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American isle in a supermarket was removed and was instead replaced by Turkish products
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Pretty ironic, considering that Turkey under Erdogan is just as close to dictatorship as the US under Trump...
Turkiye makes better quality food at a lower price.
Turks products:
80% sunflower seeds
as a trump-hating american i am just kinda happy that turkiye gets to be fully counted as european now
Weird, most Americans would not spell it that way.
yeah but i read wikipedia a lot
One pseudo democracy or the other... Doesn't matter...
Ha yeah 'American food' - like who needs marshmallows and Pop Tarts anyway?
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good, probably much tastier too
maybe even healthier.
~~maybe even~~ certainly healthier.
Fixed that for you. Anything is healthier than American "food". Even British foods, possibly.
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It's hard to make out but this all looks like (very dry) buiscuits. If they're really Turkish I can't recommend them (at least not without chai and you want sugar with that, so not really very healthy).
Why did American stuff get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks!
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What food from the USA would anyone in Europe actually want? Genuine question.
Well the fact that, no fewer than 3 times, the Great British Bake-off judges have said something to the effect of “Wow! Your combination of peanuts and jam is a brilliant and unique flavor!” has taught me that maybe we really do have something to share with the world.
Besides the stuff people already listed, I know sections like this here in Germany, and they often (not always) just have "American style" products - basically some weird hybrids of what a European imagines America to be like, but for European palates. So I bet - unless this was a section with true import stuff - any American would be confused why they never heard of any of these products.
We have Domino cookies from Finland that are better anyways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_%28cookie%29?wprov=sfla1
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I'm imagining peanut butter, BBQ sauce, pumpkin pie filling, and maybe a few breakfast foods like cream of wheat. Not all of our foods are terrible nightmares, they're just either available in different aisles or not super popular to justify being everywhere.
The intersection of "American", "novelty" and "popular enough to import but not enough to fully stock" is probably mostly candy, pop tarts and Lucky charms.
https://www.thetimes.com/article/us-trade-war-german-peanut-butter-lovers-feel-crunch-q55bs3r8t
The last time trump was around and pulled this type of shit peanut butter was one of the things people had issues with, since the US produces a lot of peanuts and peanut butter.
I'm German and I suspect it's a bit cringier than that. Out of the products you listed peanut butter is the only one that's available virtually everywhere. You can get all of the other stuff as well but mostly online or at dedicated candy shops. The only other item I can think of is Jack Daniel's and probably some other spirits. So what was sold in the US section? The answer is probably German made stuff that's stereotypically American. This may include spray cheese, creatively flavored bbq sauces, other condiments like relish, brioche burger and hot dog buns, cookies, brownies, muffins, donuts and my favorite because you guys don't even eat that: actual plastic buckets filled with sweet popcorn.
Heh, fair enough. I took a look at some pictures of US grocery sections at European stores and applied the huristic of:
- if it's there, it's not super popular.
- If I would buy it regularly, chances are a European would too, just not as many, see point one.
- if it's awful it's being sold as an amusing novelty.
- if I wouldn't buy it often but I recognize it's American it's a fun novelty or comfort food for the homesick.
Based on that metric, I concluded there was a contingent of Europeans who viewed American peanut butter, BBQ sauce and hot porridge as superior enough to justify spending extra on. That spray cheese was correctly regarded as a disgusting novelty, and that pop tarts, lucky charms and marshmallow fluff are noveltys that are "fine".
Wouldn't have expected you to put relish there though! I kinda figured that was one everyone had that they tweaked a little for regional taste, like mustard.
Lucky Charms and Nerds. I think it’s mostly for Americans in Europe actually. It’s all quite expensive and I’ve never seen anyone buy it.
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There should be far more coffee and cigarettes, but a nice spread overall!
aisle
ile.
I agree, aisle is both correct and traditional.
I'm willing to grant, however, that in a grocery store the aisles could be interpreted as the areas where the shoppers and employees stroll, around a very organized archipelago of shelving islands/isles stacked with merchandise.
Produce sections in the US often look like little islands of colorful objects
Yeah and like the deli section / bakery section usually has a bunch of little islands. But these are shelves, so really most likely more of an aisle.
I get your point, but maybe the shelves are more like big cliff-sided mountainous isles. Think Dover or Gibraltar.
For the metaphor, not the grammar of course.
I would totally agree that, for example, I would go to Aisle 4 for bread. And the sign saying 4 would indicate the shelves, not the aisle where I'm standing.
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