Irish Sweets & Chocolate

Ewa24

Hi Everyone,

I have noticed there a quite a few Irish sweets and chocolates that are not sold here in the US. I am currently living in San Francisco and wish to bring some Irish sweets and chocolates in to work for my coworkers. Could you all help me come up with a list of sweets/chocolates/crisps etc. that is sold in Ireland and not in the States?

So far I have:

Starbursts (We have different flavours in Ireland)
Blue M&M's (American version has pretzels in them as opposed to the crispy bit in Ireland)
After Eights
Taytos
Cadbury's Mint and Golden Crisp

THANK YOU!

vicwatson

Macaroon bars, mint crisps both by Wilton

athtrasna

Our American friends always ask for Flakes and Crunchies

ProudDUB

Any Cadburys product is a winner, as long as it is made over on this side of the pond. Herseys have the license to produce Cadburys products in the US, so you'll often see Cadburys chocolate bars in drug stores and convenience stores and what not. But they are made to the US standard of cocoa content (which is utter muck) and not our one, so they taste like crap.

iusedtoknow

Ewa24 wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

I have noticed there a quite a few Irish sweets and chocolates that are not sold here in the US. I am currently living in San Francisco and wish to bring some Irish sweets and chocolates in to work for my coworkers. Could you all help me come up with a list of sweets/chocolates/crisps etc. that is sold in Ireland and not in the States?

So far I have:

Starbursts (We have different flavours in Ireland)
Blue M&M's (American version has pretzels in them as opposed to the crispy bit in Ireland)
After Eights
Taytos
Cadbury's Mint and Golden Crisp

THANK YOU!

Go to Roxy's deli in the Sunset (9th/Kirkam...N Judah Outbound - get off at 9th/Judah and walk 1 block up the hill

They will have Taytos (eating some now), cadbury's mint, golden crisp, after eights and I think European starbursts....they have pretty much everything you could hope for from Ireland (including Barry's/Lyons)

Dave1442397

As stated, any Cadbury product. Cadbury sold the rights to Hershey when they were in financial difficulties, and Hershey do not use the same ingredients.

My local Wegmans sells a variety of items, such as Bounty bars, Lion bars, Flakes, Yorkie bars etc.

I'm lucky enough to live close to this place - http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-english-gardener-haddonfield
The only problem is that I never get out of there for less than $50, and sometimes closer to $100. I promise myself the stack of junk food will last a month, then I eat it in two days.

If you don't have a specialty store close to you, just search Amazon for Irish or British candy - you can order most of it online.

ProudDUB

If there is a Cost Plus World Market near you, they sell imported chocolate and and sweets from Ireland and the UK. Check the expiration date of anything you buy though. They only get shipments in once or twice a year. The last load I bought (in their Atlanta store) had been sitting on the shelf for 9 months. It looked and tasted terrible when it was opened.

Murray007

Roundtrees fruit pastillles always asked for by my NY cousins

lil_lisa

Maltesers, Munchies, Curly Wurly, Minstrels

Munstermissy

Time Outs, Moro bars and Twirls are first on the list in my bag when I travel to the States and my niece and nephews devour them within a couple of days. Tin of cadbury roses go down a treat as well.

coylemj

I was going on a short assignment to the Texas office of the company I worked for. My contact there was an American lady and prior to my flight over she told me that she had worked for a few years in the UK and enquired as to whether they sold salt & vinegar crisps in Ireland, she was over the moon when I said I'd bring her over a few packets!

CaliforniaDream

coylemj wrote: »

I was going on a short assignment to the Texas office of the company I worked for. My contact there was an American lady and prior to my flight over she told me that she had worked for a few years in the UK and enquired as to whether they sold salt & vinegar crisps in Ireland, she was over the moon when I said I'd bring her over a few packets!

That's odd because there's loads of salt and vinegar here. Was she looking for cheese and onion maybe?

OP, any Cadbury is good. Also malteasers and cheese and onion crisps. Might Munch are on my list all the time too.
Just make sure it's from Ireland and not UK/USA and everyone will love the chocolate.

Ewa24

Thank you everyone!!

coylemj

CaliforniaDream wrote: »

That's odd because there's loads of salt and vinegar here. Was she looking for cheese and onion maybe?

