*THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED VIDEO* - The box was an birthday gift to me from a family member. I understand from various comments that people have experienced trouble with subscriptions to this company (including problems cancelling their subscription), I make no recommendations about this subscription box service - in fact the only thing I will recommend is that you look up some customer reviews on the service itself. *Afterthoughts & Addenda* I recorded this video over a month prior to publication (by which time I have actually tasted most of the items in the box) - here are my brief impressions (in the order of unboxing) with comparisons to UK products where appropriate: Cheddar & Sour Cream - I've not had exactly this combination of flavours in crisps in the UK before, but the sour cream flavour was familiar. They are more highly flavoured and salted than typical UK crisps. Doritos spicy sweet chilli - nice, similar to hot Doritos we can get in the UK, but again, seemed heavier on the flavourings Herr's Honey Cheese Curls - like sweet Wotsits, again, more salty and more flavour coating than Wotsits Cheez-its white cheddar - interestingly tangy little cheese crackers Cheetos flamin hot - almost identical to UK Nik Naks (which used to be available in cheese flavour). A little spicy, but not much. A&W Rootbeer - haven't opened this yet. I like rootbeer occasionally even though it tends to taste a bit medicinal to the typical UK palate Smartfood white cheddar popcorn - cheesy popcorn - again, a sort of tangy cheese flavour I haven't encountered in UK packet snacks Chex Mix - All of the components of this are familiar, but the idea of eating them together is not - a blend of breakfast cereal (specifically, what we might call shreddies) together with little pretzel things, savoury puffs and other crunchy snack things Pop Tarts Bites - dry crumbly cookie with frosting - I didn't really enjoy these - a bit too blandly, dryly sweet 3 Musketeers - soft nougat with chocolate coating - like a UK Milky Way, but with a the flavour profile of US chocolate Lemonheads pink lemonade - fondant candy, moderately sour - not much else to say Kit Kat Duo - Kit Kat with that American chocolate flavour, and a hint of mint (mint was pretty subtle) Reese's Outrageous - this was one of my favourite items - peanut butter with crispy candy coated chocolate bits inside a caramel and chocolate coating - sort of like a StarBar with mini smarties inside Goldfish cheddar crackers - I found these disappointingly lacking in flavour - just very slightly cheesy, underseasoned water biscuits Combos pizzeria stuffed pretzels - pretty good - sort of pretzel nuggets with a pleasant cheesy-herby pizza flavour filling. Hershey's Swiss Rolls - More dense cake than a Cadbury's Mini Roll. Much thicker chocolate too - and of course, with the US flavour profile. Very, very sweet. M&M's Fudge Brownie - little doughy, cakey chocolate nuggets in candy shells - I thought these were really good Little Debbie Double Decker Oatmeal Creme Pie - (tasted in the video) - extremely sweet, soft cookie sandwich with a sort of sugar paste filling. I needed a big cup of unsweetened black coffee with the remainder of this. Nutter Butter cookies - these were good - a bit like gingerbread, but without the ginger, and peanut flavour instead Charleston Chew - chewy nougat with a thin chocolate coating - very sweet, sort of artificial tasting - more chewy, and at the same time, less substantial than UK pink and white nougat bars Nerds Gummy Clusters - jelly sweets encrusted with little candy beads - different fruit flavours from typical UK confectionery, which made these taste interesting to me. Jolly Rancher gummies - fairly ordinary jelly sweets in very lurid colours and fairly ordinary flavours (albeit different fruits from typical UK sweets) Tootsie Roll Pop - Couldn't taste this as it was one with its own wrapper - I could not separate it from its packaging Cinnamon Toast Crunch - similar to a UK breakfast cereal called Curiously Cinnamon, but very, very much sweeter. Absurdly sweet for a breakfast cereal, compared to my experience of things here.
Or the short version: Many of the sweet items were very much sweeter than their UK counterparts American chocolate tastes different - to me, not exactly unpleasant, but different enough that I prefer our own. The difference in flavours often maps to a perception of 'artificial' - I wonder if the same thing happens when people from the US try UK confectionery. Many of the savoury things were more salty than their UK counterparts. Some of the cheese flavours were different and interesting - I wish we had them within our own product ranges for variety. Oh, and weirdly, the plastic film used for the packaging bags for these snack items was generally thicker and tougher than we get on similar snacks here.
I was hoping there would be a part 2 of something so we would know how you felt about everything else! It’s especially interesting for me as I finally know most of these snacks! Thanks for letting us know here :)
@@ianhoffman2119 lol I love those but they are hard to get in my Canadian city. Cinnamon toast crunch is my favorite cereal and I am in my 40s weirdly I was into healthy foods as a teenager
@@paddysmyth90 Having no sense of taste or smell was a bit alarming for me when I had the virus. I lost some weight though...lol. Hope you recover soon!...👍
It's so weird seeing the food you've seen your whole life in an international snack box. Since the USA is treated like the center of the freaking world, I've never had this experience before. This is fun. It's fun getting to see other people respond to junk that you'd never think twice about. I love cultural exchanges and snacks are such an accessible way to start conversations.
Having lived in the us my whole life, it feels weird to see a us themed box. I have no frame of reference whatsoever to compare which is these very normal-seeming things aren't sold elsewhere in the world. Aside from the honey cheese thing. That's just weird
Came here to comment the exact same thing! Having traveled abroad, I can always pick out the snacks that are unique to the areas I go to, but I often forget how weird some 'quintessentially American' flavors can be to others
It's the same for us seeing all the videos of American RUclipsrs with "We try these WEIRD British foods!!" videos and they're just eating some really standard snack food. The only thing I can really recognise as being weird is Marmite - they often eat way too much and it's an acquired taste anyway (I love it).
When I visited England a long time ago they had far more interesting potato chip/crisp flavors than I ever encountered in the US. I remember a roast beef and mustard flavor. It was mind blowing - tasted like a roast beef dinner.
Yeah and there was a gammon and pineapple flavour as well by that company. Many, many years ago there used to be a nettle flavour corn puff thingy. They were absolutely delicious.
As someone from the US, I can say that is some of my favorite snacks lol. That's one of the more accurate flavor boxes I've seen that is suppose to represent a certain location.
American here, I am pretty sure who ever "curates" these boxes just goes to 7-11 and buys stuff at random. Then again maybe the point is to get "normal" stuff. Maybe the snack boxes from other countries look equally plain to someone from that place.
@@owllymannstein7113 It made me think about vending machines like at a rec center or something. Where the kids get done ice skating or swimming and grab some garbage to eat before dinner. The office I used to work in had similar as well. Always sad seeing an adult professional debating which snack cake to have for breakfast when they left in a rush.
I mean, did you expect some higher standards for something that is literally packaged as american junk food? Of course it's cheap, as are all of these products if you buy them individually. Same with Japanese candy/junk/ramen boxes, german candy/junk boxes etc etc. They're just something fun to taste a bit of different culture
It seemed a pretty fair representation of US junk food. Definitely something they would have bought in bulk for big savings. I don't know what they charge for one of these boxes but I can imagine they're making a pretty hefty margin.
To be fair anything in the box has to at least be semi-non-perishable, and also qualify as a small snack. In America the only things that really fit under that description are things you would find in a convenience store, but by that logic you could also still find them at a supermarket. I guess if you wanted to go down a healthier route there could have maybe been a granola bar or fruit leather in the box.
