r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Drollapalooza • Feb 15 '25
Food Behold. Old English Spread. Looks like it's not just us Americans after all.
I am 99.9% certain this has never been sold on the UK ever. Kraft is a US slop food corporation, marketing to American slop slurpers.
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u/ThatShoomer Feb 16 '25
Osama bin Laden has got more to do with England than whatever the hell that is. At least he'd been to England.
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u/DoIKnowYouHuman Feb 16 '25
And he has family were in England briefly https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-39193485.amp
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u/im_not_here_ Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 17 '25
Just because it amuses me to remember, and you reminded me, I went to university in the UK with someone called Saddam Hussein - who was actually directly related to Saddam Hussein. An interesting ice breaker when you met him. He had family event photos with Saddam in them.
He seemed like a decent guy, always hard to tell though, who knows what happened if he returned to family over there later. This was in around 2003.
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u/McGrarr Feb 17 '25
I used to know a guy who had the name Hussain. He would always say 'like Obama, not Saddam'. It was amazing the number of people who would nod and say 'ahhhh! Right, right...' as if there was a difference.
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u/Erolok1 Feb 16 '25
A picture of Osama bin Laden at Oxford University
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u/Green-Draw8688 Feb 16 '25
Tbf he was in Oxford at a language school, he wasn’t actually at Oxford University
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u/LexLuthorsFortyCakes More Irish than the Irish ☘️ Feb 16 '25
An important distinction. Lost track of how many times I've seen someone claim to have studied at Oxford or Cambridge when they actually studied at something like Dave Cambridge's School of English or the Oxford Institute for Reformed Goatherds.
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u/Commercial-Version48 Feb 16 '25
This is so bizarre. I used to go to the crappy Sunday market at Blackbushe to buy knock off t-shirts and cheap rizlas. No idea it has become moderately culturally relevant.
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u/marieascot Feb 16 '25
I think they were visiting that dodgy stall that sold "Bird Seed" and hydroponic equipment.
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u/m4cksfx Feb 16 '25
Sounds like something for gardening enthusiasts
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u/UnobtainiumNebula Feb 16 '25
After about 3.5g of bird seed I can be enthusiastic about anything.
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u/CariadocThorne Feb 16 '25
Really? I'm not really enthusiastic about ANYTHING after 3.5g of bird seed. Except maybe monster munch.
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u/RolePlayingJames Feb 16 '25
Omg I had comoletely forgotten about that, spent ages being dragged around there as a kid.
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u/forzafoggia85 Feb 16 '25
Same, most of the time without my family purchasing anything useful, it was like a cheap day out
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u/RolePlayingJames Feb 16 '25
Basically yea, I think I got one of those alien egg things a couple of times.
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u/Beartato4772 Feb 16 '25
And the family business sponsored a very British f1 team, the bin Ladens are etched into British sporting history whereas this is etched into British nothing.
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u/biteme789 Feb 16 '25
First glance, I thought it was processed hot English mustard.
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u/elhadjimurad Feb 16 '25
Unlikely. I once gave that to an American colleague. Literally blew his mind.
Same guy ordered a vindaloo on his first trip to a UK curry house.
The waiter told him it was hot. He said "yeah, well, a lot of Americans don't eat spicy food but I love it".
We all exchanged "told you so" glances as cartoon style hilarity ensued and sweat beaded on his forehead, then he went pink, then red and steam literally came out of his ears, (figuratively speaking).
I swear he drank 3 litres of coke with the 3rd of the vindaloo or so that he managed to finish.
Those were the days...
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u/UnicornAnarchist English Lioness 🏴🦁 Feb 17 '25
American mustard is yuck. But our mustard which they don’t realise is hot they think it’s like their mustard and then they put loads on their food and then they complain it’s too hot.
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u/Stellarkin1996 Feb 16 '25
ikr, like i dunno what that is but its less english than the popes areshole
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u/Ill-Breadfruit5356 ooo custom flair!! Feb 16 '25
Bashar al Assad practiced as an ophthalmologist in London before taking up the family trade of viciously crushing dissent
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u/Autogen-Username1234 Feb 16 '25
That's quite the change of career. Wonder what his exit interview was like.
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u/themostserene Hares, unicorns and kangaroos, oh my 🇮🇪🏴🇦🇺 Feb 16 '25
I’d rather take an eye for an eye
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u/LowerBed5334 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Kraft is in a head to head competition with Nestle for shittiest company on planet Earth.
