Regarding American milk chocolate, we produce a lot of milk in America, and it's generally quite good. What most Europeans dislike about our chocolate has to do with the way the milk is processed. Historically, our dairy farms were not located anywhere near the industrial factories where chocolate was made, so the proprietary method invented by Hershey involved putting the milk through a chemical process that produces an enzyme called butyric acid. It's the same enzyme that flavors Parmesan cheese and.... vomit. If you grow up eating American chocolate, you acquire a taste for it. If you are never exposed to it until you're an adult, you'll likely think it tastes of vomit. Now, there are small chocolate manufacturers here that don't produce chocolate in this manner, but it won't ship very well to you because it will spoil. European chocolate makers solved the shelf life issue by dehydrating milk into a powder, which has a malt like flavor and not vomit.
I don’t know where you are getting your Parmesan cheese but I don’t think it tastes like vomit , it smells a bit vomity granted but it tastes really good as for American chocolate it is horrific, totally inedible as far as I am concerned and American bread?? A loaf of bread is like a cake it’s really sweet and horrible! I am also a fat bastard so I don’t have much problem eating anything but a fat man’s staple food, bread and snacks is horrible in America, I must be the only fatty that goes to America and losses weight even with the enormous portions that they give you because their sweet stuff is not nice and I just can’t stomach their bread so I don’t remember what the diet is called but it’s where you only eat meat and when I am in the states I just eat bacon and eggs and steak and I melt even though they give you 3 times as much as you would expect here, go figure.
As a Norwegian, I unfortunately dislike both central European chocolate and American chocolate. I have no idea what we do to make our milk chocolate taste the way it does, but I found it tastes completely different to anything else in the world. Except maybe Swiss chocolate.
OMG!! What a Great idea!! Hilarious!! Although I don't know if. Garron would be up for the arrangement. Garron has integrity, and if he didn't like the cereal, he would not be down to be Magically Delicious for the Lucky Charms folks. Thanks for the mental imagery though! Best to all!!! Cheers!!
American sweet treats that I feel an Irish person might like -- 1. Real saltwater taffy (from Maine) 2. Gourmet jelly fruit slices (from Boston) 3. Maple sugar candies (from vermont) 4. Whoopie pies
From UK, living in US, and you can’t believe how much I miss the chocolate, crisps and sweets from there. It’s just not the same and I’ve been here 20 years!
I'm sorry on our behalf americans hate it too knowing we have had our taste buds zapped with overly processed crap sucks. I also hate knowing our foods have ingredients that are banned in most other places
America is a hundred and forty times bigger than Ireland. I wish that Eric had sent you some good snacks from America because we have a lot great treats and snacks including a huge variety of regional stuff that is delicious. Even just a Trader Joe's tasting which you can get most places in the US is better than that awful stuff. Even as a kid in the 60s, I thought tootsie rolls were gross! We have lots of really good chocolate makers like Dandelion Chocolate, Lake Champlain, Hu Kitchen, Ghirardelli, Theo, Scharfenberger etc etc etc. I think you were very generous in your ratings and I agree that the butterfinger would be the best, although I have not had one in years! Anyway, I only just started following you and I love how funny and kind you are. 😋
Absolutely taste a difference. Whenever I’m in London, I bring home 30lbs of dairy milk and (formerly) Toblerone from Poundland/World. It’s the corn syrup and the cocoa fat that makes our chocolate taste like shite, and all the preservatives.
I agree with the consensus; since having had Irish snacks, American chocolate is much different, & our sweets are super sweet, for some reason. However, some companies, like Cadbury, make their chocolates different for Ireland & America which is odd. I try to buy European chocolate when I can & mainly just eat dark chocolate anyway. Eating local foods & snacks has been one of my many favorite things about my visits to Ireland. Taytos, Flake, 99’s, digestives, baps, & of course, Tayto sambos are some of my highlights. 😊
@@itzAurora_Xoxo Twizzlers used to be more flavorful, I don’t know what happened. And, Tootsie Rolls are just an acquired taste. You either like them or you don’t. But, again, they used to have more flavor as well.
Halfway positive I still have butterfinger in my teeth from 1989. Brutal stuff. Would love to try Irish chocolate! Hershey's is pretty foul... almost like you accidentally took a bite of a choc scented candle. Waxy. 😄 great video, thank you!
The food/snacks in Ireland are better overall. I think the ingredients are just better, more natural, and fresher. As an American, I agree with your ratings. As a matter of fact, I think you were quite generous! 😂
Somebody needs to send you a box of Girl Scout cookies to evaluate. They are not in season around me right now, but next February I’ll try to remember. The trefoils are the best cookies for tea dunking.
