Canadian Junk Food!
My husband went to meet a friend in Canada this past weekend. He brought back some groceries. What foods do Americans bring back from Canada? I’m sure it varies by family but for us it is:
Candies we can’t get here:
Smarties (not the American trick-or-treat candy that taste like mini-sweet tarts, but the kind that are almost like M&M’s but with a thicker candy shell)
Coffee Crisp (apparently we won’t have to keep importing that one much longer)
Crunchie — my absolute favorite: chocolate covered sponge toffee. I can’t seem to get sponge toffee in any form around here. I keep thinking I should make it sometime, but that has yet to happen.
Flavors of Lays Potato Chips that we can’t get here:
Curry (this one is new to us), Ketchup and Dill Pickle (hmm, can we really still not get that here?)
And “Twice the Fruit Spread” — a less-sweet jam with twice the fruit and half the sugar.
Central Market has a fairly new line of “spreads” that are quite similar to these, but the President’s choice line is still our favorite.
Ramblings of a Math Mom 
We can get Coffee Crisp here in Spokane, WA. So I imagine it won’t be much longer for the rest of the country.
Kinder egg – that’s what we import, whenever possible.
Funny, we were never into the whole Kinder egg thing when we lived there (so we also don’t import them). I’ve read about them on the Web, but otherwise I wouldn’t really even be aware of them…
A correction – Smarties do not taste like M&Ms, they taste much better than M&Ms. 😀
I never said they taste like M&M’s, just that they were “like” them. If they tasted the same, we wouldn’t have to bother importing them, now would we?
I don’t know about coffee crisp, but here in Spain they do a toffee crisp..same thing, different flavor. We also have Smarties…I love to just suck them for a while, then when you bite into them te chocolate in the middle just runs out.
Oh..and your right..Smarties are better than M&M’s!