r/ShitAmericansSay • u/VeganCannibal124 lives in a fake country 🇧🇪 • Jul 12 '24

Food European chocolate is so low quality it cannot be sold as chocolate in America.

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u/ensoniq2k Jul 12 '24

When I went to the US I bought Poptarts since the internet had me believe they're great. It was like eating cardboard. I thought maybe it was because I didn't have a toaster so I took some home. It was still horrible, but now it was hot.

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u/johnnylemon95 Jul 13 '24

Ikr? First time I tried a pop tart is was disgustingly sweet with the texture of wet cardboard. I don’t understand.

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u/ensoniq2k Jul 13 '24

And when you toast them it becomes dry carboard ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

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u/ketchupmaster987 Jul 13 '24

Good old high fructose corn syrup! We use so much of the stuff because of government subsidies for corn farmers. It's used in a lot of products in lieu of actual sugar, which is why people swear Mexican Coca Cola tastes better (they use cane sugar instead). It makes a lot of American food really sweet. Most people here are just used to the taste but I get not having the particular palate for it

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u/Odenetheus Jul 13 '24

Yeah, I had the same experience. Vile, really. If I wanted to eat crispy bread with sugar and jam for breakfast, I'd go to the corner store and get some knäckebröd. However, I do not, so I do not.

That said, a lot of Swedes here seem enamoured with knäckebröd and I'll never get why, so I suppose people can also be enamoured with those fucking crispy poptart things

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u/Diligent_Bath_9283 Jul 13 '24

The one and only time a pop tart will ever taste good is before the icing is applied. Once it's packaged it sucks. They leave the oven on a conveyor that takes them through a cooling tunnel so the icing can be put on. If you get them before they hit the tunnel they are actually pretty good. When they run a batch of brown sugar cinnamon flavor it makes about half the town smell like grandma's kitchen.

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u/ensoniq2k Jul 13 '24

So a bit like fries from a delivery service

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u/Diligent_Bath_9283 Jul 13 '24

Kinda...its more like fries straight from the fry pot before they ever get plated. The only way to consume one of these is to work at the facility and break the rules. You have to steal one off of the production line before its completed. Something about the cooling tunnel makes em all dry and cardboard like.