You are the light in my day, hysterical without trying, you're a natural and have beautiful eyes, love your accent, Irish accents are hard for a Canadian Quebecoise woman to do, I'm so happy to have discovered your very interesting, original humour, very very unique, best of life and fortune to you! Terri Leckner, Montreal Quebec Canada
I was in London for 10 days send when I got back I got so sick. Over there lemonade is lemons, water, and sugar. In the US lemonade is yellow dye, corn syrup, lemon flavor, and water from soda companies.
@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918was the best. The flavour was taken out of all foods about 15 odd years ago when the health fad took over. Food isn't as tasty anymore and the portions have got smaller while the price has gone up.
You’re so right about the chocolate. It’s made with milk instead of cream. I feel certain that Hershey is made with evaporated milk. Not pleasant. I’m American, but have always had access to Irish chocolate. 😋
As an American, I specifically go to an import shop to get European candies because they’re far superior in taste. I hate American chocolate but adore Cadbury and Kinder.
I got the chance to be in Europe for 6 weeks once and when I came back to America I couldn’t taste flavors in any of our food for literal months. Like the way you describe our chocolate versus yours is how every single food tasted. And it all made me sick even the most high end food I could find. All our food is trash comparatively
I lived in Europe 3 months and as much as I love their food, there is just nothing like an American burger. It’s the first thing I ate when I got back. If you grow up on a farm or ranch you don’t really notice or mind how bad the food is here. It helps to keep a garden, and it helps to cook your own food
I've always said American chocolate, especially Nestle's, tastes like vomit. People have always made fun of that assessment. The sour notes in America's most popular chocolate are commonly attributed to butyric acid-a compound found in spoiled butter and, yes, vomit.
Italy in Italy or the Italian Quarter of Garron's Ballina in Co Mayo? Although, may have to question Garron about the chocolate shops there apart from the authentic Domino's and Pizza Hutt
Hersheys is literally the shitest chocolate ever. Also we had Nerds here in the late 80s, except without the chewy stuff they were stuck to here, so a box of the bally things :) There was always a rumour they got withdrawn because people were finding bits of glass in the box. That was the rumour in Waterford anyway!
So many things I love in one box! Lol. If these are mid I really have to try Irish snacks. I will agree that some things are sweet overboard and we have too much cheap chocolate here.
American here to provide text based American commentary to your video (you're welcome, I know how in demand my expertise must be...). Twizzlers only exist for something to chew on during either a really good or really shite movie. Tootsie rolls are only eaten on Halloween when cheap people buy them to hand out to trick or treaters who are too young to know the difference or care if they did. Butterfingers are a staple of American childhood, and the poorer your family, the more of them you eat. Nerds rope is the most American candy on the list because of course we would cover our sugar coated sugar in sugar candies. Keebler ELF cookies/biscuits are the best! I never went a week without some when I was a kid and as an adult, I'll still kill someone to get my hands on one - and you're spot on, they're perfect as a dunker! The melting of the chocolate center is perfection. Muddy Buddies - my mom always made from scratch at home - delicious that way, not great in the commercial premade form you've received. Laffy Taffy and all related forms of taffy single handedly keep dentist practices afloat here. The Hershey's mix, I've never actually eaten and I don't think anyone I know has either, but you're wrong on American chocolate. Hershey's milk chocolate is unbeatable and I'll fight to the death over it. Aaaaaaggghhh!!! Junior Mints! My favorite! I haven't the slightest what a Krimpet is, but that brand makes a lot of prepackaged snack cakes that cost you less than 2 dollars as a convenience purchase at a gas station... Not nearly cheap enough to make up for the years of life lost from eating one. Even as an American, they're too sweet. Again, you're welcome for the unsolicited in-depth commentary. 😐👍
Muddy Buddies started off at something called puppy chow. It is a “candy” that is VERY popular to make at home in the Midwest especially around Christmas. Chex Cereal Chocolate Peanut Butter Powered sugar
That nobbly dangly thingy reminds me of a "Pride" rainbow version of those things you dangle of a tree in the garden bird seed thingy to feed the birds.❤
Every American kid gets handfuls of Tootsie Rolls on Halloween so we get used to the artificial chocolate flavor pretty early on. Tootsie Pops are much better, in my opinion. Laffy Taffy is really just a fun kid product, but true taffy is absolutely delicious and chewy and comes in loads of different flavors! Kudos to Erin for sending you a great mix of products! Sorry about the American chocolate - it really is shite…
Haven't tried any particularly Irish snacks but I have had other European sweets and I gotta say that the gas station-type sweets y'all have over there are way above and beyond in terms of taste and quality, at least to my palate, than anything sold in American gas stations or shops. In fact, one of my favorite things to do in other countries is to visit their shops and enjoy their higher-quality snack foods. Have I been looked down on as some kind of goober by locals for cheering at the perfection of a Tesco cheese and onion pastry? Yeah, but try walking in my American-snack shoes for a while, friend. See how that cheese and onion hits after that.
