# Things you can only find OUTSIDE the U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 23, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337 "2002-07-23T05:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/41 "2002-07-24T12:09:55Z")
Irony ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/42 "2002-07-24T13:39:52Z")
Vending machines selling: beer, batteries, newspapers, cut flowers, or used school girls panties, but NO SNACK FOOD. ☹ Seaweed flavored potato chips. ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/43 "2002-07-24T13:43:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Tayto - pah! I don’t know why Irish people bang on about those packets of broken, disgusting pieces of grease they called Tayto. So the company invented Cheese & Onion? Big swing of the micky (though I will concede the Tayto from NI are nicer than those made in the Republic). > > Back to the OP - you can’t get crisps in the US. You can get nice ‘potato chips’, but they don’t have the flavourings everyone wants. If you want proper crisps, you want [Walkers](http://walkers.corpex.com/cr15p5/products.asp?snacktypeid=26). > That’s what you want, coz I said so. \*\* No point being ripping. 😉 Walkers are bad, bad boys 'cause they changed the colour-coding of packets. Back in my day blue was S&V, not C&O. And of course don’t get me started on those Lineker adverts… ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/44 "2002-07-24T13:49:19Z")
And my friend reminds me: we are unlikely to find a certain Osama bin Laden in the States. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/45 "2002-07-24T13:50:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osakadave \* > \*\*or used school girls panties. \*\* This actually happens in real life? I always assumed it was an urban myth. ---
**Author:** ![tritone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@tritone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tritone)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/46 "2002-07-24T14:30:15Z")
TimTams. And Freddo Frogs. And Caramello Koalas. Correct me if I’m wrong. It will make me a lot less apprehensive about my next trip to the USA (whenever that might be). ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/47 "2002-07-24T14:57:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enola Straight \* > \*\*New French cars. > > We stopped importing/assembling Alliances, Encores, Medallions, etc when Chrysler bought AMC from Renalt. > > Puegeot took a hike around the same time. \*\* And that’s a bad thing because. . .? 😃 Though I’d admit I’d love to have a Citroen DX. How about good Haribo gummy bears? The ones they sell in the States are pale imitations of the bliss that is the stuff my uncle’s BIL ships over from Germany. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/48 "2002-07-24T15:06:12Z")
Proper rashers, underage drinking in bars, doner kebabs, decent butter, boobies on telly (thanks, Coldfire), bad teeth and foreign news. Still, they’ve got loads of stuff I’d like and the doner kebabs are only a hunch. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/49 "2002-07-24T15:21:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > **Actually the problem is the milk. Most American milk is UHT/sterilised and it simply doesn’t work in tea.** Huh? It may be pasteurized, but it’s definitely not UHT. That stuff’s not at all popular here, at least not compared to a normal carton of milk. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/50 "2002-07-24T15:28:02Z")
I think they have doner kebabs there, but they call them giros or something. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/51 "2002-07-24T15:28:39Z")
The metric system! and a population that thinks walking to work is normal. What’s UHT? ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/52 "2002-07-24T15:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmackFu \* > \*\*Huh? It may be pasteurized, but it’s definitely not UHT. That stuff’s not at all popular here, at least not compared to a normal carton of milk. \*\* Well there’s still something not right about it. There are three ingredients in tea; team water and milk (and sugar if you’re a builder). If the tea and the water are the same it must be the milk. It doesn’t taste like fresh milk. FWIW we Brits are hopeless at coffee. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/53 "2002-07-24T15:42:12Z")
Mmmmm, team water. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/54 "2002-07-24T16:50:43Z")
_Milk_ in tea? Ye Gads, I’ve never been able to understand that! To me, proper tea is tea leaves (preferably loose, but bagged if that’s all available) and water. That’s it. Tea shouldn’t be bitter (that’s oversteeped), so you shouldn’t need sugar. And I don’t care who likes it, Lipton tea makes me _literally_ sick to my stomach each time I try it. I feel nauseous for quite a while afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/55 "2002-07-25T02:25:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by owlstretchingtime \* > FWIW we Brits are hopeless at coffee. Considering your British cuisine cookbooks are world-wide bestsellers, too, I’m not surprised. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/56 "2002-07-25T02:31:43Z")
You can get Haribo Gummy Bears in the US. Granted, they aren’t on the shelf of every candy carrying store, but you can find them. My ex-FIL used to buy them in bulk at Price Club(Costco). ~V ---
**Author:** ![tarokaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@tarokaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarokaja)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/57 "2002-07-25T02:54:17Z")
Kaiten-zushi (A type of sushi place where plates of sushi go by on a conveyor belt and you take what you want). Vending machines that sell beer (and sometimes sake, whisky, etc.). Green tea ice cream. Shrimp Katsu Burgers. The list could be endless… ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/58 "2002-07-25T03:50:21Z")
YAOI and most _shoujo_ manga. You can get it in German. You can get it in French. But you can’t it in English. 'course, being in _la belle province_, I have access to all the trashy Japanese comics I’ll never need 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/59 "2002-07-25T05:25:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tritone \* > \*\*TimTams. And Freddo Frogs. And Caramello Koalas. > > Correct me if I’m wrong. It will make me a lot less apprehensive about my next trip to the USA (whenever that might be). \*\* OK, you’re wrong. All three are available [here.](http://www.everythingaustralian.com/lolliescandies.html) Go to the confectionary section, and you will find them. I think most of the things on this list are available, with today’s modern shipping practices and the number of expats living in the U.S. who want what they used to eat “back home”. The main drawback is the price. I can get Mexican Coca-Cola made with real sugar here in Cleveland if I don’t mind paying an arm and a leg to have it shipped here. There are some items that are unavailable due to import restrictions, I think most unpasteurized cheeses fall into this category. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337/60 "2002-07-25T05:39:59Z")
Havana Club rum, aged 7 years. Ahhh! (produced of course, in that great threat to freedom, Cuba) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-can-only-find-outside-the-u-s/120337.md?page=4)