https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony's_Chocolonely
Dutch chocolate which is very good, and uses a slavery-free supply chain.
But not a lead free chain
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
Damn. Pick your battles I guess, I’ll die of lead poisoning to keep people free
Chianti Classico from Italy. It’s just soooooo smooth.
Twinings (UK version) Extra Strong Breakfast Tea with Digestives dark chocolate biscuits.
Preparing EU exit tariffs for the upcoming trade war with the US?
In that case, fancy wines that rich people buy.
I’m trying to think of the last food item I’ve eaten that was made in Europe, without success.
German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.
Soapy-tasting wax, at that.
Try Belgian chocolate next
European sardines are VASTLY superior to most of the stuff you get in the US
Monster munch! Currently my fav snack.
I don’t think there’s any food product from Europe that I regularly consume.
Now, Mexico and South America, on the other hand…
Every time I go to Mexico, one of the first things I do is get tacos! I NEEEED EM!!!
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.
Seitenbacher Museli is delicious too.
But you can make a kick ass veg broth with scraps, dried shitake, and a piece of kombu.
And the Museli I can also make at home.
Croissants (made here but I think of them as so French)
Good cheese (there is some great cheese being made here but in Europe they make different ones and they are so, so delicious)
Cava wine, the Raventos Blanco Blanco de Blancos Vino Cava holy crap that stuff is so good it convinced me wine can be simply delicious on its own.
Danish butter cookies are pretty awesome
Those tins never contain cookies when I see them.
They are sewing tins, the butter cookies are stowaways.
I’m good as long as Scotland and Lagavulin isn’t back in EU.
I love that Smarties (the chocolate) are naturally colored. All our candy is basically carcinogenic
Also, our Smarties are basically chalk. Delicious chalk
Edit: clarity
Smarties are two different things in the US and Europe so you have to specify.
Which ones, the chalky fruity ones or the candy coated chocolates?
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.