Im Irish, I’ll give my recommendations. Tayto brand crisps, any flavour or type are really good. My personal go-to is cheese and onion hunky dories, but you can’t go wrong with any tayto crisps. Cadbury chocolate is popular here buts its English and honestly going to shit. Still better than American chocolate, but not what it used to be. Jacob’s biscuits are Irish and have really good chocolate on them! They don’t sell many chocolate bars but their club bars are lovely. I also recommend rock shandy as a fizzy drink flavour, it’s amazing.
As an American who has been to Ireland, you are dead on. Y’all’s snacks are substantially less sweet and more delicious (with exception of your giant skittles)
So nice of Erin to send you so many snacks to try. You wore the perfect shirt too. Actually, there were several snacks in that box I have never tried. I have a pretty big sweet tooth, but some of the snack cakes here are a bit too sickly sweet, even for me.
@GeorgeShornack thank you! Seems like dairy milk chocolate would be easier to find than actual dairy milk products like cheese & such. I've seen Cadbury & it is wonderful, but I've not tries Irish chocolate.
Ya butterfinger is life. Doesn't work well for the mouth but it's delicious. Buttery and waffery and lovely. The minis are the way to go. The big bar shatters in your mouth haha.
So many lol moments, thanks for braving the American candy world. We should probably offer some sort of medal or recognition. If you were interested in showing two 50+ American ladies around your town, we’d bring our American palettes and let you know if the Irish chocolate tastes funny to us. It’s likely going to take many samples! Cheers!
When I first moved to the states I bought a giant Hershey bar thinking American Chocolate had to be good. Oh how wrong I was. They have the cheek to call it “milk” chocolate, not even close. I threw it away in disgust haha I order all my sweets/crisps from the UK/Ireland off Amazon and occasionally find some imported at local retail stores, the prices are astronomical but worth it.
The reason our chocolate tastes so shite (and yes, it does 😞) is because when Hershey first made shelf stable bars, he did it by putting the milk through a process called lipolysis, which creates an additional component called butyric acid - this butyric acid is what makes it taste a bit like vomit (personally, I think it tastes more like blood, like when you cut your lip, but others say vomit 🤷). Given we now have numerous safe food preservatives and myriad ways to keep chocolate shelf stable, this process is no longer necessary, however it is still used in many, if not most commercial products simply because it's tradition and what Americans have come to expect from chocolate here. Additionally, the US has much more lenient standards regarding what can pass for "milk chocolate" when compared to Ireland and the UK. It's possible to get good, proper chocolate here in the US that _doesn't_ taste like ass, but it's definitely far less common and more expensive than the Hershey's-type stuff.
I've never seen one of your videos. I think you popped up in my recommended because I've been watching snack box unboxings and I'm so glad you did. You are hilarious and made me laugh out loud several times. You have a new subscriber.
9:13 yeah we totally agree with that lol a lot of our favorite chocolates over here you don't get sent over there because they aren't made in America lol. It's something to do with companies and our g'ment
That was a legendary box, but ive never seen double stuffed E.L. Fudge cookies, the standard ones have a more sensible amount of fudge in the middle and are pretty solid.
When I see tiktok people link to their RUclips I never ever subscribe, but you and your accent (and beard) made me follow you across platforms. American chocolate tastes like baby sick to me so you are a stronger man than me 😂
Ya you hit the nail on the head its the corn syrup. In the 90s farmers overproduced corn and the government just decided we'll start buying corn at a fixed price as much as you can grow. And yeah 30 years later corn is in almosy every american food product.
Yeah, the corn syrup is out of control. The only way to really avoid it in food, unless you want to pay a pretty penny, is to cook from scratch. I drink diet soda, unless I get the stuff that specifically states it's made of cane sugar, because there is a clear difference. Aspartame and artificial sweeteners come with risks,but I prefer it over the taste of corn syrup.