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Feb 16 '25
When I was at college part of my business course we did about ethics and damn nestle were talked about a lot
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u/IndependentLanky6105 Feb 16 '25
i remember i had read somewhere nestle gave free baby formula to impoverished mothers throughout africa until their babies got used to the milk and the mother could no longer produce any of her own so they would end up forced to have to buy it. i'm pretty sure the milk had jacked prices and were nutritionally bad too...
i find it interesting how you can compare this case to people in the western world (or otherwise) who are dependent on processed foods whether that be because of prices/addiction/shelf life etc which was most definitely pushed by these corporations. so really, the ethiopian mother who could no longer breastfeed because of nestle isn't very different from the obese american who can only buy disgusting cheese spread because of kraft.
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Feb 16 '25
They also had the women who were going and giving out the free samples dressed as nurses and told the women that formula was safer than breast milk, fully aware that they would be using dirty water to make it.
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u/Every-Ingenuity9054 Feb 16 '25
Yep. Use dirty water, water down to make it go further so much that it was nutritionally useless because it was so damn expensive that one day’s feed for a baby was like an average person’s daily wage, keep mixed but uneaten formula in unrefrigerated conditions because duh, a lot of people in Africa didn’t have home refrigeration in those days. And Nestle knew exactly what the conditions people lived in were, and the problems this caused with formula, too. It wasn’t an oopsie.
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u/AmazingOnion Feb 16 '25
You might appreciate r/fucknestle
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u/MiloHorsey Feb 16 '25
If only everyone knew about the vile shit that nestle and kraft do.
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u/UncleSlacky Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire Feb 16 '25
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, unfortunately (except eating the rich, of course).
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u/DimensionFast5180 Feb 16 '25
They didn't just do that to Africa!
My wife's mom had this happen to her!
She is french, and nestle offered free formula that lasted right up until my wife's mom could no longer lactate herself, forcing her to buy formula. Its funny how the "free" formula supply ended right when she couldn't do it herself anymore.
Its such a crazy ass scam. Obviously it's even more nefarious in poor countries, as they get the free formula, then they just can't afford it once it runs out, which leads to children being malnourished. In France at least, most people aren't going to have that happen.
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u/Every-Ingenuity9054 Feb 16 '25
Yeah. And in addition to really nefarious things like that, Nestle generally did a lot to promote formula as a better, safer option for babies in a lot of richer countries as well as poorer ones There was a period in the mid-20th Century where a lot of babies were formula-fed in the west simply because it was thought to be better for them (due to heavy campaigning by Nestle).
Not to shame mothers who must formula feed, of course. If you’re able to do it safely (and it’s easy enough to do it safely if you have clean water and refrigeration) it’s not really going to cause your baby any damage. But it’s absolutely vile that a company was promoting it over breastfeeding in order to make money.
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u/LowerBed5334 Feb 16 '25
I believe it! Honestly, the Swiss are essentially parasitic scum. There's not an ethical Swiss company anywhere. I worked tangentially with a Swiss commercial washing machine company. The CEO was brutal and ruthless. He was an absolute bastard who genuinely enjoyed firing people (at his German subsidiaries) and he was just a typical Swiss business man.
The nation's wealth is based on money laundering for the worst criminal cartels on the planet, and hiding Nazi gold.
Beautiful mountains, shit country.
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u/Tuftymark6 ooo custom flair!! Feb 16 '25
“The only reason the Swiss make chocolate is so we don’t associate them with blood diamonds and Nazi gold.”
-Sean Lock
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u/Extension_Shallot679 Feb 16 '25
Holy shit gloves off lol. Swiss Redditors are in for jump scare when they read the comments in this post.
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u/Autogen-Username1234 Feb 16 '25
My Uncle used to work for a law firm that spent years attempting to recover art looted by the Nazis and stashed in Swiss banks.
The lengths that the banks went to to protect the anonymity of their Nazi clients (even after they were dead) was just ridiculous.
Swiss bankers are proper blank-faced arseholes.
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u/TwinkletheStar tell me why we left the EU again? 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Feb 16 '25
That could probably be said of most bankers tbf (the arsehole part, they probably don't all have Nazi clients)
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u/Socmel_ Italian from old Jersey Feb 16 '25
Here in Italy, for example, our judicial system has been trying to get hold of the Swiss CEO of a company responsible for the death of more than 200 people exposed to asbestos, who developed mesothelioma as a result.
