are great. in general their sweets arent as good but you can get some small regional companies that do really good stuff.

Gatorade is my favourite drink for sunny days/excersise, its only coming in here now and it costs 1.99:eek:

shortys94

I like butterfingers

And having lived in America, astonished that no ones mentioned the entenmann's baked goods, o my god its awesome. And the chips are pretty good, what are they again, fritos? Yea theyre pretty good but get bad if you eat too much of them.

Also love Cinabuns (cinnamon buns) dont know if you can get them here but mmmmmmmmmmmm delish. And of course the chocolate chip cookies. And ice tea, dont like the nestea here since they introduced the "new taste".


Also I love ice cream cakes, can you get them in Ireland? Theyre so great.

Lou.m

TWIZZLERS TWIZZLERS TWIZZLERS YAY!

Oh and jolly ranchers .

Lovely.

By the way i know there is an Australian shop in Dublin somewhere that sells Aussie sweets (dont ask me where though) is there somewhere you can get American candy here?

I suppose you could get it on the net.

But that takes ages.

Anywhere here?

Catari Jaguar

You can get Entenmann cakes in most supermarkets here. The chocolate ones and they have gorgeous carrot cake too.

WindSock

Yeah we had Jolly Ranchers here too a while ago (Smithers fave;) )
I love 'Merican sweeties coz they have loads of cherry flavoured things too. I love synthetic cherry flavour. mmMmm. And Baby Ruth bars are nice too.

Winner

Faith

I hate Hershey's chocolate. It's like eating dirt!

p-nut

Faith wrote:

I hate Hershey's chocolate. It's like eating dirt!

Ill second that. Ya cant baate a good auld dairy milk:p

daiixi

Lou.m wrote:

By the way i know there is an Australian shop in Dublin somewhere that sells Aussie sweets (dont ask me where though) is there somewhere you can get American candy here?

There is?! Where?! Does anyone know?! I'll give you a peanut butter cup if you know where!!

WindSock

What Aussie sweets are nice? All I can think of are Cherry Ripe bars.