When I was in Ireland I loved all the candy - it tasted like chocolate used to taste here in the US years ago. Now everything here is flukey, made with corn syrup not much sugar.
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Regarding American milk chocolate, we produce a lot of milk in America, and it's generally quite good. What most Europeans dislike about our chocolate has to do with the way the milk is processed. Historically, our dairy farms were not located anywhere near the industrial factories where chocolate was made, so the proprietary method invented by Hershey involved putting the milk through a chemical process that produces an enzyme called butyric acid. It's the same enzyme that flavors Parmesan cheese and.... vomit. If you grow up eating American chocolate, you acquire a taste for it. If you are never exposed to it until you're an adult, you'll likely think it tastes of vomit. Now, there are small chocolate manufacturers here that don't produce chocolate in this manner, but it won't ship very well to you because it will spoil. European chocolate makers solved the shelf life issue by dehydrating milk into a powder, which has a malt like flavor and not vomit.
I always get that from Parmesan :)
Vomit parmesan and USA chocolate. All done have the same taste. Good info
I don’t know where you are getting your Parmesan cheese but I don’t think it tastes like vomit , it smells a bit vomity granted but it tastes really good as for American chocolate it is horrific, totally inedible as far as I am concerned and American bread?? A loaf of bread is like a cake it’s really sweet and horrible! I am also a fat bastard so I don’t have much problem eating anything but a fat man’s staple food, bread and snacks is horrible in America, I must be the only fatty that goes to America and losses weight even with the enormous portions that they give you because their sweet stuff is not nice and I just can’t stomach their bread so I don’t remember what the diet is called but it’s where you only eat meat and when I am in the states I just eat bacon and eggs and steak and I melt even though they give you 3 times as much as you would expect here, go figure.
As a Norwegian, I unfortunately dislike both central European chocolate and American chocolate.
I have no idea what we do to make our milk chocolate taste the way it does, but I found it tastes completely different to anything else in the world. Except maybe Swiss chocolate.
Well that explains why Ihave always referred to Herseys kisses as vomit drops.
"It feels like someone overheard a conversation about chocolate and tried to make it" Priceless and so true...😂
I was choking from laughing so hard when he said that.
“It says easy peel. That’s not the experience I’m having.” I had to pause the video I was laughing so hard 🤣🤣🤣
American chocolate is flavoured candle wax.
Mixed with the perfect amt of highly dangerous chemicals😂
It gets the job done. Got a diabetes epidemic to prove it.
As an American, can confirm
Tootsie rolls aren't chocolate, they are chocolate flavored wax.
Vomit flavored
Lucky Charms is wasting a golden opportunity to put this lad on the box saying " I'm Magically Delicious".
OMG!! What a Great idea!! Hilarious!! Although I don't know if. Garron would be up for the arrangement. Garron has integrity, and if he didn't like the cereal, he would not be down to be Magically Delicious for the Lucky Charms folks. Thanks for the mental imagery though! Best to all!!! Cheers!!
Came over from TikTok. I'm so glad to learn you've got a RUclips channel too! I'm an American fan and this was super fun
Same
“It’s like someone overheard a conversation about chocolate.” Funniest thing I’ve heard all week. Brilliant with words!
Cadbury showed the US how 2 make chocolate and left out a step
@@albertdevitt5307 Hershey figured out they could make better profits if they left out the most expensive ingredient.
But really they're tragically suspicious
American sweet treats that I feel an Irish person might like --
1. Real saltwater taffy (from Maine)
2. Gourmet jelly fruit slices (from Boston)
3. Maple sugar candies (from vermont)
4. Whoopie pies
Why have you become my favourite RUclipsr.. I think it’s cos you have no influencer / fake vibes.. it’s chill and I’m into it. Ta fella
From UK, living in US, and you can’t believe how much I miss the chocolate, crisps and sweets from there. It’s just not the same and I’ve been here 20 years!
You can order it online at Food Ireland.
I'm sorry on our behalf americans hate it too knowing we have had our taste buds zapped with overly processed crap sucks. I also hate knowing our foods have ingredients that are banned in most other places
Surely there's Cadbury in usa Like here
@@Irish780 There is Cadbury but it was bought out by Hershey's, I believe, and is not the same at all.
@annyirish6106 thanks for info ...
You should showcase Irish food that people from other countries won't know about or appreciate!
Yeah he has those.
Everyone knows about potatoes mate
Yes please!