The oatmeal cream pie is definitely my favorite out of all of the snacks represented in that box. I'd say it's mostly for nostalgia. My grandfather used to take me hunting when I was a kid and he'd always pack a snack, and usually it was oatmeal cream pies. He'd always put them in his back pocket, so they'd be flattened by the time we ate them. He would tell me they taste better that way. Still to this day, I always flatten my oatmeal cream pie. Don't know if it actually makes a difference because I haven't eaten a non-flattened one in nearly 2 decades now :) The ones we had were the regular size: 2 smaller oatmeal cookies with the "cream" filling in the middle.
I think they did a pretty good job picking snacks for the variety. I think most would be hard pressed to find things here in the states that you do not already have and pack them like they did here. I think you will enjoy the outrageous bar, it is indeed a nutrageous but with changes I won’t mention in case you have not had it yet. The outrageous bars are quite hard to find in the states and only certain places seem to sell them.
Charleston Chew is a fairly old-fashioned snack here in the US, I've never had it and I've only heard of it a couple times. Maybe if this was 40 years ago it would've been different.
This is such an odd video for me, seeing all these snacks that seem so generic, especially because I work at a grocery store so I handle dozens if not hundreds of these same snacks every day. It’s fun to see the reactions though!
I live in Argentina, and those snacks seems quite unique, nothing "generic". Nor only those brands doesn't sell here, but even the flavours don't exists here in any snack, or any other food or restaurant menu. I envy you.
Some of these items were so sweet and sugary, I needed the bitterness of the coffee to be able to continue eating. Really interesting how much sweeter some of these things were, compared to their UK counterparts.
Zesty Mordant is a nifty flavour of Doritos sold in Canada.I never considered them until Ricky from Trailer Park Boys complained about them. ruclips.net/video/hj18JFVnQt4/видео.html&ab_channel=TrailerParkBoys
Little Debbie's oatmeal cream pie with coffee? No no no! The correct way is to buy a smushed one for 99¢ at the school cafeteria checkout line and down it with a small carton of fat free chocolate milk.
With a cup of coffee, I could almost tolerate one as an adult. God, the shit we used to eat as kids horrifies me. We used to get those giant family sized boxes of honey buns from Sams Club. My dad was ALWAYS trying to poke a honey bun at you. So many otterpops. Always a huge bag of Chex Mix or Doritos in the house. I can't believe we didn't get childhood diabetes. As a young adult it took months to detox from all the salt and sugar I'd gotten used to.
Most of it is really cheap which probably explains it. When you're getting stuff that's probably about 50¢ each in bulk they can afford to put a lot in the box and still keep a profit margin(that box was $25, they almost certainly spent less than half of that on the actual contents).
There is a kind of British chip (or crisp if you will) in the U.S that is gaining popularity. It is vinegar and salt. They are so good! I like them alone or if I am eating a rich flavored food. Lays makes chips in that flavor. There is even a Kettle Chip type as well.
You're seriously such a joy to watch. You're calm and logical with everything and you're just living your best life gardening and crafting and doing what you love despite what others may think Therapy is expensive. Those videos videos are free
Being from the USA, I know all of those items that you pulled out. I slowly felt my teeth beginning to rot as I watched you pull all of those candies and junk food items out! They are quite delicious!
@@africa_everyday The original poster was just making a joke Babatunde, I think they meant a stork which is a large flying bird often associated with delivering thing. Unfortunately they couldn’t spell and the joke doesn’t make very much sense regardless 😂
In regards to black currant being banned in the states, you are correct in that it was banned for being an alternate host for a plant parasite. However, it was not wheat Rust that it was the vector for. Instead, it was Pine Rust, and it had deeply affected the Pine Industry at the time. For a while, it was banned in all of the United States, but looking over the map today, it looks like it is now only banned in the Northeast, since there's still a rather prominent Pine Lumber Industry there.
The three musketeers bar, tastes how the Milky Way bar used to taste before they changed the recipe many years ago. I much prefer it. But to me most US chocolate tastes like a grainy cooking chocolate.
They have milky way bars over here too! I dunno of they're the same as the ones overseas, but I honestly like them both equally. Seeing him compare them strikes me as odd though, they're not really similar enough for me to make an immediate comparison haha
Luckily, I was already snacking on some Chex Mix or I'd running to the pantry. That was a good mix of American snack flavors. Pop tarts are typically a larger pastry which you heat in the toaster; haven't seen the little variety. Combos are my standard road trip food. Cheers!
Yeah agree! Every single box I had was very late and they are ridiculously hard to get a conversation with anyone that works there. I stopped after 6 boxes
Mike the honey cheese crisps, I often eat a nice mature crumbly cheddar dipped in honey and it is a really good combination I think you would like. I also sometimes dip it into a little bit of instant coffee granules, only a small amount but it compliments the cheese and honey really well. I highly recommend you try my weird combination. Thank you for the content.
I'm from the states, so this (and the pinned comment) is very interesting! I've seen and tried most of these, but a few like the Nerds clusters I've never had - I've only had original Nerds. Chex Mix is probably my favorite thing here and I quite like it, though I don't find myself buying bagged snack food all that often. This feels like a fairly accurate encapsulation of American junk food (with a few that are uncommon, or less popular variants on a more popular brand. Jolly Ranchers for example are primarily thought of as a hard candy brand I would say.) I think corn nuts would be a really interesting reaction. They aren't from the U.S., they originated in South America, but they seem like the sort of thing that wouldn't be available in the U.K. They're available in many convenience stores here. I think that Tootsie Rolls and Necco Wafers are, if not the most popular, two fairly unique sorts of candy found here in the U.S. I'm not a huge fan of Tootsie Rolls, but Necco Wafers are a chalky disk shaped candy that I have a lot of nostalgia for. (When I look both of them up with the text "UK" the first result is an American import store, so I can only assume they can't be found over there.) I appreciate the generosity you grant some of our foods, haha. I still enjoy Hershey's somewhat, especially for smores, but if offered a choice, I'd never pick a standard Hershey's over a European milk chocolate bar.
Yeah I agree, i lived in the states for a long time and this is a very good encapsulation of american junk food. They did a very good job with the chips too, though it would have been funny to have Takis in there and see his reaction once he bites into one.
It's interesting as an American to see someone else trying our snacks from a foreign point of view. I'm glad you like the outrageous bar, that's one of my favorites along with Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles. I've always found the whole "root beer tasting medicinal" thing a bit strange. It never occurred to me that it tasted like that. I have a similar reaction to grape soda, though. I used to have grape-flavored cold medicine and so I'm reminded of that whenever I taste any grape flavor.
I find grape soda (and grape flavoured things in general) to taste as though they are really artificial. Or I did, until I tried Welch's Purple Grape Juice - and realised that there are grapes (concord) that actually have that strong floral note to them quite naturally. On the root beer thing, there's a type of antiseptic here called TCP - not sure if you have it, but it's basically an aqueous solution of phenol (carbolic acid) - it has a very distinctive smell, of which rootbeer is strangely reminiscent. I don't think there is any chemical similarity, just a perception of similar aromas
this video was really great, you had a lot of interesting things to say about the food, like the thing about wheat rust. i would really love to see your take on more international snack foods in the future. it reminded me a lot of emmymade's way of describing food, which is high praise. please make more!