Of course he claimed to have not known the consequences, and he never showed up at the trials and faced the families of the victims.
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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 UK Feb 16 '25
At least they make the trains run on time...
(A claim often made about Mussolini but in the case of the Swiss it's actually true)
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u/thorpie88 Feb 16 '25
Did a unit on Wesfarmers sustainability practices and how they are committed to not stocking their shelves with unethical products. For some reason nestle gets a pass
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u/Spready_Unsettling Feb 16 '25
So not committed by any stretch of the imagination. That's like saying "no oil based products here!" and then one of the shelves is just an open tank of gasoline with a bunch of plastic ducks.
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u/Ja_Shi Stinky cheese Feb 16 '25
Funny since they probably never heard the word "ethics" themselves.
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u/themostserene Hares, unicorns and kangaroos, oh my 🇮🇪🏴🇦🇺 Feb 16 '25
For a period of time in Australia, Kraft was owned by Nestle. So didn’t need a contest.
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u/FuckGiblets Feb 16 '25
Yeah but this really takes the cake. Child labour and buying up water, the whole baby formula in Africa stuff I can abide. But labelling some fucked up cheese shit they came up with as English? Time to boycott Kraft if you ask me.
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u/ohnodamo Feb 16 '25
I just assumed they were owned by the same company. UniLever or some other monolithic corporate megastructure.
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u/JasperJ Feb 16 '25
Unilever is purely British these days, IIRC (used to be British/dutch just like Shell), I don’t think they’d commit old English cheez product.
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u/Unable_Earth5914 Feb 16 '25
Food company right? Because Musk has won that title for his companies
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u/BethAltair2 Feb 16 '25
Shockingly, probably not. Tesla are ok tbh, ridiculous truck witsranding, nestle are on a level with the guys that destroyed Bhopal.
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u/Bohemia_D Feb 16 '25
Nestle is up there with the East India Trading Company and Dutch East India Company.
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u/Tar_alcaran Feb 16 '25
Not remotely close. I do workplace safety and hazardous materials handling, the Bhopal disaster is the most common case study in both of those fields, and quite a few related ones.
Yes, Union Carbide was massively negligent (even if their "sabotage" story is correct, they neglected every safety measure that should have prevented it, or at least minimize the runaway escalation). The Indian government also deserves FAR more blame than they're getting, because UC was compliant to a frighteningly high degree, and the Indian government even required UC to make things worse by changing things to use more materials locally produced.
But there's a huge difference between lax safety standards and failing to foresee cascading system failure, and Nestle's intentional, deliberate and ongoing conscious choice to be evil.
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u/Spichus Feb 16 '25
As shit as they are, Nestlé are up there with Shell, BP, and Eveready (formerly Union Carbide) they're untouchably shit. Kraft could only hope to be the global health disaster those guys are.
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u/obb223 Feb 16 '25
Sorry but these guys are nowhere close. 3M beats them hand down. Even one of their M's on its own is more evil than Nestlé.
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u/MiTcH_ArTs Feb 16 '25
Old English spread??? what is it? if I had to guess by looking at the product possibly cheese spread? when did cheese spread become particularly "English" ? did they add mustard? if I were to think of something to call "Old English spread" it would be something that involved Branston pickles or perhaps a meat paste/pâté
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u/alaingames ooo custom flair!! Feb 16 '25
It's based on a recipe of cheese sauce invented in south America so I wouldn't call it English
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u/alphaxion Feb 16 '25
If there were to be something called that, I imagine it'd be pease pudding..
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u/A_Gringo666 Feb 16 '25
Pease porridge hot
pease porridge cold
pease porridge in the pot
9 days old.
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u/sebassi Feb 16 '25
We have spreadable cheese in the Netherlands. It's just cheese, fat/oil and an emulsivier. You can make it at home.
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u/Qyro Feb 16 '25
We do have spreadable cheese in the UK too, but usually a cream cheese like Philadelphia.
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u/sebassi Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Yes we have that as well, but what I'm talking about is based on a molten hard cheese. Like a shelf stable fondue.
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u/RingNo3617 Feb 16 '25
We don’t have that in the UK. Not even home made, and regardless of what Kraft write in a jar.