Tayto crisps, macaroon bars, snowballs, ice cream, Scots clan
@@maryhinge4815😐😑😐
America is a hundred and forty times bigger than Ireland. I wish that Eric had sent you some good snacks from America because we have a lot great treats and snacks including a huge variety of regional stuff that is delicious. Even just a Trader Joe's tasting which you can get most places in the US is better than that awful stuff. Even as a kid in the 60s, I thought tootsie rolls were gross! We have lots of really good chocolate makers like Dandelion Chocolate, Lake Champlain, Hu Kitchen, Ghirardelli, Theo, Scharfenberger etc etc etc. I think you were very generous in your ratings and I agree that the butterfinger would be the best, although I have not had one in years! Anyway, I only just started following you and I love how funny and kind you are. 😋
Absolutely taste a difference. Whenever I’m in London, I bring home 30lbs of dairy milk and (formerly) Toblerone from Poundland/World.
It’s the corn syrup and the cocoa fat that makes our chocolate taste like shite, and all the preservatives.
I love Cheesy poofs 😅😅
"I get the feeling that these are the worst thing I've ever put my teeth through" 🤣🤣 Exactly
Absolutely obsessed with the pronunciation of "bourbon"
Borbon😂
I agree with the consensus; since having had Irish snacks, American chocolate is much different, & our sweets are super sweet, for some reason. However, some companies, like Cadbury, make their chocolates different for Ireland & America which is odd. I try to buy European chocolate when I can & mainly just eat dark chocolate anyway. Eating local foods & snacks has been one of my many favorite things about my visits to Ireland. Taytos, Flake, 99’s, digestives, baps, & of course, Tayto sambos are some of my highlights. 😊
Yet I found twizzlers really bland..thought they would b very sweet..also.toosie rolls ugh ..I do love Mike and Ike though so there's that
@@itzAurora_Xoxo Twizzlers used to be more flavorful, I don’t know what happened. And, Tootsie Rolls are just an acquired taste. You either like them or you don’t. But, again, they used to have more flavor as well.
Im a year late but american cadbury was bought out by hersheys in 1988 edit: to clarify, this means that hershey’s makes cadbury products in the us
God you're practically Irish now😂🎉
Halfway positive I still have butterfinger in my teeth from 1989. Brutal stuff. Would love to try Irish chocolate! Hershey's is pretty foul... almost like you accidentally took a bite of a choc scented candle. Waxy. 😄 great video, thank you!
One word: CADBURY FLAKE bars! They are life and a religious experience and Ed a class unto themselves and needs no introduction.
@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918 I will definitely try! Thank you much 😎
Butter fingers look nice to be fair
@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918 omg yesss
@@itzAurora_Xoxo They are definitely pretty good. I like the texture of the inside. Not much I can compare it to 😆, but yes they are pretty good. 😎
The food/snacks in Ireland are better overall. I think the ingredients are just better, more natural, and fresher. As an American, I agree with your ratings. As a matter of fact, I think you were quite generous! 😂
"Now I'm a big butterscotch man"
Somebody needs to send you a box of Girl Scout cookies to evaluate. They are not in season around me right now, but next February I’ll try to remember. The trefoils are the best cookies for tea dunking.
😂
please send up thin mints. especially since he likes mint.
I never thought I could enjoy watching another man eat food again, until I found you.
Again? Who was he?
My dog.
Did he hurt you?
You are the light in my day, hysterical without trying, you're a natural and have beautiful eyes, love your accent, Irish accents are hard for a Canadian Quebecoise woman to do, I'm so happy to have discovered your very interesting, original humour, very very unique, best of life and fortune to you! Terri Leckner, Montreal Quebec Canada
Taste test videos feel so cosy! More please 😇
I was in London for 10 days send when I got back I got so sick. Over there lemonade is lemons, water, and sugar. In the US lemonade is yellow dye, corn syrup, lemon flavor, and water from soda companies.
Wow
European chocolate is no joke ! It's very good
Cadbury is simply THE BEST!!!!
@@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918was the best. The flavour was taken out of all foods about 15 odd years ago when the health fad took over. Food isn't as tasty anymore and the portions have got smaller while the price has gone up.
You’re so right about the chocolate. It’s made with milk instead of cream. I feel certain that Hershey is made with evaporated milk. Not pleasant. I’m American, but have always had access to Irish chocolate. 😋
Sometimes when I eat alone I put this video on and pretend I'm eating with him
Same
i should send you some Canadian snacks! twizzlers are like lightly flavored plastic. and yep, irish chocolate is the best!
twizzlers are mostly made of flour, sugar, and cornstarch, which is all I think about on the rare occasions when I eat them.