Hi there! I just wanted to mention a lil tid bit about the Charleston Chew.... if you put them in the freezer, it makes for an interesting snack. Kinda frozen so the taffy has a snap to it & makes for a different type of chew. It's an interesting experience. If you ever get the chance, give it a try 😀🖖 PS.... i have never heard the thing about chocolate in the U.S. tasting like vomit. I have heard it was sweeter & have heard it was different, but this is the first time i have heard it compared to vomit. I wonder why some people experience it that way 🤔🤔 Thank you & Have a Great day!! 😀🖖
Usually it is sweeter which is why it tastes like vomit. Candies like hersheys and all other popular chocolate brands contains an acid that gives vomit it's particular... unique taste. Apparently this is a taste Americans love, but europeans hate (because other chocolate companies tried to recreate the hersheys taste by adding this acid.) So they create different versions if they sell internationally. As far as I have read this has to do with how they process their milk.
But I honestly think it's just because it's so sweet, I just read that regulations for chocolate being even considered chocolate are stricter in britain (and subsequently europe I'm sure) than in america, with 10% or less cocoa solids being enough to be considered chocolate there compared to 20% in britain. That and sugar is overall lower etc etc.
Because chocolate in America is made from sour milk and they add a chemicle that is closely related to a chemicle in stomach acid so it gives it a vomit taste
As an American, it seems most of that ended up in my trick or treat bag on Halloween growing up. Lol yes we love our salt and sugar, but a lot of these you still see everyday. The cereal aisle alone takes up both sides in bigger grocery stores. I now occasionally buy some of these items as a treat. Love chocolate peanut butter anything. But I’m careful now ( calories , health), I sometimes can’t believe I ate all that sugar as a child, as well as most of my friends lol. Enjoy!! It looked wonderful. Much continued support. 😃
Just one of your American viewers here, Atomic Shrimp. I've had almost everything in that box at one time or another. The only one I'm not familiar with is the "Herr's Honey Cheese Flavored Curls", so I'm glad you tried them on camera. I know your thoughts on everything in the box are in the pinned comment, and thank you for that, but I'm curious if you filmed yourself trying the rest of the snacks or not. Thank you for continuing to be both entertaining and informative.
This is very entertaining for someone who is very used to most of these junk foods. I have occasionally had Cadbury chocolate and noticed that it doesn't taste very sweet compared to what I'm used to.
I'm from the US, and can confirm this is a really great selection of snacks. A nice cross section of many of our classic favorites as well as more interesting items. Snack Surprise clearly put thought into this.
yeah, takes a lot of thought to find the cheapest snacks bought in bulk. i'm certain a lot of hard work and sleepless nights was put into selecting this smorgasbord of processed foods made by one or two companies
Plenty of other Americans have said this already, but I think this is very accurate to American snack food. I could find nearly all of these items at the nearest convenience store, and at least half of them in any given vending machine. A few things are a bit more obscure, like the mint kitkats, the brownie M&Ms, the pink lemonade candy, or the Nerds things. However, you can very easily find the “default” versions of those just about anywhere that sells junk food (plain chocolate kitkats, bags of m&ms, prepackaged brownies, lemon-flavored lemonheads, and boxes of Nerds (the tiny hard candy bits)). Also, if the honey cheese curls and Charleston Chew are regional, then I must live in the region that has them, because those are both pretty normal to me. I’m not a fan of either one, but I see them pretty often.
Our planet has been through so much this past year... Wars, droughts, impeachments!! But we've never lost our sense of what's truly important... The great taste of Charleston Chew! 🎆🎇
We have this delivered, been using it for about six months it's great fun we taste and rate as a family then add scores to find a winner then find out all about the country the snacks came from
Happy Belated Birthday Shrimp! I'd love to see an unboxing of Craft Ales/Beers to see what you think of modern beer. Perhaps an assortment with beers including (but not limited to;) honey, vanilla and chocolates for the stouts, pineapple, mango and exotic fruits for the pales and perhaps some really hoppy double or triple IPAs or NEIPAs. They have such colourfully designed cans (and bottles) these days and when the likes of ASDA and Tesco have a generous assortment, I'd enjoy a critique of each brewery's design in your opinion. I'm sure I've seen you get gifted beers in the past so I hope you'll find this a good idea for a future video.
American here: Seen and tried all of these besides the honey curls. I've seen that brand "Herr's" but not that particular product. Also the Hershey's swiss roll... I've had ones by other brands, but never encountered a Hershey's one before. A couple of extra notes below: -Those 'Combos' pretzels come in many flavors, but those pizza ones are generally considered the most popular. -You're not imagining the Reese's "Nutrageous" as opposed to "Outrageous". They both exist and are slightly different, the Nutrageous has peanuts around the outside instead of the chocolate candy-coated bits. -The M&M's Fudge Brownie flavor is relatively new as far as I know. This year is the first time I've seen them. -Oatmeal Cream Pies are one of life's simple pleasures, or at least as close to one as a heavily processed and manufactured food product can be. -Charleston Chew is kind of uncommon to find, but I love them. If you ever get another one, try freezing it, then thwacking it on a countertop a few times to break it into pieces and enjoy while still frozen (chew carefully to avoid hurting your teeth). -Nutter Butters are underrated, nobody ever talks about them, but they're so good. -Our Milky Way bar includes a strip of caramel between the top of the nougat and the top layer of chocolate, but I have heard that the English bar of the same name is more similar to our 3 Musketeer, with no caramel strip.
As an American it's really funny to see someone eat things that I have had my entire life and see them as strange lol It's also funny to think about how different foods are between countries and the slight differences that people expect from them.
We do have a lot of cheese snacks but this box was pretty skewed. Our most popular flavors of chips are barbeque, and sour cream and onion. Herr's is an amazing lesser known brand and I have never even heard of that flavor. We also consider "sugar" a flavor, as you can see.
Comment above mine is accurate... but also, most Americans will agree anything savory is better when you add cheese. Like, cheap cafeterias etc will sell previous day's food (not rotten or anything, just stale) by covering it with cheese. Sometimes that version sells _better_ than fresh- but- without- cheese.
I LOVE oatmeal cream pies, and live in America. I had no idea I could get a double-decker! You're doing the lords work, sir! Also, +5pts for the futurama reference. One of the most underrated shows EVER.
That's interesting because it feels like I'm seeing more and more of the double-decker ones in stores near me lately at the expense of the regular ones.
"ok I'll have the rest of that with a cup of coffee" Not sure why I haven't thought of that but now I'm sure that will be breakfast for the next 2 weeks
I always enjoy a good Atomic Shrimp video while I work. Glad you enjoyed the snacks and happy belated (perhaps a month or more, given the pinned update) birthday!
bleh I was intrigued by the concept, so much that I paused the video at 0:40 and decided to check it out. Pepsi Twist was apparently their "Italian" soft drink, Champis was the soft drink for Denmark (despite it being Swedish) and a bunch of the upcoming snacks from Germany can be bought here in Denmark. Interesting concept, but not enough unique snacks to warrant my subscription. Pretty good video and a big thanks to Julie for providing something that could be used to make an Atomic-Shrimp'esque video 😄 Oh, I also loved your pinned comment detailing everything in the box. Very nice touch!