Maybe I should have mentioned that this was 1986 and it was definitely Salt & Vinegar.

iusedtoknow

coylemj wrote: »

Maybe I should have mentioned that this was 1986 and it was definitely Salt & Vinegar.

lays salt and vinegar are almost too strong for me - it's a shame that a bag of tayto's costs $2 here

McSween

ProudDUB wrote: »

Any Cadburys product is a winner, as long as it is made over on this side of the pond. Herseys have the license to produce Cadburys products in the US, so you'll often see Cadburys chocolate bars in drug stores and convenience stores and what not. But they are made to the US standard of cocoa content (which is utter muck) and not our one, so they taste like crap.

I have to disagree . When I found Dairy Milks in Publix last year I couldn't stop buying them although, initially, I was expecting the vomit like taste that American chocolate normally gives off. I loved them and coudn't differentiate.

ProudDUB

Publix sell the real thing. They aren't the Hersheys muck. Publix have a special aisle with imported food products from all around the world. (At least the one near me in Atlanta did.) I didn't suggest them to the OP, as I don't think Publix are in California.

silja

McSween

ProudDUB wrote: »

Publix sell the real thing. They aren't the Hersheys muck. Publix have a special aisle with imported food products from all around the world. (At least the one near me in Atlanta did.) I didn't suggest them to the OP, as I don't think Publix are in California.

I love Publix. Walmart sell them too and tasted nice. I will steer clear of the Hershey stuff. Shocking taste.

Dave1442397

McSween wrote: »

I love Publix. Walmart sell them too and tasted nice. I will steer clear of the Hershey stuff. Shocking taste.

Yeah, the Hershey stuff is crap. You get a mix of Hershey Cadbury and genuine Cadbury up in Canada too. You always have to check the label

spideog7

A couple of the Indian stores around me actually carry the British stuff so that might be worth checking. That's where I get my Dettol and they also have Cadbury's.

cena

But cadburys is not Irish made??.

Dave1442397

cena wrote: »

But cadburys is not Irish made??.

They have factories in Ireland. I used to drive by this one on my way to work. It was right by the Tayto plant, so you got to smell chocolate followed by crisps (or vice versa).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUdv024YU_M

ProudDUB

cena wrote: »

But cadburys is not Irish made??.

There are a UK company, or at least they were, until they were taken over by Kraft, the US food company about 5 years ago.They have factories here, that make their product for the Irish market, but they aren't an Irish company.

The licensing & manufacturing rights to the Cadburys brand name in the US, is owned by Hersheys, PA. They make and sell Cadburys products to sell to the US market. They use inferior ingredients and far less cocoa solids in their chocolate, than the UK and Irish factories do, so they taste horrible to someone reared on the real deal. Hence all the threads here about them.

Gandhi

I heard before (possible urban legend) that when Hershey's sell products in Europe they can't put the word "chocolate" anywhere on them or they will be guilty of false advertising. Their bars don't legally qualify as chocolate by EU standards.

My brother in Germany has told me before that people in Central Europe have the same regard for Cadbury's chocolate as we have for American chocolate: artificial overprocessed muck compared to the good stuff they grew up with.

Dave1442397

Gandhi wrote: »

My brother in Germany has told me before that people in Central Europe have the same regard for Cadbury's chocolate as we have for American chocolate: artificial overprocessed muck compared to the good stuff they grew up with.

I can believe that. A lot of what we like can depend on what we grew up with, and I find that Cadbury's Dairy Milk is too sweet for me now.

Speaking of European chocolate, there's a store in the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City that sells a lot of European chocolate. My mother-in-law knows I like chocolate, so every now and again she buys me a bar of Polish chocolate (I forget the brand). It has to be the one of the worst chocolates I've ever tasted. It's so bad I leave it out at work for the scavengers.

She also brought back chocolate from the Philippines. I wasn't expecting much there, as I heard they don't make chocolate as we know it due to the high temps. I wasn't surprised to find it had the consistency of chalk, and didn't taste much better.

FatherTed

I can get everything from cadburys, tea, taytos, rashers, sausages here locally but for some reason not Cidona. Maybe I'm the only one who likes it.

Dave1442397

FatherTed wrote: »

I can get everything from cadburys, tea, taytos, rashers, sausages here locally but for some reason not Cidona. Maybe I'm the only one who likes it.

I get Cidona and Club Orange at my local British store. Cidona is one that always brings back memories. My grandmother used to have those big brown glass bottles of Cidona and would give me a glass at bedtime when i stayed on the farm for the summer.