As an American, I specifically go to an import shop to get European candies because they’re far superior in taste. I hate American chocolate but adore Cadbury and Kinder.
I can't stand our candies. We make just about homemade when we want treats.
It might be those enzymes that give American chocolate that classic vomit aftertaste. Not a fan either.
I got the chance to be in Europe for 6 weeks once and when I came back to America I couldn’t taste flavors in any of our food for literal months. Like the way you describe our chocolate versus yours is how every single food tasted. And it all made me sick even the most high end food I could find. All our food is trash comparatively
get kosher meat or halal meat its not got all the bullshit chemicals American meat has.
Omg sorry to hear that lol
Jayz
I lived in Europe 3 months and as much as I love their food, there is just nothing like an American burger. It’s the first thing I ate when I got back.
If you grow up on a farm or ranch you don’t really notice or mind how bad the food is here. It helps to keep a garden, and it helps to cook your own food
But US compensates with volume 😂
I've always said American chocolate, especially Nestle's, tastes like vomit.
People have always made fun of that assessment.
The sour notes in America's most popular chocolate are commonly attributed to butyric acid-a compound found in spoiled butter and, yes, vomit.
I didn't think I liked chocolate -- until I went to Italy.
Italy in Italy or the Italian Quarter of Garron's Ballina in Co Mayo? Although, may have to question Garron about the chocolate shops there apart from the authentic Domino's and Pizza Hutt
Fully agree. Same with wine, so it’s a land of temptation.
High fructose corn syrup is used in so many American foods
And far beyond sweets!
Pure poison
Hersheys is literally the shitest chocolate ever. Also we had Nerds here in the late 80s, except without the chewy stuff they were stuck to here, so a box of the bally things :) There was always a rumour they got withdrawn because people were finding bits of glass in the box. That was the rumour in Waterford anyway!
Still have them. I ate them as a child, now my daughter eats them. OMG! You totally unlocked a childhood memory, I remember that glass rumour!
I remember nerds from the 80s and there was a rumour that they were from glass!
So many things I love in one box! Lol. If these are mid I really have to try Irish snacks. I will agree that some things are sweet overboard and we have too much cheap chocolate here.
BUTTERFINGERS HAVE REAL PEANUT BUTTER MATE! Never besmirch my fav candy in the States again lol
“Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!”
American here to provide text based American commentary to your video (you're welcome, I know how in demand my expertise must be...).
Twizzlers only exist for something to chew on during either a really good or really shite movie.
Tootsie rolls are only eaten on Halloween when cheap people buy them to hand out to trick or treaters who are too young to know the difference or care if they did.
Butterfingers are a staple of American childhood, and the poorer your family, the more of them you eat.
Nerds rope is the most American candy on the list because of course we would cover our sugar coated sugar in sugar candies.
Keebler ELF cookies/biscuits are the best! I never went a week without some when I was a kid and as an adult, I'll still kill someone to get my hands on one - and you're spot on, they're perfect as a dunker! The melting of the chocolate center is perfection.
Muddy Buddies - my mom always made from scratch at home - delicious that way, not great in the commercial premade form you've received.
Laffy Taffy and all related forms of taffy single handedly keep dentist practices afloat here.
The Hershey's mix, I've never actually eaten and I don't think anyone I know has either, but you're wrong on American chocolate. Hershey's milk chocolate is unbeatable and I'll fight to the death over it.
Aaaaaaggghhh!!! Junior Mints! My favorite!
I haven't the slightest what a Krimpet is, but that brand makes a lot of prepackaged snack cakes that cost you less than 2 dollars as a convenience purchase at a gas station... Not nearly cheap enough to make up for the years of life lost from eating one. Even as an American, they're too sweet.
Again, you're welcome for the unsolicited in-depth commentary. 😐👍
American chocolate genuinely taste like vomit mate, otherwise good commentary
Totally agree Irish Dairymilk is the best chocolate in the world, but then I'm biased 😁
Muddy Buddies started off at something called puppy chow. It is a “candy” that is VERY popular to make at home in the Midwest especially around Christmas.
Chex Cereal
Chocolate
Peanut Butter
Powered sugar
Dude you should do sleep stories! Lol I could listen to you talk about anything. Thanks for the funny stuff!
York peppermint patties are the best American candy
Your hair is awesome. Loved watching/listening to this while I cook. Thanks for the great company.
Ah Garron leave the beard, shur tis grand!