Lol I wish I could like this 100 times for the Futurama reference! btw it's cool watching you unbox snacks from my country 🇺🇸 although I must say there are some snacks here I've never seen before. Also I wish they had included Almond Roca, those are a really good local candy... Ever tried those? It's like toffee covered in chocolate and bits of almond. So good 😋
I don't know if they're exclusively American but maybe a Slim Jim, Red Vines, steak-style beef jerky, kettle chips (Maui Kitch'n Cook'd being the best), Atomic Fireballs, P-Nuttles, Wasabi Blue Diamond Almonds...
The Charleston Chews; they come in chocolate and strawberry flavors too, these are very good if frozen first and broken apart while still wrapped then eaten, has a very unique consistency.
I just 'celebrated' a year of being subscribed to Snack Surprise - interesting to see the size & contents of a premium box as I went for the middle option at £12.99 a month. I've not been disappointed with their selections in all that time & in every box there is always one item that makes me wish they were a UK staple because it's just SO delicious. A shout out to the Bulgarian & New Zealand boxes which were my favourites so far. I still have some of the flower shaped parma violet flavoured Bulgarian boiled sweets which, for me, have the handy side effect of reducing nausea.
Wow, now that is a great box of snacks! The majority of those snacks are available here in Canada too. Thank you, USA 👍 Some are super sweet and some would go good with a coffee or softdrink. Good review.
Thanks for sharing! I grew up in Minneapolis, which is very near to the General Mills headquarters, and we always seemed to have Chex Mix in the house. I would pick out the pretzels and corn Chex for myself because they were the savoryest bits. I wholeheartedly recommend having that root beer with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream, because a root beer float is a classic American summertime treat. It's a LOT of sugar, though...
I occasionally get the regular Little Debbie oatmeal pies or sometimes other brands of oatmeal cookies because the oats remove a little of the guilt over eating sweets.My mom made amazing chewy oatmeal cookies but I have never been able to replicate them.
Even tho this had some neat stuff inside, i would've liked to see something more akin to what "Bokksu" does for Japan. Got a couple of those boxes after watching a promo on channel name "Rachel & Jun's Adventures!" and found it to be one of the more intelligently made "stuff in a box from...(insert country name)" so far. They (bokksu) figured out a way to find local confectioners and similar, and to promote them and their products. I actually liked it, compared to other stuff i tried because most of the stuff inside was made by a human, rather than a factory line. That, is what i kinda expected from this box, but kinda "ehhed" because it's just production line "junk food", which is almost always just a chemical reaction difference from the stuff we get here. I mean those kitkats, pretty sure we have one that's exactly the same, but named differently (think they put the flavor rather than "duos" on it. Not, a jab at AS, the episode was fun, as always. :) edit: a word
Visiting relatives in the States as a child in the 70's and 80's, my gran and me would take them over two 'old lady' trolley care packages, crammed with Scottish square sausage, plain bread and enough chocolate and chocolate based confectionery to give the Lower 48 Type 1 diabetes, because the chocolate over in the US was different from home. 👍🏴
*THIS IS NOT A SPONSORED VIDEO* - The box was an birthday gift to me from a family member.
I understand from various comments that people have experienced trouble with subscriptions to this company (including problems cancelling their subscription), I make no recommendations about this subscription box service - in fact the only thing I will recommend is that you look up some customer reviews on the service itself.
*Afterthoughts & Addenda* I recorded this video over a month prior to publication (by which time I have actually tasted most of the items in the box) - here are my brief impressions (in the order of unboxing) with comparisons to UK products where appropriate:
Cheddar & Sour Cream - I've not had exactly this combination of flavours in crisps in the UK before, but the sour cream flavour was familiar. They are more highly flavoured and salted than typical UK crisps.
Doritos spicy sweet chilli - nice, similar to hot Doritos we can get in the UK, but again, seemed heavier on the flavourings
Herr's Honey Cheese Curls - like sweet Wotsits, again, more salty and more flavour coating than Wotsits
Cheez-its white cheddar - interestingly tangy little cheese crackers
Cheetos flamin hot - almost identical to UK Nik Naks (which used to be available in cheese flavour). A little spicy, but not much.
A&W Rootbeer - haven't opened this yet. I like rootbeer occasionally even though it tends to taste a bit medicinal to the typical UK palate
Smartfood white cheddar popcorn - cheesy popcorn - again, a sort of tangy cheese flavour I haven't encountered in UK packet snacks
Chex Mix - All of the components of this are familiar, but the idea of eating them together is not - a blend of breakfast cereal (specifically, what we might call shreddies) together with little pretzel things, savoury puffs and other crunchy snack things
Pop Tarts Bites - dry crumbly cookie with frosting - I didn't really enjoy these - a bit too blandly, dryly sweet
3 Musketeers - soft nougat with chocolate coating - like a UK Milky Way, but with a the flavour profile of US chocolate
Lemonheads pink lemonade - fondant candy, moderately sour - not much else to say
Kit Kat Duo - Kit Kat with that American chocolate flavour, and a hint of mint (mint was pretty subtle)
Reese's Outrageous - this was one of my favourite items - peanut butter with crispy candy coated chocolate bits inside a caramel and chocolate coating - sort of like a StarBar with mini smarties inside
Goldfish cheddar crackers - I found these disappointingly lacking in flavour - just very slightly cheesy, underseasoned water biscuits
Combos pizzeria stuffed pretzels - pretty good - sort of pretzel nuggets with a pleasant cheesy-herby pizza flavour filling.
Hershey's Swiss Rolls - More dense cake than a Cadbury's Mini Roll. Much thicker chocolate too - and of course, with the US flavour profile. Very, very sweet.
M&M's Fudge Brownie - little doughy, cakey chocolate nuggets in candy shells - I thought these were really good
Little Debbie Double Decker Oatmeal Creme Pie - (tasted in the video) - extremely sweet, soft cookie sandwich with a sort of sugar paste filling. I needed a big cup of unsweetened black coffee with the remainder of this.
Nutter Butter cookies - these were good - a bit like gingerbread, but without the ginger, and peanut flavour instead
Charleston Chew - chewy nougat with a thin chocolate coating - very sweet, sort of artificial tasting - more chewy, and at the same time, less substantial than UK pink and white nougat bars
Nerds Gummy Clusters - jelly sweets encrusted with little candy beads - different fruit flavours from typical UK confectionery, which made these taste interesting to me.
Jolly Rancher gummies - fairly ordinary jelly sweets in very lurid colours and fairly ordinary flavours (albeit different fruits from typical UK sweets)
Tootsie Roll Pop - Couldn't taste this as it was one with its own wrapper - I could not separate it from its packaging
Cinnamon Toast Crunch - similar to a UK breakfast cereal called Curiously Cinnamon, but very, very much sweeter. Absurdly sweet for a breakfast cereal, compared to my experience of things here.
Or the short version:
Many of the sweet items were very much sweeter than their UK counterparts
American chocolate tastes different - to me, not exactly unpleasant, but different enough that I prefer our own.
The difference in flavours often maps to a perception of 'artificial' - I wonder if the same thing happens when people from the US try UK confectionery.
Many of the savoury things were more salty than their UK counterparts.
