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Marshmallow in a jar that you spread on bread??
Pumpkin in a tin
Chicken in an even larger tin.

I think I can live without those things.

^ha, I must admit I haven't seen any of those in our shops.

Some weird things are creeping in though.

Omg, that chicken looks gross.

They had an American themed "special buys" in Aldi once and they had the jar of Fluff just like pictured above, and Dr Pepper and other stuff, mostly sweets.

^ haha.

What do you do with it?

I read recently that most Americans make tea by boiling water in the microwave.
The horror.
It can't be true, can it?
Propaganda?

Mr Kraftie mentioned that they don't have the fast boil kettles we do.

I guess it is quick?

...Shurely " Roast Chicken crisps " is a different sense of ' crisps " than what I think of as the British meaning of " crisps " - meaning what's called in America " chips " - Doritos, Cheez Doodles, et al??? Would " roast chicken crisps " be something akin to Chinese restaurant chicken chunks cooked with stuff and bread or McDonalds Chicken McNuggets ???
I can think of Marshmallow Fluff for an example.of something Raleigh mentioned, I suppose it"s still around - My food-shopping circumstances are a bit peculiar by US standards, I guess, which I'll get to later, it would be a digression.
One other bit of " Americana food " that I always read meant little in other countries was peanut butter! For instance, I recall the late American writer William F. Buckley, Jr. (quite upper-class & rich, he was sent to a British boarding/" public " school by his father) recalling once while there receiving a care package from home including peanut butter - he offered tastes to his dormates and, after tasting it, they gave a rather " Uhhh. Yeah. " reaction!
I get the impression that canned food is a bit more widly consumed in the UK of today than in the U.S., at least for some foods. Maybe it"s even Northern California to some extent having a certain " Well, we eat fresh, off the farm, food! (or we pretend that we do) " snobbery that I'm calculating from here !

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...With the mention of Dr. Pepper(R) - You've REALLY! given me a chance to digress :l here, you may regret this - When I was a child in the greater/Metropolitan New York City area (" New Netherlands ") Dr. Pepper was not sold widely there (Apparently 100% not at all in NYC proper) and I associate Dr. Pepper, especially out of a glass with ice, with trips to my mother's East Texas family . A 60s Dr. Pepper commercial (" advert " ) (can't link ) sang " not a cola...but a blend)if rich fruit flavor/CHARGE!..." (ooper, went on too long )...and I recall a statement that, in soft-drink industry terminology, DP was not considered to be a cola...But, when Coca-Cola(R) introduced Cherry Coke(R) I recall someone who had a building mini-store saying to me "As far as I'm concerned, Dr. Pepper is Cherry Coke"?!

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Well, thank you. That DOES look like ' crisps " in the sense I was thinking of .







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...Shurely " Roast Chicken crisps " is a different sense of ' crisps " than what I think of as the British meaning of " crisps " - meaning what's called in America " chips " - Doritos, Cheez Doodles, et al??? Would " roast chicken crisps " be something akin to Chinese restaurant chicken chunks cooked with stuff and bread or McDonalds Chicken McNuggets ???
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I get the impression that canned food is a bit more widly consumed in the UK of today than in the U.S., at least for some foods. Maybe it"s even Northern California to some extent having a certain " Well, we eat fresh, off the farm, food! (or we pretend that we do) " snobbery that I'm calculating from here !

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!