That nobbly dangly thingy reminds me of a "Pride" rainbow version of those things you dangle of a tree in the garden bird seed thingy to feed the birds.❤
It's like someone overhead a conversation about a bar of chocolate and tried to make it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wait till you try American beer .. Jayous ..I wouldn't even give it to my dog ..
I would hope you wouldn’t give any beer to your dog, regardless of the beer’s origin.😂
As a Canadian 🇨🇦 I approve your reply
I need some Irish chocolate!
I ❤ Jr. Mints. If you refrigerate them, they are chewier. Also, mix them into vanilla or chocolate ice cream. Yum!
Every American kid gets handfuls of Tootsie Rolls on Halloween so we get used to the artificial chocolate flavor pretty early on. Tootsie Pops are much better, in my opinion. Laffy Taffy is really just a fun kid product, but true taffy is absolutely delicious and chewy and comes in loads of different flavors! Kudos to Erin for sending you a great mix of products! Sorry about the American chocolate - it really is shite…
That was fun and you're DELIGHTFUL!
Lovely Junior Mints!🏆
Haven't tried any particularly Irish snacks but I have had other European sweets and I gotta say that the gas station-type sweets y'all have over there are way above and beyond in terms of taste and quality, at least to my palate, than anything sold in American gas stations or shops. In fact, one of my favorite things to do in other countries is to visit their shops and enjoy their higher-quality snack foods. Have I been looked down on as some kind of goober by locals for cheering at the perfection of a Tesco cheese and onion pastry? Yeah, but try walking in my American-snack shoes for a while, friend. See how that cheese and onion hits after that.
Lad u may have the greatest titles for RUclips videos I've ever seen
How about a video of your recommendations for Irish snacks that North Americans should try?
Im Irish, I’ll give my recommendations. Tayto brand crisps, any flavour or type are really good. My personal go-to is cheese and onion hunky dories, but you can’t go wrong with any tayto crisps. Cadbury chocolate is popular here buts its English and honestly going to shit. Still better than American chocolate, but not what it used to be. Jacob’s biscuits are Irish and have really good chocolate on them! They don’t sell many chocolate bars but their club bars are lovely. I also recommend rock shandy as a fizzy drink flavour, it’s amazing.
So excited for your snacks from around the World Series! Brought me over from TikTok
I think we should send you sweets from all over the world for you to judge.
I mean Austrian chocolate is really good too!
I have found the elf bars are like the biscuit inside of a snack bar! But without the chocolate coding
As an American who has been to Ireland, you are dead on. Y’all’s snacks are substantially less sweet and more delicious (with exception of your giant skittles)
Laffy taffy is so good. Theres a joke on each wrapper. Nerds rope are also amazing
I’m with ya!❤
Blleech they’re just fake sugar on fake sugar colored with the kind of food dye that they don’t even allow in the UK.
So nice of Erin to send you so many snacks to try. You wore the perfect shirt too. Actually, there were several snacks in that box I have never tried. I have a pretty big sweet tooth, but some of the snack cakes here are a bit too sickly sweet, even for me.
I just listened to your performance at Ballina hotel 2 years ago. Your voice is like WOW ❤
I love Butterfingers! Also, we demand to see the palate cleansing on camera! Just to make sure you're not faking it again 😂😂😂😜
The only sweet snack I really liked from America, that I've tried so far, was marshmallow. Absolutely amazing!
Irish chocolate is the very best ❤
I know you think your weird but you make me laugh lad. I'm delicious
Please do an Irish tasting. LOVE your background btw. 😂😂😂 I’m delectable
Just him sat there munching potatoes?
How sweet of you Erin! I love the candy and treats in the box.
I'm going to have to figure out how to find some Irish dairy milk here in the US. ❤ you, Garron!
The actual milk is hard to find, but, you can easily find Irish cheeses & butter, & other snacks.
@GeorgeShornack thank you! Seems like dairy milk chocolate would be easier to find than actual dairy milk products like cheese & such. I've seen Cadbury & it is wonderful, but I've not tries Irish chocolate.
@@vroomgrrly our chocolate is same as English though..Cadbury is an English company..it's all the same.
Cadbury make all sorts of products in Ireland massive factory in rathmore on cork-kerry border.@@itzAurora_Xoxo
Ya butterfinger is life. Doesn't work well for the mouth but it's delicious. Buttery and waffery and lovely. The minis are the way to go. The big bar shatters in your mouth haha.
You need to send Erin a box of Irish snacks and get her to do a product review.
I love Twizzlers. Used to have something similar in the UK in the 70s.
