My mom used to buy Parmalat in the early 90s. Haven’t seen it in stores lately.
I’ve seen Bimbo bread in Mexican markets, also Milo and Gansito pastries (like Twinkies, except chocolate-covered and with jelly filling). Those same markets also carry Chupa Chups lollipops.
One product I rarely see in U.S. drugstores: Panadol pain reliever.
Bimbo is popular in Spain, to the point that people say pan Bimbo when referring to sliced bread in the same way that Americans say Kleenex when referring to facial tissue.
Kinder Eggs! With a plastic egg that holds a toy inside.
Sugar coated chokeables!!!1111!!!
Awesome beyond measure and very hard to find here in the US. Usually at speciality stores of a furren persuasion.
Do you guys have Tesco (British supermarket) - the world’s 3rd largest retailer after Walmart and Carrefour (french supermarket)? For that matter, do you have Carrefour?
Interesting to see up thread Adidas described as ‘second tier’ - in the UK it’s top tier alongside Nike.
I’ve traveled all over the US and have never seen a Tesco or Carrefour.
IMHO, calling Adidas ‘second tier’ is inaccurate given that they own Reebok.
CRC was an associate sponsor on my race car the year I drove in a NASCAR touring series. I was supplied with as much of their product as I could use and give away to family and friends.
Nimesulide (different brand names in different countries) is something that I wish were available in the USA (and would want over-the-counter). Sure, like many medicines it has its potential problems.
I’ve seen them, but yeah, they are much more common in Europe and Latin America. I understand they’re common in other markets too; some 20 years ago it was Spain’s biggest export to China (which doesn’t mean they’d be everywhere in China, but for some reason I remember that bit of trivia).
Someone brought one of those store boxes (the ones whose lid has holes to stick lollies on) to a meeting in Italy. Best thing in the meeting!
This came up in a recent Translation class; for some reason the teacher wouldn’t believe us when we said that in Spain people are more likely to say “Maizena” than “corn flour,” “Bimbo” than “sliced bread” or “Royal” than “jelly” (and it comes in sachets, not sheets like in the UK). It’s not like we’re the only country in the world where people do that!
:: looks at web site ::
Is that related to the CRC Press, publisher of the legendary Rubber Bible?
Common brand in co-ops and health food stores in the U.S. And in Minnesota, often carried by some mainstream markets as well.
“Royal” could cause some interesting confusions if I were to travel to Spain. Here in Mexico, “Royal” is likely to be used to mean baking powder. I’m not even sure how to ask for baking powder in Spanish in any other way (maybe, “polvo para hornear” or something like that).
Klim is a powdered milk brand made by Nestle. They were very big in Asia when I was there in the 70s. I don’t believe I have seen them in the US.
In Australia, the big ice cream brand is Peters Ice Cream (again, referencing memory banks from the 70s). One of their ice cream bars was about 8 inches long, round, about 1 inch in diameter. Their slogan? “Join the Peters eaters!”
It’s Maizena in South Africa as well.
No Milo in the US? Well, they’ve lost my tourism dollars - can’t get to sleep without my Milo. Unless they have Horlicks. And no, Ovaltine won’t cut it.
Tesco is trying to develop a chain of small grocery stores called “Fresh & Easy” in the western US.
And no Carrefour, although Wikipedia says they had two locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey about twenty years ago.
Although Kinder Eggs are not widely available in the USA, they can be found in many international food shops. I’ve seen them at several of these types of shops recently. There is a Russian supermarket nearby that sells them. (and they also sell a Russian version of them that is just plain nasty.
That’s Royal too. But it’s levadura Royal 
There’s flan Royal as well… basically, once you’ve established which variety of “powdered stuff made by Royal” you need to use (which can be defined by what is it you’re making, evidently a cake requires neither jelly not flan), it just becomes “Royal.”