Not Just Ireland
Posted in Curiosities, Kirkcaldy, Modern Life Is Rubbish at 12:00 on 6 May 2013
Beside the Irish shelves in my local supermarket there are no less than two others of produce surely intended to be sold in the US.
A few of these things I’ve read about, Hershey bars (chocolate,) Jello (jelly.* – At £1.50 a packet no less. One of the packets was chocolate flavoured; how do you get chocolate flavoured jelly? The picture on the packet showed the stuff was opaque. Weird.) Lifesavers(??) Hominy grits. The rest is more or less a mystery apart from what were obviously cereals.
I suppose this has turned up here because the supermarket concerned has just abandoned its attempts to make inroads into the US market.
Here are two close-ups. Click either side to enlarge.
What on Earth is this stuff?
(*What Usians call jelly we call jam, I think. See my post on Jelly Jungle.)
Tags: Hershey bars, jam, jelly, Kirkcaldy, Lifesavers, Supermarkets, US, USA
Denis Cullinan
6 May 2013 at 21:41
Oddly, most of these are no longer available in Usia, at least here in New York City, where I live–call it living. No doubt in the more civilized corners of the country the normals can get them.
Get a load of the price for a small bottle of A1 steak sauce. Five pounds fifty. In the nearby supermarket, which I call the “okay-but-not-supermarket, a bottle goes for something like seven Usian iron men. It’s nothing more than your garden variety brown sauce.
jackdeighton
6 May 2013 at 21:58
It was the price of the Jello that caught my eye, Denis. £1.50!
Jelly is much cheaper.
(What’s an iron man?)
Denis Cullinan
7 May 2013 at 01:56
An iron man is a dollar. This is an extinct usage. It was old before my time. What’s “my time”? Aaaarrrgh.
jackdeighton
7 May 2013 at 20:05
Thanks Denis,
I thought it might be a dollar but I read quite a lot of US fiction and iron man was a new one on me.
Before my time as well, then?