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Cheese, cured and uncured dried meats, dairy…actual food standards that protect consumers and aren’t pumped full of antibiotics, they just taste so much better.
Most of it… Last trip I took to Europe, I was staying in an airB&B in Iceland with a few friends, and it had a kitchen. I went to the Bonus (local grocer) and got bread, cheese, eggs, and butter and made a simple fried egg sandwich for breakfast every day. Best damn food ive ever made for myself.
We dont have good cheap bread state side, cheese product is most of whats on the shelves and Euro eggs were just better. It took about a week after coming home for random food items to stop tasting like plastic…
I don’t think there’s any food product from Europe that I regularly consume.
Now, Mexico and South America, on the other hand…
Same. But I did enjoy some of it. There was some local spring water in Bosnia that was awesome, cevapcici is cool, and I enjoyed the Georgian wine I had in Ukraine. Also the Netherlands’ food surprised me. I loved everything I tried, especially bitterballen and mustard soup.
Probably just the swiss chocolate in the Holls chocolates I get for some holidays. The bonbons/truffles themselves are made in Vienna…West Virginia.
Prosecco…
…and Campari.
Barry’s tea
cheese, all of them
wine and scotch
I’ve infiltrated the European place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some cheesey comestibles!
Proper pickled onions and Branston pickle.
I’m Canadian, but… Fruit, I guess. Some fruit we get from places like Greece, Spain or Italy, both canned and fresh. We could live without them, but surely there’d be moments in the year when we couldn’t get fresh peaches, for example, at the supermarket, without European imports.
But it’s not a majority. We get quite a bit from South America, North Africa, and, astonishingly, as far as South Africa, too.
Though there isn’t much else. It’s rarely worth it to import food from another rich country, all the way across the ocean, in today’s world.
Though interestingly, I bought “canned” soup (actually packaged in a plastic bag) that came from Lithuania, of all places.
As a french reading the replies in this thread: Ew
I can find alternatives with enough effort, but I love me some heavy peated Scotch. The smokier the flavor the better
Banoffee pie.
Can’t find bakeries nearby that make it. Silly.
Off the top of my head the only European food product I consistently buy is Kerrygold butter. But I could use a domestic version. Other than that I’ll on rare occasion buy a wine that’ll be from Italy or France rather than a domestic.
The only international foods that really make up any significant part of my grocery list are fruits from the tropics.
McCann Oatmeal
Bob’s Red Mill makes an adequate substitute. It’s not as uniform as McCann, but it is good.
Mayonnaise, as explained here:
https://theonion.com/new-high-viscosity-mayonnaise-to-aid-in-american-swallo-1819564964/
