I've had a lotta food imported from the US but mainly I wanna talk about the American "candy" (Sweets) that are now stocked here in Ireland... what the actual fuck. I've had them a half dozen times now, indicated by a seperate slap on Nutritional sticker do I won't count the ones that are like that but don't have that sticker and have a European version that doesn't need this sticker. Let me see, just the worst three. 

Mike and Ikes. Says on the bavk it might cause attention problems in children but that's not the issue. I ate half a box over a few hours and noticed myself getting very tired and then I ate some more and ended up sleeping NINETEEN HOURS. I woke up feeling very ill. 

Resses buttercups post 2023... what the fuck, one of the best chocolate deserts ever and now it tastes like plastic. 

And the worst, Joly rachers. These things, I have in my hand right now taste like they were made in a household chemicals factory. But this is the fucked up part, after I had sampled the flavours and nearly vomiting, my brain is telling me to eat more. I'm not, it's going in the bin but I have this nagging sensation to try again even though my mouth feels like I drank toilet cleaner. 

Why can't everything be the standard of NERDS? , esspecially the gummy clusters but whatever in that brand they don't need the random sticker and I find them sold with and without it with no change to the product either way. 

Oh. And before I finish the rant. 30 grams of suger per half litre (bigger than US litres) for a fizzy or sports drinks is considered ridiculous here. Like, I get saddened when drinking lucozade sport here cause of the energy and sugar in it but I try this US drinks and I can't see how they are legal here, from double to triple that amount. 

Not that either of our nations are doing well with this compared to Korean and Japan imports... but still. You Americans must have to avoid sweet stuff or be severely ill. This doesn't just go to sweets/drinks, I could write for hours about how they put sawdust and stuff into your cheese and crazy stuff with other foods. People give McDonald's a bad rap but at least it is equally as unhealthy here as it is there with slight variants in the seasonings. 

My God, US people. Wake up. We are all being poisoned but you lot are causing severe damage. Now... I have some Jolly ranchers to eaaa... erm...bin. 

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For a moment there I thought this was a political thread, cause the title fit that theme lmao. But no idea, a lot of the snacks/candies from USA just taste like plastic/chemicals. So no clue.

Back in the day, early 2000s, i was living in USA and things like air heads and twizzlers seemed popular and i was fine with that, but ive seen that nowadays even the american ice cream is not even ice cream anymore.

I had my first pack of sour patch kids in the UK recently. No idea if it's the same recipe here but they just tasted like Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles to me, maybe somewhere between them and jelly babies. Overpriced too.

For the wider answer to why American food is full of crap, the answer is money, and a government (on both sides of the political spectrum) that has enabled the corporations to keep using the same garbage for decades.

It happens. When a nation gets wealthy it has more and more sources of ease and rewards in life. This follows that principle. We’ve been getting softer and softer every year. Why shouldn’t we want more sweets as well to go along with that as well as causing our figurative softness?

As an American, I never really enjoyed physical sweets, maybe I would eat it once a season or so. Coca Cola/cereal and the like though was a daily thing. Eventually in my 20s the daily/double/triple soda made me fat very rapidly.

Coca Cola is 41g per 375 ml, that's 55 grams per half liter. And root beer / Dr Pepper is worse. It's not refreshing, it's liquid sugar. 

I've stopped eating candy and chocolate. The first always ends up destroying the roof of my mouth and the latter gives me headaches the next day. Salty chips are still welcome as we eat low sodium dinners. (Don't cook with salt) Need that salt after running 25k. We also don't cook with butter and can't go to restaurants anymore, it's all too salty and so much butter we're on the toilet right after. 

I do like some ice cream now and then but did you know certain kinds don't melt??? Breyers ice cream for example. I tried to flush an old container in the garage sink and it was still the same form days later. Don't want that anymore lol. Also they had to change the orange juice labels here to orange beverage. Not enough actual orange juice in it... Sugar and orange flavor, pass. When I drink anything sweet it's watermelon juice, lowest there is in sugar content 19g per 250ml (yeah they always fuck around with what a cup is) 29g per 375ml, 38g per half liter. Add lots of ice, pure it's still too sweet.

If you trace our origin story down you will find the answers to just about everything. We were born out of rebellion, a certain stubbornness to conform. For better or worse, we do what we want and on our own terms, nobody else's. This mindset extends to health, politics, love, war... everything. Above all, we desire freedom. Freedom to choose the right path and freedom to choose the wrong path.

There is no freedom in having the food industry become a near monopoly and taint and poison the poors or even middle classes food options. Wheter they are treats or not. There is no freedom in having 45 grams of sugar packed into one can of "Soda". There is only sickness in this and it's not like you have the freedom to get sick from this food over there or you'll spend your life repaying medical bills. The freedom you think you have over other countries is just relabelled and repackaged in the worse ways while "FREEDOM" is used to distract from the atrocities that are done to you by your own government and the corporations who control it. 

The Irish live about 3 years on average longer than someone from the USA. It might do a little damage long term.

They also stuff their chocolate with palm oil and excess sugar. They ruined Cadburys