Some of the cheese flavours were different and interesting - I wish we had them within our own product ranges for variety.
Oh, and weirdly, the plastic film used for the packaging bags for these snack items was generally thicker and tougher than we get on similar snacks here.
Your description of chex mis is right on.
I was hoping there would be a part 2 of something so we would know how you felt about everything else! It’s especially interesting for me as I finally know most of these snacks! Thanks for letting us know here :)
That’s American cereal for ya! We have breakfast cereals here that are quite literally chocolate chip cookies!
@@ianhoffman2119 lol I love those but they are hard to get in my Canadian city. Cinnamon toast crunch is my favorite cereal and I am in my 40s weirdly I was into healthy foods as a teenager
Lying here with covid, feeling like I've watched the whole of RUclips over the past 4 days. You are the saviour we all need.
I hope you feel better soon
Thank you! Getting there. I look forward to being able to taste again, and smashing a mutli-pack of wotsits, since I have a craving now...
@@paddysmyth90
Having no sense of taste or smell was a bit alarming for me when I had the virus.
I lost some weight though...lol.
Hope you recover soon!...👍
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 cheers mate. Yeah, I have dropped a few pounds. Every cloud!
good luck to u. hope u have a speedy recovery mate
It's so weird seeing the food you've seen your whole life in an international snack box. Since the USA is treated like the center of the freaking world, I've never had this experience before. This is fun. It's fun getting to see other people respond to junk that you'd never think twice about. I love cultural exchanges and snacks are such an accessible way to start conversations.
"Since the USA is treated like the center of the freaking world" that's very American of you. You are very wrong but you are American so it's ok
@@mannsjewellery "is treated like". I didn't say "is". America absolutely is given undue importance. Why so smug?
@@mannsjewellery Wouldn't you agree that people not from the US would have a greater knowledge of US media and such than the reverse?
@@mannsjewellery are you upset ur country is shit?
I hope for Mike's sake, that he didn't eat the Hershey's crap. Vile chocolate.
Having lived in the us my whole life, it feels weird to see a us themed box. I have no frame of reference whatsoever to compare which is these very normal-seeming things aren't sold elsewhere in the world.
Aside from the honey cheese thing. That's just weird
Came here to comment the exact same thing! Having traveled abroad, I can always pick out the snacks that are unique to the areas I go to, but I often forget how weird some 'quintessentially American' flavors can be to others
Herr's is a great brand but I have never seen that flavor either.
It's the same for us seeing all the videos of American RUclipsrs with "We try these WEIRD British foods!!" videos and they're just eating some really standard snack food. The only thing I can really recognise as being weird is Marmite - they often eat way too much and it's an acquired taste anyway (I love it).
Also have never seen the honey cheese flavor.
@@MisterM2402 yeah, I can imagine... mostly thanks to this video, lol.
When I visited England a long time ago they had far more interesting potato chip/crisp flavors than I ever encountered in the US. I remember a roast beef and mustard flavor. It was mind blowing - tasted like a roast beef dinner.
Yeah and there was a gammon and pineapple flavour as well by that company. Many, many years ago there used to be a nettle flavour corn puff thingy. They were absolutely delicious.
@@beakyturf6336 Sounds like Walkers (which is basically what Lays call their crisps in the UK)
They really did fit a lot in that box.
As someone from the US, I can say that is some of my favorite snacks lol. That's one of the more accurate flavor boxes I've seen that is suppose to represent a certain location.
American here, I am pretty sure who ever "curates" these boxes just goes to 7-11 and buys stuff at random. Then again maybe the point is to get "normal" stuff. Maybe the snack boxes from other countries look equally plain to someone from that place.
It looked to me like a lot of stuff made for vending machines.
@@owllymannstein7113 It made me think about vending machines like at a rec center or something. Where the kids get done ice skating or swimming and grab some garbage to eat before dinner. The office I used to work in had similar as well. Always sad seeing an adult professional debating which snack cake to have for breakfast when they left in a rush.
I mean, did you expect some higher standards for something that is literally packaged as american junk food? Of course it's cheap, as are all of these products if you buy them individually.
Same with Japanese candy/junk/ramen boxes, german candy/junk boxes etc etc. They're just something fun to taste a bit of different culture
It seemed a pretty fair representation of US junk food. Definitely something they would have bought in bulk for big savings. I don't know what they charge for one of these boxes but I can imagine they're making a pretty hefty margin.
To be fair anything in the box has to at least be semi-non-perishable, and also qualify as a small snack. In America the only things that really fit under that description are things you would find in a convenience store, but by that logic you could also still find them at a supermarket. I guess if you wanted to go down a healthier route there could have maybe been a granola bar or fruit leather in the box.
The oatmeal cream pie is definitely my favorite out of all of the snacks represented in that box. I'd say it's mostly for nostalgia. My grandfather used to take me hunting when I was a kid and he'd always pack a snack, and usually it was oatmeal cream pies. He'd always put them in his back pocket, so they'd be flattened by the time we ate them. He would tell me they taste better that way. Still to this day, I always flatten my oatmeal cream pie. Don't know if it actually makes a difference because I haven't eaten a non-flattened one in nearly 2 decades now :)
The ones we had were the regular size: 2 smaller oatmeal cookies with the "cream" filling in the middle.
I was suddenly overwhelmed by the thought that we could dispense with every single one of these products and not miss one of them!
I think they did a pretty good job picking snacks for the variety. I think most would be hard pressed to find things here in the states that you do not already have and pack them like they did here. I think you will enjoy the outrageous bar, it is indeed a nutrageous but with changes I won’t mention in case you have not had it yet. The outrageous bars are quite hard to find in the states and only certain places seem to sell them.
i went shopping and the outrageous bars were in both, i'll buy it next time.
In Canada we have Smartfood flavoured Lays chips, and Ruffles All Dressed flavoured Lays. I'm addicted to them
Your videos calm me down so much. Just feels like I can escape the bullshit around me and listen to you for hours.
Sitting here watching this from Australia, I honestly thought Charleston Chew was something made up by Futurama, much like Thompson's Teeth.
Thompson's Teeth: the only teeth that can chew other teeth.
As an American, I honestly thought the same as well for a while. I think it might be a regional thing.
Charleston Chew is a fairly old-fashioned snack here in the US, I've never had it and I've only heard of it a couple times. Maybe if this was 40 years ago it would've been different.
This is such an odd video for me, seeing all these snacks that seem so generic, especially because I work at a grocery store so I handle dozens if not hundreds of these same snacks every day. It’s fun to see the reactions though!
I live in Argentina, and those snacks seems quite unique, nothing "generic". Nor only those brands doesn't sell here, but even the flavours don't exists here in any snack, or any other food or restaurant menu. I envy you.
Haha, saw that cookie and thought “you’ll want some coffee with that”. Sure enough, lol
they look like cookies, but they are gooey. the whole thing is mushy. they barely even require chewing. haha gross, but i love ‘em.
@@buncombeshinola2257 isnt the filling marshmallow? That's a very popular filling choice in american snacks
it’s kind of.. marshmallow.. ish
you didnt even clickbait the title, you are the strongest willed man alive, much respect my friend.
Eat biscuits with a cup of coffee? Wow
Some of these items were so sweet and sugary, I needed the bitterness of the coffee to be able to continue eating. Really interesting how much sweeter some of these things were, compared to their UK counterparts.
