I had no idea, US did not have all dressed chips till now

[Iron Woode]

Its unacceptable man. To me, it is the finest candy in existence. (Second would be Maltesers, which we also don't have in USA...I'll save that rant for another time). My mom is British and we used to visit there and I got hooked on them. Now I can still get my fix when I visit my brother in Canada but that is few and far between. Unacceptable.

I don't much are for maltesers.

we do have some unique candy bars here.

my favourite was/is Laura Secord mint chocolate.

other ones are:

Lowney Cherry Blossom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NiEDJ46x0)
Neilson Chunk
Cadbury Crunchie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxatT7IXKfs)
Neilson Sweet Marie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkwLUA-00eA)

lol@old commercials

 

[drebo]

Whatchamacallit are by far the best candy bar in existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md_uz1dKMTM

There is no contest.

7/11 have a Steak flavor potato chip, too, that are mighty tasty (though a bit too salty.)

 

[Red Squirrel]

History tells me that the final product looks nothing like the marketing.

I'm pretty sure the cheese in the picture is actually electrical wires, it's a bomb! Just stick a couple through hole LCD number displays on it and you can probably get arrested.

But yeah those arn't bad. I think they're called hot pockets here, though that might just be another product altogether. I'll have to notice next time I do groceries.

 

[mmntech]

I recently got to try the Ketchup chips when a Canadian friend brought them down from the frigid hiterlands of Alberta. And that might be the most disgusting thing I've ever had masquerading as a snack food. Now, granted, ketchup is pretty gross in most applications regardless. But an artificial ketchup flavored potato chip? That's like licking Satan's taint. It's truly disgusting stuff.

Ketchup with fries is pretty good. Ketchup flavoured dust on chips just... wrong. I hated them as a kid and I still hate them as an adult. I also take back my statement about cheese chips. Jalapeno is where it's at. :thumbsup:

You don't have Crunchies?

Shit. You need to complain to the UN about that and get some food parcels sorted.

Hell, I'll personally post some.

This is a humanitarian crisis.

Crunchies are a slice of spongey heaven wrapped in chocolate. Especially when I'm able to track down the ones imported from the UK. Domestic Cadbury chocolate is pretty sad in comparison.

 

[zinfamous]

You are thinking of chop suey, America's signature dish.


ps you know I made that alldressed thing up right?

How the fuck would I know? You guys have your own rules up there, including physics!

 

[pcgeek11]

They (we) also don't have ketchup chips, mainly because both of those flavors suck.
Also, to my USA komrads that haven't had a taste of Canadia, smarties up here are chocolate, like a crap version of M&Ms, while what we (USAmazers) call smarties are called rockets in Canadia.

I have seen Ketchup flavored chips in the southeastern US...

Smarties aren't chocolate. Are they daft in Canadia? I think the cold has effected them somehow.

 

[pcgeek11]

The most important thing a Canadian will tell you is that s/he is not American.

Oh but they are. North American to be exact.

 

[MongGrel]

Ketchup with fries is pretty good. Ketchup flavoured dust on chips just... wrong.

+1

 

[ninaholic37]

Oh but they are. North American to be exact.

That always confused me in "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" when I was younger. Didn't even known people called the US "America" and I thought they were just traveling to "somewhere in North or South or Central America". When I found out that the US stole the name "America" for their country when the entire West was america (North and South) I thought that was quite arrogant of them.

 

[pcgeek11]

That always confused me in "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" when I was younger. Didn't even known people called the US "America" and I thought they were just traveling to "somewhere in North or South or Central America". When I found out that the US stole the name "America" for their country when the entire West was america (North and South) I thought that was quite arrogant of them.

That is the way we roll. We don't give a crap what a few Candians think.

How many of you are there now 2 or 3 hundred?

 

[sdifox]

How the fuck would I know? You guys have your own rules up there, including physics!

You are right. We use metric system for physics here.

 

[JPS35]

...and Canada has again made another important contribution to North America to demonstrate its relevance.

 

[destrekor]

That always confused me in "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" when I was younger. Didn't even known people called the US "America" and I thought they were just traveling to "somewhere in North or South or Central America". When I found out that the US stole the name "America" for their country when the entire West was america (North and South) I thought that was quite arrogant of them.

