A British Supermarket's "American Food" Section Is Both Hilarious And Enraging
Apparently junk food is all Americans ever eat.
Recently, reddit user b4ssm4st3r posted this photo with the caption, "So we are doing this now? American Food section at a British supermarket."
From the caption, it's safe to assume b4ssm4st3r is a British person, and the supermarket he or she shops at has an "American food" section. Wait, what?
As you can see, most of the foods are extremely unhealthy, sugar-based junk. It says a lot about what people across the pond think of our eating habits.
According to the photo, it would seem Lucky Charms makes up like a quarter of all foods Americans eat on a daily basis.
With nutritious ingredients such as sugar, oat flour, corn syrup and modified corn starch, Lucky Charms makes for some real healthy eatin'.
Let's not forget about the ubiquity of grits all over America.
I'm originally from the south, so grits are a well-known food to me. However, iask for grits at a diner anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line and you'll get treated like you asked for an alien delicacy. Honestly, I think the people who own the supermarket saw the iconic grit scene from "My Cousin Vinny" and assumed it was a ubiquitously American thing.
Also, did anyone else forget Twinkies are a thing?
Because British people clearly haven't. Twinkies are a pretty iconic American food, so I understand why they're in the food section, but is this how we really want to be identified by the rest of the world? By one of the most unhealthy, non-nutritious snack cakes out there?
Twinkies disappeared from the American market in November 2012 due to Hostess' bankrupcy, but returned in May 2013, because eveyone knows Twinkies can survive anything.
So apparently eating bread crumbs is specifically American?
Obviously, forget the fact that Progresso is predominantly a company for Italian foods. It's American based, so that counts, right? Some grocery stocker is taking their job a bit too literally.
Now this I approve of. Caramel syrup rules. So American.
I would literally bathe in this stuff if it were socially acceptable, but unfortunately our American society frowns on people coming to work drenched in sticky caramel. Apparently it "repulses everyone at the office, Lee Emjay Nameless Employee, and if you don't go home and shower that off immediately, you're fired."
Whatever happened to personal liberty in this country? At least we've spread some level of syrup freedom to England, and for that I am grateful.
And let's not forget the finest American delicacy of all: baking soda.
Presumably, baking soda was included in this section because it's used in baked goods, and Americans are fat as shit, so obviously we eat a lot of baked goods.
Okay, we get itn, England. You think we're a bunch of fatties who shove sweets and empty calories down our gullets all day. Thanks.
Though, to be fair, we are pretty fat. Actually, we're the fattest, because we always win. Also, Americans aren't much better about placing extremely stereotypical foods in various sections of our supermarkets. Have you been to the Mexican food section of your local Safeway lately? Get back to me if you can find anything other than Taco Bell brand shells and salsa.
In conclusion: England sees us as a bunch of fatsos.
Thanks, England! What kinds of foods do you really think should be included in the "American foods" section of a supermarket?