@@AtomicShrimp ohhh, that makes sense.
American here. You got the best flavor of Doritos. Those are a “rarer” flavor (if such a thing is possible), but they’ve always been a treat.
Zesty Mordant is a nifty flavour of Doritos sold in Canada.I never considered them until Ricky from Trailer Park Boys complained about them. ruclips.net/video/hj18JFVnQt4/видео.html&ab_channel=TrailerParkBoys
No way! The original Nacho Doritos are the best.
Nacho flavour are crap. Chilli heatwave are the best
Best flavor to me, will always be jalapeno.
Agreed! Popular easy to find flavour here in Canada but called Sweet Chili Heat and in a black bag
I love how you decide he things you are going open at the start but then almost immediately go off road later.
Little Debbie's oatmeal cream pie with coffee? No no no! The correct way is to buy a smushed one for 99¢ at the school cafeteria checkout line and down it with a small carton of fat free chocolate milk.
With a cup of coffee, I could almost tolerate one as an adult. God, the shit we used to eat as kids horrifies me. We used to get those giant family sized boxes of honey buns from Sams Club. My dad was ALWAYS trying to poke a honey bun at you. So many otterpops. Always a huge bag of Chex Mix or Doritos in the house. I can't believe we didn't get childhood diabetes. As a young adult it took months to detox from all the salt and sugar I'd gotten used to.
That’s the most stuff I’ve seen in a subscription box!
Most of it is really cheap which probably explains it. When you're getting stuff that's probably about 50¢ each in bulk they can afford to put a lot in the box and still keep a profit margin(that box was $25, they almost certainly spent less than half of that on the actual contents).
Don’t think it’s a subscription box he mentioned it was a birthday gift so I think it is a one off ?
American here, I can confirm that this is what we Americans eat every night for dinner.
There is a kind of British chip (or crisp if you will) in the U.S that is gaining popularity. It is vinegar and salt. They are so good!
I like them alone or if I am eating a rich flavored food.
Lays makes chips in that flavor. There is even a Kettle Chip type as well.
Yes one of my favourites, in the UK its labelled Salt and Vinegar 😇
What colour do they make the bags though?
@@alexlewis5681 Blue, on both sides of the pond.
@@strayling1 ya damn right
Yeah when I go America I always get Lay's salt and vinegar. The exact same taste just thinner than the British kind
You're seriously such a joy to watch. You're calm and logical with everything and you're just living your best life gardening and crafting and doing what you love despite what others may think
Therapy is expensive. Those videos videos are free
Sunday morning shrimp is always welcome.
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe!
Being from the USA, I know all of those items that you pulled out. I slowly felt my teeth beginning to rot as I watched you pull all of those candies and junk food items out!
They are quite delicious!
It's like the package I received from United States
Was it delivered via stalk ?
@@unnamedchannel1237What's stalk? The package was sent from florida
@@africa_everyday The original poster was just making a joke Babatunde, I think they meant a stork which is a large flying bird often associated with delivering thing. Unfortunately they couldn’t spell and the joke doesn’t make very much sense regardless 😂
In regards to black currant being banned in the states, you are correct in that it was banned for being an alternate host for a plant parasite. However, it was not wheat Rust that it was the vector for. Instead, it was Pine Rust, and it had deeply affected the Pine Industry at the time. For a while, it was banned in all of the United States, but looking over the map today, it looks like it is now only banned in the Northeast, since there's still a rather prominent Pine Lumber Industry there.
The three musketeers bar, tastes how the Milky Way bar used to taste before they changed the recipe many years ago. I much prefer it. But to me most US chocolate tastes like a grainy cooking chocolate.
They have milky way bars over here too! I dunno of they're the same as the ones overseas, but I honestly like them both equally. Seeing him compare them strikes me as odd though, they're not really similar enough for me to make an immediate comparison haha
I think these are what's in the aisle I never go down at the supermarket! Very funny to get a guided tour.
As an American it's comforting seeing all of these snacks. It's exactly the kind of stuff you'd see in a convenience store. Some nostalgia in there.
Seeing those pizza Combos made me unexpectedly miss summers in Texas seeing someone. The one American store bought snack I feel like Britain lacks.
Luckily, I was already snacking on some Chex Mix or I'd running to the pantry. That was a good mix of American snack flavors. Pop tarts are typically a larger pastry which you heat in the toaster; haven't seen the little variety. Combos are my standard road trip food. Cheers!
We have Pop tarts in the UK also, cheetos
The fact that you referenced ‘Futurama’ makes you even more of a hero.
If anyone is thinking of ordering one of these boxes, make sure you check out the reviews first.
One of the worst experiences I have ever had. Had to literally beg them to send me boxes if paid for two months prior.
Yeah agree! Every single box I had was very late and they are ridiculously hard to get a conversation with anyone that works there. I stopped after 6 boxes
Mr. Shrimp, you went up two notches in my book for being a Futurama fan.
Lol Nixons head saying Charleston chews just killed me! I remember that episode
Mike the honey cheese crisps, I often eat a nice mature crumbly cheddar dipped in honey and it is a really good combination I think you would like. I also sometimes dip it into a little bit of instant coffee granules, only a small amount but it compliments the cheese and honey really well. I highly recommend you try my weird combination. Thank you for the content.
I like commenting it's good for the youtube algorithm
But which Fossil did you take?
Feed the algorithm
@@Marenthyu Helix fossil *praise be Helix* lol
share > copy link also helps
Funny that you opened the cream pie up , because I gave my other half a cream pie today !!! She loved it !!!
I'm from the states, so this (and the pinned comment) is very interesting! I've seen and tried most of these, but a few like the Nerds clusters I've never had - I've only had original Nerds. Chex Mix is probably my favorite thing here and I quite like it, though I don't find myself buying bagged snack food all that often. This feels like a fairly accurate encapsulation of American junk food (with a few that are uncommon, or less popular variants on a more popular brand. Jolly Ranchers for example are primarily thought of as a hard candy brand I would say.) I think corn nuts would be a really interesting reaction. They aren't from the U.S., they originated in South America, but they seem like the sort of thing that wouldn't be available in the U.K. They're available in many convenience stores here. I think that Tootsie Rolls and Necco Wafers are, if not the most popular, two fairly unique sorts of candy found here in the U.S. I'm not a huge fan of Tootsie Rolls, but Necco Wafers are a chalky disk shaped candy that I have a lot of nostalgia for. (When I look both of them up with the text "UK" the first result is an American import store, so I can only assume they can't be found over there.)
I appreciate the generosity you grant some of our foods, haha. I still enjoy Hershey's somewhat, especially for smores, but if offered a choice, I'd never pick a standard Hershey's over a European milk chocolate bar.
Very well put
I’m not a huge fan of sugar these days but you have to try the nerds clusters or nerd rope at least once. Texture and flavor are great
Yeah I agree, i lived in the states for a long time and this is a very good encapsulation of american junk food. They did a very good job with the chips too, though it would have been funny to have Takis in there and see his reaction once he bites into one.
@@aloevera7422 I've had Nerd Rope before and really enjoyed it. I'll have to check out Clusters sometime then!