To be fair, the entire West is NOT "America."

There are distinct continents: North America, and South America.

If you say America to mean the entire Western Hemisphere and wish to refer to all of that land, then you say the Western Hemisphere. Nobody (correctly) calls all of that land America. If you wish, you can say, "The Americas" to refer to all of it as well.

I've heard some non-Western Hemisphere schools teach that they refer to all of The Americas as one singular continent, which is absurd.

Short point of it all: if you say The Americas, people understand. If you say North America or South America, people understand. If you say America, people also understand.

Well, except for some people, evidently. :\

 

[Ichinisan]

On similar note I was reading somewhere that there are lot of chocolate bars that the states don't have like Smarties, Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Mr. Big etc. Is this the case? For a country that likes their junk food I'd expect the states to be ahead of us in that respect. :biggrin:

Deep fried Mars bar is also something worth trying if you ever get the chance.

Smarties and Kit Kat have been around my entire life. Do you think Google would have made the "Kit Kat" version of Android if it wasn't ubiquitous?

 

[Ichinisan]

none of that makes any sense. what am I supposed to understand from this "all dressed" description?

I like potato chips for the potato part. Usually, if it has some type of shitass fake flavor powder I avoid them because it hides the potato. Is that what this does?

So much this.

...though I sometimes crave a little French dip for my ruffled potato chips.

 

[Sonikku]

#Doesn'tKnowWhatADressedChipIs

 

[Ichinisan]

We don't technically have Smarties (the chocolate bar).

You can sometimes find it at a big chain store in some import aisle, but it is not a regularly available item.

I'd rather have M&Ms.

 

[Ichinisan]

That always confused me in "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" when I was younger. Didn't even known people called the US "America" and I thought they were just traveling to "somewhere in North or South or Central America". When I found out that the US stole the name "America" for their country when the entire West was america (North and South) I thought that was quite arrogant of them.

Yes. We should call ourselves "USAers" or "UnitedStatesians."

 

[allisolm]

Just saw these in the store today. Did not buy.

 

[olds]

I had no idea, US did not have all dressed chips till now

 

[CZroe]

We don't technically have Smarties (the chocolate bar).

All Dressed? I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Have I been eating Half Dressed chips this whole time?

Not even. There's not enough to call them "partially dressed." "Barely dressed" is more like it. "Imperceptibly dressed" is an even more accurate description.

On similar note I was reading somewhere that there are lot of chocolate bars that the states don't have like Smarties, Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Mr. Big etc. Is this the case? For a country that likes their junk food I'd expect the states to be ahead of us in that respect. :biggrin:

Deep fried Mars bar is also something worth trying if you ever get the chance.

I think I've seen all of those in the U.S. The only one I'm not sure about is Coffee Crisp.

You can get deep fried candy bars of various kinds at amusement parks and fairs. Basically, the same places you'd find freshly fried funnel cakes sometimes have them.

You can sometimes find it at a big chain store in some import aisle, but it is not a regularly available item.

For the Canadians: the U.S. Smarties are like a stack of differently colored pills that are concave on each side and wrapped in clear cellophane. They fast like Sweet Tarts though they are smaller and smoother. It's mostly considered a Halloween candy here.

 

[QueBert]

I just tried these chips, they're god awful. They taste like what my urine smells like. Now I don't know what urine tastes like, so after eating a couple I was puzzled trying to figure out the flavor. Then after a few more it hit me and I threw the bag out.

The bag has a pic of what I thought was some sort of oil in a jar on it, nope it's urine.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I just tried these as well. Still not sure WTF they are, but they sure aren't what I would consider great by any means, and I'm not that picky about chips.

 

[glenn1]

Has anyone actually seen these out in the wild? Nowhere to be found in the 3-4 grocery stores I checked. Plus the Ruffles brand only seems to get a tiny sliver of shelf space compared to Lays and the other brands.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Has anyone actually seen these out in the wild? Nowhere to be found in the 3-4 grocery stores I checked. Plus the Ruffles brand only seems to get a tiny sliver of shelf space compared to Lays and the other brands.

Same here. Every store I've been to only carries 3 flavors of Ruffles and All Dressed is nowhere to be found.