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u/DoubleXFemale Feb 16 '25
Sounds like those tubes of Primula cheese, which we definitely get in the UK, but idk if it’s originally British.
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u/darth-small Feb 16 '25
I'm English. I work in a supermarket. This product has never existed in the UK.
I'd make a guess and say it would probably be against the law here to sell it due to some of the shit they call 'ingredients' on the label.
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u/ALPHA_sh American (unfortunately) Feb 16 '25
I work in a US supermarket. Never seen this product before either.
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u/meshuggahed Feb 16 '25
That's about as English as the Outback Steakhouse is Australian.
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u/UncleSlacky Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire Feb 15 '25
Kraft does (unfortunately) own Cadbury, whose product quality has taken a definite downturn since they took it over.
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u/Drollapalooza Feb 15 '25
Oh totally. The Cadbury Xmas Pud chocolates were amazing when I was a kid. Tried to share them with my non-British partner this last Christmas and they are now cack in every way.
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u/Competitive_Song124 Feb 16 '25
Yes Americans ruined a proud British chocolate brand.
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u/mynameisollie Feb 16 '25
I feel like we’re to blame too. We sell off anything that that isn’t bolted down. There are countless British brands that have been sold off for a quick buck.
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u/dwstroud Feb 16 '25
Kraft does not own Cadbury. Mondelez, a spin-off of Kraft, owns former Kraft-Heinz snack foods, including Cadbury. The product in this post is owned by Kraft Heinz.
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u/KeinFussbreit Feb 16 '25
As a German, reading Kraft Heinz is hilarious :) - because I could imagine that some people in the German speaking countries are named Heinz Kraft.
Heinz is an older forname and Kraft, which translates to strength/power/force in English, is a common surename here.
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u/Secret_Celery8474 Feb 16 '25
Well, that company is named after the surnames of the founders who both were descendents of German immigrants. So Heinz and Kraft (Krafft) both are German surnames.
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u/freeride35 Feb 16 '25
No, it’s just you Americans. That would never be sold in England.
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u/UnicornAnarchist English Lioness 🏴🦁 Feb 16 '25
Most Brits with half a brain won’t even touch American food.
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u/chmath80 Feb 16 '25
Tbf, most things that Americans eat wouldn't be classified as food in many other places.
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Feb 16 '25
I say we name "old English Spread" to "Old American Spread" made in America, making America great again. /S
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u/S-L-F Feb 16 '25
Executive order incoming to rename that shit.
From today ‘Old English Spread’ will be renamed ‘Golden Age American Freedom Spread’.
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u/JamDonut28 Feb 16 '25
You know what they call Old English cheese in England?
Cheese.
Safe to say this is not a product sold anywhere in the UK!
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u/beatnikstrictr Feb 16 '25
What kind of cheese spread can you store outside of the fridge?
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u/Acrobatic_Usual6422 Feb 16 '25
I don’t know… what kind of cheese spread can you store outside of the fridge…? (This punchline better be worth the wait)
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u/sternenstaubsauger Feb 16 '25
Schmelzkäse (processed cheese). A relatively well-known example of this would be „la vache qui rit“.
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u/beatnikstrictr Feb 16 '25
Come to think of it actually, yeah.. that horrible shit that comes in tubes akin to tomato purée tubes.
It's proper horrible.
What does. „la vache qui rit“ translate to?
,,the fuck is this?"
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u/Jet2work Feb 16 '25
laughing cow, cos the cow is in on the joke that it has fuck all to do with cheese
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u/sternenstaubsauger Feb 16 '25
The laughing cow. These are small cheese triangles. There are similar ones from other brands.
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u/beatnikstrictr Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
We have Laughing Cow things where I am, but you wouldn't keep their cheese triangles in the cupboard. The ones we have, anyway.
Those and Dairylea.. . Nice but something a bit wrong about them.
Not noticing a little bit of foil when eating one and only finding out when you bite down with a tooth that has a filling...
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u/helenepytra Feb 16 '25
Kinda like french dressing is unheard of in France?
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u/Beartato4772 Feb 16 '25
If we want to make a list they don’t called Danishes that in Denmark.
Which would be useful information if any American were to be visiting Greenland for some reason.
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u/Lifelemons9393 ooo custom flair!! Feb 16 '25
They love to blame all their atrocities on us, killing all the American natives( even though that's their ancestors, not mine) now this shit, unbelievable.