I'm from Bay Area, in California, but nerd clusters are available in stores, and I quite enjoy them
It's interesting as an American to see someone else trying our snacks from a foreign point of view. I'm glad you like the outrageous bar, that's one of my favorites along with Cheddar & Sour Cream Ruffles.
I've always found the whole "root beer tasting medicinal" thing a bit strange. It never occurred to me that it tasted like that. I have a similar reaction to grape soda, though. I used to have grape-flavored cold medicine and so I'm reminded of that whenever I taste any grape flavor.
I find grape soda (and grape flavoured things in general) to taste as though they are really artificial. Or I did, until I tried Welch's Purple Grape Juice - and realised that there are grapes (concord) that actually have that strong floral note to them quite naturally.
On the root beer thing, there's a type of antiseptic here called TCP - not sure if you have it, but it's basically an aqueous solution of phenol (carbolic acid) - it has a very distinctive smell, of which rootbeer is strangely reminiscent. I don't think there is any chemical similarity, just a perception of similar aromas
i will say, i like your longer, less cut unboxings. theyre very peaceful and paced nicely theyre cozy. regsrdless, i love this channel.
this video was really great, you had a lot of interesting things to say about the food, like the thing about wheat rust. i would really love to see your take on more international snack foods in the future. it reminded me a lot of emmymade's way of describing food, which is high praise. please make more!
You are one of my favorite people. Stay amazing.
Hi there! I just wanted to mention a lil tid bit about the Charleston Chew.... if you put them in the freezer, it makes for an interesting snack. Kinda frozen so the taffy has a snap to it & makes for a different type of chew. It's an interesting experience. If you ever get the chance, give it a try 😀🖖
PS.... i have never heard the thing about chocolate in the U.S. tasting like vomit. I have heard it was sweeter & have heard it was different, but this is the first time i have heard it compared to vomit. I wonder why some people experience it that way 🤔🤔
Thank you & Have a Great day!! 😀🖖
Usually it is sweeter which is why it tastes like vomit. Candies like hersheys and all other popular chocolate brands contains an acid that gives vomit it's particular... unique taste. Apparently this is a taste Americans love, but europeans hate (because other chocolate companies tried to recreate the hersheys taste by adding this acid.) So they create different versions if they sell internationally.
As far as I have read this has to do with how they process their milk.
But I honestly think it's just because it's so sweet, I just read that regulations for chocolate being even considered chocolate are stricter in britain (and subsequently europe I'm sure) than in america, with 10% or less cocoa solids being enough to be considered chocolate there compared to 20% in britain. That and sugar is overall lower etc etc.
Because chocolate in America is made from sour milk and they add a chemicle that is closely related to a chemicle in stomach acid so it gives it a vomit taste
I'm in the US and I've had most of these snacks before. Those oatmeal cream pies are one of my guilty pleasures!
As an American, it seems most of that ended up in my trick or treat bag on Halloween growing up. Lol yes we love our salt and sugar, but a lot of these you still see everyday. The cereal aisle alone takes up both sides in bigger grocery stores. I now occasionally buy some of these items as a treat. Love chocolate peanut butter anything. But I’m careful now ( calories , health), I sometimes can’t believe I ate all that sugar as a child, as well as most of my friends lol. Enjoy!! It looked wonderful. Much continued support. 😃
After the American snacks it is now expected that a gut to start showing and that British accent to fade away.
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Just one of your American viewers here, Atomic Shrimp.
I've had almost everything in that box at one time or another. The only one I'm not familiar with is the "Herr's Honey Cheese Flavored Curls", so I'm glad you tried them on camera.
I know your thoughts on everything in the box are in the pinned comment, and thank you for that, but I'm curious if you filmed yourself trying the rest of the snacks or not.
Thank you for continuing to be both entertaining and informative.
This is very entertaining for someone who is very used to most of these junk foods. I have occasionally had Cadbury chocolate and noticed that it doesn't taste very sweet compared to what I'm used to.
Love how they put "artificial flavor" on the packet as if that was the main problem.
It's like the holy grail of snack box's, love most of them here in the states!
You should make a collaboration with the lockpicking lawyer to prove you can really unbox anything (even a locked vault)
Nothing like turning on a video and feeling like you're walking into a gas station. Only on Atomic Shrimp 🍤
I'm from the US, and can confirm this is a really great selection of snacks. A nice cross section of many of our classic favorites as well as more interesting items. Snack Surprise clearly put thought into this.
yeah, takes a lot of thought to find the cheapest snacks bought in bulk. i'm certain a lot of hard work and sleepless nights was put into selecting this smorgasbord of processed foods made by one or two companies
Plenty of other Americans have said this already, but I think this is very accurate to American snack food. I could find nearly all of these items at the nearest convenience store, and at least half of them in any given vending machine.
A few things are a bit more obscure, like the mint kitkats, the brownie M&Ms, the pink lemonade candy, or the Nerds things. However, you can very easily find the “default” versions of those just about anywhere that sells junk food (plain chocolate kitkats, bags of m&ms, prepackaged brownies, lemon-flavored lemonheads, and boxes of Nerds (the tiny hard candy bits)). Also, if the honey cheese curls and Charleston Chew are regional, then I must live in the region that has them, because those are both pretty normal to me. I’m not a fan of either one, but I see them pretty often.
Our planet has been through so much this past year... Wars, droughts, impeachments!! But we've never lost our sense of what's truly important... The great taste of Charleston Chew!
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Pretty good box. Lots of classic snacks in there! (A few weird ones, but mostly all stuff I can remember having as a kid in school or as a teenager.)
We have this delivered, been using it for about six months it's great fun we taste and rate as a family then add scores to find a winner then find out all about the country the snacks came from
Happy Belated Birthday Shrimp!
I'd love to see an unboxing of Craft Ales/Beers to see what you think of modern beer. Perhaps an assortment with beers including (but not limited to;) honey, vanilla and chocolates for the stouts, pineapple, mango and exotic fruits for the pales and perhaps some really hoppy double or triple IPAs or NEIPAs.
They have such colourfully designed cans (and bottles) these days and when the likes of ASDA and Tesco have a generous assortment, I'd enjoy a critique of each brewery's design in your opinion. I'm sure I've seen you get gifted beers in the past so I hope you'll find this a good idea for a future video.
Just did catch the first hour notification gang! Love you got a U.S. snack box to give a compare/contrast. Great random video as always.
Packs of sugar, salt and artificial flavourings.
American here: Seen and tried all of these besides the honey curls. I've seen that brand "Herr's" but not that particular product. Also the Hershey's swiss roll... I've had ones by other brands, but never encountered a Hershey's one before. A couple of extra notes below:
-Those 'Combos' pretzels come in many flavors, but those pizza ones are generally considered the most popular.
-You're not imagining the Reese's "Nutrageous" as opposed to "Outrageous". They both exist and are slightly different, the Nutrageous has peanuts around the outside instead of the chocolate candy-coated bits.
-The M&M's Fudge Brownie flavor is relatively new as far as I know. This year is the first time I've seen them.
-Oatmeal Cream Pies are one of life's simple pleasures, or at least as close to one as a heavily processed and manufactured food product can be.
-Charleston Chew is kind of uncommon to find, but I love them. If you ever get another one, try freezing it, then thwacking it on a countertop a few times to break it into pieces and enjoy while still frozen (chew carefully to avoid hurting your teeth).
