To think Americans have better sweets

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My favourite sweetie shop has started selling US imports.

Yesterday I had a pack of black cherry jelly beans covered with chocolate and today am happily munching my way through a pack of Raspberry M&Ms. Bloody expensive mind you.

Meaning that I prefer UK sweets (I wasn't very clear there)

I don't understand their weird hard on for grape flavour things, but if blackcurrant used to be banned then I suppose they needed an alternative...

I love peanut butter cups and Big Red chewing gum but I haven't tried much more than that. Pretzel Flipz tasted both too sweet and too salty, and Milk Duds just tasted like stale Poppets, though maybe I got a bad box. Oh, and I once bought some American Skittles in chocolate flavours. They were doing the review rounds on YouTube and were supposed to be the grossest things ever, but I thought they were very nice.

Anyway, Cadbury's has gone to palm oil hell now, so I don't think we have anything to feel superior about

I'm a big fan of See's Candies as well, especially the walnut squares (which are rectangular). The mass-produced US stuff is shocking though.

Mind you, I live in Switzerland - chocolate heaven.

It's not that they needed a substitute for blackcurrant. Blackcurrant cultivation was banned a long time before a major candy industry was up and running. Grapes are grown in the US and needed to be put in a product. Hence grape jelly (= jam) including jars of peanut butter and grape jelly, and then grape flavour in drinks, jello (= jelly), candy and medicine. Nothing tastes as vile as grape flavour imo, and the worst of all is grape flavoured children's medicine.

I'm not a huge sweet/candy fan as I don't have a very sweet tooth. I live in Canada and we have a bit of a mix of US candy and Cadbury's Canada style chocolates. I'm OK with some US candies, but Hersheys is quite disgusting, too sweet, powdery and just not quite chocolate tasting too.

American sweet flavours re to me just all wrong: grape, cherry, banana and apple instead of blackcurrent, raspberry, lemon and lime. Even now I've got over the surprise factor I just don't like those tastes.

Still at least here we have lots of nice jams - when we lived in NYC it all seemed to be grape jelly or strawberry jam.

I hate pretty much all American chocolate or sweets.

Apart from See's, who make the best box of chocolates ever.

Nooka, we have family in Canada and last time they were visiting here, they brought us some chocolate pecan things with a picture of a turtle on the front of the box. They were delicious! I may have shared only a few before eating the entire box myself.

God no. I've been here (USA) for 15 years and I cannot stand American candy. Even Cadbury's (made over here by Hershey's as they have the license for it) tastes awful. I buy English chocolate - cadbury's, minstrels and sweets like murray mints and everton mints online from Amazon (and pay a fortune for it!)

You definitely can get salt and vinegar crisps in the US - I am currently eating a packet.

Also you can get Sour Cream and Onion crisps which are divine.

Most of the chocs and sweets in the US are pretty vile but then so are most of the British ones too. I tend to buy Lindt or Ghiradelli. Never tried Sees but it sounds like I should...

Chocolateorsalad, they were 'turtles' [yum]

A visitor from the US gave me a big bag of Hershey's Kisses way back in the '80s; I tried one and thought they'd gone off. They were beyond disgusting. I gave them a second chance in the '90s when I lived in the States for a bit, and was horrified to realise they were actually supposed to taste like that. There will be no third chance!

Cinnamon sweets, though, are bloody marvellous - wish we could get more cinnamon stuff here. Junior Mints and Andes Mints are nice, too.