I must you are one funny guy anytime I watch your videos
Love the back drop
So many lol moments, thanks for braving the American candy world. We should probably offer some sort of medal or recognition. If you were interested in showing two 50+ American ladies around your town, we’d bring our American palettes and let you know if the Irish chocolate tastes funny to us. It’s likely going to take many samples! Cheers!
The green screen background 🤣🤣🤣🤣
American chocolate is so sickly sweet, just made me appreciate our own selection.. Even if the bars are the size of wonka vision bars
When I first moved to the states I bought a giant Hershey bar thinking American Chocolate had to be good. Oh how wrong I was. They have the cheek to call it “milk” chocolate, not even close. I threw it away in disgust haha I order all my sweets/crisps from the UK/Ireland off Amazon and occasionally find some imported at local retail stores, the prices are astronomical but worth it.
put the butterfinges in vanilla ice cream... you will not regret it... you can also put the jr. mints in vanilla ice cream, too...
0:14 🫡exactly why i am here good man yerself
Im so entertained, thank you Garren
The reason our chocolate tastes so shite (and yes, it does 😞) is because when Hershey first made shelf stable bars, he did it by putting the milk through a process called lipolysis, which creates an additional component called butyric acid - this butyric acid is what makes it taste a bit like vomit (personally, I think it tastes more like blood, like when you cut your lip, but others say vomit 🤷).
Given we now have numerous safe food preservatives and myriad ways to keep chocolate shelf stable, this process is no longer necessary, however it is still used in many, if not most commercial products simply because it's tradition and what Americans have come to expect from chocolate here.
Additionally, the US has much more lenient standards regarding what can pass for "milk chocolate" when compared to Ireland and the UK.
It's possible to get good, proper chocolate here in the US that _doesn't_ taste like ass, but it's definitely far less common and more expensive than the Hershey's-type stuff.
Omg It does kinda have a vomit taste I could never put my finger on what that was haha
@@plzblvit103 Yeah, it's not good. lol Especially if you've ever had anything else.
Just subscribed today and was not disappointed. Literally the coolest Irishman
I've never seen one of your videos. I think you popped up in my recommended because I've been watching snack box unboxings and I'm so glad you did. You are hilarious and made me laugh out loud several times. You have a new subscriber.
😂😂😂īm loving you garron and im only up to tootsie rolls
I Love the fact that when I was munching on my EL Fudge Cookies he pulled up a package and had a few as well. I'm a fat bastard.
Butterfinger and Junior Mints are my favorite American candies (also Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups). I agree with your ratings!
9:13 yeah we totally agree with that lol a lot of our favorite chocolates over here you don't get sent over there because they aren't made in America lol. It's something to do with companies and our g'ment
Moon pie always gives me the trots and butterfinger was like eating glass - love a zero bar,baby Ruth and many others though and root beer !
That was a legendary box, but ive never seen double stuffed E.L. Fudge cookies, the standard ones have a more sensible amount of fudge in the middle and are pretty solid.
That was cruel to send Laffy Taffy 😂. It sticking to the wrapper had absolutely nothing to do with the journey across the sea.
Love watching you your a tonic
Junior Mints section had me in tears with laughter.
I’m American (Irish American in fact) and once I tasted European chocolate, I’ve never been able to stomach American chocolate ever again.
Have a try at Finland's Fazer Milk chocolate, its almost Irish standard 😆
When I see tiktok people link to their RUclips I never ever subscribe, but you and your accent (and beard) made me follow you across platforms. American chocolate tastes like baby sick to me so you are a stronger man than me 😂
Ya you hit the nail on the head its the corn syrup. In the 90s farmers overproduced corn and the government just decided we'll start buying corn at a fixed price as much as you can grow. And yeah 30 years later corn is in almosy every american food product.
Yeah, the corn syrup is out of control. The only way to really avoid it in food, unless you want to pay a pretty penny, is to cook from scratch. I drink diet soda, unless I get the stuff that specifically states it's made of cane sugar, because there is a clear difference. Aspartame and artificial sweeteners come with risks,but I prefer it over the taste of corn syrup.
When I was in Ireland I loved all the candy - it tasted like chocolate used to taste here in the US years ago. Now everything here is flukey, made with corn syrup not much sugar.
Can you do a video with some close Irish equivalents? I would love to see what kind of snacks you have in Ireland.
That different sugar you're tasting is corn syrup. It's in EVERYTHING here lol
I really wish I could find some Irish chocolates! I'd love to taste the difference!
This is the first video I ever saw of yours, after this I found you on TikTok. Glad to see you being successful and delicious.