-Nutter Butters are underrated, nobody ever talks about them, but they're so good.
-Our Milky Way bar includes a strip of caramel between the top of the nougat and the top layer of chocolate, but I have heard that the English bar of the same name is more similar to our 3 Musketeer, with no caramel strip.
As an American it's really funny to see someone eat things that I have had my entire life and see them as strange lol
It's also funny to think about how different foods are between countries and the slight differences that people expect from them.
Charlston Chew seems like something I'd like, the nougat in a double decker is everything and this seems like you get a lot of it.
It seems like the only flavour The US knows for a savoury snack is cheese.
We do have a lot of cheese snacks but this box was pretty skewed. Our most popular flavors of chips are barbeque, and sour cream and onion. Herr's is an amazing lesser known brand and I have never even heard of that flavor. We also consider "sugar" a flavor, as you can see.
Comment above mine is accurate... but also, most Americans will agree anything savory is better when you add cheese. Like, cheap cafeterias etc will sell previous day's food (not rotten or anything, just stale) by covering it with cheese. Sometimes that version sells _better_ than fresh- but- without- cheese.
@@floramew Honestly, most cooked foods can be perfectly safe to eat 1-2 weeks later.
Needed some Funions or bbq pork rinds....lol
I LOVE oatmeal cream pies, and live in America. I had no idea I could get a double-decker! You're doing the lords work, sir!
Also, +5pts for the futurama reference. One of the most underrated shows EVER.
That's interesting because it feels like I'm seeing more and more of the double-decker ones in stores near me lately at the expense of the regular ones.
That is second Futurama reference from my favourite youtubers today. Nice
Three Musketeers = Milky Way! AW root beer is delicious and so is the Chex Mix. Fond memories of trying both of those on holiday.
I like how he talks about milky ways as if they don't exist over here just as often as three musketeers 🤣.
Our Milky Way is not the same as yours. Milky Way here is just nougat in chocolate. Your Milky Way (with a caramel layer) is called a 'Mars Bar' here
"ok I'll have the rest of that with a cup of coffee" Not sure why I haven't thought of that but now I'm sure that will be breakfast for the next 2 weeks
I always enjoy a good Atomic Shrimp video while I work. Glad you enjoyed the snacks and happy belated (perhaps a month or more, given the pinned update) birthday!
bleh I was intrigued by the concept, so much that I paused the video at 0:40 and decided to check it out.
Pepsi Twist was apparently their "Italian" soft drink, Champis was the soft drink for Denmark (despite it being Swedish) and a bunch of the upcoming snacks from Germany can be bought here in Denmark.
Interesting concept, but not enough unique snacks to warrant my subscription.
Pretty good video and a big thanks to Julie for providing something that could be used to make an Atomic-Shrimp'esque video 😄
Oh, I also loved your pinned comment detailing everything in the box. Very nice touch!
Lol I wish I could like this 100 times for the Futurama reference! btw it's cool watching you unbox snacks from my country 🇺🇸 although I must say there are some snacks here I've never seen before. Also I wish they had included Almond Roca, those are a really good local candy... Ever tried those? It's like toffee covered in chocolate and bits of almond. So good 😋
I don't know if they're exclusively American but maybe a Slim Jim, Red Vines, steak-style beef jerky, kettle chips (Maui Kitch'n Cook'd being the best), Atomic Fireballs, P-Nuttles, Wasabi Blue Diamond Almonds...
Charleston Chews from the freezer is my favorite candy.....the texture is amazing when frozen
The Charleston Chews; they come in chocolate and strawberry flavors too, these are very good if frozen first and broken apart while still wrapped then eaten, has a very unique consistency.
Snacks are delicious foods!
Fun fact! Both charleston chews and 3 musketeers are chocolate coated nougat!
I just 'celebrated' a year of being subscribed to Snack Surprise - interesting to see the size & contents of a premium box as I went for the middle option at £12.99 a month. I've not been disappointed with their selections in all that time & in every box there is always one item that makes me wish they were a UK staple because it's just SO delicious. A shout out to the Bulgarian & New Zealand boxes which were my favourites so far. I still have some of the flower shaped parma violet flavoured Bulgarian boiled sweets which, for me, have the handy side effect of reducing nausea.
Wow, now that is a great box of snacks!
The majority of those snacks are available here in Canada too. Thank you, USA 👍
Some are super sweet and some would go good with a coffee or softdrink.
Good review.
@PREPFORIT But you canadians get Coffee Crisp so easily, while we have to struggle to find in special import sections of grocery stores. *shakes fist*
I LOVE THIS VIDEO IDEA! THANKS FOR THIS SUPER INTERESTING!!
As an American I find the lack of some kind of jerky disturbing. Cool to get your take on our snacks.
Thanks for sharing!
I grew up in Minneapolis, which is very near to the General Mills headquarters, and we always seemed to have Chex Mix in the house. I would pick out the pretzels and corn Chex for myself because they were the savoryest bits.
I wholeheartedly recommend having that root beer with a scoop or two of vanilla ice cream, because a root beer float is a classic American summertime treat. It's a LOT of sugar, though...
All yummy snacks! I have eaten them all in various stages of my life, as every American should. 😁
As a European, I can smell the sugar, corn syrup and palm oil through the monitor.
I occasionally get the regular Little Debbie oatmeal pies or sometimes other brands of oatmeal cookies because the oats remove a little of the guilt over eating sweets.My mom made amazing chewy oatmeal cookies but I have never been able to replicate them.
Love all your random content! Keep it up💜
Your voice makes me happy
This looks like the restock boxes we used to get when I worked at a gas station in the US. Lol. Just a little bit of everything to fill the shelves.
That's delightful
Some of this stuff I didn’t even know was a thing here
Great video, as a Canuck, these are what we have for snack choices. Enjoyed!
Even tho this had some neat stuff inside, i would've liked to see something more akin to what "Bokksu" does for Japan. Got a couple of those boxes after watching a promo on channel name "Rachel & Jun's Adventures!" and found it to be one of the more intelligently made "stuff in a box from...(insert country name)" so far.
They (bokksu) figured out a way to find local confectioners and similar, and to promote them and their products. I actually liked it, compared to other stuff i tried because most of the stuff inside was made by a human, rather than a factory line. That, is what i kinda expected from this box, but kinda "ehhed" because it's just production line "junk food", which is almost always just a chemical reaction difference from the stuff we get here.
I mean those kitkats, pretty sure we have one that's exactly the same, but named differently (think they put the flavor rather than "duos" on it.
Not, a jab at AS, the episode was fun, as always. :)
edit: a word
Well said. I send the Japanese boxes as gifts to friends.
As an American this is very surreal
Visiting relatives in the States as a child in the 70's and 80's, my gran and me would take them over two 'old lady' trolley care packages, crammed with Scottish square sausage, plain bread and enough chocolate and chocolate based confectionery to give the Lower 48 Type 1 diabetes, because the chocolate over in the US was different from home. 👍🏴
Ooh, you're lucky - the pizza flavor Combos are the best kind they make, IMO.
Have you tried the seven layers salad? There is a lot of food science going on in those
A diabetic delight 😀
My pancreas is screaming lol
I did not expect to be so interested when I clicked on this
BUT THIS IS VERY INTERESTING AS AN AMERICAN cause I know what most of these things are