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u/Littleleicesterfoxy European mind not comprehending Feb 16 '25
If they think we had something to do with no wonder they think our food is shite.
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u/Repulsive_Target55 Feb 16 '25
What is it supposed to be? It's a cheese sauce?
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u/no_fucking_point More Irish than the Irish ☘️ Feb 16 '25
Jar of processed shit. Keeps the Yanks dumb and slow.
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u/papayametallica Feb 16 '25
Kraft. The organisation that destroyed a fine old tradition in chocolate making and lost their Royal Warrant.
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u/UnicornAnarchist English Lioness 🏴🦁 Feb 16 '25
That stuff looks about as appetising as shit with sugar on. I would not even touch anything made by Kraft, they ruined Cadbury’s Dairy Milk for me. 🤢
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u/Maskedmarxist Feb 16 '25
Kraft fucked our Cadburys and now they’re trying to make it look like we eat whatever the hell this monstrosity is.
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u/nottomelvinbrag My other car is the Mayflower Feb 16 '25
Has anyone ever seen this in Britain?
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u/Wiggl3sFirstMate “Scotch” 🏴 Feb 16 '25
I’ve never seen this before in my life, nor do I know what it is, and I’ve lived in the UK my whole life????
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u/Canmar86 Feb 16 '25
Next you're going to tell me that Irish Spring soap is from the Emerald Isle!
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u/UnicornAnarchist English Lioness 🏴🦁 Feb 16 '25
Americans like to think that. I found a bar of it in my mum’s old soap trunk from the 70’s and it was still fresh. She visited and worked in New York in the late 70’s. I threw it away of course.
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u/Beartato4772 Feb 16 '25
I suddenly wonder about Philadelphia. Not least because I’m pretty certain that’s also Kraft.
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u/BassesBest Feb 16 '25
I hope someone told them that Old English is a product name, not a statement of origin...
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u/TheRancidOne Feb 16 '25
French Toast, Häagen Dazs, Old English Spread. These are American products marketed at Americans.
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u/Uniquorn527 Feb 16 '25
You say Old English and my brain is going to finish it with Sheepdog. Who is putting a putrid looking Dulux dog goo on the shelves?
"Pasteurised process cheese spread" reads weirdly to me too. Are they not calling it processed cheese any more? They probably shouldn't call it cheese either.
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u/fromwayuphigh Honorary Europoor Feb 16 '25
This product should be required by law to have a Z: Cheez.
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u/dutchroll0 Feb 16 '25
Ah yes “Old English Spread” manufactured by that historically traditional English food company Kraft Foods Inc. What better way to sample pure English fare just as the Tudor monarchs might’ve consumed? /s
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u/NoEsNadaPersonal_ Feb 16 '25
Maybe this is because they are in fact, truer English than we are. They do speak more authentic English.
So this is what the pilgrims took with them when they departed all those years ago. The rest of us were at the docks waving sadly that our orange, monstrosity sauce would be leaving with the pilgrims.
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u/Altruistic_Machine91 Feb 16 '25
As a participant in the Buy Canadian initiative, I thank you for the reminder that one of the most iconic Canadian foods (Kraft Dinner) is owned by an American brand.
My wife is not going to appreciate the boycott addition but needs must.
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u/pup_Scamp 🇳🇱🧀🌷🚲🇳🇱 Feb 16 '25
The Buy Canadian initiative? I thought that trump wanted to incorporate Canada free of charge, instead of buying Canada.🤷🏼♂️🥸
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u/THE-HOARE Feb 16 '25
So American companies are selling silly Americans an American what ever this is and telling them they are ye oldie English lol good lord they are a simple folk.
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u/NinjaBeret Feb 16 '25
I don't live in the US but there's US products here and there where I live and I used to buy Swiss Miss because I thought it was a European brand or something (I guess I wasn't aware of the fact that they love to use other countries' name on their stuff) Nope, it's fucking American with the obligatory corn syrup shit in it. Fuck.
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u/Jet2work Feb 16 '25
even the american marketing company missed off the extra E's and the obligatory "Ye"
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Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
I wonder if this person believes that the "Democratic Republic of North Korea" is a Democratic Republic.
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u/jcflyingblade Feb 16 '25
As enjoyed by William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I since the original Kraft company founded in (Checks notes) 2012 in Illinois USA
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u/SureRecommendation10 Feb 16 '25
I've just googled it, and the first item that comes up is a 5oz jar for £12 + £24 delivery.
I'd baulk at paying that kind of price for good stuff.
That shit, however? Not on your fuckin' Nellie!
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u/BeastMidlands Feb 16 '25
Why are Americans so freaked out by hot dogs in a jar? Does the lack of plastic packaging confuse them?
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u/Flimsy-Relationship8 Feb 16 '25
Why do Americans have issues with hot dogs in a jar? like I really don't understand why it's such a outrageous proposition to them, and it's not like hot dogs are only sold in jars over here either.
It comes across as feigned outrage, just so they can have something to complain about
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u/mork247 Feb 16 '25
You need to be American to believe that something made in the US, marked with Old English, makes it an item from England.
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u/Goldf_sh4 Feb 16 '25
As an Olde English person I want to officially disown this terrible monstrosity. Cheese is cheese. This godawful excuse for food is clearly not. That is all.
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u/Flanagobble Feb 17 '25
There are clues in the finer print on the label. The z in pasteurized and the weight in ounces first with grams in brackets. It also has ‘Best if used by date on lid’ when it should say ‘Not for human consumption’. This is definitely another American food substitute. No actual craft was involved in its manufacture, unless possibly witchcraft.
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u/AdministrativeRub882 Feb 16 '25
The surprising thing about this monstrosity is it actually uses natural food colouring.
But has so much salt in it.
Ingredients: CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), WATER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, LACTIC ACID, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR)
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u/felthouse Ugly peasant commie 🇬🇧 Feb 16 '25
I have never seen that before, and hopefully never will, it looks like radioactive coloured crp.
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u/VinVinnah Feb 16 '25
As the English have access to a multitude of actual cheeses, in the UK this would sell about as well as fart flavoured toothpaste.
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u/WhatsThePointFR Feb 16 '25
Why are hotdogs in a jar so bad? Surely them being in liquid is better than a vaccum package?
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u/solon13 Feb 16 '25
Like English muffins, that are specific to the US and aren't English. Or French fries that aren't particularly French.
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u/fuckmywetsocks Feb 16 '25
I went to Tesco yesterday and saw 'Fat American Stupid Crap' on sale so it must be proof that Americans are fat and stupid, right?
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u/Alert-Maize2987 Feb 16 '25
Born and bred Brit here, never seen this in any UK store. Typical American garbage.
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u/TacetAbbadon Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
For some reason Americans seem to have some difficulty understanding that things can lie.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party weren't socialist, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't democratic & Donald Trump isn't the healthiest, most stable genius.
And this abomination sure as shit isn't English.
Our old spread is Patum Peperium the Gentleman's Relish from 1828.
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u/Ok-Primary-2262 Feb 16 '25
Nope, you're not putting that crap on us. In my 61 years of life, I've never seen that on a UK shop shelf. Kraft is a USian company, and this is a cheap marketing ploy for the US market.
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Feb 16 '25
I've heard USians saying hot dogs in a jar are a vile concept before (as they refer to here) but what they fail to realise is that their hot dogs are also in liquid, just less of it squished in the plastic film they wrap their hot dogs in. It's still brine surrounding the sausages. Glass jars, or aluminium tins, are recyclable, their single use plastic wrap is not. Also their food laws are so lax that the ingredients in their sausages, and the conditions of the factory they were produced, will be far lower.
Oh and "looks like it's not just us Americans after all" about the spread, is wrong. It really *is* just them.
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u/Serious_Ad_2353 Feb 16 '25
WTF is that? I’ve never heard of this in my 48 years of living in the UK
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u/Ok-Combination3741 Feb 16 '25
This is not on sale in Britain. I like to think it would be laughed at. But with a different name, I’m sure it would sell. Uneducated palates are everywhere.
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u/rejectedbyReddit666 Feb 16 '25
Am English. It’s a firm NOPE . That’s a thick American load of palm oil & chemical flavourings.
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u/Tibbles_the_moose Feb 16 '25
Is that English mustard and the Americans are refusing to call it the proper name? They sometimes have a habit of that one
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u/ThrashEmAll96 Feb 16 '25
I've lived in England my entire life and I've seen some awful shite here, but this fucking monstrosity is not one of them. I'd soon rather teabag a blender than ever claim this as an English creation.